A few days ago, Philips has proven to everybody that cellphones shouldn't be built just to get charged all the time. Of course, the handsets they have launched weren't having spec sheets that would make a mobile user with experience fall down on his back and the spec sheets aren't the reason I mention them here.

The only one that featured more than basic talk capabilities and a spec sheet worthy to be worn around the neck by any high-end handset was the Xenium 9@9t and this fact influenced the battery life making it plunge to 8.5 hours of continuous talking (the irony of it all :D ).

But, and this is the whole idea, the Dutch team showed everyone what a cellphone manufacturer can do if it has the people to do it. The Xenium 9x9s handset I am writing about has the same huge battery life as its just released candy-bar siblings and a mid-level cellphone specification sheet.

However, if we combine the spec sheet with the extreme battery life we get the perfect mean machine living in the usability niche of the mobile market. If you are thinking as I do, you're probably already making plans to save the money necessary to buy this phone.

The 9x9s clamshell is a tri-band GSM/GPRS handset, working on 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz networks, and its features are as follows: a bright 80cd/m2 1.8 inch 262k colors OLED display, an external 80x48 pixels display, AMR and MIDI polyphonic ringtones, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, 18 MB of built-in memory and, the most important things, a 950 mAh battery offering 8.5 hours of talking time and a stand-by of 30 days. That is a whole month and most people will probably forget this cellphone actually needs to be charged :).

I know beauty sounds good, I know high-end features make everyone grin and empty their accounts in an instant, but if I were to choose between a high-end cellphone and one of the devices with never ending battery life Philips released on the market a few days ago, I would definitely go for one of Philips' phones.

One more thing before ending: Go Philips go! When is the cellphone with a battery life of 6 months scheduled to be released? :D