I had just finished talking over my cell phone when my colleague asked me which phone was I using. I showed it to him and he was pretty surprised why he had not heard of the phone. I contacted couple of geeks who love mobile phones and they too did not remember having seen this one. This made me write this post.
Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the Philips 755 which was released in 2004. Yes, I had purchased this GSM phone in back in 2004 in India, when touch screen phones were "virtually" new.
Though nowhere near a smartphone, what I like about this cool piece is that it has lasted me for more than 3 years (still running strong with no problem till date) and works very nicely in India and in US. It has a regular keypad with a joystick and touch screen (128x160) and stylus. It has also a built in Camera. You can record sounds and store them as ringtones. It bundles a slide show screen saver (from pictures you select) and software to mix audio, called "BeDJ".
One of the best functionality - which I love the most - is the on spot editing of pictures you take. It has a special button called "Tag It" which allows you to use the stylus or your finger to edit images and enter text on the picture you just took, which you can then save or send via SMS/MMS or Email to others.
The built-in camera has zoom functionality and at 640x480 pixels can take still pictures and videos. One nice touch is the camera lens cover on the rear of the phone that slides up and down shutter style.
The phone has 7MB dynamic memory in addition to storing 500 - 5 field Photo address book. Unfortunately, no memory expansion.
It has an infrared port and GPRS @ 32-48 Kbps and supports WAP 1.1
Games run on Java. Voice dial/command and built in handsfree. I had also heard that it sports an optional video out for viewing photos on TV, but I was not able to lay my hands on one.
All in all, I find this to be a really cool phone which I could lay my hands on in late 2004. And yes, to my Apple friends, iPhone was not the first phone with touch screen.
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