Siemens CF110

Cancelled
15th August 2005

The Siemens CF110 is a stripped down and basic slider handset that's very lightweight and is designed to be easy to use and attractive at the same time.

Perhaps this handset is the spiritual successor to the classic SL55 slider. Like the SL55, the Siemens CF110 comes in at less than 80 grams (76.5 grams for the CF110, 79 grams for the SL55), comes with a functional but basic display at 130x130 pixels (101x80 for the SL55), no camera, no Bluetooth and certainly no music playback functionality.

It's somewhat slimmer than the SL55 too, at 83x45x18mm. However, the talktime is up to 5 hours with up to 9 days standby time. Although it's not as curvy as the SL55, there's a certain style to the CF110 which you could perhaps describe as understated and Germanic.

The rest of the Siemens CF110's feature list is pretty short: there's a WAP 1.2 browser, polyphonic ringtones, Java support, MMS, GPRS, basic PIM functions and just 1.5Mb of memory. As far as we can tell there's no email client on the CF110.

So.. what is this phone exactly? A relic from the past, or a clever and simple to use device like the Sagem VS1 and VS2? To be honest, we suspect that's it's a little bit of both and perhaps a recognition that the SL55 still sells despite being replaced by the SL65 and upcoming SL75. It lacks the ultra simple appeal of the Sagem handsets though.

We do rather like the Siemens CF110 for all its simplicity though. It pretty much covers all of the basic features that most people will need, and the combination of light weight and decent battery life is impressive. It's certainly not as cute as the SL55 though.. but that always was going to be a hard act to follow and Siemens haven't quite managed it yet.

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