Philips Announces Xenium Long-Battery-Life Phones

The official name of the line is Philips Xenium 9@9. The main selling point is a really good one: each of these phones last at least a month on standby without recharging. The best of them when it comes to battery life can endure a Jesus-like sojourn in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights as long as you’re not using it to make calls.

It looks like all three handset ranges – basic, medium-range and smartphone – are represented:

Philips Xenium 9@9a (left): is the most basic of the three, with 10 hours of talk time and up to 40 days of standby time. It’s GSM and supports SMS, MMS, EMS and WAP

Philips Xenium 9@9d (center): an added 1.3 MP camera, Bluetooth and IrDA connectivity plus JAVA support shaves off some battery life on this phone, which has 8.5 hours of talk time and a month of standby time.

Philips Xenium 9@9t: the smartphone in the lineup has a touchscreen, handwriting recognition and MP3 player and stays on for 8.5 hours worth of calls or 850 hours on standby.

source via [gizmodo]

Posted by BrianB on January 30, 2007 in Cell Phone News

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J says:

Posted on December 31st, 2008 at 1:35 pm

this phone better be good bra

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