Philips Xenium 9@9j now official

Philips Xenium 9@9j was first spotted during Mobile World Congres in Barcelona, but beyond it’s ability to use triple A batteries, not much was know about this handset. Now, that Philips Xenium 9@9 was officially listed on Philips Asian sites, all it’s specs are out there too.And again , innovative power management technologies take the center stage.Philips uses technology called “backupower” to add AAA battery capability to Xenium 9@9j phone. The phone does not actually run on it. It comes with standard Li-Ion battery as well, and uses the latter for operation.
Triple A battery is used as a back-up. When standard Li-Ion runs out of steam, the backup battery starts feeding power to it, and you can continue using the phone uninterrupted.
A single AAA battery can add up to 2 hours of talk time and up to one week of standby to an already impressive 8 hrs talk/1 month of standby capabilities of Philips Xenium 9@9j.

Other Philips Xenium 9@9 specs include:

• Quad band GSM (900/1800/1900/850 MHz)/GPRS connectivity
• 176×220 px 262K color TFT display
• 1.3 megapixel camera
• MPEG4, 3GP, H.263 video and MP3 and WMA audio playback
• FM Radio
• MIcrSD memory card slot
• USB 1.1, Stereo Bluetooth A2DP

And I have one question about the whole long lasting battery thing:

What’s so frigging special about Philips Xenium power tech, that no other major handset maker has been able to produce a phone that comes at least close to Xenium durability, in over a year?!!!!

[source : unwiredview]