Siemens CL75
Discontinued 9th March 2005 See
the Siemens CL75 Poppy here
The Siemens CL75 is a "girlie phone" that's
fabulous to look at, even if at heart it's really quite
a simple handset.
Siemens are good at packaging fairly standard components
in high fashion designs like this, and the concept of
the CL75 is a little like Siemens' earlier creation,
the Xelibri
6. Of course, nothing can really out-girlie the
Xelibri 6, but the CL75 does a good job and is a much
better phone.
First the technical stuff – the CL75 is a tri-band
GSM phone with GPRS, a 128x160 pixel TFT main display
in 262,000 colours, an external display with 96x64 pixels
in 65,000 colours, a VGA resolution camera, push-to-talk,
instant messaging, a WAP 2.0 browser, Java and polyphonic.
But
really, the CL75 isn't going to sell because of technical
features – it's going going to buy it because it looks
good. At launch it will be available in "Silk Flower
Red" plus another colour combination, with two
more variants and a "special edition" planned.
The main screen is reflective and can be used as a travel
mirror (reminiscent of the Xelbri 6 again).
This isn't a particularly compact phone – at 90 grams
and 87x44x23mm it's larger than many, but the antenna
is neatly tucked away inside the housing which means
that it won't snag while in a handbag. Talktime is up
to 3 hours with a maximum of 8 days standby.
The Siemens CL75 should be available from Q2 2005
and with other editions planned after that, priced somewhere
in the mid-range tier.
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Siemens
CL75 at a glance
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Available:
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Q2/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
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Screen:
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128x160
pixels, 262,000 colours
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Camera:
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640x480
pixels (0.3 megapixels)
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Size:
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Medium
clamshell 87x44x23mm
/ 90 grams
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Bluetooth:
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No
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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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No
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Battery
life:
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3
hours talk / 8 days standby
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