Philips 636

• General features
  • Announced in August 2004, in the market since September 2004
  • GSM 900/1800
  • Battery type Li-Ion 600 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • standby time up to 400 hours
  • talk time up to 4 hours
  • Display with the resolution of 128x128 pixels (28x28 mm) shows 5 text lines and two service lines, 65K, TFT.
  • External display with the resolution of 80x48 pixels is integrated into a mirror surface, PolyLED
  • External VGA-camera
  • Body colors - Blue Pacific, Red Temptation, Silver Knight
  • Dimensions: 79x43x21 mm
  • Weight: 66 g

• Memory
  • Phone book memory for 300 names, up to 5 numbers and 1 e-mail address for a name.
  • Users' groups, a possibility to assign own melody to different groups. Any picture that will be displayed while incoming call may be assigned to a group (Fotocall). Up to 20 groups
  • Organizer memory for 300 events is shared with the phone book memory, that means if having 100 notes in the organizer, the number of names may not exceed 200.
  • 2 MB of memory are shared dynamically between a dictaphone, files. About 450 KB are taken from the beginning

 

• Call management, ringing tones

• Vibrating alert
• 32-tones polyphony
• 30 melodies and ringing tones, a possibility to compose own melody
• A new AMR code in addition to HR, FR,EFR
• 40 voice tags may be used for voice dialing or accessing menu items.

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

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 1.2.1
• GPRS(4+2)
• e-mail(POP/SMTP) - up to two accounts
• MMS

• Organizer and extras
  • Clock-like or graphical image headband
  • BeDJ
  • Organizer for up to 300 events. Calendar view - weekly, monthly, recurrent events
  • Date, time, alarm clock
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Dictaphone, number of records is limited only by free memory, the duration also depends on it
  • Game - Bricks, two In-Fusio games - Bricks, Fisticuffs

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 1 October 2004