... 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 ... Read review
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...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 ... ...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 ... more
After having a Motorola C350 for some time I decided that it was time for a 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 manuals, 1 for the phone and 1 for the camera.
This phone is around the same size as its rivals and fits nicely into the palm of your hand. It is also quite light being just 85g in weight. The design of the phone is a kind of elongated oval and the phone is very tactile. The shiny metal rims around the screen and on the speaker make the phone look classy.
The keypad is tiered and the star and hash keys are quite small, however I find that I rarely use these. There are 2 "soft keys" which are used to access the menu and you can program the left one with a shortcut of your choice. Also there is a navigation pad which consists of 4 arrows, left, right, up and down and are used to navigate the menus. On the right hand side there is a button which can be used to "mark" or select different items when in a menu or it is the key to operate the "dictation machine". On the left hand side there is the volume control which you can use in a call to raise or lower the speaker volume. When in standby you can select Profiles using these keys and when the camera is attatched you use those keys to take a picture. However the keypad is quite tactile.
The battery is under a cover which is easy to get off if you have fingernails and the battery is secured in place by a small clip. In my old phone when I dropped it the back cover came off and the battery came out. However in this phone the battery cover is securely clipped on and the battery is secured in place by the clip.
On the back of the phone there is a small hole which 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 it has infrared which can be used to connect to a PC or another infrared device.
The phone comes with a PC connection cable and the software. I have used this regularly and have found no flaws with it. You can syncronise MS Outlook or another similar program. You can also transfer files onto the S55's "Filesystem". Files such as ringtones pictures and games can be sent back and forth with ease.
The only problem with this phone is the screen can only display 256 colours, however, this is only a problem when viewing photos and does not affect games etc.
The S55 allows the user to download games, ringtones and pictures. Games are in the JAVA format, ringtones can be MMF or MIDI, and pictures can be Jpeg, Gif or Bmp.
The phone also features a loudspeaker for calls, you can turn this on and then put the phone on a nearby surface and you can talk to and hear the person from around 3 feet away, the quality of the speaker is very good and I find it better than the loudspeaker on the 6610.
All accesories either plug into the universal slot on the bottom of the phone or connect wirelessly via Bluetooth.
The Battery standby time is very good, I can leave my phone on standby for around a week and can talk on it for around 4 hours without the battery running out.
The reception quality is very impressive, in an Underground station I have four out of five bars of signal and the speaker quality is crisp and clear and the person at the other end had always been able to hear me clearly.
The camera clips onto to the bottom of the phone and has a maximum resolution of 640x480 and the pictures come out very well on the PC. You can select a screen sized shot or a larger picture that you can put on the PC.
The phone has a Dictaphone function which can be used to record memos or conversations.
The phone has extensive organiser functions including a calander, task list, notes, calculator, stopwatch, countdown timer, voice activated functions and a world time clock. With the notes function, you can choose to protect the notes with a code.
All in all, if you pay out £50 for this phone on eBay you are getting a LOT of phone and features for your money.
...superior and more logical - Siemens need to rethink their layout.
One Year On
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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)
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Advantages: Bluetooth, Camera, MIDI Ringtones, Dictaphone Disadvantages: MMS doesn't work, attachable camera keeps falling off, buttons fall off!
...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
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Advantages: Small, Stylish, Lots of features Disadvantages: Low resolution screen, Quite difficult to set up
...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)
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Advantages: Bluetooth, Java, Nice Camera Disadvantages: 256 Colour Screen
...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
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Advantages: looks cool Disadvantages: not very hi-tech
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
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Normal, In car, Portable H-free, Noisy, Flight, Quiet Environments
Additional Features
Intelligent Typing (T9), SIM application toolkit (STK), closed user groups, world clock, downloadable JAVA applications
Communicator features
Synchronisation With PC
Built-in
Synchronisation With
MS Outlook
Phone memory
Phone Book Capacity
500 names & numbers
SIM Card Based Directory
250 names & numbers
Missed Calls Memory
10
Dialed Calls Memory
10
Received Calls Memory
10
Messaging & data services
Cellular Messaging Services
MMS, EMS, Nokia Smart Messaging, SMS
Supported SMS Functions
SMS CB (Cell Broadcast), concatenated SMS
Max Message Length
760 characters
Mobile Email Client
Built-in
Supported Email Protocols
POP3, IMAP4, SMTP
Data/Fax Capability
Built-in
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)
Built-in
Internet Browser
Built-in
WAP Protocol Supported
WAP 1.2.1
JAVA applications
Built-in
Security features
Phone Lock
Yes
Keypad Lock
Yes
SIM Card Lock
Built-in
Restrict Access to Phone Book
Built-in
Organiser
Alarm Clock
Yes
Calendar / Event Reminder
Built-in
Reminder
Built-in
Event Qty
500
Installed Games
Stack Attack, BattleMail
Calculator
Business / financial
Conversion
Currency
Additional Timer Functions
Countdown timer, stopwatch
Connections
Connector Type
Data port - IrDA
Data port
Antenna
DC power input
Miscellaneous
Included Accessories
Power adapter
Manufacturer's product description
Incorporating MMS (Multi Media Messaging), Bluetooth technology and an attachable camera with integrated flash, the slim and light S55 promises to be the perfect companion for people living life in the fast lane. With triband technology consumers can call from almost anywhere in the world. Designed to help harmonize consumers' private and professional lives, the S55 includes Java technology, an extended organizer and flexible memory and possesses color display. Taking pictures is easy with the QuickPic Camera IQP-500 and its integrated flash. The camera is available to purchase with the S55. Display the images on the vivid color screen, add music and text to the picture. And send this MMS to another mobile almost anywhere in the world. Bluetooth technology and organizer software helps harmonize work lives with social lives - no matter how hectic the schedule is. The S55 automatically synchronizes contacts, business and social schedules wirelessly with PCs and PDAs. And its flexible memory lets you allocate space where you need it most. The sleek S55 uses the latest Java technology, to choose among plenty of practical business, travel and entertainment applications as well as games, like Summer Ski. There is even an animated fitness instructor - fit@work - to show you simple exercises to keep you in shape whether you are at your desk or in your hotel room.
