Features on the cheap: TIANYU's A699

by Chris Ziegler, posted Dec 25th 2006 at 10:05PM

Never heard of TIANYU? That makes two of us, but that doesn't mean we can't love the Chinese manufacturer's new touchscreen-enabled candybar just the same. The 220 x 176 display is subpar, the 1.3 megapixel cam perfectly average, and the 64MB of internal memory with microSD expansion merely ho-hum, but the integrated FM radio, A2DP, and touchscreen with Chinese character recognition are pretty nifty. And let's be honest: at $1280 HKD (about $165 USD) for the 13.5 millimeter candybar on the street, it's probably hard to go wrong.

[Thanks, lionsense]

Filed under: Handsets, Others

Tags: a699, candybar, china, hong kong, HongKong, tianyu, touch, touchscreen

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Nizam Rahman @ Dec 26th 2006 12:17AM

Looks similar to Nokia's mid-to-low range offerings.

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achantra @ Dec 26th 2006 12:54AM

hmmmm...that looks a lot like the nokia 6233

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Rachel @ Dec 26th 2006 2:52AM

6233 indeed.

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Prostak @ Aug 27th 2007 11:51AM

Just picked up the TianYu A699 for just over 800HKD in MongKok. Impressed so far for what it packs.
I'm not too worried if the design is 'borrowed' from Nokia, as long as it's ergonomic.

The text input is quick, easily switching between languages, numerals, etc. However one thing missing in my opinion. As an English-speaker I would pay an extra 200-300HKD to add the T9 English predictive "smart" text input-- this makes for quick one handed texting.
But anyways, good work with this one guys

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