BenQ A500

BenQ A500 Specification & Features

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Display	Type	TFT
	Size	128px X 160px
	Colors	262000
	2nd Display	CSTN px X px with 4096 colors
Camera	Type	0.3 MP
	Zoom
	Flash
	Video
Organiser	Alarm
	Calculator
	Calender
	Predictive Text
	PC Sync
	Speaker Phone
	Voice
Messaging	SMS
	MMS
	EMS
	IM
	Email
Multimedia	Java
	Ringtones
	Music Playback
	Video Playback
Connectivity	GPRS
	EDGE
	WAP
	Cable
	Infrared
	Bluetooth
	Wifi
Extra	Radio
	Touch Screen
	QWERTY
	Others	Video caller ID, 3D Face Morph with additional Facemation, and BenQ Handset Manager phone/PC syncronization system.

BenQ A500 Review

One of the issues that has arisen serious debates, is absence of not only a frontal camera, but of the main one too. I assure you that lack of camera doesn’t affects the handset’s capability of accepting video calls, since you can set any picture or video clip, which will be shown to your interlocutor. But the reason why the device isn’t armed with a camera may cause idle gossips. On the other hand, absence of camera doesn’t gives up this device for lost, but on the contrary targets it at a certain niche. Remember, how many people a while ago complained about presence of camera, which they have to pay for, but don’t use? Specially for these consumers, the manufactures have started producing variations of models with and without camera modules. And here we face the same strategy – the handset is positioned as a solution for those, who are fond of listening to music and in need of high functionality of the device, but don’t take up photography. It is not a big share of the market; actually this is stressed by the handset’s price. All students and schoolboys, who are whining that they badly need a camera in this device are not the target audience. It may sound strange, but this very model is aimed at people, who used Walkman brand 15-20 years ago, in other words at the people of middle age. And even though the manufacturer doesn’t clearly imply it, the model isn’t made for the youth audience, to tell the truth this isn’t a common way of positioning Walkman series. From this it follows that Sony Ericsson W950i doesn’t meet the title of “all-in-one” device – on the whole, it’s just another smartphone, but without a camera.

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