Philips 588

This phone is mainly targeted at women and attracts with design resembling an mp3 player. The following features are worth mentioning: a musical player with control buttons on the top cover, 128 MB of internal memory and mini-USB connector.

• Class: multimedia, youth
• Position in the line: under Philips 768
• Rivals: LG M6100
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2006
  • GSM 900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion 750 mAh
  • standby mode up to 250 hours
  • talk mode up to 4 hours
  • The display is TFT, shows up to 65000 colours, the resolution of 176x220 pixels
  • Integrated camera with the resolution of 1.3 MP, video recording with the resolution of 176x220 pixels (15 fps)
  • Colour: red, dark aubergine
  • Java (MIDP 2.0), 3D games
  • Dimensions: is specified
  • Weight: is specified

• Memory
  • Phonebook memory for 1000 names, several fields for a name, also a photo and a call melody, including MP3 or AAC++ file
  • User groups, own melody for various user groups. You can assign any picture to a group
  • Dynamical memory of the phone forms 128 MB (USB Mass Storage)

 

• Call management, ringing tones

• Vibracall
• 64-tones polyphony
• Compose own melodies
• In addition to three voice codes (HR, FR, EFR), a new one is present AMR.

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • SMS, EMS
  • 10 templates

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 2.0
• GPRS (4+2)
• E-mail client (POP3/SMTP/IMAP4)
• MMS
• IrDA
• Synchronization with PC (mini USB connector,irda)

• Organizer and extras
  • MP3-player, play lists
  • Women calendar
  • Video player
  • You can switch off GSM/GPRS module ("aboard" mode)
  • Screen savers and animated images
  • Themes to alter the interface
  • Organizer. Calendar weekly vew, monthly, recurrent events
  • Date, World time, alarm clock
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Dictaphone, records during conversations
  • Games

Michail Machnaev (michail.machnaev@mobile-review.com)
Published — 25 July 2006

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