Philips new Xenium X550 and X810 are, as usual, battery champions

You might remember that reasonably attractive -- but EDGE-impaired -- Xenium X800 full touchscreen phone out of Philips last year, and it looks like they've got a successor lined up nearly a year later. The X810 (pictured top) looks a whole lot fresher than the model it replaces and adds a sliding numeric keypad, EDGE (we would've preferred 3G, admittedly), and is said to feature a 3.2 megapixel camera and WQVGA display. Like all Xeniums, it takes battery performance to the extreme with a claimed one month of standby time. Moving downmarket, the X550 candybar shares some of the X810's styling cues and also features the 3.2 megapixel cam, but loses the touchscreen for a standard QVGA unit; like its big brother, it'll allegedly go for a month on a charge. It seems the X550 can be yours with a quick trip to China, while you'll find the beefier X810 hanging out in Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey. Book your flights, folks.

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[glenskey Posted May 19th 2009 12:14AM]

i've said it before, and i'll say it again. philip doesn't excite me very much

[(Unverified) Posted May 19th 2009 12:28AM]

without any mainstream platform of S60 or Winmo, these phones would not excite much. What would you do with a month's standby time if you cannot install any apps?
No 3G and no GPS? Where are you Philips, you better stop this mobile phone business and stick to your shavers and epilators... or make better TVs and Audio equipments.