Benq-Siemens EL71

Basically this phone is perfect for the first few months or so. The music capabilities are by far one of the best I have ever seen & it has so many more extras that make it the perfect phone. however, aftrer a year or so the phone slowly deteriorates. buttons stop working, the phones battery has a short life span and the phone stops recievin texts and calls. fortunately enough, it sorts itself out a few months later and is back to its normal self. usefull features. alarm clock: this can be set for certain times on certain days and has a snooze button and changeable alarm tones. torch: this can be easily adjusted so that it can be ...  Read the complete review

This is the penultimate time that I will be writing a review about a Benq-Siemens product. For once, however, especially given the recent peformance of handsets from this manufacturer as I have been going through my review back catalogue of them, I have come up with something positive to say about one of their handsets. The EL71 is a good phone. Unlike many phones these days, the EL71 was not an imitation of some other phone, but rather an evolution of the many slider phones which Siemens have produced in the past, and done in a classy and imaginative way. The EL71 is a middle-sized slider phone, made of not plastic, but aluminium. The phone is probably one of ...  Read the complete review