Netherlands based electronics company Philips has announced an mid-range smartphone in China dubbed Philips X596, packing decent specs. It sports aviation grade aluminum alloy material body, and has a fingerprint scanner at the back.
The Philips X596 features 5.5-inch Full HD display and is powered by octa-core Snapdragon 435 processor, coupled with 4GB RAM. It comes in two storage options: 32GB and 64GB, and the storage is expandable via microSD card.
The camera department includes 16MP front and rear camera. The rear camera gets an LED flash, Auto-focus and 1080p video support. It has the usual connectivity suite such as dual-SIM slot, 4G LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS.
It runs Android Nougat, and packs a massive 4000mAh battery that also supports 9V/2A fast charging.
Coming to the pricing, the 32GB Philps X596 has been priced at CNY 1299 ($170 | Rs. Rs. 13,000), and the 64GB variant costs CNY 1499 ($227 | Rs. 15,000). It is currently available for pre-order in China via JD.com and will start shipping from November 5.
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Philips has introduced a range of health-focused smart devices, aimed at tracking various health parameters. The devices are meant for home-use and includes a watch, a blood pressure monitors, weighing scale and an ear thermometer.
All these health devices are compatible with Android and iOS, and syncs all the data collected to the HealthSuite app.
The Health Watch packs heart rate monitor, which continuously tracks heart rate, as well as resting heart rate, resting respiration rate and amount of time you’re
active. It features and always on display with Gorilla Glass protection and promises four day battery life.
It does not have a touch screen, instead, users will have to use the bezels for interaction. It can also track steps, calories, running and sleep patterns. The watch is water resistant up to 1 ATM, making it splash and rain proof.
The blood pressure monitor can measure your diastolic and systolic blood pressure, as well as heart rate. There
are two versions available: a wrist blood pressure monitor, an upper arm blood pressure monitor.
The Philip Health Watch is priced at $250, the weight scale costs $100, the upper arm blood pressure monitor is $100, the wrist blood pressure monitor is $90, and the ear
thermometer is priced $60. They are available in the U.S via company website and Amazon.
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Consumer electronic company Philips has launched an Android based digital voice recorder dubbed SpeechAir, which at first glance looks like a smartphone. The company said that SpeechAir "unites the best of two worlds. It's the missing link between the worlds of smartphones and dictation recorders,".
It houses three microphones, that are meant for different tasks — a 360 degree microphone for recording dictations and meetings, a directional microphone that provides noise-cancellation support and MEMS microphone for making VoIP calls. The voice recordings are backed by 256-bit AES encryption.
Design-wise, SpeechAir sports a rugged antimicrobial housing, and includes physical button to go back, home screen and access multi-window screen, a slider and a microphone grille.
The Philips SpeechAir features a 4-inch WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) IPS touchscreen display protected by Gorilla Glass. and is powered by 1.6GHz dual-core Cortex A9 processor with 1GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage, to store the recorded clips.
The voice recorder has a 5-megapixel rear camera, which can be used to read bar codes. It runs on a customized version of the dated Android 4.4.2 KitKat, and includes WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, micro USB and 3.5mm audio jack for connectivity. It is backed by a 2700mAh battery.that is rated to deliver 12 hours of recording.
The Philips SpeechAir comes bundled with a desktop docking station, headphones and power cables. Unfortunately, the pricing and availability details are not known just yet.
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Philips has expanded its product portfolio with the addition of Sapphire S616 and Sapphire Life V787 smartphones in China. These smartphones come with 'SoftBlue' technology, that reduces the blue light coming from a screen by up to 86 percent, thus reducing eye fatigue
As for specs, the Philips Sapphire S616 features 5.5-inch Full HD display and packs a 3000mAh battery. The Philips Sapphire Life V787 has a 5-inch Full HD display and is fueled by a 5000mAh battery that can give up to 47 hours of talk time by using the company’s patented Xenium technology.. Rest of the specs on both the smartphones are the same.
The Philips Sapphire S616 and Life V787 are powered by 1.3GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753 SoC with Mali T720 GPU, 2GB RAM and 16GB expandable storage. They run Android 5.1 Lollipop with Philips own UI on top. The phones are equipped with 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and 5-megapixel front facing camera. The 13-megapixel rear camera in Sapphire Life V87 includes Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) technology that can focus in just 0.2 secs.
The Philips Sapphire S616 is priced at CNY 1399 ($220 | Rs. 14,500) and will be available starting November. The Philips Sapphire Life V787 will be available by end of November, the pricing is not yet revealed.
Specification of Philips Sapphire S616
- Display: 5.5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display with Soft Blue technology
- Processor: 1.3 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753 64-bit processor with Mali-T720 GPU
- RAM and Storage: 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory with microSD
- Camera: 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, aperture f/2.0 | 5MP front-facing camera
- OS: Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
- Connectivity: 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
- Battery: 3000mAh battery
Specification of Sapphire Life V787
- Display: 5-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display with Soft Blue technology
- Processor: 1.3 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6753 64-bit processor with Mali-T720 GPU
- RAM and Storage: 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory with microSD
- Camera: 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, aperture f/2.0, PDAF | 5MP front-facing camera
- OS: Android 5.1 (Lollipop)
- Connectivity: 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS
- Battery: 5000mAh battery
Philips has introduced its Hue, its Web-enabled home lighting system, in India. With Hue you can control home lighting wireless and also create and change shades using your smartphone or tablet, even if you're not home.
The Philips Hue
range for India will include, Hue Starter Kit which includes the bridge
and three Hue lamps, Hue Go, Hue Beyond – the luminaire family, Friends
of Hue – LightStrips and Bloom.
The Philips Hue bridge in the starter kit can be plugged into WiFi router and the three Hue lamps can be placed into the existing bulb holder. You will have to download the Hue app, which is available for Android and iOS devices, to remotely control home lighting, use customs settings and program timers to help manage daily schedules.
You will also be able to set your favorite light scenes for any room and enable them in an instant, change the shade of light from white to cool white and create ambience lighting using different colors. You can even pick any photo from your smartphone or tablet and have your living room shaded with the same color. In addition, the lamps can be used as alarms and also connect it to IFTTT to get notification when it is raining outside and similar things.
The Hue Starter Kit with bridge and three Hue lamps costs Rs.
16,995. The Hue lamps are also available separately for Rs. 3,995 each.
Also on offer is the Hue Go bowl-shaped lamp (Rs 8,995), the Hue Beyond
table lamp (Rs 22,995), the Hue Bloom spotlight (Rs 6,750), and Hue
LightStrips (Rs 6,500). All of these come without the bridge.
Philips Hue lights are available through authorized Philips Light Lounges, select retail
outlets of Croma and Reliance Digital across India. It is also
available from Snapdeal online.
Philips Mobile launched two new Android smartphones in the Indian market, the Xenium I908 and Xenium S309. The handsets run Android 4.4 KitKat, have dual-SIM support and supports 3G connectivity. Unfortunately they lack support for 4G LTE.
Philips Xenium I908 sports a plastic body with a leather-finish rear panel for better grip. The handset features -inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display and is powered by 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor with Mali-450 GPU, 2GB RAM and 16GB storage (12.7GB available), further expandable via microSD card up to 32GB. Camerwise, it sports 13-megapixel rear camera with CMOS sensor, f/2.2 aperture and LED flash. On the front there is a 5-megapixel shooter for selfie lovers. Apart from 3G, the handset also supports WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1, micro-USB 2.0 and A-GPS connectivity. It is fueled by 3000mAh battery which promises 25 hours of talktime and 1090 hours of standby time. It comes in black and white colors.
Philips Xenium S309 is an entry-level handset with low-end specs. It features 4-inch (480 x 800 pixels) TFT display and is equipped with 1GHz dual-core processor aided by 512MB RAM. On-board storage is 4GB, further expandable via microSD card up to 32GB. For imaging there is a 5-megapixel auto-focus rear camera with LED flash and CMOS, front there is a 0.3-megapixel VGA camera. It supports the usual suite of connectivity options and is fueled by 1600mAh battery, which promises 9.5 hours of talk time and
500 hours of standby time. It comes in black and red flavors.
The Philips Xenium I908 has been
priced at Rs. 11,799 and the entry-level Philips S309 will be available for Rs 4,999. Philips Mobile will partner with Redington as their distribution partner
to their products available across all geographies in India.
