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Siemens SL65 Triband GSM 900/1800/1900 Camera Phone Review (3)
Bluetooth 21 Oct 2004

Pricing Info US UK

Multimedia

The built in CMOS camera can take shots at various resolutions Premium, High, Medium, Low and Wallpaper.  Both camera and video mode supports the White Balance control for Auto, Indoor and Outdoor. We found the photos taken tends to be a bit too bright which can be corrected by reducing the brightness level to -1. There is also a digital zoom of 5x.

The only complaint is the location of the camera lens. When I hold the phone upright, the lens is blocked by my fingers. I have to be careful and make sure i grip the phone without blocking the lens.

Connectivity

This phone has ~10.32MB of internal memory for you to keep all your videos, pictures, midi, wav ringtones. There is no RS-MMC card for memory expansion. Bluetooth is also not supported on this phone. Thus, the only ways to transfer ringtones or pictures is via Infra Red, Email. One thing I like about Siemens phone is that there is no restriction on transferring Java applications and you do not need special software to send/recv files. You can send / recv any file type you like and they will be stored into the Data Inbox which you can send to others via MMS, IrDA, email.

Ringtones

SL65 comes with a very loud earpiece and it is also used as a speaker phone and playback of ringtones. You will be shocked by the strong vibration alert of the phone. You can even set the "style" on how it vibrates - Standard, Helicopter, UFO, Shock, Mosquito, Train etc. It is so loud that I have to place it to level 3/4.

It is a pity that the phone does not support MP3 ringtone. If you like, you can send WAV files into the phone via Infra or any other means and set it as the default ringtone. You will be shocked by the loudness of the ringtone whether it is polyphonic MIDI or WAV file. Of course, you can use the mono tones if you wish.

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