Philips X800 low-end touchscreen phone details revealed

We already knew that Philips had plans to release the low-end touchscreen X800, but now we know just how low it was willing to go with this thing. Confirmed are the lack of 3G, EDGE (which still shocks us), and WiFi. Meanwhile, the 2.9-inch, 240x400 screen, only supports 256K colors, and the phone's browser is your basic WAP 2.0/xHTML. It does support Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, though, so that's a plus. Other bits: it will allow for expansion via microSD, support MP3 ringtones, and packs a USB port. In short, not a whole lot to see here. Follow the read link for a full spec list.

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[(Unverified) Posted Jun 6th 2008 6:31PM]

considering this thing has no features for you to actually, you know, uh, control... what do u need touchscreen control for again?

this phone is pretty pathetic and pointless. scrap the touchscreen and just put a damn keypad on it at this point.

the words low-end and touchscreen aren't usually used together for a reason.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 6th 2008 6:42PM]

Egad already one year and no one can step up to the plate and offer a phone that has the screen size and slimness of the iPhone?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 6th 2008 8:00PM]

I had a Philips dual SIM model a few months ago that I purchased at the Hong Kong airport. Pretty good build quality but the best part was the battery lasted a month on standby! I liked the dual SIM aspect but other features like texting with the keypad were difficult. Phillips seems to be made primarily for the Chinese market so the touch screen could be for written Chinese.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 7th 2008 9:22PM]

Does the 3G iPhone's visual voicemail and mhz spectrum the 3G works work the world over? Let alone being garanteed to ever get a decent connection for iTunes and web browsing, finding a Wifi hotspot included?

I think not. So it is nice to see affordable world phones being upgraded.