Philips 598

This stylish model is mainly targeted at women and attracts with small size. We should point out a musical player with control buttons on the top panel, 128 MB of internal memory and a mini-USB connector.

• Class: multimedia, youth
• Position in the line: above Philips 588
• Rivals: Sony Ericsson W300i
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2007, March.
  • GSM 900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion 580 mAh
  • Battery recharge about 2,5h
  • Battery life:
  • talk mode up to 4 hours
  • standby mode up to 300 hours
  • External OLED-screen with the resolution of 64 x 64 pixels, supports pale blue
  • Internal TFT-screen with the resolution of 176 x 220 px (1,8 ") and shows 262000 colours
  • Сolours: black, cream black and violet black
  • Weight: 82 gramms
  • Dimensions: 83,19 x 43,1 x 20,2 mm

• Memory
  • Phonebook for 1000 names, each name entry may contain up to 13 fields (name, mobile phone number, home number, work, fax, e-mail, site URL, state, street and house number, postal code, city, country and an arbitrary note), assign an image, a photo and a melody
  • Call lists with date and duration specified
  • Phone memory 128 MB
  • Expansion connector for Micro SD

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melodies, 64-tones polyphony
  • Call signal - MP3
  • Voice codes FR/EFR/AMR/HR

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • SMS
  • SMS CB (short messages)
  • Message templates
  • MMS
  • E-mail

• Camera
  • Integrated 1.3 MP camera (the maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024 px)
  • Video recording capability as MPEG4/H.263 with the resolution of 640 x 480 px, 15 fps,
  • Saves photos as JPEG
  • Special effects: Sepia, Blue effect, Black and white

• Multimedia
  • Supported audio formats  AMR, Midi, MP3, SP-Midi, AAC, WAV
  • Supported picture formats BMP, GIF, JPEG
  • Java MIDP 2.0
  • Games (2 preinstalled)

• Connectivity
  • GPRS Class 10 (4+2), Class B
  • WAP 2.0
  • Bluetooth
  • MMS
  • mini-USB
  • Synchronization with PC (mini-USB)

• Organizer and extras
  • Call signal - voice message-reminder
  • Dictaphone
  • Date, time
  • World time
  • Alarm clock
  • Calculator
  • Calendar
  • Euro converter
  • Moon calendar
  • Stopwatch
  • Countdown timer
  • Reminder of Chinese festival
  • Currency converter
  • Calendar for women
  • Buy list
  • Price comparison
  • Weight control
  • Discount calculator

Denis Yamalitdinov ([email protected])
Published — 28 April 2007

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