Siemens S75
Cancelled 1st July 2005
The replacement for the business-orientated S65, the S75 is a Bluetooth phone with RS-MMC expandable memory, EDGE support, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera and a 132x176 pixel TFT display in 262,000 colours.
The styling is superficially similar to the SXG75 handset, but in truth this is only a fairly modest upgrade to the S65 platform. The main differences are that the S75 has an MP3/MPEG4/AAC player, 128Mb of RAM included on the MMC card expandable to 1Gb (the S65 has a 32Mb RS-MMC card as standard), a camera flash, a 262,000 colour screen and EDGE support.
At 103x47x19mm and 99 grams, the S75 is almost exactly the same size and weight as the S65 with a similar battery life of up to 5 hours talktime and 12 days standby time. The S75 also has a web browser, email client, instant messaging support, Java and PIM functionality.
But the S75 isn't just similar to the S65, it's extremely similar to the CX75 too - the S75 has more internal memory, EDGE and some software enhancements, but otherwise you would be hard pushed to tell the difference. Here's the thing though: the CX75's feature set looks impressive for that CX75's market segment of low/midrange phones, but the S75 should be competitive against the likes of the Nokia 6230i - and it isn't.
The biggest problem with the S75 is the display - the 132x176 pixel display is nowhere near as good at the 6230i's compact 208x208 pixel unit, and most Motorolas ship with 176x220 pixels as standard. And because the S75 is rally a warmed-over S65, there's not too much in the way of real innovation. If this had a better screen, it would be a much more useful phone - but the display is too basic for a device with a megapixel camera in our opinion.
It's not just the screen that lets the S75 down - this phone is UGLY where the S65 was elegant. We weren't keen on the styling of the SXG75 when it was announced, but we were prepared to forgive it as the SXG75 is technically interesting. Unfortunately, the S75 is neither interesting nor pretty and we're afraid to say that we can't see much of a market for it.
The S75 will be available from October 2005. The price is not known, but could be around
€350 at launch.
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S75 at a glance
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Available:
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Q3
2005
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Network:
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Tri-band
GSM 900/1800/1900
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Data:
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GPRS
+ EDGE
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Screen:
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132x176
pixels, 262k colours
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Camera:
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1.3
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium
candy bar 103x47x18mm
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Infra-red:
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Yes
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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5 hours talk / 12 days standby
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