Siemens S55

...change. I looked up the Siemens S55 along with its rivals, the Nokia 6610(i) and the Ericsson T68. And upon deciding on this one I searched on the internet. To my surprise there was a hefty £150 price tag on this phone. Upon realising the fact that my wallet was going to be empty if I bought it, I looked on eBay and found several S55s for around £50. This phone was brand new and it came with a, camera, handsfree, neck strap, PC cable and 2 instruction ...
...seems to appear on all Siemens phones and I presume is for an external aerial. The phone has a wide range of connectivity options. It has email for the buisness user. You can send and receive email. It has MMS, which is Multimedia Messaging which enables the user to send text, sound and pictures to another MMS capable phone. It has text messaging. It has Bluetooth which I use with a Bluetooth headset when driving because there are no cables and ...

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...superior and more logical - Siemens need to rethink their layout. One Year On ------------------ This was an expensive, new phone and newer phones have easily surpassed this one. I regret the purchase and look forward to when I can justify changing this phone. I have downed my Ease of use rating to Difficult an my Range of Features rating to Good. ...

a4angus 03.06.2003 (29.01.2004) · Read full review
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...phone, but not with my Siemens S55! No, of course it has to be different. Dropped the phone one day, expecting maybe the battery cover to pop off - but nope! That thing is practically welded shut. What happened? The silver-effect display surround fell off leaving an ugly grey (but obviously ineffective) glue instead of the shiny surround. Since then, I've been losing around one button per week (BPW). It started with the power/call end button. Then ...
...dial key is going to be next. This morning, number 3 fell off. So I find myself managing to type whole text messages without the letters D, E and F! There are some things about this phone which I haven't been able to fault yet! A reasonable quality dictophone, calculator, WAP, etc. One thing I particularly like is that you can use MIDI ringtones. That means I can write my own on my keyboard as well as download some from the internet. And there's ...

craigyb85 22.03.2004 · Read full review
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...necessary software on CD, although Siemens provide an area on the website to download any software available, they also have an area to download ring tones etc. although this isn’t free. So far I have had no problems with this phone, it seems to be quite robust too, the build quality seems better than a Nokia and it even withstood a pint of larger being spilt over it, whoops!! All in all this is a good phone, the functions are more business suited ...
...function, you will find this excellent, especially if you travel a lot. The only let downs with this phone is the low res screen, the buttons seem a little fiddly at first and it’s a wee bit complicated to configure properly. I'm not finished yet, I'm gonna do some more work with the phone and see what happens, update soon. UPDATE: 27/08/03 After really getting to grips with this phone i've found it to be a useful business tool. I regularly use ...

grantwes 24.03.2003 (27.08.2003) · Read full review
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...Book: According to siemens the address book can hold 250 addresses at 14 fields per entry. Mine certainly is not that big. GPRS: An always on connection to the internet on your phone which can be enabled via registration to your mobile telephony provider. Class 10 GPRS at 58kbps download (pretty fast/comparable to dial-up computer speeds). And half that for upload. Messenging: All the usual SMS and MMS. The latter being where text is incorporated ...
...such long text messages. Siemens CD: Comes with the Siemens Data Suite which has all your ringtone editing/graphics editing/GPRS etc... A java game is also hidden in the folders of the CD. Browsing your phone as if it was a separate drive is possible with folders and files being displayed in which you can use drag and dropping of files. Reception Quality: Hard to guage this one but works where my Nokia did and there is no distortion when talking ...

badamson 28.08.2003 · Read full review
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THE LOOK This phone is, I think very attractive, its mainly grey but the buttons and the battery cover are silver. On the left side of the phone is a chrome button for call volume, on the right hand side is a voice memo button (also chrome) and the charger point is on the bottom. It's a good size, not too big but not so small that you are scared of losing or breaking it, it's just under four inches from top to bottom, not much bigger than the palm ...
...are a good size too so you wont be hitting the wrong ones all the time. There is a directional pad, this has 4 arrows up, down, left and right, this allows you so move around the screen easily. This phone is also very strong I have dropped it several times on nights out and it still works perfectly and has no visible damage. FUNCTIONS Camera, PC Connection, Loud Speaker, Tri-Band, Bluetooth, Infa Red, Poly Ringtones, Java games, GPRS, MMS, Voice ...

motodoughnut 11.08.2005 · Read full review
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...to using a brand new siemens s55. i've had this for a good 5 months now (new change impending ;-) and this review is based on that 5 month affair. size: the s55 is a perfect size for those of you who wish to have a phone that can hide away in a trouser pocket or handbag, but yet retain a good size to get the mic near your mouth. the problem with small handsets is that they dont get close to your mouth, so in noisy places you end up cupping the ...
...Both are again of excellent siemens quality. Never drops connections, and both work with all devices. Software: Standard Siemens Software with what I term the most useful things in the world! I really like Siemens UI, its designed for a fast power user (shame they didn't think of the buttons ;) Battery: Excellent performance. Tips for other users : use a dark screen and set the screensaver to PowerSave - you'll get a good 5 days standby even ...

thenumnum 11.01.2004 · Read full review
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...from getting my Siemens S55, I still speak very highly of it and would recommend it to anyone, I recieved it as a contract phone from O2 online which is different for me because My last 2 phones were pay+go, I picked it out of a selected bunch because of 2 reasons, The First being its good looks, and Second, the reliability of my previous siemens phones (C35 A55) Design - compaired to previous siemens phones, it now has solid buttons rather ...
...similar in design to previous siemens phones, has all their features and more. There is a new filesystem where you can plug it into a pc and send files to your phone like a mini computer, this comes in use if you like downloading latest polyphonic ringtones and games off the internet! Battery Life - It took around 5 full charges when I first got the phone to get it to its maximum capacity, which I find is around 3 days with moderate use. One good ...

Jackrabbit710 18.10.2003 · Read full review
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...Price. An with the Siemens S55 I got it all - and quite a lot of other stuff thrown in. It's small - not something I'd always thought of as an advantage - and packed full of goodies. An address book/calendar organiser/Message saver and sender/Records File - so you can time those calls/Surf and Games and, more importantly, a comprehensive, easy to read manual about how to set it up and get started. Big plus over my last Nokia phone. It's also a ...
...But given all that, what eventually sold me was the price. Nil Pounds. FREE has indeed been one of my most favourite words for as long as I can remember. And free it is........IF You go to Vodafone online and purchase their Anytime 100 payplan for a cost of £15.00 per month - they also throw in 50 FREE (that word again) text messages per month. Their website is appallingly slow (but that's for a future op.), but the deal is by far the best one ...

stevesingh 31.07.2003 · Read full review
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...I was torn between the Siemens S55 and the Sony Ericcson T610. At the last minute, despite having wanted the SE one, I decided on the Siemens. I had had a beautiful SL42 that served me well. And the cute add on camera swayed it for me. A month or so down the line I had a proper go with the camera-totally terrible. Took a picture of my face, outline of dark hair, totally white face!!! The flash is too bright, and no flash won’t pick up images. The ...
...then I noticed that it was quite difficult writing text messages as the buttons might click but had not registered the letter so I would look back on a text message and find it made no sense and had to go back taking twice as long to send a so-called quick message. Also the time it takes to turn on and get into certain features is just not acceptable. I find that I am nearly throwing the phone down in frustration. I have to wait all the way through ...

bargainwench 22.03.2004 · Read full review
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The Siemens S55, is quite a versatile little phone, it's capable of a lot of things and is fairly easy to use. I've had my siemens for nearly a year now, since then my keyboard has dropped off twice, the first time the keys just didn't work and they wouldn't give the feedback that they should. Then the top 3 numbers started to come away from the phone, The second time after having this repaired the keys just came away and hang off the phone so they ...
...haven't fell off yet. My father hasn't had this trouble yet but as he has large fingers he has trouble texting and pressed every other number but the one he wants. Another problem with this phone is that when it rings in your pocket or bag in my case, you can't hear it even if its on the loudest setting. But when you do hear it, it sounds brilliant, because when I have the oppotunity I personalise my phone so it has all the new songs out on it. Can ...

fashtech 12.08.2004 · Read full review
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I brought this phone on contract purely because the tarrif appealed to me and the phone was free. But I looked at the phone and saw that it was quite cute. Anyways the phone comes with a colour screen, shame that it is low resolution. It is able to take photos but you might not get the detachable camera with the package and you have to fork out an extra £50, so I didnt bother buying it. The screen itself is a pretty decent size and you are able to ...
...function is available which I thought was great. You get a whole range of functions like stopwatch, countdown, recording facility (for those little things you cant remember), calculator, alarm clock. One main advantage of the phone is that you customize it, by this I mean you can record your voice for certain options. Put your own screensaver, have different ringtones for someone special. So it is very flexible is what I'm trying to say. The only ...

duff218 06.09.2003 · Read full review
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...looks nicely designed, and the Siemens menu's are easy to use and all similar from phone to phone so should you upgrade you won't feel lost. The phone itself is very nice, sound quality is great, reception is fine, battery life is better than average, but the keys! The keys on this phone are truly awful - they are very plasticy and feel like they will snap off at any moment (in fact there are several reports of the "2" key failing on this model). ...
...the dark or "feeling your way round" is nigh impossible. The screen is pretty poor too - it's 256 colour so there is some really horrible dithering on photo's and other images which makes it look even worse - there is a technique to stop the dithering (I think you only use bmp files) but they still don't look as good as a decent full colour display. That said, it's good enough to see the number you've dialled, who's calling, and the text you are ...

shandyboy 03.02.2005 · Read full review
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The Siemens S55 is a phone to make people sit up and take notice. From the moment I saw one i had to have it and waited eagerly for them to be released. I paid £120 for it in Feb 03 and received the phone along with software, data cable and clip on camera which is a really good bundle, there's nothing worse than having to purchase some key components separately at a later date The phone is very slim and easily disappears without leaving an unsightly ...
...of release. The Siemens still stands out from the crowd with it's unique look and superb design.The styling and details are all brilliant, from the oily sheen of the screen surround to the tier effect the keys have, nothing is left out of the design magic, but all of it fits together to make a phone that just oozes style. As always the Siemens O/S is a joy to use and the phone is very simple to get to grips with. The bonus of the larger screen means ...

JCoquillon 09.03.2004 · Read full review
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I have had the phone for just over 6 months now and in general am quite satisfied with it, the sound quality of ringtones is second to none and the range of Backrounds, Screensavers and Java games seems to be endless. This phone supports your average user right up to the business user and if theres something not on the phone there is a good chance you can download it. The infrared and blue tooth functionality is spot on and PC linkup is so easy ...
...The phone also comes with an add on camera, once the pictures are downloaded to the computer they are brilliant but as the phone only has a 256 colour screen they are really hard to view on the phone. The only downside's to this phone are as previously mentioned its poor 256 colour display, battery life, i know a few other people with this phone and all complain about bettery life, i am quite a heavy user and find my self having to charge it almost ...

leevoce 26.02.2004 · Read full review
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