Siemens C55

Poor phone, not very good software.

I bought the Siemens C55 phone 5 years back and had excellent performance, still working

The Siemens C55 is a great mobile phone!

It has no camera or colour screen, but it still has features.

It is easy to use, and has a good setup on the buttons and menu.

I got a Siemens C55 mobile phone when they first came out a couple of years ago. I was sold on the fact it had a cute white exterior, and the fact that you could record your own ringtones.

I would have to say that it was the biggest waste of just over $400 I ever experienced.

The ringtones were so soft you couldn't hear them at all at first, and as they increased in volume, they were only just audible. (I'm not deaf, either).

I thought there was a fault with the phone, and I sent it off for fixing straight away. It came back the same! Upon further enquiry, "that's the way it's supposed to be", they said. Totally useless!

I rang Siemens, and always got a foreign person answering the phone who couldn't understand my complaint and promised to have someone call me back. No prizes for guessing that they never did!

I threw it in the coffee table drawer and cut my losses. So much for trying out a lesser known brand. Won't make that mistake again!

I have always had siemens mobile and i have always been satisfied.

This Siemens C55 is the best mobile phone i've owned.

It was one of the first phoned with polyphonic ringtones, you can record your own ringotnes by holding it up to a speaker, or anything thats makes noise!!

It has GPRS, not much use to me but some people like it.

The sound quality of phone calls is fantastic and i have never had a problem mechanically with it.

Highly recommended, you can pick one up off Ebay for around £40.00 now, BARGAIN!!!!

This Siemens C55 Mobile phone is a great phone and highly reliable! i am writing this review as i am soon to replace it with the samsung E700, and in a way this is my phones Obituary! this phone has served me well and i would recomend it to anyone who would ask my opinion of it. as mentioned previously, its only problem is that it is over a year and a half old and so is without all of the more recent features. i am quite sad to see it go to be honest!

nevertheless....

this phone has features such as....

wap (which i mainly use for checking mt e mail when on the move)

gprs

organizer(alarm clock, appointments, greeetings, notes, missed alarms, calculator, curency convertor and voice command).

highly personalisable profiles.. i have got a couple... quiet for when im in the house, loud for when im outside, silent for when im at college and "school" where i have disabled the vibration totally (this is very uselful for when ur having a conversatoin thru txt and a lecturor is near by!!)

polythonic ringtones. the ones the fone comes with aint great but i do love "slow blues".. it is possible to download new ringtones but i was unable to find a site to get them for free from so i just made do with recording my own (you can record approx 3 x 18secs of sound)

the fone can hold approx 35 txt msgs.

er... cant think of anything else to say really.

although this fone is great for keeping me guessing!!.. im not one to read thru the manual (as i think most are!) and i am still learning great things bout this phone to this very day!

the ratings are given mostly in present day thought.. where new phones are available with colour etc etc so they may not b great ratings.. but still great fone!

The Siemens C55 is overall a nice little mobile phone more suited to a lady or a man with small hands and fingers and good eye sight for the keys. would fit easily in and inner jacket pocket.

Ringtones are fairly loud and you should not miss this phone.

The phone cost me originally £139 back in october 02 when it was first released.

This phone is very reliable like the original C45 phone but really has been replaced by the likes of A55 with very similar feature for less money.

Andy Williams

Great value for money (I paid 89 Euro for this phone, prepaid).

clear sound, easy to use.

I can recommend this phone.

At present O2 Ireland have special offer on Siemens C55; an existing pre-pay customer can pay 129 euro for the phone & get back 120 euro over 12 months in call credit. (once you've paid 60 euro in past 3 months) But it's much smaller than my last one & when I leant over it fell out of my pocket into a bucket of water! (After 10 days of use) Despite removing it immediately & trying to dry it on the car heater fan, the phone will not now get a network. (But otherwise still works!) I think the guarantee is invalid if there's any sign of water damage, so I'm trying to get the right tools to open 6 unusual screws (are they 'torx'?) to try & dry it out further, so hopefully I'll be able to use it again soon, as my Ericcson t10s battery is fast wearing out

I've been a regular Siemens fanatic. The Siemens C55 came after my C35i and C45. The C55 can be defined as the new and improved version of the C45. It has everything available in this price range. Infact if cell phones with coloured displays weren't innovated yet, I can think of any other reason for switching my cell phone with any other latest model.