Siemens SL65 - A forgotten gem?

[MD]

With the recent demise of Siemens as a mainstream brand in mobile telecommunication (see the upcoming review for more info ) you have to question if the kit they created really was that bad, I mean the predecessor to the SL65, the SL55 was by far and away the smallest handset you could buy for quite sometime after its release.

Its a difficult question to answer, but with the aid of one of thier last truly Siemen's designs, I will take a look to see if it really was that bad and what, if anything, the new owners of the Siemen's mobile arm have taken on.

In the meantime, heres a preview shot or three...









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[Howard]

No offense, but the "artsy" photos don't make it easy to see what's going on

[Yohji]

Looks pretty cool though... My generic cheap phone still works though ^_^

[headbrace]

Looks pretty swish - I'm kind of in the marke for a new phone, and that looks pretty cool.

Do Seimens re-use product names? 'Cos the SK65 is now a blackberry phne that I'm trying to see if anyone will stock

[MD]

sorry, thats a typo, that should have said SL55...

[directhex]

i like siemens phones. no-nonsense, the UI's not bad - i considered the sl65, but it was too pricy for my budget.

[x-tw1ster]

http://uk.samsungmobile.com/mobile_p...00/feature.jsp try that one

[DR]

Same phone as I have...

[bledd]

we all had one (or the motorola brick!)

[x-tw1ster]

I love my D500, I just can't wait for the D600 to come out

[Jonny M]

Nokia 6230i for life

[Ramedge]

the thing i hate about that is how it looks like a cheaper version of the d500 which is a great phone i've just upgraded to the sony k750i which no matter what people say is a great phone and the camera is great to!

[x-tw1ster]

Agreed Ramedge, the lack of memory on the sony phone is what kept me from it. The d600 has 96 megs onboard and transflash mem card slot. 2 megapixel camera.

[Ramedge]

lack of memory???? my sony has 96mb in total and can be expanded
the phone has 32mb internal memory but it comes with a 64mb sony memory stick which can be replaced with any thing up to 2gb!

[G4Z]

Looks pretty swish - I'm kind of in the marke for a new phone, and that looks pretty cool.

Do Seimens re-use product names? 'Cos the SK65 is now a blackberry phne that I'm trying to see if anyone will stock

noooooo!

stay away, its a horrible horrible thing to use, had one for a whilst I thought about getting my d500 repaired, usinng the sk65 was enough to put me off the repair until I could find a better substitute for 2 weeks.

[x-tw1ster]

lack of memory???? my sony has 96mb in total and can be expanded
the phone has 32mb internal memory but it comes with a 64mb sony memory stick which can be replaced with any thing up to 2gb!

proprietary flash memory for the sony mind you. I like my phone and look forward to the D600. At least it's not such a battle as AMD vs Intel. Whereas AMD is continuously giving Intel the shaft