Philips 568

• General features
  • Announced in October 2004
  • GSM 900/1800
  • Battery type Li-Ion 900 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • standby time up to 300 hours
  • talk time up to 4 hours
  • Display with the resolution of 128x160 pixels, STN, shows up to 65K, 5 text lines, two service lines
  • Integrated VGA-camera, timer, several effects, digital zoom, a possibility to record up to 8 seconds of video
  • Colors - Deep Black, Impact Blue, Arrow Silver
  • Java MIDP 2.0
  • Dimensions: 98х44х18 mm
  • Weight: 87 gramm

• Memory
  • Phone book memory for 255 names, up to 4 number and 1 e-mail address for a name, several fields for address
  • Users' groups in the phone book, a possibility to assign own melody to various users' groups. A possibility to set any picture for a group, it will be displayed during incoming call (Fotocall). Up to 5 groups
  • Organizer memory for 300 events, shared with the phone book memory, that means if having 100 entries in the organizer, the number of name can't exceed 200.
  • 4 MB are shared dynamically between a dictaphone, files, about 450 KB are taken from the beginning

 

• Call management, ringing tones

• Vibrating alert
• 40-tones polyphony
• 30 melodies and ringing tones, a possibility to create own one
• In addition to the three voice codes (HR, FR,EFR) a new code AMR.
• 40 voice tags you may use for voice dialing or accessing menu items

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • SMS, EMS
  • 10 templates

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 2.0
• GPRS(4+2)
• e-mail(POP/SMTP) - up to two accounts
• MMS

• Organizer and extras
  • Clock or a graphical image as a headband
  • Organizer, up to 300 events. Calendar view - weekly, monthly, recurrent event
  • Date, time, alarm clock
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Dictaphone, the number of records is limited only by free space, the length also depends on the free memory
  • Game

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 24 October 2004