Technology can be so beautiful. An aura of pure luxury surrounds the elegant SL75 design mobile from Siemens Communications. Its harmoniously rounded shapes are immediately appealing to both the eye and the hand. Because of a slider mechanism that operates particularly smoothly, it enables telephone calls to be conducted with ease, even with only one hand free, while shopping or on the golf-course. A glimpse behind the beautiful surface of this design masterpiece reveals the best that modern multimedia technology has to offer – a high-quality megapixel camera, a vibrant color display and a media player for music and video clips

Averagely transferring a 5MB file will take about 10 minutes. Data download over the air or using a cable is a real torment, this is awfully slowly. But note that "data" does not mean applications; they can be downloaded only via wap. Generally, it’s a thankless thing to describe all S75/SL75’s problems, and the list now contains more than 150 items. These problems are partly improved in the 13th version of software, for instance, a user’s photo at a call is shown in normal proportion, but its size got much less, which seems a mockery. Bear in mind that there are no examples when Siemens’ programmers corrected mistakes fast.

Now Siemens SL75 costs 420-430 USD, which makes the model uninteresting. It will have moderate demand first because Siemens constantly loses loyal customers, and second due to unclear promotion. In particular, a TV advertisement resembles Motorola PEBL too much. However the conclusion which questioned people made is completely opposite to the efforts, which Siemens’ marketing specialists obtained. In fact, people start thinking about the rival product.

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