Review GSM phone Philips Xenium 9 @ 9 + +

Photo Philips Xenium 9 @ 9 + + inland

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A few years ago appeared on the market model of the Philips Xenium, which differed in a fantastic time in standby mode. Phone office for up to two weeks if you call a week or more closely. Given that the quality of the coverage of mobile networks, the time, the unit can not provide the life away from the charger. By the time this model has no competitors. Today, the network coverage has improved, although the majority of mobile phones has increased, while the Philips Xenium but near the maximum. Sorry, but the company has stopped this device, some time was unique, and is now updated model of the Philips Xenium 9 @ 9 + +.

The device consists of a metal casing, the designers fought the nobility of silver, bronze and fog. And according to the different combinations of two colors, a predominant color of money, bronze in the other. The use of metal structures are not strongly affected by the weight of the aircraft, its weight is 93 grams. By picking up the phone in hand, her beautiful cover of cooling, said the strength, a certain concentration of mass. The phone has a character, a male model, who was in the hands of men.

The measures are average (109h43h18 mm), which allows the phone in a shirt pocket or jeans. In general, this is a rare combination of size and mass, is also addressed to all those who like to feel in the hands of the phone.

The classic lines of the body, rectangular, then the company has remained true to the ideas that appear in the first model. The display is backlit white, is the same model Philips Fisio 625 Typically, these two models can be traced back to a lot in common, they used the same platform, and then perform a similar function. Thus, the display supports up to 6 lines of text or 4 lines of text and two service lines. Font size is nice to watch.

The phone has a navigation button in 4 directions, it is made of plastic, but very similar to the metal. Within this key the OK button, the entire structure of control extremely comfortable and easy to communicate with the phone. The keypad is made of plastic, the keys are of medium size, no discomfort to deal with them does not arise.

The left side is the volume rocker on the bottom you can see the interface connector. A few words about the most interesting part of the device's battery. In this model, the Li-Ion 850 mAh. According to the manufacturer, it provides up to 750 hours standby and up to 7.5 hours talk time. In Moscow the device worked for 8 days to 50 minutes of talk time and about 35 minutes of other functions. Following the cancellation of the extra features in Moscow networks the phone can work up to 12-13 days with 40 minutes of talk time (synthetic test data). Full charge time is approximately 3 hours.

Menu

The menu and all the features of this model are identical to those of Philips Fisio 625. I'll give you an excerpt from the review, but added that the navigation menu on the carousel in this model through the navigation button is very convenient, very rare.

The menu is typical of Philips phones - the main menu is a series of animated icons arranged in a circle with the arrow keys, you can scroll through the menus. Output for the top level is just by pressing C. If the output of the sample to the press release, such as phones from other manufacturers, does not work. Navigation through the menu using only the number of sequences. It serves as a partial replacement of keys you can assign shortcuts to eight menu items. So if you press 5 in the standby mode, there will be a calculator. Note that the more you set the menu keys, the lower the possibility of choosing a set of one-touch numbers, these functions are combined in the device.

Almost all sub-menus are also in the form of icons arranged in a circle. If you frequently use the function, hidden inside the menu, you have to work a joystick or voice tags to these items. The phone memory can store up to 40 voice tags can be used to access frequently used menu options. So the big sub-menu does not play a role, it is important to reorganize to use this feature.

Directory. The phone memory can store up to 300 names for each location of elements such as name, up to 5 numbers and an e-mail. To get to the phone book to his attention, turning the joystick down. At a time when a laptop is off your phone, or just the SIM card. The list contains the names, if the file does not fit on the screen moves automatically. For the record icon is displayed on the phone type, lateral movement, you can choose other phones of the selected names. Even if not, click the arrow next to the icon is activated. On the phone the first time shows for the first time you connect your phone, which eliminates the need to allocate numbers separated by default. To call the selected number, simply press the send key. In the menu that appears by pressing the joystick, you can also make a call using the speakerphone. But seeing the number go down to half the small map.

If you want to work at times, the phone is registered in any name you want is to navigate the menu. The same function is required if you want to set a voice number (40). Recognition works well, but now you can give the same word in different rooms. In this case, a call to the last recorded tag and the other is in memory, but it never worked.

The list is a general search by the first letter. Clicking on any part, you need to scroll through the list of at least one name, so that a quick search for the work of the first letter again. This obyasnyaetse that can be searched by name all the letters, that is, for example, to boost the surname Ivanov 4 (ghi) -8 (TÜV) -2 (ABC).

For groups of 10 subscribers can choose not only their music, but their images (Photocall), in the future when an incoming call will be issued under the name of the caller.

Messages. The messages are read incoming messages and create new ones. When viewing the list of messages, each message is selected automatically displayed in full (online), and when you open a single message as flowing automatically, but now in full screen mode. This is very interesting and curious. There are 10 models in English, all too common. The event can also be sent to a number of icons or a simple melody (EMS).

In this unit the ability to save the archive of text and automatically put written messages, saved messages folder.

WAP. At the entrance to the main menu you get in this section, the developers decided it would be the most popular. Inside hidden access WAP browser (another menu), and access to service numbers. Nothing interesting here is not wap-browser version 1.2.1 works as expected.

Album. List of images on your phone, the default value of 5. Jpg formats saved All that is compatible with the device. You can see the current image, select one of the images as wallpaper (background) mode. In the pictures, or the sequence can create a screen saver. The last two issues are resolved in the Settings menu. The same list can display icons are used to create EMS messages.

E-mail. Integrated mail client includes regular mailboxes (2) works with POP3 and SMTP. It can be configured to receive emails via a GPRS connection, generally pleasant, but the attachments are not supported (except jpg), except for Russia encoding ISO do not understand. Messages that are larger than 7 kb are not accepted.

Call list. Call list, it is common, and failure is not so made or received, if necessary, for any date and time of call. The list can be up to 30 entries, this is called standby mode, the joystick up. Number from the list, you can use exactly the same as a notebook (messages, data visualization, etc.).

Organizer. As the name suggests, this is the organizer. And 'possible to see a month, one week. While viewing the calendar month Select all days for which there are events, and weekly distribution of the day, and next to the icon indicates the date of the event. There are three types of events: meetings, leisure and business. Each entry must start and end dates, the event may be repeated (day, week, month, year). In addition, display a warning event. The bad news is that the events triggered by requiring confirmation, this is sometimes annoying. And 'possible to delete old events in bulk. Total Organizer is acceptable, but not anymore. The organizer and the phone book memory is dynamically assigned. Surprise - 300 names in the latter is possible only if the organizer does not have any knowledge at all. Total number of entries in the phone book and organizer is limited to 300

Extras. This menu has been a number of useful features, like an alarm clock. It can be mounted together on a daily basis, or "only on weekdays," the alarm.

The calculator is very simple, no frills.

Call. Here you can find all kinds of counter demands GSM, GPRS as well. Somehow, calls can be viewed only time all incoming or outgoing calls, the total time is displayed.

Memory status. Displays the status of your phone, you have a table all pretty clear. To find out how many points (it is in pieces, rather than a percentage) in a particular section is repeatedly OK, you get a menu.

Memo. Recorder. You can only have one piece up to 30 seconds, an attempt to write another piece will be clear at first. Recorder running during the conversation. A recorded voice can be used as a ringtone.

The game "Arkanoid" (set of brick), a very simple, is that the phone.

Parameters. Installation. It's simple: you can set security levels (traditional), set up a display of the five themes to change the window decorations, set the backlight time (1 minute), the screen saver, etc.

Immediately contact all your settings are hidden, it can be one of the 30 songs (+ 1 received), vibration, mixed mode. But what is interesting is the equalizer settings that apply during a conversation, a total of 5 They have emerged because of the ARM codec, it is hardly the first phone with their support. The problem is that after all they have to support this feature, my attempt to change the setting and hear the difference has not been a success, the sound is exactly the same dynamic.

Quick Sets. There are different profiles, a profile "At the meeting," "silent", "personal", etc. The problem is that the settings for all profiles immutable, they were originally installed in the phone. The manual contains a list of changes characteristic of each profile, apparently, it is necessary to learn or to rely on intuition.

Impressions

The company Philips has been excellent remake of the old model, this unit has thought through the design, strict lines and a great time. Problems with the sensitivity of the device are not minor errors to note the presence of noise in the dynamics during the conversation. Its level does not depend on the volume set, and is always present. The developers have promised to remedy this gap in the commercial launcher. The sound is crisp and rich. The loudspeaker is made the traditional way. It works on the premises, but only when necessary.

The ring volume is average, in general is not polyphonic. Vibration is average, but it feels good when the phone is close to the body.

Phone will be available in July and its estimated price is $ 165-175 dollars. Should pay attention to fans of the Philips brand, as well as those who need a good solid machine operation, and has other properties (IR, Java, polyphony) means nothing. After all, the Philips Xenium 9 @ 9 + + was designed primarily for conversation, and here he is doing his job properly.

PS In the sample I had to prove that there was no entry into the Russian language, at present, the company works in this direction at the top of the source is assumed to exist (and will use Russian T9.) Between shortcomings of this model, we can not point out anything serious, the software is quite robust.