Philips is a dark horse in the handset industry. Their last significant outing was a clamshell phone (Xenium NRG) that can run on AAA batteries. Even more noteworthy is a series of Xenium phones (9@9) with a standby time of up to 40 days. Depending on your needs, Philips has been making dream handsets that have pretty much gone under the radar of most consumers and even industry watchers. We hope this isn’t the case with the Xenium 800, a touchscreen phone that boasts e2e or edge to edge screen real estate. Yep, this baby will be prettier than iPhone when it comes out. Whereas iPhone users have to bear with that half an inch of metal frame on both sides of the touchscreen, Xenium 800 users will get to enjoy a screen area as far as their phone casing goes. Resolution is WQVGA, which isn’t as good as HTC’s new dream phone but good enough. Honestly the 800 reminds me of the Nokia N98 - a product of an artist’s imagination - and Xenium takes the cake on sheer prettiness.

[via mobilewhack]