Philips Xenium lets you talk forever (almost)

Damian Koh | Jan 14, 2008

The one thing that impresses us most about Philips' Xenium range of mobile phones is its uber-long battery life, some models with a standby time of up to two months on a single full charge. Of course, the actual performance is dependent on each individual's usage pattern. Suffice to say, that amount of uptime on a handset is still pretty darn long.

So when we got news that there's a new Xenium 9@9k on the block with a talktime of 17 hours and standby time of up to two months, we weren't surprised. The rest of the features are pedestrian and pale in comparison to the impressive battery life. For the record, the 9@9k also plays MP3 music (35 hours straight on a single charge), comes with an FM radio and a microSD expansion card slot.

There's also the Xenium 9@9u with a slightly inferior standby time of up to one month and maximum talktime of 8 hours, but comes with a marginally better feature set. That includes quadband GSM connectivity, Bluetooth stereo A2DP, a 2-megapixel camera, FM radio and a microSD card slot.

Both phones are currently available in countries like Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Pictured is the Xenium 9@9k

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