BenQ- Siemens S68 Mobile Phone Review

BenQ- Siemens S68 Details

<unknown> Press the upper button on the left hand side, then the cenral square button and then record (the button above the green one). It works during a phone call at the same exact way. You can also read the manual.

Tacho Not a bad start but tha Qs is siemens floped becoz of batt, are you not making the same mistake? please maintain on working on batt otherwise its a boom.

GUI I hope that S68 will have a stable software.

Not only this phone but all BENQ-Siemens phones!

Ilian Does anyoneknow what kind is the instant messange? Wireless Village, ICQ or something entirely diferent.
Does it work if my operator does not have official IM suppor eg via GPRS?

Toni I use it very often talking and playing chessmaster on it, and my batery lasts more than 4 days. To anyone that consider this phone: Don't look at the pictures, try to get it in the hand. Much better looking than it looks at the pics.

Kalcool Well every company has some basic phones. There are only 3 out from this joint venture. Ofcourse we need some basic phones without camera, memory and mp3.
Looks promising to me.

comm Just to refer to appy: Where do you see a mix of Nokia and SE? I gotta commit that at the beginning I wasn't convinced at all that BS would make its way but if you look at those 3 models who just make out 1/10 off all mobiles that will follow this year, I think it's too soon to judge so hard now.

Well. In fact, I still see the good, old Siemens elements in this mobile and if you watched the today's press conference you could guess how excited I am at the moment ;)

Weejun Used it for a couple of months. Great features (bluetooth, good contact templates, etc.) and lovely design. Downside: Awful software!!! Turns off by itself every time adding a contact to SMS from SIM-card. The software lags when writing SMS' and is really slow. I've tried to get a firmware update but seems impossible over bluetooth, and most retailers don't have the new cable which fits. I'm on Apple Mac system, which was a bit of a job to get around with iSync but works for now. And yea, one more thing, they only seem to publish Windows-updates so can't update firmware on mac anyway. Too bad the software sucks, because otherwise it's really a sweet one.

St Well the product is good but can be target to middle class section or for users who dont use camera, Mp3 etc which is like the old generation.

But the target should be towards the younger generation cos thats the area where you make a lot of good sales.

I am sure sure if it had a camera, mp3 player it would hae sold much more than what it would do now!

Dan Review after 1 week: (please see also my previous comment)
I had the S68 for almost a week now and used it daily.
PROS:
- the same as last time, mainly design and quality of materials

CONS:
- same as before PLUS
- battery life is very short, less than 3 days with moderate usage (less than 15 minutes talk per day);
- it turns off by itself for no reason (3 times in 6 days!)
- it has a tendency to stall (it blocks and does not answer to pressing keys) - 1 time during this week.

Conclusion: STAY AWAY FROM THIS PHONE!