Tuesday, 8 February 2005

Siemens/SK65

An interesting Siemens phone with a partial Blackberry client (v.3.8)

Pluses:

  • Data cable can charge the phone
  • Good Bluetooth (OBEX worked as expected)
  • Usable browser
  • Good MMS client with reasonably intuitive (for Siemens, at least) UI
  • Good contact management

Minuses:

  • Heavy
  • Hideous desktop software
  • Limited Blackberry client (no OTA contact sync), poor user experience (constant swapping between Siemens and Blackberry UIs)
  • Fiddly and cramped keyboard
  • No integration between phone ring profiles and Blackberry alerts (couldn't switch off e-mail notification per se)

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