Siemens C66

Siemens is now out with its basic handsets and with small, attractive designs. It comes along with a camera, speaker phone, and support for AOL instant messaging. The device’ design is very unique as it is always patterned in the company’s usual small form factor – 4.1 by 1.8 by 0.7 inches and 3 ounces – with a decent face, having silver casing and blue keypad. What’s interesting about it is that is has a washed-out effect and users can actually change the backlighting time and the font size.

Physically, the raised keypad is considerably small, but you will obviously spot the separation between buttons and the keys have a solid, tactile feel to them. Like any other cell phones, Siemens C66 also has a five-way joystick which allows easy access to the phone book, the application folder, the text message editor, instant messaging, and the Web browser. More to it is the added feature regarding the two soft keys, Talk and End Buttons and a dedicated camera control. Obviously, the two sides of the phone are button-free, which entitles individuals to utilize the joystick to adjust the volume during a call. Situated on the left spine of the unit is the infrared port and the camera lens on the rear.

With regards to the number of contact that a user can store to one’s cell phone, the unit is capable of holding 1000 contacts, with an extra of 250 more names on the SIM card. Amazingly, the unit can store information including street, email addresses as well as IM screen names and pictures. In addition to that is that you can assign contacts to a group or pair them with any of 17 polyphonic ring tones. The speakerphone has an excellent quality sound effect and the unit can actually synchronize the address book with Microsoft Outlook with a UBS.