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The Philips Fisio 820 is sturdily built and includes a choice set of features at an appealing price. However, it’s let down by a poor user interface, unintuitive menu and clumsily designed keypad. There’s no doubt that colour has some benefits. Asia, for example, has already embraced colour, with uses ranging from Java-games to sending attachments via MMS (Multimedia Messaging Services). However, while colour is mainly of cosmetic benefit, the Fisio 820’s lack of infrared and tri-band support is more serious. That said, if you’re not a regular traveller to the US and don’t use infrared, the cost savings will be welcome. Not all service providers offer GPRS stateside anyway, and the provision of Bluetooth provides one method of PC connectivity.

The software provided lets you access the integrated modem via Bluetooth and take advantage of GPRS, with four slots giving a maximum download speed of 53.6Kbits/sec. Once the Data Connect software has detected the phone, a Wizard will guide you through the modem configuration. You can also use the software to synchronise the phone’s agenda and address book with your PC or PDA.

Specifications:

Phonebook: 500 entries, Photo call
Network: GSM 900 / GSM 1800
Ring Type: Monophonic
Card slot: No
GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
3G: No
Bluetooth: No
Messaging: SMS, EMail
Browser: WAP 1.2.1
Camera: No
Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion
Stand-by: 400 h
Talk time: 5 h

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The Philips Fisio 620 is a lightweight, pocket-sized phone that is very comfortable to hold. It measures 104 x 46 x 20mm and weighs in at 85g. Enhancing the comfy feeling is a soft rubbery back case which Philips dubs “softskin”. It feels peculiar at first, even slippery, but does prevent the phone from sliding from your hands. If you’re not keen on the “softskin”, you can choose the silver-blue version instead.A groovy feature included on this mobile is a variable two-colour backlight. There are red and green backlights and you can choose a setting on a scale from one (green screen) to seven (red screen) with an amber colour in the middle. We found the green screen slightly brighter at night, but as red screen phones are not as common, we opted for the latter.

Two e-mail accounts can be set up on the phone with messages sent and received over your choice of GPRS or GSM. Attachments can also be viewed, providing they’re either plain text, 24bit encoded JPEG, or an attached e-mail. There is a note in the manual that if the e-mail is over 10Kb, it is rejected and the download is cancelled. There is a wireless application protocol (WAP) hotkey to open the WAP browser if those services appeal to you. A big plus is the durable battery life, which Philips boasts at a maximum of 330 hours of stand-by or 4.5 hours of talk time. We switched on the phone at 4pm Wednesday and with normal usage the phone lasted 102 hours, finally conking out at 10pm Sunday. It took only 40 minutes to fully recharge the battery.

Specifications:

Phonebook:300
Network: GSM 900 / GSM 1800
Ring Type: Monophonic
Card slot: No
GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
3G: No
Bluetooth: No
Messaging: SMS, EMail
Browser:  WAP 1.2.1
Camera: No
Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion
Stand-by: 330 h
Talk time: 5 h

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Philips Fisio 121 is a simple but smart looking cell phone. The phone is too wide measuring 106 x 49 x 22 mm, 79 cc and weighs 95g. Made of good plastic, good design and shape giving the phone gives an attractive look. The phone is powered by a Standard battery, NiMh 750 mAh that will work up to 350 hours in standby mode and 4 hours of talks. The plastic keypad has good placed keys making the phone easier to dial.On top of sending messages, the Philips Fisio 121 is equipped with intelligent t9 typing, which allows you to easily type text messages without pressing each key upto 4 times for the correct letter.

Philips Fisio 121 supports for Dual-band GSM 900/ GSM 1800 MHz and offers various features such as 20 Monophonic ring tones, Vibration alert, Alarm, Snap-in front cover, T9, Clock, Calculator, Euro Converter, SMS, Call records (10 dialed, 10 received, 10 missed calls) and Phonebook. The Philips Fisio 121 comes fully equipped with a WAP browser, and additionally an HTML browser for normal web page surfing.

Specifications:

Phonebook: SIM only
Network: GSM 900 / GSM 1800
Ring Type: Monophonic
Card slot: No
GPRS: No
3G: No
Bluetooth: No
Messaging: SMS
Browser: WAP 1.1
Camera: No
Battery: Standard battery, NiMh 750 mAh
Stand-by: 350 h
Talk time: 4 h

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Philips Fisio 120 is a simple but smart looking cell phone. The phone is too wide measuring 106 x 49 x 22 mm, 79 cc and weighs 95g. Made of good plastic, good design and shape giving the phone gives an attractive look. The phone is powered by a Standard battery, NiMh 750 mAh that will work up to 350 hours in standby mode and 4 hours of talks.

The Philips Fisio 120 comes with Monochrome graphic display with the resolution of 64 x 100 pixels, which is standard resolution for this category of phones. The plastic keypad has good placed keys making the phone easier to dial.

Philips Fisio 120 supports for Dual-band GSM 900/ GSM 1800 MHz and offers various features such as 20 Monophonic ring tones, Vibration alert, Alarm, Clock, Calculator, Euro Converter, SMS, Call records (10 dialed, 10 received, 10 missed calls) and Phonebook.

Specifications:

Phonebook: SIM only
Network: GSM 900 / GSM 1800
Ring Type: Monophonic
Card slot: No
GPRS: No
3G: No
Bluetooth: No
Messaging: SMS
Browser: No
Camera: No
Battery: Standard battery, NiMh 750 mAh
Stand-by: 350 h
Talk time: 4 h

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Philips Genie 2000 is a simple but smart looking cell phone. The phone is too wide measuring 54 x 110 x 20 mm and weighs 99g. Made of good plastic, good design and shape giving the phone gives an attractive look. The phone is powered by a Li-Ion 550 mAh standard battery that will work up to 130 hours in standby mode and 2 hours of talks.

The Philips Genie 2000 comes with Monochrome graphic display with the resolution of 64 x 100 pixels, which is standard resolution for this category of phones. The plastic keypad has good placed keys making the phone easier to dial.

Philips Genie 2000 supports for Dual-band GSM 900/ GSM 1800 MHz and offers various features such as 12 Monophonic ring tones, Vibration alert, Alarm, Clock, Games, SMS, Voice dial, Voice command, To Do list, Organizer, Call records (10 dialed, 10 received, 10 missed calls) and Phonebook that can store up to 100 phone numbers.

Specifications:

Phonebook: SIM only
Network: GSM 900 / GSM 1800
Ring Type: Monophonic
Card slot: No
GPRS: No
3G: No
Bluetooth: No
Messaging: SMS
Browser: No
Camera: No
Battery: Standard battery
Stand-by: 110 - 130 h
Talk time: 90 - 120 min