BenQ-Siemens E61 Preview

Discontinued
9th March 2006

The BenQ-Siemens E61 is either a incredibly clever and stylish bit of industrial design, or alternatively it's a hideous and garish phone that looks like something designed in the 1970s. It's hard to tell, but in the Orange and Black configuration (pictured) it's certainly eye-catching one way or another.

The E61 is designed as a music phone, capable of taking up to 1Gb of memory on miniSD cards, and with the media controls neatly arranged on the very top of the phone (which partly explains the odd wedge-shaped design). These controls mean that you can easily fiddle with the E61's multimedia player while the phone is attached to a belt.

There's a silver version of the BenQ-Siemens E61 which is certainly less headache inducing to look at than the Orange and Black one. In silver, it looks pretty much like any other Siemens handset apart from the top-mounted media controls.

The exact technical details of the BenQ-Siemens E61 are not known at the time of going to publication, but we do know that there's a VGA resolution camera on the back (designed to look like a record), a 1.8" screen (probably 128x160 pixels) and Bluetooth. The E61 should be available sometime during Q1 2006.

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