Cell Phone Classifications: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem, Sony Ericsson
Posted on April 29, 2008
Filed Under iPhone General, iPhone Tips
Recently I’ve got very interested in comparing iPhone to its probable (or better to put it like this – potential) competitors. In order to find which devices can compete with my all-time favorite I decided to learn the classification of phones by the major manufacturers: Alcatel, Siemens, Benq –Siemens, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Samsung, Sagem and Sony Ericsson.
I’m sure that you are aware of the fact that all phones fall into different categories or classes: from simple devices to highly sophisticated smartphones. So what is the classification of phones?
Initially the classification of this manufacturer featured 5 classes:
- A – budget phones (are real rear phones)
- A+B – youth-oriented phones of the series 30x and 31x
- B+ - middle-class phones of the series 50x and 51x
- C – expensive 70x series phones
- G – image phones which planned for production
From 2005 the company introduced the new system which features 3 classes:
- OT-E – budget phones
- OT-C – middle class
- OT-S – image class
- A – budget models
- C - consumer-level devices
- E – economical devices
- M – Active lifestyle phones
- S - Business class
- SL – Image phones
- SV – smartphones and multifunctional devices
The scheme of giving names to phones of the young brand Benq–Siemens has been left unchanged: the indexes of phones are named by letters and digits, but the meaning of the symbols proper have changed and t he digital sequence has been violated:
The new names:
- P – Smartphones with qwerty keyboard
- E – Under the letter the company released a number of devices which fall into different classes, so iti s hard to say anything certain
- S- it is the only letter that was left unchanged; these are still business-class devices
The devices are classified according to one feature and it is possible to encounter phones of different price category in the same class
- B – Basic level devices
- W – WAP-enabled devices
- G – GPRS-enabled phones
- V – 3G phones
- F – Image models
- L – Multifunctional phones
- C – Middle-class devices
Motorola uses letter designations:
- A – High-tech devices which feature the latest inventions of the company
- V - Image phones
- T – Business-class phones
- E – Entertainment and youth phones
- C – Cheap models
- MP – communicators and smartphones
Digits also carry information:
- The 1st digit stands for the price category
- The 2nd digit – The generation of the phone in the given model line
- The 3rd digit – the place of the phone in the given generation
- The index “i” stands for modified devices
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