ASUS has launched the ASUS P565, a business PDA phone with an 800 MHz processor in India. The stylish, leather-accented P565 features ASUS' latest touch-driven user interface, Glide.

ASUS says the P565 glides through resource-intensive tasks effortlessly and handles heavy multitasking exceptionally well, making it ideal for businesspeople who demand uncompromising performance and maximum speed from their productivity tools. The P565 features a 2.8" touchscreen running at a resolution of 480 x 640 pixels, delivering a high degree of clarity. The PDA phone is GPS enabled with SatNav's SatGuide map pre-loaded on it.

The P565 also comes with a suite of business-oriented features and software, including push mail, business card recognition and Microsoft Office Mobile. Other useful applications such as Anytime Launcher and Multi-Home enable users to view their calendars, the times of local and visiting cities, weather reports, online news and much more, all with a tap, slide or flick of their fingers.

The ASUS P565 has the GPS feature in-built and the navigation maps on the memory card are powered by SatNav Technologies. This gives users information of 200+ cities and also 1.5 million destinations to choose from.

The ASUS P565 is equipped with a 2.8" VGA (480 x 640 pixels) high-resolution touchscreen that delivers a new level of clarity and brilliance. Photographs look crisper and more true-to-life, while minute details in business documents, such as the individual cells in spreadsheets, are reproduced much more clearly, reducing eye fatigue over periods of prolonged use.

The P565's battery lid is wrapped in soft synthetic leather. The leather contrasts nicely with the PDA's modern, high-gloss face, and lends the phone a natural tactility and evocative appeal.

The Glide touch-responsive user interface enables users to perform a variety of navigational actions such as selecting, zooming, scrolling and flipping easily through simple flicks of their fingers. Incorporated into Glide are also applications that enable users to access a wide range of functions such as looking up the latest news, checking the weather forecast, viewing photo slideshows and listening to music within a few finger taps. ASUS said these applications, dubbed Multi-Home, Anytime Launcher, EziPhoto and EziMusic, give the expression "the world at your fingertips" a whole new meaning.

The ASUS P565 will available at an MRP of Rs 35,000/- and comes with a one-year warranty.