Mobile Phone Reviews

The Xenium X518 is the latest dual SIM touchscreen phone from Philips that sports a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 touchscreen display, a 2.0-megapixel camera with LED flash and video recording capability, dual SIM card slots, a 1MB of internal memory, a microSD card slot (up to 16GB), a media player, an FM tuner, Bluetooth and supports GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz) network. [Philips]

Philips has added another touchscreen phone to its range by announcing the D812. Coming in a candybar form factor, the handset packs a 3.2-inch 240 x 400 resistive touchscreen display, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera, a 130MB of internal memory, a microSD card slot (2GB included), a music player, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, a 1100mAh battery and supports both GSM and CDMA EV-DO networks. The Philips D812 will become available in China soon via China Telecom. [Philips]

A new dual SIM clamshell phone has just been introduced by Philips. Called the Xenium X216, the handset sports a 1.8-inch 128 x 160 TFT display, an external display, dual SIM card slots, a microSD card slot (up to 2GB), a music player, an FM radio, a flashlight, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a 1050mAh battery and supports for GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz) network. Pricing and release date are still unknown at the moment. [Philips]

A new dual SIM music phone from Philips has recently entered the Russian market. Known as the Xenium X513, the handset sports a 2.2-inch 320 x 240 TFT display, a 2-megapixel camera with LED flash, dual SIM card slots, a microSD card slot (up to 16GB), a media player, an FM radio, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack, a 2000mAh battery and supports for GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) network. The Philips Xenium X513 sells for 4,999 Rubles (about $162). [Philips]

Philips has once again expanded its dual SIM phone line-up by launching the Xenium X116 for the Russian market. Coming in a candybar form-factor, the handset sports a 2-inch 176 x 220 display, a VGA camera, dual SIM card slots, a microSD card slot (up to 4GB), an MP3 player, an FM radio, a built-in flashlight, a 1050mAh battery and supports GSM/GPRS network. The Xenium X116 retails for 2,499 Rubles (about $80). [Unwiredview]

Philips is certainly in no short supply of cool mobile devices with the GoGear Connect revealed the other day, which could easily compete with the new iPod Touch.

However, they have created a dock for the iPod Touch and other Apple products with the Fidelio DS8550, which looks like some sort of sequel to the Fidelio DS9000.

There isn’t really much to be said about a speaker dock, other than it can do sound. It can talk to the dock via Bluetooth, and has a battery power as well.

I don’t have a price or availability date for it, but I wouldn’t mind one.

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The Philips GoGear Connect looks to give that iPod Touch a run for its money. This is assuming that the supposed new iPod Touches could be some prime merchandise.

The GoGear Connect has Google Mobile application s with access to the Android market as it has Android 2.1. It has WiFi, built-in camera, 3.2-inch display, microSD slot, sound isolating earphones, and a way of syncing music with Bluetooth or USB tether.

The MP4 player also supports maps and location-based services with on-board GPS and compass. It also supports MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, WMW, MP4 formats.

You’ll be seeing it in late October for about $315 for the 16GB model.

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Another dual SIM phone from Philips has just been launched in Russia. Dubbed as the Xenium X503, this candybar phone offers a 2.4-inch 320 x 240 TFT display, a 3.2-megapixel camera, dual SIM card slots, a microSD card slot (up to 8GB), an FM radio, a media player, Bluetooth, a miniUSB port, a 3.5mm headset jack and a 1000 mAh battery. The Philips Xenium X503 sells for 5,499 Rubles. [Philips]

So the folks out at Geeks.com sent me an item in their line of cheap media players, and you can pretty much forget about the whole “get what you pay for” thing here, because you’ll get a whole lot more than that.  I’m talking about the Philips GoGear Aria MP3 player, and it’s frankly amazing.

The Philips GoGear Aria MP3 player comes with eight gigs of storage space, a USB cord and a pair of earbuds.  And admittedly, it’s pretty simple, but it comes with incredible versatility in that tiny package.  It can handle ebooks, play FM radio, MP3s (naturally), video, and still pictures.

First off, loads of praise for this one.  Lots of room for storage, plenty of different media covered here–it’s really an all-in-one package.  And the sound quality is a huge surprise.  The included earbuds are uncomfortable (no padding on these at all) but they produce incredible sound.

But there are some down sides here–uncomfortable earbuds, like I said, are the start.  And I had a rough time getting video to work on this thing–it only takes a specific set of formats, some of which I didn’t even have when I first got testing.

And this is a problem, or at least it would be until you consider that Geeks.com is selling these at thirty five dollars each.  Now it’s just a fantastic deal.  You’re getting an MP3 player that can handle audio books and store eight gigs of material for less than the cost of an average Chinese dinner buffet for four.  How can that not be good?

So if you’re out for an MP3 player and don’t want to drop the cash on an iPod, consider the Philips GoGear Aria.

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Russia will soon receive a new Philips cellphone, more specifically the Xenium X806 which can use two SIM cards at the time from different operators.

Specification wise the Philips Xenium X806 comes with a 3-inch touchscreen that provides a resolution of 240×400 pixels, a 5-megapixel camera, and an internal memory of 47MB. Besides the slot for microSD memory cards of 8GB, and the usual Bluetooth and FM tuner, the Xenium X806 also has a miniUSB port and a battery-life that can last 8 hours in talking-mode, or close to one month in standby-mode. As for the price, it will be approximately $240.

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