
Interface
Formed with the Philips Xenium X520 candybar design with a simple but unique appearance. Because at the bottom seems a cylinder placed vertically in order to put the battery back-up, with the standard battery in it. With this cylinder will form a slightly thicker phone at the bottom.
On the front is equipped with navigation buttons shaped like a sphere, and one button in the center as a selection button. Beside the navigation keys are two buttons call / end and two softkey buttons to help access each menu. As for the other fittings are volume buttons and miniUSB slot on the right side and the microSD slot on the reverse side. Keypad is made with an elliptical shape as in every tutsnya and felt a bit protruding from the surface. Made with soft pads, and the distance between each other, then use as it is comfortable to type sms.
Philips Xenium X520 display quality standards appear, because they still use the screen with the quality of 256 thousand color TFT display with a resolution of 176×220 pixels. From the quality of the interface screen that is used similar to the previous Xenium series. With a futuristic look and features two ready-selected themes with background colors of light or dark. This makes the menu display appears futuristic.
Multimedia
Xenium series cell phone is known as a phone with a battery life that can be relied upon. For that philips does not want to waste this advantage. Some multimedia features have been prepared to entertain users. First, prepare the facility philips photography with a digital camera 2-megapixel power. By using a CMOS sensor, this camera is equipped with a sufficient number of facilities. For example the availability effect, nigh mode, self timer and multishot. Unfortunately, Philips has not provided the lights flash and a number of professional camera settings like autofocus.
The result can be viewed at the following figure. Not bad, almost every corner can be captured with the focus. It’s just for indoor photos, the result depends on the amount of light falling on the object. To record a video, a video camera with a dream to produce the frame rate reached 15 fps (frames per second) video formats with H.263 or MPEG4, while the maximum resolution capable forced to sub-QCIF resolution. Performance standards are still classified as xemium previous series.
The second feature X520 Music Player includes features that can play audio files such as AMR, Midi, MP3, AAC, and WAV. Music player that has this somewhat still relatively low standard and facilities. Evidenced by the absence of facilities to manage type equalizer audio sound according to taste. In it only includes facilities such as navigation Shufle music playback and playlists.
The third feature that is not less FM Radio. In this feature users can search the radio station frequency automatically and immediately be stored in the memory as much as 20 favorite stations. Unfortunately, this feature is not a lot of Philips also include amenities. Because in addition can not be heard through the speakerphone, FM radio does not have a radio recording facility as in other similar brands. Although the entertainment features have minimal facilities, but both can be played in the background, so users can use it even as he opened the other features.
Connectivity
To connect the philips facilities fairly standard Philips X520 because this phone can only be forced on the network connection at a maximum 2.5 G (GPRS, EDGE) just to surf. Unfortunately Philips browsers only provide comes from Philips, therefore users can only open WAP pages and can not open the WEB page. As for the connection that serves to transfer data X520 is equipped with Bluetooth that supports A2DP and has the data cable.
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