BenQ-Siemens EL71

I got an EL71 last December when I changed my mobile contract and my phone. I must admit that the EL71 looked quite attractive and I was tempted by the fact that you could upgrade the phone memory to 2Gb by the insertion of a MicroSD card so I decided to go with it. The phone itself is a nice concept. Siemens are trying to get back into the mobile market and this collaboration with BenQ has so much potential to rival Nokia and Sony Ericsson. The ...
...word? No. As I've said, it looks nice enough. Decked out in a sexy silver brushed metal effect it's quite attractive front on, but at the back it's just black plastic. Even then this undertstated effect is quite nice so you can have the phone and not worry about it being ugl. It's also a slide phone which means that the keypad drops down when you need to use it as opposed to being a flip or "candy bar" phone. As it's pretty small then you can pop ...

ayanayuk 17.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of BenQ-Siemens EL71

A nice looking phone, clad in a trendy silver slide style case. Screen is colour and a good size, so good for reading text and MMS. Built in MP3 player is handy, but not very easy to use. Battery life is acceptable, but relatively short if compared to some Nokia's. Fairly easy to use, with clear menu's. Memory capacity on board is limited, but easily expandable with a microSD card to store lots of MP3's, photo's or video. Bluetooth function works ...

Pablo19750 27.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of BenQ-Siemens EL71