Sendo SV663 (S633)
Discontinued 3rd October 2004
At Mobile Gazette, we make no secret
of the fact that we like Sendo as a manufacturer. Apart
from the high-end Sendo
X smartphone, this company concentrates mainly on
Pay-As-You-Go handsets and consistently offers good
value for money products to the entry-level part of
the market. Sendo have come a long way in design terms
too. The recent Sendo
P600 shows that they've come a long way since the
somewhat ugly Sendo
S330.
The SV663 is typical enough of Sendo,
who will happily customise quite major components of
their handsets to suit their customers. The SV663 is
an example of this, based on the Sendo
S600 platform but with a bigger screen and improved
navigation controls amongst other features. And it plainly
obvious from the picture - this phone is a Vodafone
Live! handset aimed at Vodafone PayT customers.
Let's be honest - the SV663 won't change
you life in terms of specifications, but with a 128x160
pixel display in 65,000 colours, VGA resolution camera
with 5X digital zoom and night mode, downloadable Java
games and polyphonic ringtones, GPRS, a WAP 2.0 and
XHTML browser, Picture CLI and vibrating alerts, the
SV663 certainly packs in alll the features that the
majority of users will need. It comes with a range of
customisable themes and changeable covers too.
The display is the largest we've seen
in any Sendo to date (apart from the Sendo X that is),
and in specification terms it's arguably a more
capable phone than (for example) the recently announced
Nokia 7260.
Unlike the 7260, the SV663's design is unfussy and easy
to use, and we also understand that the SV663's battery
life is a maximum of 7 hours talktime and 18 days standby.
The SV663 might be in the shops in time for Christmas.
Sendo isn't operating in the "sexy"
end of the market here, but the SV663 is one of the
best-specified entry level handsets available, and there's
a fair amount of volume in this market sector, so prospects
for the SV663 look good. And it begs the question that
if Sendo can include a 128x160 pixel display in an entry
level phone like this, why can't Nokia?
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Sendo
SV663 Provisional Specifications
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Available:
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Q4
2004/Q1 2005
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Network:
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Dual-band
GSM
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Data:
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GPRS
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Screen:
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128x160
pixels, 65,000 colours
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Camera:
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640x480
pixels
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Size:
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Standard
"candy bar" size 108x45x20mm
/ Weight TBC
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Bluetooth:
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No
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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7 hours talk / 18 days standby
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