Philips presents smartphone with a giant battery for the Chinese market

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The Dutch manufacturer Philips has for the Chinese market a smartphone is presented with a 5300mAh battery. Smartphones on the Dutch market have, in general, batteries with half of that capacity. The phone is 11.4 mm thick.

The large battery makes the W6618 so some thicker than anno 2014 is common for smartphones, which are generally less than 10mm thick. Philips claims that the smartphone in laboratory conditions for two months in stand-by can be standing or 33 hours of calls before the battery is empty. The 5300mAh battery is significantly larger than the 4050mAh battery of the device with the largest battery on the Dutch market, the Huawei Ascend Mate and Mate 2.

Philips has a 5″screen built into the device, with a resolution of 960×540 pixels, sign CNMO. The phone runs on a quadcore-soc from MediaTek, the MTK6582 with four Cortex A7 cores at 1.3 GHz, assisted by a memory the size of 1GB. The storage is a meager 4GB, but the user can expand that with a micro-sd card. To the rear is a 8 megapixel camera and the front camera has a maximum resolution of two megapixel. The W6618 runs Android 4.2, such as many devices with MediaTek socs.

Philips asks in China for 1699 yuan for the unit converted just less than 200 euro. The Dutch manufacturer sells its smartphones for years only in Asia and never in his homeland.