Floral motifs, delicate curves and a surprisingly extensive feature set; Jørgen Sundgot fiddles with femininely aimed Siemens' CL75 at CeBIT.
The Xelibri is dead; long live the Xelibri. Siemens' CL75 takes a cue from the now-defunct range of fashion phones with its feminine styling, but this time it's all Siemens on the inside. This might make all the difference between success and failure, as the phone has enough features to serve as a main phone, avoiding becoming an accessory device requiring frequent and cumbersome SIM card changes.
Well-suited for the smallest of handbags at 87 x 44 x 23 mm and a lightweight 90 grams, the CL75 is an oval clamshell phone with floral motifs and chrome accents. Reaching towards my feminine side for comment, I find it rather pretty - in the sense a manly man can find a girly phone pretty, of course. I won't go as far as admitting that I find the fact that the internal display doubles as a mirror when the phone is in standby mode handy, however - I'll leave you to make up your own mind about this particular feature.
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Speaking of features, the CL75 has quite a few more of them than I'd expected, with such novelties as Push-To-Talk and Wireless Village-based Instant Messaging present, as well as better-known mainstays SMS, MMS and even GPRS for a bit of data connectivity. Bluetooth is sadly absent, however given the complexity of using the darn thing to connect to anything but a headset is best left to more stubborn-headed, testosterone-resplendent creatures, this might be just as well.
There's more, however, as the CL75 also offers up a 0.3 Megapixel camera with the ability to shoot stills and record video to the 11 MB of internal memory, which incidentally should be plentiful given the feature set of the phone. There's also a relatively spacious display with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels and 262 colours, and case I forgot to mention this, the CL75 should also be suited for a bit of globe-hopping with its tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz support. Girls, that's just about every major city on the face of the earth.
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To be available from the second quarter of 2005, the CL75 will initially be available with the colour scheme shown on the images belonging to this article, as well as one other which Siemens did not have available on its stand. And would you believe, I couldn't squeeze a price out of anyone.
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