Small but chic (Siemens SL55)

Member Name: redrag

Product:	Siemens SL55
Date:	14/01/08 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: small,

Disadvantages: battery life

I have always purchased Nokias but It failed me again, so while I was browsing car boot spotted this tiny little slide phone, nice colour, tidy as well. Asked how much said £15.00 but got it for £10.00 so excellent buy and it worked on all networks even better.

I have found it very easy to use, good icons very easy to understand as well.Have the standard buttons,phonebook,calls log,surf & fun,messages,organiser,profiles,Extras,Filesystem, settings. I must be the first to admit it was so easy to work for even the stupidest person like me to operate.

Has some tunes for everything, slide open,slide close, alerts,alarms,messages so you can set it for loads of different tunes for the different sections.

The messaging service on this phone is particularly good, you can send and receive basic SMS with EMS add ons if you want. You can also send MMS and configure your phone to download all the emails in your inbox so that you can check you e-mail whilst on the move.

The phone is on a tri-band frequency which means that It can be used in most countries world wide.
The phone does work as a camera phone, although only when you buy the camera attachment(about £20 on eBay). The picture quality of the camera is quite good .

The address book is also pretty swish allowing you to store multiple numbers under one name, so now I can have all my girlfriends numbers under one profile rather than have "Jan Home, Jan Mob, jan Work" all separately. On top of that you can enter additional details such as people postal addresses and email addresses.
The calendar is particularly good on this phone allowing you to store up to 500 different events and dates, which you can also set reminder alarms for, add phone numbers, location and further detail in a easily navigatable manor.

Some of the phones other features are a very loud alarm clock(which never fails to wake me up), a countdown clock, Calculator, Currency Converter and Stop Watch.
All the phones pictures, messages, games etc are stored in one multimedia folder with lots of other folders coming off of it(like on a computer). All the things in this multimedia folder can be accessed via other menus but it allows you to check Whats in your files and delete unnecessary files etc.

The phone has a fast wap function, fast wap as the name would suggest is a lot faster than the standard wap program that most phones have, it is also apparently cheaper and a lot less tedious and boring to use.
You can download all sorts of games for you phone, the phone comes standard with a tennis game and ray man golf. The tennis game is a game in which you basically play tennis tournaments to win money to buy better equipment and train your player up to be the very best. Rayman golf is just as the name would suggest and is quite fun. Both games pass time whilst waiting at the bus stop! My phone also has a application with the phone called unit converter which allows you to convert all sorts of clothing, shoe and distances into other countrys sizes and distances, it's a really handy program!

The phone also has many other common functions such as call records, hot keys, different sound profiles and so on.

They phones ringtones are quite impressive and there is quite a large selection, they have a crisp sound and are quite advanced polyphonic ones. Unfortunately the choice of text message alerts is particularly good or loud. You can also set your phone to make sound when you open or close it which is a novelty but comes annoying incredibly quickly.

The phones battery time was pretty good when I first got it, I would be able to leave it on for in excess of 48 hours talk on it for 1 hour play games and send loads of texts! Now I have to charge it every 24 hours when I haven't used it at all and every 12 hours when I have!
Data cables are readily available for the phone allowing you to back up your phones memory and transfer pictures, screensavers and games to your phone. Off the market a data cable is £15 and off of eBay it is £5 and when you buy it from eBay you more often then not get a disk full of games and pictures included with the cable aswell, where off the market you only get the cable!

Summary: ok for standby

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