To be honest with you, I can’t recall the last piece of technology Philips made that really caught my eye, I mean sure, there was an MP3 player a few years back, whose name I cant recall, but beyond that I don’t know the last time I saw an ad, read a news story or even walked past something in a tech display at a local shopping centre with “Philips” plastered across it.

However, it seems that there may be a return on the horizon – although they aren’t exactly famed for their mobile phone making abilities, Philips may have just hit the nail squarely on the head with their latest, and quite possibly greatest, creation.

The handset, known as the Philips Xenium K700 is a touchscreen mobile phone that offers a huge standby time – and we do mean huge. This device can last literally a month on standby – a feature made even more impressive by the fact that the battery is only a slim 1000mAh. What we are left with is a thin, classy looking model that has a never before seen ability to be left off charge for unbelievably long amounts of time – and we’re very impressed with that.

The handset is a standard, not a smartphone, and it actually uses a small aerial. When it faces the stiff competition of the new mobile phones being released by Motorola and LG, both at low end prices, it is unlikely it will fare too well – at least not with the younger crowd. However there may well be a place for it with the older generation who just want a mobile phone in there car or purse in case of emergencies that they wont have to charge every few nights.

Impressive features or not, a month is a very long time.