Introduction
This is not the first Philips phone we’re reviewing. In fact new models are coming in continuously from XXL GSM. Usually myself and Bog are satisfied with them, so much that 9@9K is serving our chief editor since we’ve tested it. When we received a call about the new Xenium coming up I have immediately raised my hand virtually. There has been no problem with who should have it, as Bog is having fun with the latest Hello Kitty phone and Bocha doesn’t really like Philips phones.
I’ve made an estimate of the handset’s features. We know that, just like on the majority of Chinese phones, this has the MTK platform as well, the platform that has started moving from the full lamer category towards the average one. We can see that it’s being developed continuously; Bocha has even predicted that it will sooner or later live up to S40. 3G is no big deal from where it comes from, so the platform doesn’t support broadband data transfer.
We also know of Philips that they manufacture everything possible, for example chipsets as well, and some of these are used by other manufacturers (for example Samsung uses Philips chipsets). Engineers have been fine-tuning their chipset so long that they have discovered that the phone can work with nearly zero power. Of course they’ve kept the secret of this technology and so did it happen that nowadays one of the strongest reasons for buying a Philips phone is that it stays online for 1-2-6 months with a single charge. The other manufacturers also like to use similarly large numbers in their marketing material, but the truth is that today an average phone doesn’t have a standby time over 2-5 days. Philips phones, however, can really stay online for weeks. Of course we should not that such power consuming units like a WiFi antenna, or 3G are missing from these models. The box of this Philips also has the label promising up to one month standby, but there’s something else over there too: Dual SIM card mobile. Hmm…
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