Siemens cellular telephones were 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...

s produced by Siemens AG

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....

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In 2005 the Taiwanese company 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,...

 acquired the financially bleeding mobile phone subsidiary from Siemens and gained the exclusive right to use Siemens trademark for 5 years. Before transferring the mobile phone subsidiary to BenQ, Siemens invested 250 million euro

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s and wrote down assets amounting to 100 million euro

Euro

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s . Siemens also acquired a 2.5% stake in 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,...

 for 50 million euros. BenQ subsequently released mobile phones under the BenQ-Siemens brand, from its German unit.

In 2006, this German unit filed for bankruptcy.

History

• 1985 : sell Siemens Mobiltelefon C1
• 1994 : sell Siemens S1, a GSM phone.
• 1997 : sell the world first phone with a colour screen, the Siemens S10, with 4 different colours (red, green, blue and white), that could be displayed, and the first "outdoor" phone (the Siemens S10 Active, with enhanced shock, dust and splash protection).
• 1999 : sell the first slider phone, the Siemens SL10.
• 2000 : Acquisition of Bosch
  Robert Bosch GmbH
  Robert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...
  
   mobile phone division.
• 2000 : sell the probably first phone with an 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...
  
   player and external memory card support (MultiMediaCard
  MultiMediaCard
  The MultiMediaCard is a flash memory memory card standard. Unveiled in 1997 by Siemens AG and SanDisk, it is based on Toshiba's NAND-based flash memory, and is therefore much smaller than earlier systems based on Intel NOR-based memory such as CompactFlash. MMC is about the size of a postage...
  
  ), the Siemens SL45
  Siemens SL45
  Siemens SL45 was the first mobile phone with memory expansion and an MP3 player, which debuted in 2001. An improved version, the SL45i, was also the first phone to have a Java virtual machine....
  
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• 2003 : sell Siemens SX1
  Siemens SX1
  The Siemens SX1 is a GSM mobile phone running version 1.2 of the Series 60 platform for the Symbian OS. It is the first such smartphone from the German phone manufacturer Siemens AG following their licensing agreement with Nokia for the use and development of Series 60...
  
  , the first Siemens phone running Symbian OS. This phone featuring hot swappable
  Hot swapping
  Hot swapping and hot plugging are terms used to describe the functions of replacing computer system components without shutting down the system...
  
   MultiMediaCard.
• 2003 : launch the Xelibri
  Xelibri
  Xelibri was a fashion-oriented range of mobile phones created by Siemens mobile in early 2003. Two collections each consisting of 4 bizarrely designed phones were released before the Xelibri project was dropped due to poor sales in April 2004...
  
   range of fashion phones
• 2005 : sell the first phone with real GPS support, the Siemens SXG75
  Siemens SXG75
  The Siemens SXG75 is a candybar-type UMTS triband mobile phone.This is the first UMTS phone developed by Siemens; previous models were developed by Motorola...
  
  
• 2005 : the Taiwanese company 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,...
  
   bought Siemens AG
  Siemens
  Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
  
  's Siemens mobile.
• 2006 : sell the first models with BenQ-Siemens brand
• 2006 : the German unit of BenQ filed for bankruptcy.

Siemens Mobile Phones

These models are no longer officially supported. While Siemens maintained them for a time after selling the mobile division to BenQ, at some point the mobile portal, support pages and accessories shop have been removed from the net. 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,...

 hasn't incorporated them in any legacy section.

• Siemens A31
• Siemens A35
• Siemens A36
• Siemens A40
• Siemens A50
• Siemens A51
• Siemens A52: monochrome
  Monochrome
  Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...
  
  , GSM 900 / GSM 1800, no GPRS, no USB, IrDA
  IRDA
  IRDA may refer to:* Infrared Data Association, in information and communications technology , a standard for communication between devices over short distances using infrared signals...
  
   or 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...
  
  .
• Siemens A53
• Siemens A55: monochrome
  Monochrome
  Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...
  
  , GSM 900 / GSM 1800, no GPRS, no USB, no IrDA
  IRDA
  IRDA may refer to:* Infrared Data Association, in information and communications technology , a standard for communication between devices over short distances using infrared signals...
  
   or 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...
  
  . Shares same hardware as C55 and can be upgraded to C55 by firmware flash.
• Siemens A56: monochrome
  Monochrome
  Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...
  
  , GSM 850 / GSM 1900, noGPRS, no USB, no IrDA
  IRDA
  IRDA may refer to:* Infrared Data Association, in information and communications technology , a standard for communication between devices over short distances using infrared signals...
  
   or 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...
  
  . Shares same hardware as C56 and can be upgraded to C56 by firmware flash.
• Siemens A56i
• Siemens A57
• Siemens A60
• Siemens A62
• Siemens A65: CSTN 101x80 display, Triband (900 / 1800 / 1900)
• Siemens A70
• Siemens A75
• Siemens AF51
• Siemens AP75
• Siemens AL21: TFT 130x130 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, no camera (same PCB as CF110)
• Siemens AX72
  Siemens AX72
  The Siemens AX72 is a mobile phone introduced by Siemens in October, 2005. It weighs 79 g and its dimensions are 105,6 x 46,8 x 17,5 mm . Its display a CSTN 65K colors LCD....
  
  
• Siemens AX75
• Siemens C1
• Siemens C2
• Siemens C3
• Siemens C4
• Siemens C5
• Siemens C10
  Siemens C10
  Siemens C10The Siemens C10 is a mobile phone made by Siemens in December 1997. The phone was available in 3 colours, Blue, Red and Grey. The C10 had a green backlit display capable of showing 3 lines. It weight 165g with battery and 117g without....
  
  
• Siemens C25
  Siemens C25
  The Siemens C25 is a mobile phone introduced by Siemens in 1999. It weighs 135 g and its dimensions are 117 × 47 × 27 mm . Its display is a 3 × 12-character monochrome LCD....
  
  
• Siemens C30
• Siemens C35
• Siemens C35i
• Siemens C45
• Siemens C55
  Siemens C55
  The Siemens C55 was a mobile phone sold by Siemens.-Features:It weighs 80 g and dimensions are 101 x 44 x 21 mm . It includes GPRS class 8 connections with WAP. It supports polyphonic ringtones in MIDI and WAV formats and application in Java....
  
  : monochrome
  Monochrome
  Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...
  
  , GSM 900 / GSM 1800, with GPRS, no USB, no IrDA
  IRDA
  IRDA may refer to:* Infrared Data Association, in information and communications technology , a standard for communication between devices over short distances using infrared signals...
  
   or 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...
  
  .
• Siemens C56: monochrome
  Monochrome
  Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...
  
  , GSM 850 / GSM 1900, with GPRS, no USB, no IrDA
  IRDA
  IRDA may refer to:* Infrared Data Association, in information and communications technology , a standard for communication between devices over short distances using infrared signals...
  
   or 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...
  
  .
• Siemens C60
• Siemens C61
• Siemens C62
• Siemens C65
  Siemens C65
  The Siemens C65 is a mobile phone announced by Siemens in March 2004. It weighs 86 g and its dimensions are 100 x 45 x 16 mm . Its display is a 130x130 pixels, 65K colors CSTN LCD....
  
  : CSTN 130x130 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, CIF (352 x 288 pixel) camera, IRDA
• Siemens C66
• Siemens C70
• Siemens C72
  Siemens C72
  The Siemens C72 is a cheap and easy to use mobile phone, based on the C65. It features a built-in camera capable of taking pictures in VGA resolution but is not officially capable of recording videos .-External links:* from...
  
  : CSTN 128x128 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, VGA (640 x 480 pixel) camera, IRDA (updated C65 variant)
• Siemens C75
  Siemens C75
  The Siemens C75 is a mobile phone sold by Siemens. The C75 is a triband cameraphone. It weighs 85 g and dimensions are 103 x 44 x 17 mm . It includes GPRS class 10 connections with WAP 2.0 capability and IrDA. It supports polyphonic ringtones in MIDI and WAV formats. It has 10,2 MB of onboard...
  
  : TFT 132x176 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, VGA (640 x 480 pixel) camera, IRDA (same as CX65 but smaller case)
• Siemens CC75 (cancelled)
• Siemens CF62
• Siemens CF75
• Siemens CF110: TFT 130x130 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, no camera
• Siemens CFX65
• Siemens CL50
• Siemens CL55
• Siemens CL75
• Siemens CX65: TFT 132x176 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, VGA (640 x 480 pixel) camera, IRDA (Based on M65)
• Siemens CX70: TFT 132x176 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, VGA (640 x 480 pixel) camera, IRDA (Identical hardware to CX65)
• Siemens CX70 Emoty
• Siemens CX75
  Siemens CX75
  The Siemens CX75 was released in 2005, and is a mobile phone manufactured by the German/Taiwanese company BenQ Mobile.The CX75 is a triband cameraphone that can take digital photographs up to 1280x1024 pixels in size. It includes 2.5G technologies, supporting GPRS class 10 connections with WAP 2.0...
  
  
• Siemens E10
• Siemens M30
• Siemens M35
• Siemens M35i
• Siemens M45
• Siemens M50
• Siemens M55
• Siemens M56: GSM 850 / GSM 1900 version of M55. Note that it is not triband.
• Siemens M65
  Siemens M65
  The Siemens M65 is a robust mobile phone. It is made shock resistant by its metal frame and rubber bumpers. The device is dust and splash water resistant complying with IP54 standard. The phone features a VGA camera, which can be used to record both still images and video, and a 65k colour...
  
  : TFT 132x176 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, VGA (640 x 480 pixel) camera, IRDA
• Siemens M65 Rescue Edition
• Siemens M75
  Siemens M75
  The Siemens M75, released in 2005, is a mobile phone manufactured by the German/Taiwanese company BenQ Mobile. It is one of the few mobile phones to be weather and shock resistant , while not skimping on other features like a 1.3MP digital camera, 262k color screen and a digital music player...
  
  
• Siemens MC60
  Siemens MC60
  The Siemens MC60 is a mobile phone sold by Siemens. It weighs 86 g and has improved resistance to water, shock and dust when compared with previous models. The phone also includes digital imaging and picture messaging. Its integrated camera takes pictures simply by holding the 5 key, then...
  
  
• Siemens ME45
  Siemens ME45
  Siemens ME45 is GSM-900/1800 cell phone, designed for enhanced durability. It weighs 99 g, and contains monochrome screen, supports WAP and GPRS...
  
  
• Siemens ME75
• Siemens MT50
• Siemens P1
• Siemens S1
• Siemens S3
• Siemens S3 COM 1995
• Siemens S4
• Siemens S6
• Siemens S10
• Siemens S15
• Siemens S25
• Siemens S35i
• Siemens S40
  Siemens S40
  Originally developed as the Bosch 1886 in 2000, the phone was branded as the Siemens S40 after Siemens acquired the Bosch mobile phone division. The Siemens S40 is a tri-band mobile phone that operates on the GSM-900, GSM-1800, and GSM-1900 networks. Communication with a computer can be done either...
  
  
• Siemens S42
• Siemens S45
  Siemens S45
  Announced in 2001, the Siemens S45 was Siemens's first ever GPRS mobile phone, allowing for faster data transmission and Internet access with the coupled dual-band GSM-900 and GSM-1800 networks....
  
  
• Siemens S45
  Siemens S45
  Announced in 2001, the Siemens S45 was Siemens's first ever GPRS mobile phone, allowing for faster data transmission and Internet access with the coupled dual-band GSM-900 and GSM-1800 networks....
  
  i
• Siemens S46
• Siemens S55
  Siemens S55
  The Siemens S55 was one of the first true colour phones, by having a 256 colour screen. Its contemporary, at its release in late 2002, was the Ericsson T68, with similar comprehensive features, such as Bluetooth and infrared....
  
  
• Siemens S55 Formula One
  Siemens S55 Formula One
  The special edition Formula One S55 was released in 2003 to celebrate Siemens' sponsorship of Formula One Grand Prix motor racing. It is dark blue with a red band around the top half of the phone, around the screen and a has a red checkered battery cover at the back. 9999 handsets were made....
  
  
• Siemens S56
• Siemens S57
• Siemens S65
  Siemens S65
  The Siemens S65 is a mobile phone by Siemens AG. It is bundled with a replaceable 32MB MMC card. It also features a 1.3 megapixel digital camera.- Cell phone reusage :Electronics hobbyists often rescue LCD from cell phones...
  
  : TFT 132x176 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, 1.3M pixel camera, IRDA, Bluetooth, removable MMC
• Siemens S66
• Siemens S75
• Siemens SF65
• Siemens SFG75
• Siemens SG75 (cancelled)
• Siemens SK65: TFT 132x176 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, IRDA, Bluetooth, QWERTY keyboard
• Siemens SK65 Burlwood
• Siemens SL10: is a sliding mobile phone with a four-colour screen (Red, Green, Blue and White).
• Siemens SL42
• Siemens SL45
  Siemens SL45
  Siemens SL45 was the first mobile phone with memory expansion and an MP3 player, which debuted in 2001. An improved version, the SL45i, was also the first phone to have a Java virtual machine....
  
  
• Siemens SL45i
• Siemens SL55
• Siemens SL56
• Siemens SL65: TFT 130x130 display, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, VGA (640 x 480 pixel) camera, IRDA, slider form factor
• Siemens SL75
• Siemens SL65 ESCADA
• Siemens SL65 ESCADA Rock in Rio
• Siemens SP65
• Siemens ST55
• Siemens ST60
• Siemens SX1
  Siemens SX1
  The Siemens SX1 is a GSM mobile phone running version 1.2 of the Series 60 platform for the Symbian OS. It is the first such smartphone from the German phone manufacturer Siemens AG following their licensing agreement with Nokia for the use and development of Series 60...
  
  
• Siemens SX1 McLaren
• Siemens SX45
  Siemens SX45
  The Siemens SX45 is a PDA mobile phone released by Siemens AG in 2002. It was one of the first Pocket PCs with mobile phone functionality. Because of its size and the fact that phone calls could only be made using a headset, it was not really in the same marketing segment as current smartphones.It...
  
  
• Siemens SX56
• Siemens SX66
• Siemens SXG75
  Siemens SXG75
  The Siemens SXG75 is a candybar-type UMTS triband mobile phone.This is the first UMTS phone developed by Siemens; previous models were developed by Motorola...
  
  
• Siemens U10
• Siemens U15
• Xelibri X1
  Xelibri X1
  Xelibri X1 is a GSM dual band mobile phone which is part of the first the Siemens Xelibri collection of mobile phones.The X1 has a traditional candy bar format with a space/star trek themed design...
  
  
• Xelibri X2
• Xelibri X3
• Xelibri X4
  Xelibri X4
  Xelibri X4 is a GSM dual band mobile phone which is part of the first the Siemens Xelibri collection of mobile phones.The X4 has a very unusual casing design which is flat on the top and tapers to a sharp point at the bottom, the numerical keypad is arranged in a V formation....
  
  
• Xelibri X5
• Xelibri X6
• Xelibri X7
  Xelibri X7
  Xelibri X7 is a GSM dual band mobile phone which is part of the second Siemens Xelibri collection of mobile phones.The X7 is very unusual in that the whole phone is shaped like a clip and can be hung on clothing. Apart from the presence of a colour screen, the X7 is a very basic mobile phone....
  
  
• Xelibri X8

BenQ-Siemens Mobile Phones

• BenQ-Siemens A38
• BenQ-Siemens A58 (cancelled)
• BenQ-Siemens AL26
• BenQ-Siemens C52 (not presented)
• BenQ-Siemens C81
• BenQ-Siemens CF61
• BenQ-Siemens CL61 (not presented)
• BenQ-Siemens CL71
• BenQ-Siemens E61
• BenQ-Siemens E71
• BenQ-Siemens EL71
  BenQ-Siemens EL71
  The BenQ-Siemens EL71 is a slider-type GSM triband mobile phone. Its name came about because of BenQ's acquisition of Siemens' 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...
  
  
• BenQ-Siemens EF71
• BenQ-Siemens EF51
• BenQ-Siemens E81
• BenQ-Siemens EF81
  BenQ-Siemens EF81
  The BenQ-Siemens EF81 is s silver fliptop mobile phone released by BenQ-Siemens. The device has a depth of 15.9 mm and is a third generation mobile phone...
  
  
• BenQ-Siemens EF82 (not presented)
• BenQ-Siemens EF91
• BenQ-Siemens M81
• BenQ-Siemens P51
  BenQ-Siemens P51
  BenQ-Siemens P51 is a PDA phone produced by BenQ-Siemens. It comes with an array of wireless connectivity including built-in GPS receiver, bluetooth and WiFi.- Specification sheet :- References :*...
  
  
• BenQ-Siemens S68
• BenQ-Siemens S81
• BenQ-Siemens S88
• BenQ-Siemens SF71 (not presented)
• BenQ-Siemens SL80
• BenQ-Siemens SL91
  BenQ-Siemens SL91
  The BenQ-Siemens SL91 is a slider-type GSM 3G mobile phone. Its name came about because of BenQ's acquisition of Siemens' 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...
  
   (cancelled)
• BenQ-Siemens SL98 (not presented)