Mobile phone manufacturer Philips have generally stayed away from the high end of the mobile market, they have however recently announced two mobiles that fit into this particular section!
The Philips X800 and the Philips Xenium X-Connect have been officially announced by Philips this month. Firstly the Philips X800, this is a fully touchscreen mobile which also has handwriting recognition. It has a nice big 2.9 inch screen with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels.
The X800 also has a 2 megapixel camera, it would obviously have been nice to see something better here - but it appears that Philips are taking a leaf out of Apple's book. There is also a microSD card slot, Bluetooth and an office documents reader. There is also a quite impressive battery life of 850 hours standby time and up to 8 hours talk time.
Next the Philips Xenium X-Connect which is a similar looking large screen device, at 3 inches the screen is slightly bigger than the X800. The main difference between the X800 and the X-Connect is the fact that the X-Connect will run off Windows Mobile 6. The X-Connect will also have GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA, and integrated GPS-receiver.
As usual you will get Bluetooth, USB and a microSD card slot. Sadly for such a great looking phone with a nice big screen it is missing a Wi-Fi connection which would have made for better browsing.
Sadly there is no word as yet on the price of the Philips X800 or the Philips Xenium X-Connect, nor any speculation on a release date for either.
