BenQ-Siemens S68 - user opinions and reviews
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8.3
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7.6
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7.6
- Rob
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Very nice phone! I have been using it for 2 month. Perfect basic phone for people that do not need camera and other stuff. Very good looking.
Phone quality is very good. Very sturdy, no creaking. Speakers has Good sound too.
I have read that many people have problem with the phone shutting down from time to time, it is because of the old firmware. The new firmware (v.38) is very stabil, no shutting down.
Batterylife is impressive, i have using it for 5 days (5-10 min talk each day) still have 2 dots left on the batterybar (out of 5 dots). I have everything unnecessary turned off. Ex. animation, bluetooth, gprs, brightness 40%, contrast 20%, and epecially the screen saver, it drains a lot of battery.
To summit, a great phone!!!
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- 2006-08-16 13:50
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- Weejun
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Used it for a couple of months. Great features (bluetooth, good contact templates, etc.) and lovely design. Downside: Awful software!!! Turns off by itself every time adding a contact to SMS from SIM-card. The software lags when writing SMS' and is really slow. I've tried to get a firmware update but seems impossible over bluetooth, and most retailers don't have the new cable which fits. I'm on Apple Mac system, which was a bit of a job to get around with iSync but works for now. And yea, one more thing, they only seem to publish Windows-updates so can't update firmware on mac anyway. Too bad the software sucks, because otherwise it's really a sweet one.
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- 2006-08-15 17:58
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- Jeffin
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Its finishing is excellent, sleek model with all good features
Jeffin
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- 2006-08-07 12:08
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- finnish
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p.s
For me it took seven days to get the battery empty.
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- 2006-07-29 11:32
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- finnish
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I am absolutely delighted about this phone. I haven't yet seen any reasons to complain about the battery life, although I only speak with it only about .15mins a day. With the default settings : egprs is on. Switching it to off does make the battery life better.
It DOES turn itself off for no reason, when playing with it for about half an hour, so it isn't the right choice if you need to use your phone call the time.
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- 2006-07-29 11:24
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- Mike
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Does anyone here know, is it possible to remove the front cover ? I have somehow gotten a small dent just nex to the Benq-Siemens logo. So can the front cover be removed without opening the screws ?
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- 2006-07-22 15:51
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- Anonymous
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You must switch it off during the night because Siemens phones protect themselves.
Huh??
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- 2006-07-22 11:44
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- Bee
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To extend battery life an option is to turn off bluetooth and gprs if you don't need them.
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- 2006-07-19 12:20
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- Anonymous
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Corrections:
1. *Has* EDGE (=EGPRS)
2. Bluetooth version - 1.2 (10 meters)
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- 2006-07-15 14:14
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- Ilian
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Does anyoneknow what kind is the instant messange? Wireless Village, ICQ or something entirely diferent.
Does it work if my operator does not have official IM suppor eg via GPRS?
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- 2006-07-15 11:31
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- snatch
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I work in a phone shop in belgium and we have sold 7 S68's since last week. 4 of them have allready been brought back because of the batterylife. (about 1 day tops). they also complained about the on/off going of the phone......
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- 2006-07-14 13:47
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- Anonymous
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A major problem is that it does not connect with the bluetooth headset automatically when you make a call, making it useless for "hands free" use in a car.
More info here:http://forum2.mobile-review.co...php?p=423479
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- 2006-07-11 11:32
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- Carlo
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I've buy this phone 5 day ago, now it is return to de dealer:
Soft with a lot of buggs.
Don't buy this phone.
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- 2006-07-07 13:14
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- Anonymous
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Just Another Pretty Face
Have had phone for about a month. You can't buy a new battery either here in US or in UK (I haven't yet searched for in in the other countries). The users manual is virtually useless. It is designated "short version" however there is no "long" or "full" version. Benq-siemens offers no support in the US but you can call the UK (for $1.35/minute for the advice) plus the cost of the overseas call for help. One would think that the seller of a battery driven device would make the battery available and not charge for support when there is no meaningful users manual.
But it sure is pretty.
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- 2006-07-05 19:18
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- Dan
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Review after 1 week: (please see also my previous comment)
I had the S68 for almost a week now and used it daily.
PROS:
- the same as last time, mainly design and quality of materials
CONS:
- same as before PLUS
- battery life is very short, less than 3 days with moderate usage (less than 15 minutes talk per day);
- it turns off by itself for no reason (3 times in 6 days!)
- it has a tendency to stall (it blocks and does not answer to pressing keys) - 1 time during this week.
Conclusion: STAY AWAY FROM THIS PHONE!
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- 2006-07-04 08:48
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- dan
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Bought it yestarday, so these are the first impressions, after 24 hours of use and testing.
I used before this various phones, from Bosch to Siemens, Ericsson and Samsung, so I think I can make a pretty good comparisson.
PROS:
- great design, thin, nice materials to touch.
- good display
- good manufacturing (everithing is in the right place, no sharp edges, no cheap-looking materials)
- acceptable weight (almost 80 g)
- price
CONS:
- terrible menu (complicated, even worse than previous Siemens). This is a general problem at Siemens: they make good products with a lot of functions, but they fail constantly to make these functions user-friendly. So they are useless...
- useless manual (limited information, no online support for advanced functions)
- if your mobile operator does not offer over-the-air settings for this phone, do not buy it! It's too complicated to set internet access.
All in all, a good phone if you use it exclusively for calling and sending SMS. If you have any need to get online with it (say to synchronize your contacts) it's nightmare.
If you plan to buy it, wait a few months until operators will offer its settings over-the-air.
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- 2006-06-29 10:44
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- Anonymous
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This seems like an exelent phone for me, ive had a few cells over the years and some with camera. And i think its really useless overall. I want a phone that is simple easy to use and stylish, and it needs to have good buttons, all the complex new phones always have one bad button that doesent work like the others, bad plastic faults, i always get that. but this one seems totaly different.
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- 2006-06-23 23:00
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- BeeG
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Just loving it. But there's one MISTAKE in the specs: this phone absolutely DOES have EDGE. Or I don't know about your s68's, but the one I got yesterday has EDGE, and it's running well (just tested).
It's looking gorgeous. It's like made for me. Big very very nice screen, nice features (unless you need those shit-like "phone cameras" that suck like a pack of *****s), a good, well-lasting battery (I'm using this for a 2nd full day now, so it's been nearly 48 hours, and only 1 pixel length of the battery meter is off; this is promising me a week of use with one load - just remember to reduce the screen light/brightness since it's very bright & uses more battery if you don't, take the annoying beeps off at bootup/shutdown, and consider changing the default screensaver to analog clock or off).
The only bad thing I've about this s68 is that when I first downloaded wap/mms/etc. settings, they went fine but for some reason wap settings didn't change the name like I thought (so though the settings were OK, I thought they didn't install), and when I downloaded wap settings for 2nd time and tried to install, the phone just beeped and shut down. Twice in a row. So I guess it's not a good idea trying to push the wap/mms/etc. settings twice over...or then I made a mistake.
Really a good, cheap (compared to what it really is!) and cool phone. I really have to say, this is something the other manufacturers just haven't been able to create. And if Siemens did have some cellular operating system/software faults and problems in the past, this seems to have got away and is working (almost, that is, as well as possible) perfectly.
If you plan buying a cellular, buy this - you won't regret.
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- 2006-06-19 08:32
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