Siemens SL55 Review

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Siemens SL55
2.8 stars
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spiceboy's Review of Siemens SL55

28th Aug 2004

Overall Rating

0.5 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
  • Time Phone Owned
    6 - 12 Months
  • Battery Life
    3.5 stars
  • Reception
    3.5 stars
  • Reviewers Network
    Orange
  • Screen Quality
    2 stars
  • Features
    3.5 stars
  • Style
    5 stars
Good Points

Looks good, small, nice opening mechanism.


Bad Points

Fatal errors, build quality a bit suspect, scratches easily, screen quality is poor.


General Comments

I bought the Siemens SL55 phone because I thought it looked good, and yes it does fulfill that criteria. I like the proslide mechanism; you can actually set the proslide to autolock the keys when closed, although, if you set a sound effect with the proslide, there is a noticeable delay before it actually sounds; a bit like a badly dubbed kung fu movie. The menus are fairly easy to navigate, you just need to get used to it if you haven't used a Siemens phone before. The phone speaker isn't loud enough in terms of ringing and text message alert etc. The build quality is a little bit ropey - not as solid as you might expect, and the screen scratches easily. I think if you were to summarise, its a nice looking phone, and it is quite functional, but definately nothing special.

Now then, it has a couple of fatal flaws that make me "say do not buy this phone at all costs". Reading the rest of the reviews I notice that these aren't one off problems, there is inherent problems with this phone. It has deleted all the numbers in my phone book, twice - for no reason whatsover. I have got Orange to replace it twice now for this problem. Another problem is that it freezes, meaning you must take the battery off to reset. It also turns itself off randomly. This is not only annoying, but it is extremely detrimental to anyone who relies on their phone, for example at work etc. A phone should be judged on its qualities, not its ablity to function. Unfortunately in this case, its the latter.

Nice looking phone, OK functionality... When it functions.

Don't buy it.

As an after thought. I'm in contract with Orange - which I have to say are a good network in general - coverage, tariffs, customer service etc. However I find it ridiculous that when reporting the various faults which they are obviously aware of, i.e. deleting of the phone book etc. They just give you another SL55, just so it can happen to you again... so you report it again, and they give you another SL55. Stupid really.

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