Siemens SL55, Be inspired! (Siemens SL55)

Member Name: smoothguy777

Product:	Siemens SL55
Date:	25/08/03 (1367 review reads)
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Advantages: Features, Extremly Small Size, Designer Looks

Disadvantages: Price, Camera not built-in

Siemens SL55 ? Be inspired!

You will really like to showoff this one 24 x 7, as it?s a sheer beauty more Jewel then anything else, this phone is exclusively designed for Siemens by Europe?s most successful design agency ?Designafairs?

SL55 is definitely designed for desire, you will love to display it all the time as its hardly 8 cms in length and for your mind's eye lemme tell you its like a real cute miniature version of Nokia 7650?Model could actually carry it as a designer accessory!

SL55 just doesn?t boast of looks but also of stunning features. It is a Tri-band phone with 4096 colors for you to send and receive MMS, Polyphonic ringtones, voice command, hands free talking mode, Java TM Wireless technology for additional gaming, GPRS and WAP.

It automatically synchronizes contacts, business and social schedules wirelessly with PDAs and PCs the updates happens within a blink of an eye.

If you opt for a clip ? on QuickPic Camera with a Flash the SL55 becomes a great digital camera within seconds and takes average plus pictures for a phone.

The on board games like tennis and Golf are really empowered with quality graphics and many more games can be downloaded incase you get bored with the pre-loaded ones, it has classic and Modern wonders of the world slide show built in for those who only get time for virtual vacations, you can see from Taj Mahal to Great wall of China to Eiffel tower and many more colorful pictures.

Wallpapers, screen savers, MMS picture library and various color schemes and themes on board are a significant too.

Some of the now mentioned features are more then enough to make you busy for a life time like: Reminder list, Alarm function, Stopwatch, Countdown timer, Currency converter, Calculator, Intelligent Typing (T9), Picture Messaging, Redial list, List of calls received / missed, Date and time stamp for missed calls, Menu animations, User profiles, Softkey programmab
le, Call wait / call hold, Conference call, Call forward, Silent Alert (vibration), Call filter? some more but I am exhausted, Phew!

Key Features are:
Triple Band EGSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Antenna integrated
Weight 79 gms only
Dimensions (L x W x H) 81,6 x 44,5 x 21,9 mm
Improved water, shock & dust resistance
Standard battery Li-Polymer 500 mAh
Stand-by time with standard battery up to 200 hrs
Talk time 2 with standard battery up to 210 minutes
Charging time 2 hrs maximum for 100%
Display 4096 colors, 7 lines, and 101 x 80 pixels
Date and time in display

I definitely feel without the integrated Digital camera it?s expensive @ approximate (price in India) INR 25,000 (US$ 500) compared to other handsets offering somewhat similar features, but at the at same time I softly suggest you to give it one detailed look before your next purchase?

Mehul Patel is the Consulting Director of KIPL.Net - Digital Design & Communications, The author can be reached via email on mehul@kipl.net

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