BenQ-Siemens EF71
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- Steve H
- YeJ
- 23 Jan 2007
This is BY FAR the best phone I have ever had. Pictures do not do it justice. Awesome looks, great MP3 and video player, FM transmitter works great along with the FM radio, camera is one of the best (30FPS) battery life is ok, but you can get a extended life battery off ebay for like $18... all around one of the best phones out there...
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- blue
- PDE
- 04 Jan 2007
good design and bad advert,benq must dispay these phone in taiwan country background
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- Anonymous
- Yhw
- 30 Dec 2006
Can anyone who has this phone say what the call quality is like? I'd like to have a phone that works really well as a phone. I've been disappointed with my Nokia 6230i. The microphone picks up tons of background noise, in anywhere but the quietest places. people always complain to me about it when I'm talking to them.
I wondering if a flip phone like this might work better, since it places the microphone closer to the mouth. Perhaps the microphone is adjusted not to be so sensitive? Anyway, I'd really like to know what the call quality on this phone is like.
Thanks.
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- Dude
- mtS
- 25 Dec 2006
Yes.. aaand yeah, I like the design of it, but it has one disadvantage believe it or not, at least there's a thing that bugs me, that's the black tube sticking out on the top :( they say it's more sturdy this way, but i prefer it covered with the shells, like razr and stuff, anyways, for the rest the design is awsome! although I'd place the camera on the back, it'd look neat. and the backside should be silver as well, anyways, I got it yesterday but already saw all the functions of it and I gotta tell you, the inside of this phone is like woooow! really sweet, also pretty intuitive which i like, just like the themes on it and the rest of what you call the innerjob, it looks fab to me.
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- adrian
- 2CC
- 26 Nov 2006
Hi everyone,
I got the ef71, just recently and to be honest it's a very nice phone. BUT not perfect. i don't think any phone is. So here's a quick review of the pros and cons.
Pros.
Looks absolutely fantastic! it's up there with the RAZRs. It's not paper thin, but when you hold it in ur hands it feels solid and sexy. Its a really well designed phone.
The screen is also really good, bright and clear. easy to read in the light.
The features of this phone is awesome, fm tuner to play ur mp3s out of ur car radio is handy, webcam, USB. It's pretty feature packed, but there's some cons in regards to the features.
CONS
THE CHARGER does not have a cover!. I'm comparing this to samsung phones where the charging slot may have a cover or rubber cap to stop the dust getting in. The EF71 lacks that and that's really important so that the dust doesn't get in.
The FM tuner is great but the range is pretty poor. The phone basically has to be within max of 50 cm from the radio, before you get inference.
The menu, is a tad slow. i.e when ur going to your phone book of looking for numbers it is tad slower than nokia's and samsungs.
Battery life isn't too bad, but on full power (there's a power saving mode which is really useful!) with about 2-3 hrs call and mp3. you'll need to charge it everyday. But the USB charging is very useful though
Overall, very happy with the buy. it was 450 AUD, from ebay. which is average priced. 7.5/10
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- viv
- irK
- 25 Nov 2006
Always a big fan of Siemens, never use nokia, ericsson or shit like motorola, because I think Siemens has the most user-friendly interface. I just get this EF71 after my CX75 was stolen and liking it very much. The only drawback is that, eventhough it's pretty user-friendly, it's not as smart as the way the Germans designed the interface on Siemens. I.E.
- If you want to delete multiple SMS, you have to do it one by one, whereas in my old CX75, I can simply mark multiple messages and just one click, I can delete them all at once.
- Also, when you want to add more phone number, you cannot just copy and paste it into existing contact, but instead have to do it manually.
- Writing and sending SMS is not as straight forward as in Siemens, you have to go through multiple procedure, if EF71 cut one or two process, it would be much more simple.
- Previous feature on Siemens, like when you hit the keypad few seconds longer, it would gave you the associated number, but EF71 doesn't have this feature.
BUT.. despite all I like the phone very much. It's has a pretty chic design and overall, the interface is pretty user-friendly compare to other brands like nokia, ericsson or motorola.
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- chris
- ppt
- 24 Nov 2006
hey, what about battery live? 220h standby it is not too much. How does it work in real live ? How many hours of mp3 music ?
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- Anonymous
- mvL
- 08 Nov 2006
it has fm radio
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- joshee hiko kimura
- PDP
- 05 Nov 2006
nice design...hhehhehe
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- Anonymous
- pif
- 29 Oct 2006
is she have AUTOFOCUS?
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- Anonymous
- pif
- 29 Oct 2006
fm radio??? İs İt have fm radio?? answear me please
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- Jize
- C{x
- 26 Oct 2006
Guys could someone write something sensible about the phone's features(e.g quality of its media player) instead of bickering about which brand makes better phones
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- phone specialist
- kC6
- 16 Oct 2006
How many phonews axually let you play music in your car and home player wirelessly.
This phone has a fm transmitter support.
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- iso Silverfield
- MGp
- 02 Oct 2006
S u p e r – S t y l i s h ! !
I love this device... no wonder winning 3 best-design awards!
The EF71 2MP-cam it not just another 2MP cam!... it has a (x9 multishot mode), featuring (30 frames pes seconds) for video recording... and... it could also be used as a web-cam!
The external OLED sreen... it's magical!
This phone inshort, is A MASTERPIECE!
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- mobile_reviewer
- CWb
- 28 Sep 2006
At the end, why would you care as to whether they copied other phone design?
This phone has an excellent design style.
Email2006-09-23 20:38 Pv9c Says:
no.. you are not the only one, benqsiemens its actually copying everybody design... and this a copy of the OLD nokia 7200, 6170, 7280.
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- Khyati
- PSF
- 26 Sep 2006
Amazing looks.....very user friendly.........unbeatable FM quality..Unique FM transmitter function(something like itrip)-prototype of its kind...answering machine......MP3....camera...modem...web cam....movie player...........watmore does one need in a phone
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- Totti from Roma
- SqM
- 25 Sep 2006
hei! don't say that word"copy"!
In my opinion, the design of EF71 is unique to the market,I have never seen the others entirely alike.
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- Anonymous
- Pv9
- 23 Sep 2006
no.. you are not the only one, benqsiemens its actually copying everybody design... and this a copy of the OLD nokia 7200, 6170, 7280.
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- Priti Desai
- PAk
- 26 Aug 2006
Its a "Marvelous piece" with all the features avaliable .. damn cool to look at .. also good camera resoltion.. it can be used as a webcam.. a MP3 Player...Bluetooth... FM Transmiteer...wat else is required man.. hats off to BenQ-Siemens.. keep manufacturing such models..
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- mahmoud
- N7F
- 25 Jul 2006
i have no word to say, just greaat phone