Philips' Xenium X530 treats batteries with kid gloves

We're not sure what's up with Philips' aversion to 3G, but the EDGE trend apparently continues with its latest, the Xenium X530 flip. Per usual for the Xenium series of phones, the X530 features gorilla-like battery endurance that'll supposedly give you some 850 hours of standby time and 8 hours of talk time -- and otherwise, the specs are all as good or better than what we're used to seeing out of Philips including an honest-to-goodness QVGA display, a 1-inch OLED on the outside, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio with RDS, and microSD expansion. No word on a release date, but considering the lack of GSM 850, North Americans can just go back to their battery-destroying smartphones and their stupid wall outlets.

[Via Unwired View]

[dishbreak Posted Mar 11th 2009 5:36PM]

You know, one thing I miss after moving from a featurephone to a smartphone is the epic battery life. I'm sure it has a market, even if its data isn't that great. A lot of people use SMS and voice service exclusively, and the great battery life is a big plus.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 11th 2009 7:55PM]

What's a feature phone?
Something better than a dumbphone and less smart than a smartphone?
And a phone with a camera (or maybe 2) , calendar, and some games , is it still dumb?
I bought a supposed smartphone (a Samsung Omnia i900) only to discover that it was so dumb that it even lacked voice dialling.
Then I changed it with the Omnia i910 which apparently is smart enough to have at least this basic feature.
Some people call a smartphone even the iPhone with its pathetic camera, lack of MMS and of copy/paste, impossibility of using it as modem, etc, etc.
And the Nokia 5800? Is it a smartphone or only the N series models qualify?

In my opinion is smart only the phone that is right for you : for me anything without a decent browser with Copy & paste, a good camera/videocam, possibility to send and receive MMS and videocalls, a decent media player, push email, a usable calendar, easy sync'ing to PCs, modem function, WIFI , Bluetooth, voice dialling, a-gps , and some other things , just is'nt smart enough, and actually most phones with all of the above things are not smart enough anyway.
Now that I think about it, I'm still looking for a real "Smart" phone: my HTC touch HD and my Samsung Omnia i910 are the smartest phones I found but I really hope to find something smarter in the new crop of phones that we have been promised before the summer.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 14th 2009 7:16PM]

Holy crap that thing is ugly. Only a 2mP camera? Are you joking me? The thing looks too simple even for my Mom. I think she'll be sticking with her Jitterbug for the time being.