Advantages: Stylish phone with a array of features, easy to use software and good build. Disadvantages: Expensives accessorires and slight problem with the ergonomics.
...are thinking about buying the Siemens SL45, or those who have brought it and are seeking reassurance on their purchase.
I won't give you a list of description and features, you can find those in greater details by visiting www.siemens.com/sl45 you can get all the flash animation and pictures, in addition to the extended services provided by Siemens or third parties (i.e. music, animation down loads etc.)
The SL45 has a large screen taking up over ... ...before the inbox is full, Siemens should have designed the software to automatically move the old/new messages to the MultiMediaCard where there is ample space. The phones various multimedia functions are supported using the removable 32Mb (standard) MultiMediaCard. It is used to store addresses (on the phone) MP3 and Voice Memos, as well as enabling the phone (the card) to be used like a floppy-disk storing any other desired file (spreadsheets, ...
Jimstar 04.08.2001
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Advantages: Everything you could want (and a bit more) Disadvantages: transfer of data takes time
...saw the advert for the Siemens SL45 in the Times supplement in May. What caught my eye was that the ‘phone was capable of recording, as a Dictaphone, up to 5 hours of conversation. Great for lectures etc. now that I am returning to University, and with a birthday in early June loads of hints, leaving the advert in conspicuous places and berating my old mobile had the desired effect – I got one!
I ordered over the web and the phone cost £109.99 with ... ...small fixed (unbreakable) antenna. Why Siemens chose to incorporate one I don’t know, unless, due to space (and the amount of features, more of which later) there is no room inside for an internal one.
The pack includes a desktop charger which also doubles as a data transfer station and PC sync. Connect to a serial port and transfer contacts from MS Outlook, download MP3’s onto the phone etc. The only problem is the length of time this takes. This ...
Smith.hall 02.10.2001
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Advantages: sleek and stylish Disadvantages: small keys make it hard to dial
The Siemens SL45 is one of the most expensive phones on the market (mine cost £200), but with good reason. The phone is small and stylish and has loads of excellent features.
The phone is silver, with a large screen and small keys. Its very easily lost as its tiny, and very light. This is one of the few disadvantages. Typing a phone number can be a little difficult, as the keys are so crammed in.
I was attracted to this phone for its MP3 player, ... ...the latest gear!) The mutimedia card which is included with the phone can store up to 45 minutes worth of music, and according to the phone manual, multimedia cards with more memory can be bought. The mulimedia card can also hold up to 5 hours worth of dictaphone recordings. (much fun has been had by putting my phone dictaphone and recording friends chatting) I suppose those wanting more out of a phone than a way to wind up mates, this would be an ...
cath123 22.09.2001
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Advantages: A technological dream, MP3, dictaphone, voice dialling Disadvantages: None
The Siemens SL45 is the latest offering of WAP enabled mobile phones but with a major technological difference. I have been using the phone which I purchased in the Vodaphone shop for £170 for 2 weeks and it still continues to amaze me!
The SL45 is sleekly designed weighing only 88g (not much more than the Nokia 8210). It is beautifully finished in silver and feels very good to hold. The screen is a high resolution WAP screen with a very nice orange ... ...difference with the SL45 compared to the rest of its peer group is the clever use of a MultiMedia smart memory card (32Mb supplied). This allows the phone to act as a very good quality MP3 player, a voice dictaphone which also allows you to record conversations, customisable screen and ring tones and enormous memory for storing data.
Let me tell you about the best bits :
1. THE LOOKS - Super sexy...no faults
2. VOICE ACTIVATED DIALLING - Works ...
htanaka 11.08.2001
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Advantages: It is ultra slim and incredibly light,built in MP3 player, Disadvantages: it’s a lot of money if you are not going to take full advantage
...is the niftiest little phone Siemens has produced to date. In fact it’s the trendiest phone any mobile company has produced. The SL45 is super-sleek and incredibly stylish without even trying to be. It is ultra slim and incredibly light, weighing in at a meagre 88 grams. Which is nothing considering what it can do for your life. The edge over its contenders is the phones built in MP3 player, perfect for losing yourself on long commutes. With ... ...serial protocol generally. Be aware, Siemens seem to have forgotten to put a backup on the CD and, according to the laws of life, systems do crash, limiting your chances of retrieving the systems files.
All this is well and good, but unless you are blessed with an abundance of patience, photographic memory and/or any technical skill you may find frustration gets the better of you and you don’t progress from the basic phone functions. There ...
meeshaman 27.03.2001
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The premise of buying a phone and getting an MP3 player thrown in seemed too good an opportunity to pass up.
The unit is quite stylish, although the layout is not greatly practical. The keys are too small and located too near the bottom of the handset. The MP3 controls on the side of the unit are very handy though. The MMC card is flushly incorporated, though the card holder looks a little flimsy.
Switching the handset on takes an eternity, but ... ...distinctive retro orange backlight. Navgating the menus is easy, but the handset can take some time to respond to each keypress, which can be infuriating.
The recption is ok, at best.
Functionality wise there is a lot on offer from the SL45. The MMC card makes life easier here by providing masses of memory (I bought a 128Mb MMC to fit more music on, though the supplied card is adequate for everything else) . From Java apps (which can be downloaded ...
Rato 08.04.2003
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BEST MOBILE IN WORLD NUFF SAID.
Well not quite. This is undeniably a fantastic phone, and if there is a better one out there I'd kill to have it!
Firstly, this phone looks great. Its tiny, very very light and has some amazing features on it. It comes in a shiny silver colour, and has a simple to use menu system.
The SL45 features are astounding. It comes with a built in MP3 player, something very few phones have, and even comes with a generous ... ...the phone is supplied with headphones too.
Next in my long list is the voice activation dialling. This is very quick, accurate and easy to use with a large capacity for voice tags.
The SL45 supports just about anytjing you can think of. It has a super fast WAP browser, for surfing the net or just looking at your horoscopes!
The WAP browser is nice to say you have but I never really use it, as there is a strict limit of information available.
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pjm123 11.04.2001
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Advantages: mp3, voice dial, Disadvantages: long download time, high price
...Reception =========
The siemens sl45 has very good reception and will not let you down by dropping calls when it should not. Battery Performance
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The siemans boasts an impreesive talktime of 60-240 mins and standby of around 60-170 hours not bad at all for a small light phone.
Overall
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The siemans SL45 is delight to look at and to use. Siemens have made some dodgy phones in the past but if you have been disapointed ...
Bonetony 13.03.2001 (28.03.2001)
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Advantages: V stylish Disadvantages: the thing sticking out the top (the aerial)
...be the cheapest.
Like all Siemens phones, this one has got a 200 hour standby time and a one hundred and fifty hour talk time (even though the phone can never quite manage this it sounds impressive). It also has got a quick three hour charge time- not bad for a phone these days.
The reception from this phone is great- I suppose it is helped from the big bulky aerial sticking out from the top- but hey you can't have your cake and eaat it, even though ... ...The are many games and features including WAP and predictive text as well as the other usual stuff that is on any other phone.
Overall yes this phone is worth the money you pay for it, but it is nothing special. I would rather go for a similar Nokia eg the Nokia 3310. ...
somebodyrandom 04.05.2003
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Advantages: looks, large screen, mp3, Outlook sync Disadvantages: ring tones, software
...is a perfect pain.
The Siemens technical support has so far proved hopeless. I am still trying to resolve a software glitch with the address book search mechanism which freezes the phone.
After much chasing up of Siemens appaling Customer Service, I managed to establish that my firmware version was old and needed upgrading to v.19. Carphone Warehouse kindly swapped it. The bad news is that the new version is NO MORE stabler than the previous version. ...
desalaberry 19.06.2001 (05.07.2001)
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Advantages: MP3 - Player, you can go into the www..., Disadvantages: no ideas
...Ur , The Siemens of SL45 for £ 220 (1499 GERMAN MARKS) (without contract) not only an usual mobile phone to just phone quickly. The SL45 contains a MP3-Player to return from audiofiles MP3. With Siemens of SL45 MP3 Audiosongdatein can be taken during 1 hour to lesson and returned about the headphones provided in the extent of supply. But this is not yet everything! The Siemens of SL45 possesses not only a MP3 Player, it still possesses the funktion ... ...simply thanks the SL45 his Siemens of mobile phone. With a weight of ONLY 91 grammes the SL45 remains a flyweight in spite of clenched portion of technology. The Wipptaste can be operated in all 4 directions and that makes navigating in the anyway already quite well operation menu still around something light. The Orange announcements lighting lets the marriage already small display very bright
Thereby it looks a little bit bigger. But the contrast ...
SaferSex 22.12.2001 (23.12.2001)
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Advantages: MP3, MultiMediaCard, rigorous dictaphone, metal body and rich complete set Disadvantages: Price, low data rate
...telephones name as a dictaphone, Siemens SL45 offers really rigorous solution. The time, which can be told in a dictaphone, limits only in volume of vacant place on MultiMediaCard. The hour of record takes about 1200 kilobytes. It is possible to record a sound both during a bell, and in a waiting mode. As to a mode of the auto answer, it represents not that other, as a voice box only realized by forces of the telephone. MP3 player
As was already ... ...a format MP3. On a map some compositions are delivered which it is possible at once to listen to. Quality of reproduction of music is as at traditional MP3 player. However on standard 32 Mb card there is small place nevertheless. On a map is stored many service files, and for purchasing on it free still has only 16 Mb. It is possible to clear card, by deleting all unnecessary, for example, demonstrating and sets of languages of the interface. The ...
iharsh 13.12.2001
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Advantages: Sleek and Small - MP3 player is novel Disadvantages: Multi-media card is slow to access stored items (texts, address-book etc)
I bought the SL-45 because I liked the dynamic phonebook (you can store more than one number per name,) and the MP3 player (I only have a discman and it skips when I walk.)
These functions in themselves were quite unique at the time of purchase, but I realised slowly that the fancy features were actually slowing down the phones performance and sapping its wee battery. The Multi-Media card on which things like the music and address-book are stored ... ...access numbers and new texts. Also, it took hours to download the MP3s to the memory, which was tiresome. The software supplied didnt even explain how it all worked, so Im glad I am computer literate, and had an up-to-date computer.
One really silly bonus feature was the fact the back-light for the screen "fades" to dark rather than switches off like Nokia's, but after a few amazed "aaaahs" from my friends it was ignored.
It is a nice looking "cute" ...
couchtatty 25.10.2002
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Advantages: Good range of features Disadvantages: None
...I can improve. The Siemens SL45 has recently hit the shops and it is probally the most uniue and high tec phone around at the moment. It has the following features:
32Meg multi Media card This allows the user to store files on the phone which they have downloaded from the internet.
Inbuilt Mp3 Player This means you can use the internet to download Mp3's and then listen to them on your phone.
Recordable Memory You can store over an hour of voice ... ...High Speed Wap Which is a faster version of standard Wap.
Voice call hold Which means that when people call you and you are already in a call they can wait and hear some thing you have recorded already.
It also has a memo to hold big word documents.
Custom Ringtone composer.
Currency Converter and Calculater
With these features this phone is one a head of the rest at the moment. And with it being available at 200 quid on contract on BT Cellnet ...
pauluk 19.03.2001
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Advantages: Slim and Durable with Large Screen Disadvantages: Slow Software with Tendencies for Amnesia!
...over to this SLOW THINKING Siemens from the trusty Nokia software that I've relied on for so long. The Siemens speed of pulling up data - including SMS messages - is frustratingly a test to one's patience. Looks? Sure....sexy! This phone looks slick with its wide screen and silvery colour. It is slim, light in weight, and actually relatively* durable. But once again, its weakness is not in its looks but rather in its "thinking" ability.
*Weird Unexplained ... ...after charging it overnight, and my phone had a severe case of amnesia, having forgotten all contact numbers except a few randoms. Likely the card, but this has never happened to me before! Ease of use is decent - it's fairly easy to navigate around, except for navigation to alarm function.
One cool feature is the ability to store and play MP3s - very useful for urban gypsies on the move and boring waits at bus stops, or even getting yourself in ...
ConsumerBabe 25.02.2003
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