Philips 859

• General features
  • Announced in February 2004, announced in February 2004 3GSM Congress, in the market since summer 2004
  • GSM 900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion 620 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • standby time up to 400 hours
  • talk time up to 4 hours
  • External STN screen with the resolution of 96x64 pixels, shows 4096 colors
  • Display with the resolution of 128x160 pixels, TFT, shows up to 65K, 7 text lines, two service lines
  • Java MIDP 2.0
  • Colors - Silver Metallic, Blue
    
  • VGA-camera, photo editor
  • Dimensions: 85x47x25 mm
  • Weight: 86 grams

• Memory
  • Phone book memory for 499 names, up to 5 numbers and 1 e-mail address for a name
  • PhotoCall, works for an external screen, assigned only to users' groups
  • Users' groups in the phone book, a possibility to assign own melody to various users' groups. There is a possibility to set any picture for a group, it will be displayed during an incoming call (Fotocall). Up to 50 groups
  • Organizer memory for 499 events, shared with the phone book memory, that is keeping 100 entries in the organizer, you can't store more than 399 names.
  • Call log of last 30 incoming, outgoing and missed call
  • 9 MB 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 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
• Loud speaker

• 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
• USB-connection with PC
• IrDA

• Organizer and extras
  • Clock or a graphical image as a headband
  • BeDJ
  • Organizer, up to 499 events. Calendar view - weekly, monthly, recurrent event
  • Date, time, alarm clock
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Dictaphone, 20 records, up to 30 seconds in duration, works during a conversation
  • Game - Brick game, and several preset Java games
  

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