Asus has started a very serious campaign. This has been already visible at CeBIT, where their “stand” was no smaller or less spectacular than other companies’ and even in spite of currently the Eee PC (what a dumb name!) being the center of all hype, they had the time and energy to make a couple of PDAs too. Compared to this, the PND segment humbly stays in the background, although the boys are working heavily over here too. In case of R600, we could have said that it’s a pity that the case is large. It’s possible that the engineers knew about this, as they have proved it this time that they can do it in smaller.

Besides the device itself, that we received thanks to Speedshop, there was GNS TMC receiver too, so I had the opportunity of trying TMC too, that is currently only in its test phase in our country. Unfortunately I haven’t been travelling abroad during the test period, where I could have tested a fully functional TMC network, so this way the review will be a bit unmatched, but this is not due to the TMC receiver.

The site of Asus is no good friend of mine. On one hand it is darn slow, and on the other hand, the local site didn’t want to know about the existence of PNDs. Strange. Of course I found everything on the global site; they have emphasized the compact size the most in case of R300 and of course the fact that it is a complete multimedia gadget that fits into my pocket. Let’s see what they managed to realize from these “campaign promises”.