| Philips 390 |
| General |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 |
| Announced | 2007, May |
| Status | Coming Soon |
| Size |
| Dimensions | 97 X 48 X 16 Mm |
| Weight | 98 G |
| Display |
| Type | Tft, 256k Colors |
| Size | 176 X 220 Pixels, 2 Inches |
| | - 4-way Navigation Key |
| Ringtones |
| Type | Polyphonic (64 Channels), Mp3 |
| Customization | Download |
| Vibration | Yes |
| Memory |
| Phonebook | Yes |
| Call Records | 30 Received, Dialed And Missed Calls |
| Card Slot | Microsd (transflash) |
| | - 64 Mb User Memory |
| Data |
| Gprs | No |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | No |
| Usb | Yes |
| Features |
| Messaging | Sms, Ems, Mms |
| Browser | Wap 2.0/xhtml |
| Games | 3 Embedded |
| Colors | Black |
| Camera | 1.3 Mp, 1280 X 1024 Pixels, Video(160x120) |
| | - Mp3 Player
- Calculator
- Calendar
- International Converter
- Built-in Handsfree |
| Battery |
| | Standard Battery, Li-ion 620 Mah |
| Stand-by | Up To 250 H |
| Talk Time | Up To 3 H |
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Philips - 390Philips 390
Build quality: 8/10
Applications: 8/10
Interface: 7/10
Value-for-money: 8/10
Overall rating: 8/10
+ Relatively cheap
+ Smooth slide movement
- 1.3 MP camera only
- Slow response to SMS typing
The Philips 390 looks just like the Samsung E900 phone, but is currently a good 30 percent cheaper than the Korean make. However, there are no touchsensitive buttons on the top half of the shell, which are replaced with regular tactile-press buttons. One other key difference is that the 2-megapixel camera on the Samsung is replaced with a 1.3-megapixel one here.
In the box
Handset Transceiver
Battery
Charger
Headset
Data Cable
Manual
The phone
The 390 unit that we used for review is black in colour. It has a chrome toggle button on the right side of the phone and the keypad text is white in colour, backlit by a white light too.
A MicroSD slot hides in plain view on the left side of the phone, painted black and set into the black side of the phone. Other than that, the 390 is a rather unremarkable black in colour and not at all too loud for use in a corporate setting.
Software
The operating system appears to be a proprietary Philips one. The menu is a 3 x 3 grid of nine icons, each one animating slightly when selected with the navigation pad.
The applications in the device are the Calculator, Alarm Clock and Calendar. A To-Do List, Currency Converter and World Clock round off the list of applications. The Calculator has a curious look on the screen with a rectangle intersected by two lines. Each segment is then divided into two and a symbol corresponds to pushes on the navigation pad. Numbers are entered using the number pad of the phone.
Connectivity
The Philips 390 works on the GSM 900 and 1800 bands only, something quite rare for today¡¦s devices which are usually triband. There is no Bluetooth or Infrared either and the only option for a local transfer is by using the USB data cable.
The GPRS is quite up to date at Class 10 specifications, and that is pretty much all there is for the connectivity options of the Philips 390.
Camera
The 1.3 Megapixel camera is protected by the slide action of the phone, and only work when the top half of the device is slid out to reveal the keypad. The ¡¥snap¡¦ takes quite a while to go into effect after you press the shutter button. Therefore, you will have to slide out to shoot pictures and the camera will not work when both halves of the phone are shut.
The quality of the camera is pretty fair, but it wasn¡¦t very good in low light conditions. The digital zoom does not make much of a difference when put into use. The numbers one to seven on the keypad change the settings of the camera when the phone is in camera mode. You will need to spend some time learning the shortcuts, but it will then let you switch modes and settings really quickly when you need to take a variety of pictures in quick succession.
Games
There are three games in the 390. The first one is named F1 race but it is really a street event where you must avoid oncoming vehicles which increase in speed as you go further in the game.
Smash is a fairly simple time waster where you hit animals over the head when they pop out of holes in the ground. There are nine holes corresponding to the nine numbers on the keypad. It is not a very politically astute game to bash animals over the head, if you ask me.
Finally, we have Submarine, which simply requires you to press the 5 on the keypad to make your submarine go up and down on the screen. Hit anything and the phone vibrates because you have just crashed your submarine. It is more of an exercise in concentration. How long can you go before getting totally bored with pressing the 5 button repeatedly?
Editor's Opinion
This device is simply a talk and text phone. The text part is a little bit slow to respond when you key in the text, and there is some delay when you pick up an incoming voice call before the other party can hear you speak. Other than that, you get a pretty fair colour-screen phone with a megapixel camera for quite a low price.
The camera is fair, and the shortcut keys make up for a short delay in recording the image when you press the shutter key. A data cable is the only cheap way to get MP3s into the Micro SD card, or you can be satisfied with the 60 plus MBs onboard. Either way, there is little other entertainment for this device, but it does support Java so you can get more games from other sources. |
| Common misspellings on this brand: phili0ps , phiulips |
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