A new high-powered Philips phone - the Fisio 820

The first Philips color phone, the Fisio 820.

Dutch manufacturer Philips is making its first foray into the color Mobile market with the new Fisio 820. This new model is pretty up to date by current technology standards - for the most part.

Considering that this phone has a very large (112x112 pixels, or up to 9 lines) display, Bluetooth Wireless, GPRS, WAP 1.21 support and a host of other features, it seems strange that the device supports only plain vanilla SMS. Not even the closely related EMS standard is supported. It is unclear if Philips plans on introducing a software update later to allow the phone to support MMS (such as Sony Ericsson did with the newest firmware for the T68m).

But when you consider the reality of today, MMS is not that important right now. It is not supported by many networks, and those that support it charge an awful lot for it. And when none of your friends has an MMS capable phone, what does it really matter? Will it matter in a year? Probably. At that time you will probably wish your Fisio supported it.

But all things considered, the Fisio 820 has exactly what you need for today.

• 256 color high-resolution display, 9 lines of text
• 500kb of memory for Contacts, with up to 7 fields per contact
• Changeable front covers
• GPRS high speed data
• T9 text input
• Bluetooth wireless networking
• Voice dialing
• Everything else you would probably expect...

All of this in an 85g package. That´s 2g more than the T68i, but you get a significantly larger screen on the Fisio 820.

The phone is expected to be available within the next couple of weeks.

 

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