Benefon ESC!

The first GSM phone with the integrated GPS receiver with a set of unique features.

• General features
  • Made in Finland
  • Announced in February 2000
  • Dual band GSM 900/1800
  • Battery type: Li-Ion 650 mAh and Li-Ion 1200mAh
  • Standby time: 140 and 240 hours
  • Talk time: 6 and 10 hours
  • Charging time: 2 and 3 hours
  • Waterpoof, shockproof, stainless steel frame
  • A large graphical display (100 х 160 pixels), which shows up to 20 text lines
  • Dynamical font size
  • EFR support
  • Dimensions: 129х49х23 mm
  • Weight: 150g. (Li-Ion 650 mAh) and 169g. (Li-Ion 1200mAh)

   

  • Memory
  • Phonebook: up to 255 phone numbers (only in SIM-card memory)
  • Lists of the last calls with time indication:
    • 10 received
    • 15 dialed
    • 10 missed

     

  • Ringing tones, call management
    • Speed dialing (9 phone numbers)
    • Turning off the microphone
    • Conference-call
    • 40 ringing tones, a possibility to edit and download ringing tones
    • Adjusted volume
    • Silent mode
    • Vibrating alert

   

  • SMS
  • Work time - digital, SMS, fax-modem (9.6 kbps)
  • Predictive text input (T9 system)
  • Concatenated messages (up to 160/640 characters)
  • Replay/Forward features for SMS

   

  • Communications capabilities
  • Built-in modem connected with COM slot, standard AT interface

   

  • Organizer:
  • Time и date
  • Alarm clock
  • Calendar
  • Schedule with reminders of meetings
  • Autopower on/off
  • Calculator
  • Currency converter
  • 3 games

   

  • Software: BeneWin Pro with Maps
  • Cable for PC
  • Informational system BeneMaps support
  • A possibility to edit a phonebook and to make backup copies
  • Receiveing/editing/sending SMS from PC
  • Composing and editing of melodies with a help of BeneWin Maestro
  • Adjusting of the phone settings
  

  GPS

  • 12-channel high-quality GPS-receiver
  • An integrated flip-antenna GPS, an external antenna connector
  • Information:
  • location
  • rate of movement
  • minimal
  • average
  • maximal
  • distance
  • direction
  • time
  • Geographical Information System - BeneMaps, connected with Arbonaut® mobile map. This service adapts maps, produced by GEODATA, and и allows to download them via Internet with a help of Web browser
  • The maps include almost the whole territory of Europe
  • A possibility to use and process different maps:
  • touristic
  • city
  • topographic
  • geographical
  • Additional information:
  • key points
  • route extent
  • house numbers
  • Transmission of current coordinates over SMS
  • A possibility to work with NMEA 0183 interface
  • Friend Find feature
    It enables to find another person with the same phone (Benefon Esc!) and shows on the map how to reach him
  • SOS feature
    When it is switched off the phone send a message with the current coordinates and a beforehand programmable phone number is dialed

Eldar Murtazin ([email protected])
Published - 28 February 2003

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