http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/ Engadget Comments for Philips' new 'Xenium 800' touchscreen phone leaks out http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/ROFL. I mean, as an FP, just too good. :)]]>May 7th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/Nov 13th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.chinagrabber.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1607]]>May 7th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
As far as external impressions are concerned, the above crap >>>>>>> i Phone]]>May 7th 2008 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
An accelerometer?
An iPod?
A phone?
Bluetooth?
A microphone?
Third party apps?

Cause last I heard, PSP's don't have any of those things.]]>May 7th 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
An iPod? Yes. And with better quality than apple's shitty DAC. Plus it supports loads of other formats with 3rd party mods.

A phone? I have a Nokia 1100. I'd rather not a phone in the PSP.

Bluetooth? LOL. Ancient. Hardly fast enough for a 32player deathmatch. WiFi FTW.

A microphone? Yes.

Third party apps? Yes. More than you can dream of.]]>May 7th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
Next generation might be.]]>May 7th 2008 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/Yes, 3rd party.

The PSP is just better at everything. Its only not a phone.]]>May 7th 2008 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/not a phone

Then is it really related?

Thinking about modern phones I guess it is. Sigh.]]>May 8th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 8th 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
While we're at it, let's go back to printers and scanners and copiers and fax machines as SEPARATE business devices!!

Why would people want to carry their lives around in a gadget? Especially if it's gorgeous? naaaaahh!

As for Kurian's third party EVERYTHING on his PSP --yeah, I have a life, so I sort of like things to work OUT OF THE BOX. 3rd party accelerometer? Really? jeez...]]>May 13th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/neos-new-psp-motion-sensor/

And it works in many official games with the new drivers.]]>May 13th 2008 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
As for this, I still don't get why a touchscreen is suddenly OK. It always used to be that tactile feedback was important. Can you use this thing wearing gloves?]]>May 7th 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
What do you mean the iPhone doesn't have a flashlight? Go in Installer and download "Flashlight" and you got one! It simply turns the screen white.

And really, you choose your phone based on whether or not it has a flashlight?]]>May 7th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
The problem with using the screen as a flashlight is that it uses more power than a dedicated LED but also that the light is much more diffused making it hard to light up what we really wish to look at.

>And really, you choose your phone based on whether or not it has a >flashlight?

I do, I would never buy a cellphone without a flashlight unless the other features are extremly compelling.]]>May 7th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
My Samsung ZH-10 was a total (and I mean *total*) p.o.s., but I liked that flashlight feature.


That said, I think I'm among the ten people left in the world who would be really unhappy if they had to constantly deal with a touchscreen keyboard...what's with the lack of button love these days? ]]>May 7th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
anything that is succesful has imitators.

eee pc , pokemon , biggy smalls. ]]>May 7th 2008 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
LG had their Prada released prior to the iPhone. However iPhone did it better, but it wasn't the first. Ergo, one could say LG's line is based off their previous Prada falsifying your claim that EVERY company is out there to copy it.]]>May 7th 2008 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/@dazepro

the point is that there have much more sucessful phones over the past year than the iphone , but you dont hear anyone else screaming "copy cat". you know why? because thats the way technology works.

]]>May 7th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/

it has a large demographic
solid marketing
a visually appeasing OS
a decent set of features
and all in all its a pretty good phone
but seriously its not THAT good. there are hpones on the market that are "smarter" than it]]>May 7th 2008 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
but there are none that can match the pure software power of the iphone's OS. hardware accelerated 3D graphics? used intelligently to make the user interface both efficient and fun?

good luck copying that because that's a 5 year project right there. speaking as a software developer, if you throw everything and the kitchen sink at it, the best you can do is come out with a much _worse_ copy of the original in just 1 year, and maybe a decent copy in 3. we are at year 1, and we are seeing bad copies.

touch screens were a dead idea before the iphone and for a very good reason: they didn't work. multi-touch and the special touch interface Apple created have changed that. but it's a very tough act to copy.]]>May 7th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/May 7th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/07/philips-new-xenium-800-touchscreen-phone-leaks-out/
I still have nightmares about the Philips "Savvy"....

http://www.gsmarena.com/philips_savvy-146.php

I thought they'd given up mobile phones....
This is like bumping into your Ex in the supermarket.
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