Panasonic G50

This model is a renewed version of Panasonic GD55. It has a color screen and 40-tones polyphony, other features are the same. This phone is one of the smallest ones that available on the market. This is ODM-model which are produced by Quanta

• Class: fashion (entry-level fashion solution)
• Position in the phone line: above GD55
• Rival models: Siemens CL50i (officially this phone is not announced and its launching is not obvious), Alcatel 535
• Specifications based on review

• General features
  • Announced in March 2003, beginning of sales - 4Q 2003
  • eGSM900/GSM1800/GSM1900
  • Battery type: Li-Ion 780 mAh
  • Battery life:
    • Standby time: up to 200 hours
    • Talk time: up to 2.5 hours
  • Graphical STN display which could contain up to 4 text lines; 4096 colors; resolution 128х96 pixel(28,8х21,6 mm)
  • Available colors - Silver, Red, Blue
  • Dimensions: 80 x 43 x 18 mm
  • Weight: 74 g.
  • Volume: 53 (сс)

• Memory
  • Phonebook: up to 250 phone nubmers + SIM-card memory. Three phone numbers can be added to one name. Only phone numbers of one memory type can be displayed simultaneously. Four groups.
  • Lists of the last calls:
  • 10 dialed numbers
  • 20 received numbers
  • 10 missed numbers with date and time indication
  • Organiser: 50 events
  • Memory for 100 SMS message (50 of them is SMS Archive)
  • Up to 50 events in organizer
  • 286 Kb for sounds, images

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibrating alert
  • 40-tones polyphonic melodies
  • 20 ringing tones
  • Mixed mode (firstly vibrating alert and than melody) is available
  • Speed dialing: for up to 8 phone numbers
  • Speakerphone function

• SMS
  • EMS
  • A possibility to send and receive ringtones and animated pictures
  • Predictive text input T9
  • Templates
  • SMS Chat

• Connectivity
  • WAP 1.2.1
  • GPRS class 8

• Organaiser and extras
  • Time, date
  • Alarm-clock
  • Wallpapers, screen savers
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Organiser (among event types meetings and reminders are available)
  • Games

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published - 06 July 2003

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