My love affair with the Siemen?s SL55

Advantages: Stylish, compact, packed with features.
Disadvantages: Texting can be a little difficult at first.

...?I Will Fly you to the moon and back if you?ll be, if you?ll be my baby?. My dirty old Nokia 3310 was past its sell-by-date years ago so I have to admit to getting ridiculously over excited at the prospect of a new phone. So many decisions to be made. Colour, polyphonic ringtones, games, and camera, one of those flip clamshell types or a standard Nokia style? Given my self-imposed budget of £60 surely I had given myself little leeway regarding the type of phone I could purchase? Never underestimate the dididave obsession with bargain hunting. It is rare that I pay full price for anything and as such revel in the underground culture that is the boot sale, charity shop and online auction world. Trawling through the Internet back alleys in search of my next gadget I came across the Siemen?s SL55. This little beauty retails...

dididave 13.02.2005 · Read review
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Siemens SL55

Advantages: Looks gorgeous and is so small!
Disadvantages: Breaks and scratches easily, low talktime

...How I fell in love with this mobile phone: Still living in Switzerland, I broke my mobile phone and went to a shop looking for a new one. Before, I always had Nokias, but this time I saw the Siemens SL55 and simply wanted it. Because I am not really a technical hero, the looks did it for me to be honest. Looks: You can get this tiny beauty (length x width x height = 81.6 x 44.5 x 21.9 mm) in titan and rubin. It slides open and reveals the keyboard. At the beginning I had to get used to it, as the keyboard is different from a Nokia one. After you get the hang of it, it is easy to use. It has a colour screen, which I like. If you search a bit, you will be able to find a case for it. However, as it is quite small, it can be difficult to get a good one. Technical stuff: Length x with x height = 81.6 x 44.5 x 21.9 mm, 79 gramms...

Shanon 05.04.2005 (04.06.2005) · Read review
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Siemens SL55

Advantages: Small, good looking, handsfree speaker
Disadvantages: Poor battery power, scratches easily

...Brought the Siemens SL55 from T-mobile at the begining of February for a very good deal. The price of the phone in a tmobile store is £139.99. T-mobile had offered me £50 off any phone if i continued my contract for another year, which made the price £89.99. I looked on the t-mobile web site and found i could get the phone for £69.99 if i broke my contract and took up a new one!! I phoned up customer services and explained this to them, and they finally offered me the phone for £49.99!! Total saving of £90 Dimensions ----------------- Size: 82 x 45 x22mm Weight: 79g Battery talktime: Up to 210 minutes Battery standby time: Up to 200 hours Features ------------ Colour Screen WAP (GPRS) MMS EMS Infrared modem Voice recorder Vibration alert Predictive text messaging...

ljfx 03.03.2004 · Read review
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The Siemens SL55, For all Anti-Bulk mobile lovers

Advantages: Small and Easy to use.
Disadvantages: Can be fiddly to use and expensive

...I decided to buy an SL55 Siemens mobile because of its size. I hate heavy bulky phones that take up all the room in my bag so the SL55 was the way to go. My budget was a little on the small size so I looked up E-Bay and found a refurbished model for £57.00. After a couple of days the phone died on me, so thanks to the dodgy person who sold me the phone, as I’m sure they knew it was broken. I have now learnt a valuable E-Bay lesson. Buy with a guarantee. I’m too trustworthy, that’s my problem. I’ve decided to try and get it fixed but if anyone wants the phone (maybe to repair and use) then please leave a message in my guest book. Anyway, I’m going to discuss the use of the phone, as I did like using it for the time that it worked. The Exterior: My SL55 is grey and Red. The colour is...

chocolate26 12.09.2005 · Read review
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The Wie Siemen Beastie

Advantages: Small, light, fun, loads of functions, just genral genuis
Disadvantages: Dunno!

...Shortly after my Panasonic phone decided that it was going to stop working, I decided that I needed a new phone. Id been wanting a new phone for a thew months but now that my one was broken(by no fault of my own) I actually had an excuse to treat myself to a nice new mobile. I decided I wanted a SL55 so searched the shops and after finding the best price to be £200 I looked on eBay, where I then got my phone! The phone itself is absolutely tiny, the keypad slides out from underneath and I believe it was one of the first phones to incorporate this function. The phones shape is very nice and it is so light that you really can forget that you have It with you. The screen is a fair size and the five buttons on the front of the phone allow you to fully navigate without sliding the keypad down. When purchasing your phone you can decide...

edd101 17.09.2004 · Read review
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The new advanced siemens

Advantages: Small, New, camara, light
Disadvantages: no radio, no bluetooth, low standby time

...I use to have a Nokia 6510 and although it is quite a nice phone i wanted a newer phone with more features. I got this new siemens phone because i thought it would be advanced in that it would have most of the features that you would get with other phones. The phone comes in two colours in titan or ruby red. This was so that i wouldnt have to get a newer phone in just a few months time. The phone is quite small and is approximatly 82x45x22mm in size and weighs 79g. It has quite a lot of the normal features such as calculator, stopwatch and messaging and more including MMS, Polyphonic ringtones and Wallpapers/screensavers. Apart from the phone not having picture messaging and a wallet (from my old phone) i think that it is quite a nice little phone with a lot of features. The Siemens SL55 has most of the new features for example...

wazlee 23.06.2003 · Read review
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The phone for your worst enemy

Advantages: Small, looks cute
Disadvantages: How long have you got???????

...I learned a hard lesson with this phone - never buy on impulse. I bought it on ebay as a last minute impulse thing without doing my research. I have sold the phone now - I couldn't get rid of it quickly enough. I have read contless phone reviews (on this and other sites) and I have never seen feedback as poor for any phone compared to the SL55. There was horror story after horror story. The main features were: Software repeatedly crashing Poor reception Poor screen (resolution and scratches) Number buttons dropping off Poor service from Siemens Dodgy slide mechanism Poor battery life My personal experiences are as follows: It is a nice looking phone closed over. Open the slide to expose the buttons, it still looks ok. BUT, unless you have the smallest of fingers, you will find the keypad very difficult to use as...

Benmychree 10.12.2004 · Read review
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My phone is a fashion accessory!

Advantages: Super stylish phone! Want to look good? Just whip it out!
Disadvantages: Easy to scratch, cannot find a case for it.

...This phone is one of the smallest I have ever seen, but you know with the Siemen's name that you are going to get the best quality. I have owned many Siemens phones, even the earlier model of this sliding design, and have not had a single problem with them yet. I have also owned motorola phones and Sony phones (I will NOT touch a Nokia phone as long as I live) and have been dissatisfied with them, so I came straight back to Siemens. Even though the phone is small it feels very sturdy and solid. Most small phones feel like they will snap if you put too much pressure on them, and I'm a welder and fabricator. This phone easily copes with the heavy weights and sparks and metal dust that I subject it to. The buttons are nicely raised allowing you to easily distinguish which buttons you are pressing without even looking (ideal...

bagpussthethird 30.05.2004 · Read review
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12 months on..... (was it worth it?)

Advantages: small & sleek
Disadvantages: cheap, poor R&D, bad battery

...I was so pleased when I bunked off work for 2 hours to race home & unwrap the SL55 - I was happy for about 4 hours. WHAT I HATED I have used this phone for 12 months now, and it is not wonderful. The screen is absolutely tiny and you really have to strain to view a picture or play a game. The screen is also too exposed, it lies on a curve and attracts any object in your pocket or bag - it will get scratched very quickly indeed. The battery is terrible, considering todays average battery life. At no point was I able to get more than 24 hours out of it. (Making 1-2 hours of calls per day) The buttons are its WORST feature, it is impossible to use without childlike fingers, they are too small, too cheap and the top half of the slide interferes with your dialing/texting. The joy-pad navigational key is shoddy. It has...

snurge2002 27.07.2004 · Read review
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For the fashion conscience Yuppie!

Advantages: Compact, Light, Easy to Use & Stylish
Disadvantages: Battery must be charged after the day is out (est. normal days use)

...bed! Having said that, is that really a drawback??? Siemens SL55?5/5...

da.oleary 27.05.2005 (28.05.2005) · Read review
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