Phillips E 560: reviews and features

Philips is known as a supplier of functional, technological and at the same time affordable solutions in the segment of mobile devices. This brand produces excellent quality phones, which are usually attributed to classic single-piece solutions. Among these is the device Philips Xenium E560. This device combines traditional technologies and innovative approaches to implement a number of custom options. What are its main features? What are the key competitive advantages of this solution from Philips?

Basic information about the phone

The phone "Philips E 560", reviews of which are distributed on topical online portals, is classified as a one-piece device with support for 2 SIM-cards. The device is equipped with a display with a diagonal of 2.4 inches and a resolution that is 320 by 240 pixels. Operates in standard GSM bands, does not support Internet connection via 3G channels. Communication with other devices can be carried out via Bluetooth communication interfaces, as well as USB. Equipped with a flash camera.

Among the main advantages of such a device as the Philips E 560 phone (reviews about it can confirm this) - the presence of a capacious battery that provides a standby time of 1752 hours, as well as a conversation that can last up to 39 hours.

The phone is small in size and weight, has a modern design in a universal concept that allows the device to be used as an element of everyday style for users of different ages and professions. We now consider in more detail the characteristics of the phone from Philips.

Characteristics

The device has:

• Communication modules, functioning in the standard GSM 900/1800/900, and also allowing to send MMS-messages;
• Body with dimensions of 52 x 126.2 x 15.9 mm, weight of 138 g;
• Slots for 2 SIM-cards of usual size;
• Camera with a resolution of 2 megapixels, as well as LED flash;
• Modules for playing melodies in MP3 format, as well as FM radio;
• Standard headphone jack;
• Modules supporting polyphonic melodies, as well as tracks in MP3 format, which can be set to incoming calls;
• Bluetooth modules, USB;
• Screen type TFT with a diagonal of 2.4 inches, a resolution of 320 by 240 pixels, as well as a color depth of 262.14 thousand colors;
• A Li-Ion battery with a capacity of 3.1 thousand mAh;
• Slot for connecting a memory card in microSD format;
• A set of built-in applications - notebook, scheduler, alarm clock, software for playing FM radio, melodies.

How do experts in the field of communications technology evaluate the phone "Philips E 560" in terms of characteristics? Feedback from experts on the device as a whole is positive in terms of the phone's availability of resources to meet the basic needs of the target audience of buyers - those for whom functionality is not as important as the ability to use the device for a long time without recharging. The phone, as experts believe, can be claimed by tourists, summer residents, hikers. Therefore, the characteristics considered by us can be considered quite consistent with the most frequent user requests.

We now study in more detail the main features of the phone from Philips. Let's start with the design of the device.

Design and assembly

Looks like the phone as a whole, like most classic monoblock devices with buttons. It is equipped with large plastic keys, made in a typical style, which is realized on many other phones from Philips. Buttons for controlling the device are metal.

The case of the device does not have too large dimensions in comparison with other solutions with similar functionality. The back cover of the case is made of plastic, which does not slip in the user's hands. Perimeter of the front side of the phone is edged with plastic of dark color.

The USB port is located at the bottom of the case. In the top there is an audio slot, to which you can connect headphones or a headset. On the left side of the case there are buttons for controlling the volume level. On the back of the case are: camera lens, flash, another microphone, as well as a speaker.

Directly under the back cover of the phone is a battery. Below it, 2 SIM-card slots, as well as a slot for a microSD memory card. Both hardware components are installed quite simply. In general, access to the operational settings of the phone due to the high quality of its design is carried out without any special difficulties.

The device is convenient and qualitatively assembled: these options are often the most important competitive advantage of phones, especially when it comes to using devices in conditions that differ from typical urban ones - outside the city or at the dacha. Here, simplicity and reliability are important, which in this case are also complemented by high-quality design.

Reviews about the phone "Philips E 560" in the evaluation of the quality of the assembly are the most positive. As experts note, there are no loopholes in the case, no creaks are heard when you click on one or other of its elements.

Manage your phone

The next nuance, which will be useful to consider, - opinions on the management tools devaysom. Phone "Philips E 560" (feedback from buyers about this feature, as well as expert opinions, very positive) has several navigation buttons, which are located directly under the screen, surround the OK button. Between them there is a fairly small distance, so that the user may need some time to master this particular management of the phone.

The numeric buttons of the device have a rather large value - 12 to 6 mm, slightly raised above the main body part. The distance between these keys is sufficient to, in turn, without special preparation, confidently dial numbers or text from the keyboard. The progress of the numeric buttons is small, their pressing is accompanied by a soft but distinct click. The keys have a backlight with sufficient brightness, so that the device can be comfortably used in the dark.

Display

The screen of the device with a diagonal of 2.4 inches and a resolution of 240 by 320 pixels has a density that is 166 pixels per inch. Picture, as evidenced by feedback about the phone "Philips E 560", the display is quite clear, without much pixelation. The screen is equipped with an IPS-type matrix, which makes it possible to comfortably view the screen at an angle: the picture does not lose quality. It can be noted that there is an air gap between the screen matrix and the strong protective glass.

Phillips Xenium E 560 phone (the experts' reviews about this option are quite good) has a screen that is protected by glass of exceptionally high quality. This material is characterized by high strength and scratch resistance. In fact, there is an oleophobic coating on the glass. With it, you can easily erase fingerprints.

The resolution of the device screen may seem modest, but it is quite enough from the point of view of solving the basic user tasks: promptly acquainting with the list of calls, reading and sending messages, checking e-mail, activating certain modules. If necessary, the files stored in the device's memory can subsequently be transferred to another device with a longer display.

Battery

What are the features of the battery with which the Philips E 560 phone is equipped? Feedback from buyers and experts on the phone include the opinion that the battery is one of the most competitive components of the device in question. According to the manufacturer, it is capable of providing the functionality of the phone during the conversation up to 39 hours, and also with the standby mode - up to 1752 hours.

In practice, as experts and users note, the performance of autonomous work is quite comparable with the ones claimed. Experts believe that if you talk on the phone for about half an hour a day and write about 10-20 SMS-messages, then the resources of its battery will last for 2 weeks.

Full charging of the battery via USB-port lasts about 6 hours, from the adapter - about 3.5 hours.

Communications

Communication functions are not the most competitive with such a device as Philips E 560 phone. Reviews about the device at the same time indicate that users do not always consider them paramount. The main thing is, nevertheless, as we noted above, these are the indices of the device's autonomous operation, with which everything is in order.

Regarding the communications - to the Internet through 3G channels, as we noted at the beginning of the article, you can not leave the phone. But it is quite possible to go online via GPRS: in some cases, its speed can be enough, for example, to send letters via the Internet, small files. For these purposes, Java applications can be used, for example, such as Opera in the modification, adapted for conventional phones.

Another communication interface available for users of the device under consideration is Bluetooth, which is presented in version 2.1. At the same time, it is compatible with the A2DP profile. You can also connect the phone to the PC using the USB port.

If necessary, files, for example, represented by photos created with the camera phone, can be transferred via any available communication interfaces or via a memory card to any other device. In this case, the device can be characterized as a sufficiently universal solution. The lack of support for fast Internet on it will not always be accompanied by the appearance of significant difficulties in using the basic functions of the phone.

Memory Usage

Phillips Xenium E 560 phone (reviews regarding this option are also very common and mostly positive) equipped with a very modest amount of built-in flash memory, which is 12.5 MB. Therefore, in the event that the user decides regularly to photograph or download significant volumes of files from the Internet (even with the help of GPRS it is, in principle, possible), then, most likely, you will immediately have to purchase an additional memory card. The phone supports corresponding modules in microSD format up to 32 GB.

Manage files located in the internal or external memory of the device, you can use a special application that has a phone "Philips E 560" (reviews about the mobile device characterize this solution as sufficiently functional, allowing you to create folders on the flash drive, perform various operations with files , Check their properties).

Camera

This device is equipped with a camera with a resolution of 2 MP. The autofocus is not equipped, but is supplemented with an LED flash.

How effective is the Philips E 560 phone as a shooting device? Reviews about the quality of images from the camera in the environment of users and experts are quite contradictory. There are opinions that the phone is objectively not designed even for amateur photography, but maybe it will come in handy in order to immediately shoot a text or an advertisement.

However, the device can be evaluated by experts, primarily, provided that it is compared with competing solutions. In this case, the quality of the images against the background of those that are formed with the help of cameras of other devices in the corresponding segment may well be decent.

Using a video camera phone from Philips, you can create and videos, but their resolution will be quite modest, 320 by 480 pixels. The speed of the video will be 5 frames per second. A soundtrack can also be recorded. The camera is controlled by built-in applications.

Apps

Considering the main features of such a device as the phone "Philips E 560" (characteristics, reviews about the device), you can also explore the features of the software that is installed in it.

The device operates on firmware from the manufacturer. As experts note, the operating system of the phone works without failures, does not hang. Actually, the quality of the software installed on the Philips E 560 phone (feedback on the reliability of the device confirm this) is one of the main factors causing the users to purchase the corresponding solution when comparing its capabilities with competing devices.

Applications installed in the phone, also function without complaints, are loaded pretty quickly. The main built-in options for the operating system of the device in question:

• Application management;
• Connection to the Network;
• Application of multimedia media - audio player, video player, file gallery, voice recorder, and FM radio (in order to activate the corresponding module, you need to connect headphones to the phone);
• Camera control;
• Sending and receiving messages;
• File management;
• Use of the organizer, contact list, profiles;
• Use Bluetooth;
• Call management;
• Adjustment of settings.

As noted by users, the order of using these options on the phone E 560 in general is similar to what characterizes the use of other devices from Philips.

Sound

Another important function of the device is the reproduction of sound. It can be represented, as we noted above, with a polyphonic melody, an MP3 file or a radio broadcast. How do users evaluate the Phillips E 560 phone in terms of sound quality? Reviews (advantages and disadvantages are often found in them in the context of the same options, so the presence of not too positive estimates for any function of the device should not be unambiguously perceived as a negative evaluation by the user) indicate that users consider the sound quality, Reproduced by the phone, in particular, using headphones, excellent.

According to the owners of the phone, the melodies are played at a high volume level, the sound is clean, the basses and high notes are well felt. The polyphonic speaker is also judged by users to be sufficiently loud.

Of course, to get high-quality sound, the user must use the appropriate equipment - headphones or a headset. In this case, it is important to support them to reproduce the same bass and high frequencies: it happens that the specific types of headphones or headsets are not too optimal for listening to melodies in which the first or, conversely, the latter predominate. In this sense, when listening to the same files, different users can get different sensations in terms of perceiving sound quality. Therefore, if you test this option, you should experiment with different types of headphones and headsets.

Summary

So, we have studied what the Philips E 560 phone is, technical specifications and reviews about this device. What conclusions can we draw by studying the basic information about it?

First of all, it should be noted that, despite the absence of a number of features that are in demand by the modern user, such as, for example, the availability of a communication module for communicating with the Internet via the 3G channel, the phone is sufficiently functional. It allows, not counting the negotiations and messaging, to take photos and video, listen to the broadcasts. If necessary, of course, you can go online, though only through a rather slow GPRS channel. But in this you can find an advantage in the form of saving traffic.

The main thing, probably, the advantage of the device is an exceptionally capacious battery. Indicators of battery life, which has a phone "Philips Xenium E 560" (reviews of experts and users can confirm this) can be considered outstanding for modern models of mobile devices.

The device works well with the music player function. It is desirable, of course, that the equipment in the form of headphones or headsets at the same time be of good quality.

Thus, as evidenced by characterizing the capabilities of such a device as the phone "Philips E 560", reviews, and the advantages and disadvantages of this device are available. Among its undeniable advantages are:

• Extremely capacious battery, providing long-term autonomous work of the phone;
• High quality assembly of the device and materials;
• Stable software;
• The possibility of connecting an external memory card;
• Good quality of the played sound;
• Convenience of numeric keys.

The advantages of the device can be attributed to the support of popular communication interfaces - USB and Bluetooth. But, as evidenced by the face of users of such a device as the phone "Philips E 560", reviews, and the shortcomings of the phone also are obvious. Among them are:

• No communication support module via 3G channel;
• Modest amount of built-in flash memory;
• Not too optimal arrangement of control keys.

Of course, the practical experience of using the capabilities of the phone E 560 from Philips for all users will be different. Therefore, the characterizing phone "Philips E 560" reviews can be quite different. And the review of the phone, conducted even by an experienced expert, can be based on his subjective feelings. It is important that the device has a number of undeniable competitive advantages, and against their backdrop, its shortcomings may not be too noticeable.