Philips 639

• General features
  • Announced in November 2003, in the market since February-March 2004
  • GSM 900/1800
  • Battery type Li-Ion 720 mAh
  • Standby time up to 230 hours, talk time up to 4 hours 30 minutes
  • TFT display shows up to 65000 colors, 5 text lines and two service ones, has the resolution of 128x128 pixels (28x28 mm)
  • Outer display with the resolution of 80x48 pixels, built in mirror surface
  • Attached VGA camera
  • Up to 8 different body colors
  • Dimensions: 79 x 43 x 18,5 mm
  • Weight: 75 g

• Memory
  • Phone book memory for 300 names, allows to set up to 5 numbers and one e-mail address for a name
  • Users' groups in a phone book, a possibility to assign own melody for different users' groups. A possibility to assign a photo for a group, it will be displayed during incoming call (Fotocall). Up to 20 groups
  • Orgainzer memory for 300 events, memory is shared with the phone book, that means if a number of notes in organizer is 100 then a number of names in the phone book cannot be more than 200.
  • 2 MB of memory for dictaphone records and files are also shared dynamically, 450 KB are used at the begining

 

• Call management, ringing tones

• Vibrating alert
• 32 tones polyphony
• 30 melodies and ringing tones, a possibility to create own melody
• A new voice code AMR in addition to three ones(HR, FR,EFR).
• A possibility to use 40 voice marks for voice dialing or accessing menu items

• SMS
  • Predictive text input T9
  • SMS, EMS
  • 10 templates

   

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

• Organizer and extras
  • Graphic image or clock like headband
  • BeDJ
  • Java - it is possible that Java support will be added in the first quarter of 2004
  • Orgainzer for up to 300 events. Calendar - week or month view, recurrent events
  • Date, time, alarm-clock
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Dictaphone, number and length of notes are limited only by free space
  • Game - Bricks

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 27 December 2003