Key features and review of the BenQ A500

The BenQ A500 is very compact and stylish clamshell mobile phone; any body can love it. measuring only 83.5 x 45 x 23.1mm and weighs 98g it feels comfortable to hold and easy to slip into your pocket. It is equipped with a sharp TFT 256K colors display with the resolution of 128 x 160 pixels, which is sufficient resolution for a small mobile phone. because it is clamshell phone, so a second CSTN 4096 colors display dominates the front cover.

After opening the flip you can find a nice numeric keypad with beautifully arranged of keys that makes the phone easier to dial. You can also find a five-way navigation buttons centered below the display.
The BenQ A500 is also equipped with a 0.3 mega pixel camera that allows user to capture still images as well as video upto 640 x 480 pixels, which is not a high resolution, but for a mobile phone it is sufficient.

For better network connectivity it supports Tri-band GSM 900/GSM 1800/GSM 1900 MHz. It also offers GPRS, WAP 2.0, JAVA and comes with lot of useful features such as SMS, EMS, MMS, Vibration alert, 20 Polyphonic ring tones, Photo call, Downloadable pictures and wallpapers, Calendar, Games, Alarm, calculator, Currency converter, scheduler and phonebook where you may store up to 500 records. It comes with a huge 20 MB of built-in memory to store plenty of ringtones, wallpapers, images etc. If 20 MB is less for you it has SD card slot, which can accept upto 1 GB of card.

Powered by a 700 mAh Li-Ion battery with an expected stand by of 180 hours and a talk time of 3 hours the BenQ BenQ A500 is an excellent phone with nice camera, you can take really great pictures. We found that in India it is cheap as compared to Nokia.

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