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New Xenium 989 GSM dual band from Philips
with Award-winning User Interface concept in Stylish Design

Award-winning design and user interface concept with 'carousel of icons' and large graphic LCD display

Philips' new Xenium 989 GSM mobile phone offers a unique new user interface concept that makes the phone's extensive feature set quickly and easily accessible to users. The Xenium offers an outstanding combination of style, technology and ergonomics. This new mobile phone is not just a state-of-the-art communication tool, but a distinctive personal accessory that expresses the user's feeling for design and sophistication.

Xenium won two 2000 iF Design awards at this year's CeBIT Hannover exhibition: One for its overall product design and one for its new 'carousel-based' user interface. These awards recognize Philips' strengths in end-user focused product design and user interfaces, which is reflected in the design of the Xenium and other Philips mobile phones.

Carousel function
The new user interface is a distinctive feature of Xenium 989 that makes operation much easier than that of conventional mobile phones. As phones become more and more compact and feature-rich, user interaction is becoming increasingly important for optimum usability. Xenium 989 answers this need with an advanced new user interface that offers much easier operation and simple, intuitive access to the phone's many advanced features. Based on a 'carousel of icons', this new user interface makes a big contribution to usability of the mobile phone, and even makes it fun for users to explore all the phone's features for themselves.

The patented carousel function works by displaying simultaneously up to 5 icons that visually expresses a function or feature of the phone. The carousel gives instant access to menus for the various functions, through which the user can navigate intuitively by just touching the Pilot Key. Self-explanatory smart icons show users at-a-glance where they are in the menus, and all symbols are shown in an internationally understandable graphical form for easy, language-independent use.

Voice command for easy, safe operation
Underlining Philips' leadership position in the application of voice operation technology, Xenium 989 has a real voice command capability that makes operation both easier and safer. Philips' latest Voice Command and Voice Dialing capability allows voice access to key features on the phone's menu. Calls can be made to any number stored in memory simply by speaking the name of the person to be dialed. This not only speeds up and simplifies operation, it also enhances safety during in-car use of the mobile phone. As well as dialing, Xenium 989 also recognizes and executes commands from the user, for example to select specific phone functions, and a voice car kit is optionally available to maximize driving safety. In addition an active headset will also be available to optimize safety and comfort. This headset can also be used for the voice-dialing and voice command functions.

Unique style and finishing
What really sets Xenium 989 apart from other mobile phones is its unique style and finishing. Most distinctive of all is the electroluminescent blue display backlight, which gives the product a 'magic touch' and a fresh look. Three sophisticated metal-plated finishes reflect the owner's preference for an advanced design concept: Chrome Velours, Cristal Mint, and Black Fantom.

Other useful features
Xenium 989 has the miniaturized dimensions that users expect from Philips' leading-edge mobile phone technology. Weight is only 99 grams with the standard 900 mAh battery, which gives standby times of as much as 400 hours or well over 2 weeks. Talk times are from 3 to 6 hours, depending on conditions of use. Volume of the phone is only 85 cc. Its exceptionally small size and light weight go one step further than just easy carrying in a pocket by actually making the phone wearable for ultimate convenience of access.

Xenium 989 also offers Half Rate (HR) and Enhanced Full Rate (EFR) coding (where supported by networks), which gives respectively an enriched coverage during network saturation and a significant improvement in sound quality.

With the T9TM Text Input software, included in the Xenium mobile phone, text can be entered quickly and conveniently. This will enable users to make faster and more easy use of the available applications, like for example Short Message Service (SMS ).

Emotion icons and other fun features
Further enhancing the phone's convenience and fun value, Xenium 989 comes with numerous useful and amusing features. Users can add extra expression to their calls with family and friends by sending 'Emotion Icons' using the GSM Short Message service (SMS) feature. These icons, sent with text messages just like e-mail attachments, are received by owners of compatible Philips phones as displayed icons conveying a range of easily recognizable emotions.

Other useful and fun features of Xenium 989 include a built-in Euro converter, a convenient calculator, an on-board game, selectable ringers with a melodies editor to create personalized ringer melodies, and a 20 second Voice Memo function that allows convenient storage of spoken notes and reminders. A personal organizer allows convenient planning of meetings and schedules, and call time and cost meters display the duration or cost of calls. Time and date displays are constantly active, even when the phone is in idle mode.

Philips Consumer Communications (PCC) is a Business Group of Philips Consumer Electronics, a division of Royal Philips Electronics. PCC is headquartered in Paris, and designs, manufactures and markets a complete range of personal communication products including cellular phones, cordless and corded phones, faxes and answering machines. PCC products are benefiting from Philips strengths in specific areas, such as speech technology by Philips Speech processing, product and interface design by Philips Design. PCC is sponsor of the UEFA 2000 European Championship soccer for the mobile phones product category. For more information, visit our web site: http://www.pcc.philips.com

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