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Benefon ESC!
The first GSM phone with the integrated GPS receiver with a set of unique features.
General
features
- Made in Finland
- Announced in February 2000
- Dual band GSM 900/1800
- Battery type: Li-Ion 650 mAh and Li-Ion 1200mAh
- Standby time: 140 and 240 hours
- Talk time: 6 and 10 hours
- Charging time: 2 and 3 hours
- Waterpoof, shockproof, stainless steel frame
- A large graphical display (100 х 160 pixels), which shows up to 20 text lines
- Dynamical font size
- EFR support
- Dimensions: 129х49х23 mm
- Weight: 150g. (Li-Ion 650 mAh) and 169g. (Li-Ion 1200mAh)
- Memory
- Phonebook: up to 255 phone numbers (only in SIM-card memory)
- Lists of the last calls with time indication:
- 10 received
- 15 dialed
- 10 missed
- Ringing tones, call management
- Speed dialing (9 phone numbers)
- Turning off the microphone
- Conference-call
- 40 ringing tones, a possibility to edit and download ringing tones
- Adjusted volume
- Silent mode
- Vibrating alert
- SMS
- Work time - digital, SMS, fax-modem (9.6 kbps)
- Predictive text input (T9 system)
- Concatenated messages (up to 160/640 characters)
- Replay/Forward features for SMS
- Communications capabilities
- Built-in modem connected with COM slot, standard AT interface
- Organizer:
- Time и date
- Alarm clock
- Calendar
- Schedule with reminders of meetings
- Autopower on/off
- Calculator
- Currency converter
- 3 games
- Software: BeneWin Pro with Maps
- Cable for PC
- Informational system BeneMaps support
- A possibility to edit a phonebook and to make backup copies
- Receiveing/editing/sending SMS from PC
- Composing and editing of melodies with a help of BeneWin Maestro
- Adjusting of the phone settings
GPS
- 12-channel high-quality GPS-receiver
- An integrated flip-antenna GPS, an external antenna connector
- Information:
- location
- rate of movement
- distance
- direction
- time
- Geographical Information System - BeneMaps, connected with Arbonaut® mobile
map. This service adapts maps, produced by GEODATA, and и allows to download them
via Internet with a help of Web browser
- The maps include almost the whole territory of Europe
- A possibility to use and process different maps:
- touristic
- city
- topographic
- geographical
- Additional information:
- key points
- route extent
- house numbers
- Transmission of current coordinates over SMS
- A possibility to work with NMEA 0183 interface
- Friend Find feature
It enables to find another person with the same phone (Benefon Esc!) and shows
on the map how to reach him
- SOS feature
When it is switched off the phone send a message with the current coordinates
and a beforehand programmable phone number is dialed

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 28 February 2003
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