The BenQ-Siemens SL91 is a slider-type GSM 3G

3G

3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...

 mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

. Its name came about because of BenQ

BenQ

BenQ Corporation is a Taiwanese multi-national company that sells and markets consumer electronics, computing and communications devices under the "BenQ" brand name, which stands for the company slogan Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life .- Company :BenQ sells and markets technology products,...

's acquisition of Siemens

Siemens AG

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....

' mobile communication division at the end of 2005; the Benq-Siemens brand is meant to be transitory, before all phones are produced under the BenQ brand.

The phone supports GPRS and UMTS Internet access methods. Its dimensions are 89 mm × 47 mm × 23 mm, and it weighs 109 grams. The supplied battery has a capacity of 950 mAh and can last up to 310 hours in standby mode, or 195 minutes if the phone is used for calls. Other notable features of the phone include Touch-sensitive navigation keys using FSR

Force-Sensing Resistor

A Force-sensing resistor is a material whose resistance changes when a force or pressure is applied. They are also known as "force sensing resistors" or "force-sensitive resistor", and are sometimes referred to by the initialism "FSR"...

 (Force-Sensing Resistor) Technology, MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

/AAC

Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates....

 player, Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

, a Java virtual machine

Java Virtual Machine

A Java virtual machine is a virtual machine capable of executing Java bytecode. It is the code execution component of the Java software platform. Sun Microsystems stated that there are over 4.5 billion JVM-enabled devices.-Overview:...

, FM

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

 radio, 16M colors QVGA TFT LCD

TFT LCD

Thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of Active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing...

, and 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus.

Another trait of the SL91 is its desktop stand. It serves as a charging station and handsfree

Handsfree

Handsfree is an adjective describing equipment that can be used without the use of hands or, in a wider sense, equipment which needs only limited use of hands, or for which the controls are positioned so that the hands are able to occupy themselves with another task without needing to hunt far...

speaker. When it is charging the battery or the phone is ringing, the stand lights up.

External links

• BenQ-Siemens SL91 Spec