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Siemens S55

One of the most expected models of the year. It is first phone from Siemens with a colour display and bluetooth support. Besides Siemens S40 (elaborating of Bosch), Siemens S55 is the first phone of this company which is a tri-band phone. An external camera, which can be switched to a system connector, is available as an extra accessory.

Class: business
Position in the phone line: above Siemens C55
Rival models: Nokia 6610

General features
- Announced in: September 2002, beginning of sales - 1Q, 2003
- eGSM900/GSM1800/GSM1900
- Battery type: Li-Ion 700 mAh
- Autonomy:
  - Standby time: up to 220 hours
  - Talk time: up to 6 hours
  - Re-charging time: about 2 hours
- A battery of increased capacity (700 mAh) is available as an accessory
- Graphical display, which can show up to 256 colours, it has a resolution of 101х80 pixels, what allows to display up to 4 text lines.
- Java
- SAR 0.52 W/kg
- Available colours: Arctic Blue, Sterling Silver
- Weight: 85 g.
- Dimensions: 101 x 42 x 18 mm

Memory
- Lists of the last calls:
  - 10 dialed numbers
  - 10 received numbers
  - 10 missed numbers with time and date indication
- Application memory is dynamical, free space can be also used to transport files.
- Up to 5 caller groups, 3 of them are changeable, the other two are out of group and received. One can assign a special icon and a ringtone to each group.
- Phonebook: up to 500 phone numbers+ SIM-card memory. Up to 14 fields can be added to one name. For example, a user can add several phone numbers, post address, URL, 2 e-mails, birthday. One can set a reminder to birthdays. It's also possible to assign a graphic picture to each name in the phonebook.
- Organiser memory: for up to 500 events (three types of records, reminder, event, business)
- A reminder of birthdays and anniversaries

Ringing tones, call management

Vibrating alert
16-tones polyphonic melodies
Speed dialing: for up to 8 phone numbers
Autodialing (up to 10 attempts)
EFR, HR, FR, AMR
Voice dialing (up to 20 voice tags)
User's profiles
Voice commands (up to 10 voice tags)
Handsfree mode
Babysitter

Messages
- MMS
- EMS
- A possibility to send and receive ringtones and animated pictures
- A possibility to send a group SMS message
- Predictive text input T9
- Templates
- Concatenated messages ( up to 760 characters)

Connectivity

WAP 1.2.1
MMS
GPRS class 10
IrDa
Bluetooth
E-mail client РОР3/SMTP, supports attachments
Over the Air interface
USB/RS232/IrDA/Bluetooth synchronization with PC, a possibility to synchronize data of the mail programme, organiser and phonebook
SyncML

Organiser and extras
- Voice memo. A possibiity to assign records to organiser events or alarm-clocks.
- Organiser with different types of events. Maximun length is 50 characters for one event. One can set reminders, including recurrent reminders. Monthly, weekly and daily calendar view is available.
- To-do list (up to 50 characters in each note), different levels of priorities can be setup
- Reminders, here a small text (up to 150 characters) can be added
- A possibility to record a melody using a micraphone
- Time, date
- Countdown timer, stop-watch
- Alarm-clock, it can alarm in special days of the week
- Calculator, currency converter
- Notes, which can be secured by a password
- Screen savers, which can be secured by a password
- Games: StackAttack2, Battle Mail + downloadable Java games