Benefon Twin
 
GSM900, GSM1800 and GSM900/1800 MHz Dual Band networks

Dual SIM + Dual Band GSM 900/1800 The ideal phone for the regular traveller: a phone that can simultaneously hold your national and foreign SIM at the same time. Or, if you want separate work and personal accounts, carry both SIM cards in one phone.

2 SIM card holders The phone allows you to use 2 SIM cards. You can switch service without removing the battery and replacing one SIM card with another.

Small, light and handy Excellent looks are not the only thing Benefon Twin’s design stands for ­ the phone fits your hand like a glove and goes unnoticed in your pocket. It weighs 105g and is 112 mm long.

Predictive T9 text input T9 reads your mind ­ one push per letter is sufficient for writing short messages and memos. The comprehensive, built-in dictionary is available in several languages.

Quick GSM data and fax Benefon Twin comes standard with a built in 14.4 kbps data and fax modem.

Personal Organiser Includes a calendar, appointment manager, reminders, timers, clock, calculator and alarm clock, with snooze, for organising your everyday life.

Unparalleled Performance Benefon’s Twin high performance antenna with precision RF connector optimises radio performance for the widest possible coverage. Stand-by time of over 5 days, or talk time up to 5 hours.

Technical Data:

Network standard

GSM900, GSM1800 and GSM900/1800 MHz Dual Band networks

Display

  • Full-graphics high-contrast screen
  • Electro-luminescent lighting
  • Resolution 100 x 48 pixels
  • Dynamic & user-selectable font size
  • Up to 6 lines of text
  • Indicators: field strength, battery status, charging, time, date, timers, alarm, key-lock, silent, message, call divert and roaming
  • Graphical icons and scroll bars

Personal Organiser

  • Clock and date
  • Alarm clock with snooze
  • Calendar
  • Calendar appointment manager, with reminders
  • Phone power-on and off timers

Call Management

  • One-touch dialling
  • Quick dialling
  • Last or recent-numbers redial
  • Multiparty calls
  • Call waiting, call hold
  • Call divert
  • Calling number or name identification
  • Caller number identification control/Dialling prefix
  • DTMF transmission
  • Automatic and manual network selection
  • Automatic answer with headset and car kit

Short messages service (SMS)

  • Predictive T9* text input
  • Send and receive text messages of up to 160 characters (standard) or 640 characters (if supported by network)
  • Time and date stamp for received messages
  • Answer message
  • Forward message
  • Pick sender name or number from message text
  • Message delivery report
  • Call SMS sender
  • Cell Broadcast

Tone Control

  • 40 different ringing tones and melodies
  • Downloadable ringing melodies
  • User-composable ringing melodies
  • Ringing tone levels, including silent mode
  • Ascending alert
  • Keypad tone levels
  • Several SMS alert tones and tone levels
  • Quick-alert settings for adapting to voice environment (3 user-defined settings)

Service provider-specific functions

SIM application toolkit

Pre-paid SIM support

3V/5V SIM support

Network lock

Accessories

  • Standard mains charger
  • Fast mains charger
  • Cigarette lighter charger
  • Portable hands-free (HF) kit
  • Digital, full duplex, plug-in HF car kit
  • Car cradle
  • BeneWin Pro Pack software & data cable
  • Cross-country antenna
  • Belt clip
  • Carrying holster (case)

Dimensions

  • Weight: 105 g
  • Length: 112 mm
  • Width: 49 mm
  • Thickness: 27 mm (all battery options)
  • Volume: 115 cc (all battery options)

Keypad and editing

  • Automatic and manual key lock
  • ITU-T European Keypad printing
  • Full-screen cursor editor
  • Clear last character or whole display
  • International access (+) function
  • One-touch T9 button
  • Any-key answering

Other phone features

  • User-changeable display masks, with individual colours and graphics
  • Predictive T9* text input for short messages, notes and phone book
  • Calculator
  • Three games for entertainment
  • Personalised ringing melodies
  • Precision RF antenna connector for optimal performance and changing to optional antennas
  • Phone ON/OFF timers

Phone book and memory functions

  • Supports up to 255 phone book entries on the SIM card
  • Various ways to scroll or search the phone book memory
  • Dialled calls (5) list with time and date stamp
  • Answered calls (5) list with time and date stamp and calling number or name identification
  • Unanswered calls (5) list with time and date stamp and calling number or name identification
  • Access phone book for sending SMS
  • Pick SMS sender’s number for phone book
  • Show sender number or name (if stored in SIM) as an SMS header

Security and call counters

  • Emergency 112 call without SIM or while phone is locked
  • Call barring
  • Notification of charges and charge limits
  • Call Timers: last call and all calls
  • Fixed dialling numbers
  • Phone code
  • PIN1, PIN2

GSM system-specific functions

  • GSM Phase 2+ signalling
  • Enhanced Full Rate speech codec
  • Automatic power save if no network

GSM data

  • Up to 14.4 kbps circuit switched GSM data and fax
  • Integrated modem, data cable directly to PC serial port
  • Data protocols: V.21, V.22, V.23, V.22bis, V.36ter, V.32, V.34, V.110 (ISDN), X.31 flag stuffing, V.42bis
  • AT commands interface

BeneWin Pro Pack

  • Data cable from phone to the serial port of PC (standard)
  • Up to 14.4 kbps data and fax support through AT commands
  • BeneWin PC software:
    - Edit and back up phone book memory
    - Send and receive SMS messages by using a PC keyboard
    - Compose and change ringing melodies with BeneWin Maestro
    - Manage phone settings

Batteries

Type
Phone weight

Stand-by time

Talk time

Charging time

Lithium ion  650 mAh

105 g

Up to 120 h

Up to 5h 20min

2h/4h

Lithium ion 1100 mAh

124 g

Up to 200 h

Up to 9 h

3h/6h

NiMH 750 mAh

128 g

Up to 125 h

up to 6h 15min

1h15min / 4h

  
* Operating times can vary substantially depending on distance to base station, SIM card, temperature, network settings and network usage.