Philips introduces Xenium 9 @ 9q Dragon and Phoenix phones for the holidays
For those who are looking for a fast yet cheap way to have a fine-looking phone, here comes the Philips 9@9q. That old phone model isn’t quite fit for the runway, but its recently introduced holiday edition counterparts, the Dragon and Phoenix, can both live up to any fashion-conscious user’s expectations. For starters, both the [...]
Philips Xenium X500 is simple and useful
Philips mobile phones are known for coming with really powerful batteries, and the new Philips Xenium X500 is no exception. This baby has a 1720 mAh battery that’s supposed to provide a talk-time of up to 16 hours or a stand-by time of no less than two months. Also, the battery should last up to [...]
Philips X800 Xenium 9@9 reviewed. Comes with 35 days of stand-by!
We probably won’t be seeing Philips X800 full touchscreen handset here in Europe or U.S. anytime soon. Philips left the European mobile market eons ago and sold off it’s mobile unit to Asian investors. And they concentrated on selling Philips mobiles over there. Well, it’s a shame. But noting prevents us checking out the latest [...]
Philips 198 and 199 coming to Europe and Asia
A far cry from its incredibly sexy “edge to edge” touchscreen phone, the Xenium X800 e2e, Philips introduces a new low-end handset that’s as basic as it gets. Not only does this phone do nothing else but facilitate calls and text messages, it also lacks a camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and obviously, a touchscreen. The Philips [...]
Philips Smart Handbag for all your mobile devices
Clothing and travel gear vendors have been creating various ways to make your garments work better with your portable devices for a while now. The backpacks, jackets and other clothing items, and even shoes with solar cells and electronic/conductive interfaces are pretty well known, if niche products. The proliferation of various portable devices that we [...]
Philips X800 e2e touchscreen phone now official
Philips has now officially launched its Xenium X800 e2e touchscreen phone, and successfully killed all the excitement riding behind it, as it is apparently lacking a lot of features that are in-demand nowadays. Toting only GPRS network support (Yes, 3G is a no-no and not even EDGE), 2 megapixel camera and ho-hum 2.9-inch screen, it [...]
Philips Xenium X800 e2e touchscreen phone in the works
Well, well, well… Look who’s getting into a full touchscreen mobile phone game. It’s Philips, with a new Philips Xenium X800 e2e handset. Actually, it’s not THAT Philips, but a former cellphone subsidiary of the Dutch CE giant, which is now fully owned by Chinese investors and has the right to use Philips name for [...]
Philips throws China a phone with SRS WOW technology
How come China gets all the remarkable cellphones? The latest to wow the crowd from that part of the planet is the Philips M600, a candy bar shaped mobile phone that looks more musical than Miss Saigon. It features a very prominent music player key on top of the navigation pad, and three equally expressed [...]
Philips Xenium 9@9j now official
While not well known outside Asia and CIS countries, Philips Xenium phones are truly interesting mobile devices. Their most distinguishing feature is amazing battery life. Even the first Philips Xenium 9@9 a/d/t phones could last more then a month on standby. With Xenium 9@9k , Philips was able to extend the standby time to two [...]
Philips 192 Candybar. Getting back to Europe?
Do you remember the last time you saw Philips mobile phone selling officially in western part of Europe? No? Me too. While there are still some quite interesting and durable phones under Philips Xenium brand in Asia, Philips has withdrawn from European mobile market a long time ago. They’ve even sold off their mobile phone [...]
Philips Xenium 9@9k lasts longer. Much longer!
Philips isn’t the first brand that you think of when your are talking about mobile phones. Actually, except for some Asian countries and Russia, you’ll be hard pressed to find any Philips handsets on sale. Too bad. Especially if you are looking for a simple, elegant phone without tons of bells and whistles, but which [...]
New Philips Xenium 9x9s clamshell. 30 days on stand-by too
A few days ago we have found 3 Philips Xenium phones with an amazing batery life – more then a month on standby. All of them were in a candybar form factor. And what, if you don’t like these bricky phones? Well, now the Dutch consumer electronics giant also has a flipphone for you – [...]
Philips Xenium 9@9 phone line. Stays up almost forever!
You forgot to charge your cellphone or had a really long talk and your phone died in the middle of the conversation? Quite a familiar situation, isn’t it? Now Philips has a solution for you. The phones that can stay up without charging for more then a month. That’s right Philips Xenium 9@9 phone line [...]