Sendo P600
Discontinued 27th August 2004
Sendo have in interesting reputation
amongst followers of the mobile phone industry -
on one hand, they're responsible for attractive and
desirable devices like the Sendo
X Smartphone, and on the other they churn out cheap-and-cheerful
handsets aimed primarily at the pay-as-you-go market.
The Sendo P600 seems to fit into the
"cheap and cheerful" category, although Sendo
have done a lot of work in the looks department - Sendo
had a reputation with producing some pug ugly handsets
like the Sendo
S300. We guess that the "P" stands for
"Professional", and certainly the Sendo P600
seems to be roughly comparable to a run-of-the-mill
handset such as the Nokia
6610i, but just a little bit more interesting to
look at.
Sendo
haven't said much about the P600, but we believe that
the P600 is a derivative of the Sendo
S600 which is a decent enough low cost consumer
handset, but one yet to be released. (In fact another
one of Sendo's reputations is that products tend to
be very late).
What we do know for certain about the
Sendo P600 is that it has a digital camera with
5X digital zoom, 128x128 pixel display and measures
approximately 105x45x22mm. We're pretty certain that
the phone weighs around 85 grams, has a 65,000 colour
display, the camera resolution is 640x480 pixels, comes
with GPRS and a WAP 2.0 browser, comes with an image
editor and Sendo's Xsend enhanced messaging system,
Java, video recording capabilities, polyphonic ringtones
and at least 4Mb of internal memory. We don't know at
present if the Sendo P600 is a tri- or dual-band
phone.
In purely technical terms, the Sendo
P600 is fairly dull. Almost every phone on the market
today has a better feature set than the Sendo P600.
Except for one - and that's Nokia, the market leader.
And you can be reasonably assured that the Sendo P600
is much, much cheaper than the equivalent Nokia
6610i. Indeed there's more that just a touch of
the Nokia 6610i in the Sendo P600. In terms of size
and specifications, it's very similar indeed, and the
multiway navigation keys on them are distinctive and
nearly identical (see right).
We wrote a little about Sendo's reputation
(clever, inexpensive, late) but this is an outfit that
punches hard for a small company. Ignoring the fact
that they are currently in a David versus Goliath battle
with Microsoft (and with a good chance of winning),
Sendo are becoming known for their enormous flexibility,
especially where networks are concerned. They will happily
change specifications to suit networks - sometimes major
ones, and are unfussed about their brandname (which
in any case is carried on the flagship Sendo X). And
in terms of the marketplace, the Sendo X smartphone
is impressing power users, while the competent and good
value M570
and S600 compete well for entry-level customers. Perhaps
the P600 marks Sendo's entry into the mid-range, which
could be an interesting fight.
We're hoping for more details on the
Sendo P600 soon. Subscribe to our newsletter
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Sendo
P600 Provisional Specifications
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Available:
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Q4
2004
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Network:
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GSM
(Not know if dualband/triband)
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Data:
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GPRS
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Screen:
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128x128
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 105x45x22mm
/ 85 grams approx
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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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No
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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2-5
hours talk / 7-16 days standby
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