BenQ P50

The BenQ P50 cell phone is a Pocket PC 2003 based phone which was announced in early 2004. It hit the markets almost a year later as there were some delays on its launch. You will find more details about its features in this BenQ P50 review.

When the readers got the first look at its features they were happy to see that it was running the latest Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 2003SE operating system and came with Bluetooth and WiFi in addition to GSM functionality. These are features that make it a great communication device.

Like other PDA's for example the XDA II mini, the P50 also runs Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 2003SE Phone Edition. This means that unlike the other Windows Mobile for Smartphone operating system, the BenQ P50 mobile phone has a touch-sensitive screen and the GUI is similar to the Pocket PCs around these days. Another nice feature of the BenQ P50 cell phone is little QWERTY keyboard. The keys are slightly small and might give a person with big hands a few headaches.

The usual Pocket PC buttons can be found on this BenQ P50 mobile phone. The navigation pad and the call answer button along with the contact buttons on the left and the call disconnect and calendar button on the right.

The phone has a slot for SD card and more advanced features like GPS and FM radio can be added through an SD card. As for the software, the phone is very rich.

The BenQ P50 cellphone has Pocket PC application (MSN Messenger, Word, Excel and Windows Media Player 10) you also get a other applications like Speech Commander, which is a voice recognition application which allows you to control your BenQ P50 mobile phone with voice command. You can get BenQ P50 themes, BenQ P50 games and BenQ P50 accessories from the internet and there are lot of BenQ P50 details on this site.

Pocket PC extras can also be purchased like BenQ P50 accessories and when you buy BenQ P50 you get a lot of BenQ P50 accessories with it. BenQ P50 ringtones can also be changed according to the user’s preferences.

As for wireless communication BenQ P50 mobile phone supports quad-band GSM (900/1800/850/1900) but unfortunately, the BenQ P50 mobile phone only supports GPRS for data transfer and not EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution). Also no 3G (third generation) network support is provided.

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Benq-P50 Specifications

General  Network  GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900  Announced  2004, 1Q  Size  Dimensions  122 x 60 x 20 mm  Weight  170 g  Display  Type  TFT touchscreen, 65K colors  Size  240 x 320 pixels, 42 x 57 mm  Other Info 1  QWERTY keyboard  Other Info 2  Wallpapers  Other Info 3  Downloadable pictures  Ringtones  Ring Type  Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3  Vibration  Yes  Other Options    Memory  Phonebook  Advanced, Photo call  Call records  10 dialed, 10 received, 10 missed calls  Card slot  MMC/SDIO  Other Info  64 MB SDRAM  Data  GPRS  Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps  HSCSD  No  EDGE  No  3G  No  WLAN  Wi-Fi 802.11b  Bluetooth  Yes, v1.1  Infrared port  Yes  USB  Yes  Features  OS  Microsoft Windows Pocket PC 2003 Phone edition  Messaging  SMS, MMS  Browser  WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML  Games  Yes  Colors    Camera  1.3 MP, 1280x960 pixels, video  Other 1  Java MIDP 2.0  Other 2  MP3/MPEG-4 player  Other 3  Handwriting recognition  Other 4  Office applications  Other 5  Photo Album  Other 6  Built-in handsfree  Other 7  Voice command  Other 8    Other 9    Other 10    Battery  Type Details  Standard battery, Li-Ion 1240 mAh  Stand-by  Up to 120 h  Talk time  Up to 4 h

User Reviews

Michael :
BenQ P50 cell phone is my first and final phone. It has all those features and functions that I want to obtain from this phone. I had purchased this phone in 2005 and got great experience of mobile keeping from this phone. It has changed my life a lot and I can’t live without it because it is a part of my life.

Toby:
I had purchased BenQ P50 cell phone from the market and got all its accessories. It supports Mp3 sound which is according to my choice. This phone has attractive look which makes it different from other cell phones. It is really a good phone of BenQ Company.

Corey:
My BenQ P50 cell phone is much helpful in transferring my file to other cell phone via infrared or Bluetooth. It has all those good data transmission channels which a perfect mobile should have. You can check your previous calls at least last 10 callers. It is a good phone at all.

Jack:
In BenQ P50 cell phone I can use its infrared port and also can use Bluetooth which is a good source of data transferring. It can store more files in its memory and also has expandable storage capacity. I am very happy to keep this phone because it is perfect in all respect.

Joseph:
I am using BenQ P50 cell phone since 2004 and find that its infrared port does not work sometime with other cell phones like Nokia and Sony Ericsson. Can you tell me why its infrared create problems fro me in transferring files from my BenQ P50 cell phone to other cell phones.

Jacob:
I have BenQ P50 cell phone from last 11 months and find that its screen does not work properly. The refresh rate is also very slow. Can you tell me how can I improve my BenQ P50 cell phone? I did not want to sale it out because its my firstever phone.