Scientists sent by Greenpeace to Ghana have recently found extreme cases of chemical contamination at two “e-waste” facilities. Soil and water tests were conducted at two electronics scrap yards where various items such as broken computers, monitors, and televisions are shipped from the United States and Europe for processing and extraction of scrap metals. […]

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Phillips has announced two new handsets for Asia, and Europe – the low-end 198 and 199. Both models sport a mini USB port – for both charging, and data transfer. The lower index model – the 198 comes equipped with an FM radio. As you’d expect for low-end handsets – both are relatively small – […]

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PC World China alleges that Phillips is working on an iPhone-like touchscreen-only handset.

Apparently, the still unannounced Xenium X800 will come equipped with the e2e design, which basically means that the touchscreen stretches from one end of the handset to the other – I.e. no boarders at the edge.
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Philips has demonstrated a new Xenium handset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Xenium 9@9j involves an interesting idea of an AAA battery backup. There is a slot for an AAA battery in the bottom. The technology called Backpower comes from an Israeli company Techtium. The 9@9j seems to be the first handset […]

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Philips is about to release a new Xenium phone. The model is called 9@9q and traditionally for the Xenium series it stands out for long battery life. This clamshell hasn’t been officially introduced yet, the info about it probably leaked from the FCC site. The new Xenium phone will be marketed mainly in China and […]

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[CES 2008] Philips unveiled at CES its new line of luxurious earphones and USB keys. This collection is pretty well done: the design and the shapes of the crystal are nice. Technology totally becomes a commodity here!
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Until now Philips hasn’t been a significant heavyweight in the DAP player market, but they have a new flash based personal media player that is looking pretty swanky. Available in 8gb, 4gb or 2gb capacities the SA6185 sports a 3.5″ LCD display with a 320 x 240 resolution, built-in speakers, and a 5 hour video […]

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a new Philips Xenium handset with enhanced battery life. It is marked 9@9u and unlike the 9@9k it’s not that long lasting ensuring “only” one month standby and up to 8 hours of talks on a single charge.
The FCC materials provide some specs of the phone. The […]

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According to some Internet source, another Philips Xenium is about to be launched – the 9@9k. This handset stands out for a record long battery life on a single charge – about two months standby and 17 hours talk time. Other specs remain quite standard, even simple.

The device features GSM/GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz) networks, a 1.8 […]

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Joint venture LG-Philips LCD on Monday unveiled a new LCD technology that the company says could result in larger screens on many more devices. By integrating the driver circuitry into the LCD panel itself rather than requiring a separate board, the screen can reduce the practical size of the bezel surrounding the screen to just […]

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