Post by SandStorm on Apr 16, 2006 21:35:26 GMT
"camera Handys must remain outside!"
Many enterprises try to meet espionage and idea robbery by a prohibition camera on the firm area, integrated by portable radio devices with, preventively.
BenQ Siemens the S68 , which we submitted to an intensive test here, was conceived for all those, which are confronted with such a restriction regularly.
The ultraduenne (13mm) and at first sight very elegantly working Handy did not insert a camera, whereby it can be used on still so secret places - it is in an enterprise, at the airport or in a government building.
Which has to still offer the S68 however except the beautiful exterior and the Abstinenz of a camera and whether it is suitable as Business or Zweithandy, the following test report is to show.
The first impression
BenQ Siemens the S68 comes along as the first Handy from the house "BenQ Siemens" in a again arranged lila white packing with sight, so that one can regard the Handy therein before unpacking.
The front of the Handys consists it of brushed metal and is already a special feeling to touch the cold metal if one holds the Handy the first time in the hand. The back of the Handys consists soft "Touch of easily roughened up plastic and provides for good pavement grip with one pleasantly". The S68 is easier with 13mm only one millimeter more thickly than the Motorola SLVR and even still 6 gram and fits thereby into each trouser pocket.
To the scope of supply only the equipment belongs, Akku, battery charger, driver CD and the operating instructions. One looks for a data cable unfortunately in vain. Who can adjust its data not via Bluetooth with the PC or wants, must umschauen itself with the S68 however after a new data cable, because it possesses a new interface , which is not compatible with the old Slim Lumberg Datenkabeln Dca-510 and 540 any longer.
With the Handy tested by us it acted around equipment with the firmware design 31.
Processing
The equipment is not very well finished, it is Knarzen to be heard and the Akkudeckel sits bombenfest. In order to open it, one must exercise on both sides at the same time on the right of and on the left of "pressure". One should look at oneself very exactly before first closing of the cover, to which places one must press, in order to be able to open him again.
The keyboard is likewise well finished and the sufficiently large keys offers a pleasant pressure point and lies apart far enough. Very pleasing is also the very even key lighting, which ensures that in the dark all keys can be well read off. Negative mark it be, that the key very loud "klackern", if one they operate. When tapping long SMS in quiet environments that can work very fast disturbing. The Navi key has itself already in past Siemens models opposite the usually very wackligen Joysticks worked satisfactorily and also in the S68 sets BenQ Siemens again on the 5-Wege-Navigation.
The display is not with 132x176 pixels the largest and one can the pixel raster clearly recognize, but one can read off it by the transreflexive matrix however from very diagonal viewing angles or with adverse lighting conditions perfectly. Also with the display glass one recognizes the trend of the new mark "BenQ Siemens" to set on high-quality materials: the hardened mineral windowpane protects optimally against scratches.
One can regulate the display brightness and the contrast very sensitively and extend by a low display brightness the Akkulaufzeit strongly (the display is the largest Stromfresser in Handys and laptops).
On the right and left housing exterior Stereolautsprecher are attached on the height of the display. One can through-look by the slots of the loudspeaker lattices even completely by the Handy. Dust might however not by those extremely purifies lattices into the housing to come.
A memory card plumb bob is missing with the S68. The internal memory is 27 MT largely, about which 18 MT are still vacant in as-delivered condition. Since the Handy cannot play MP3s and videos, the memory for Java applications, bell tones, Themes and Businessdaten should be sufficient.
Prompting
The S68 is the first Handy, which comes under the label name BenQ Siemens on the market. But even if now "BenQ" is also in the name, it is to be marked to the Handy very clearly that it originates still from the Siemens development department. Who used so far a Siemens Handy of the 6ër or 7ër-Reihe, also with the S68 will feel fast domestic. The menu is exactly the same developed as with the S75/SL75, only some entries for the camera and the Mediaplayer are missing. The menu symbols are pleasantly simply held and one can between a lattice opinion and a large opinion select, which provides for clarity.
The menu speed is much fast and it comes not to call-worth delays with navigating. Very practically already are in many places in the menu from the Firefox Browser and from SonyEricsson Handys admitted of " tabs ", over which one can and very fast between different ranges change. Who would like to occupy the keys on its Handy gladly in the last detail after own discretion, becomes again lucky also with this Handy, because in Siemens-typical manners one can occupy all Hotkeys over its own menu directly in the Handy.
Also with the S68 the complete appearance of the menus, background pictures and animations can be changed again over "Themes so mentioned". Fortunately the S68-Themes has the same format as with the S75/SL75, so that one already finds a rich selection in the InterNet, if the before-installed Themes does not correspond to the own taste.
Telefonie
The language quality is to be settled with the S68 as with Siemens usually also very high level, the interlocutor is very clearly and sufficiently loud audible. During the discussion one can adjust the volume comfortably over the side keys. Also acquitting functions smoothly.
The receipt quality is to be settled on the same high level as with the 6ër-Generation von Siemens. The o2-Homezone-Anzeige functioned perfectly, the little house symbol appeared immediately after that inserts to a o2-Simkarte on the display.
The vibration alarm is very strong and provides duly for attention. That could be because of the fact that the Handy is so easy and so that the vibration can work more strongly. A nice idea is the possibility of being able to variable stop the vibration rhythm. One can select among other things between the rhythms "helicopters", "UFO", "mosquito" or "course".
Business functions
With the S68 the emphasis is particularly on the Business functions. The contact administration is, as extensive with Siemens usually, very and in the comparison to the 6ër-Handygeneration was again extended. One can store contacts with several call numbers, company, address, email address, URL, caller picture, personal bell clay/tone, birthday and still very many further fields and arrange the contacts then in ten different groups. The new filter function is very practical , with which one has already well-known groups a further dynamic arrangement possibility for the contacts beside that. Thus there is for example a filter for "the most frequently used contacts", which extends then over all groups.
Also the Organizer can shine with its function range. It waits with date -, giving up and note function up, birthday dates are taken over from the contacts and it give a daily -, week and monthly opinion. With the date types can be selected between note, call note, discussion, language memory, birthday and vacation.
The whole is rounded off by a pocket calculator, Waehrungsumrechner, COUNT down, stop watch, dictating machine, date computer and a bell. While in other new Siemens Handys like the SXG75 for individual weekdays different waking times can being stopped, one must be content with the S68 further with only one waking time for all days.
The e-Mail-Client supports only the Pop3 and smtp minutes. IMAP accounts are not supported unfortunately. With the integrated dictating machine one can take up Voice notes up to a length of maximally 100 minutes.
The S68 is compatibly permitted to in HP services and thereby the call of accessibility information or the structure of appropriate Chats, if one has the entrance to a in-HP-conformal server. An appropriate Client was before-installed already and is integrated also into the contact administration.
The program "document Viewer" for the announcement of Office and pdf documents, applied in the data sheet, and application "mobile ZIP" shone on our test equipment by absence. But were before-installed the mobile RSS reader "News2Mobile", a "SurvivalDictionary" and a program named "WeatherForecast" for the weather forecast. Very practically for inexperienced users also the Java program is "digital manual", with which one can to be able to be explained the most important Handyfunktionen step for step illustrated.
Data exchange
The S68 does not have no more as the first BenQ Siemens Business-mobile phone an infrared interface. However Bluetooth with and is board, which has to offer more in things transmission rate and range.
On a management program for the PC is contained of the CD contained in the scope of supply named "mobile Phone manager", with whom one can administer and synchronize mobile phone over the PC. The installation under Windows XP folded problem-free and the Bluetooth drivers to to couple the S68-mobile phone was recognized automatically and installed. Subsequently, the contacts and Organizerdaten could be synchronized with Outlook and Lotus Notes. Here unfortunately reproducibly a consequence-fraught error arose:
Dates (and in particular birthday dates), which a date before that 01.01.1970 had registered, were put on after the synchronisation in Outlook with a date in the year 2016 and are useless thereby. The same problem arose also with the synchronisation from the PC to the mobile phone and also with alternative programs as S25@once, so that the error in the firmware of the S68 is to be searched. Here BenQ Siemens must improve as soon as possible with a new firmware design.
The remaining functions mobile of the Phone of manager functioned perfectly. Like that it was easily possible to access by Explorer for mobile phone and also a Backup of all mobile phone-daten and attitudes became within approx.. 5 minutes put on.
Other functions
The before-installed WAP Browser of Openwave represents WAP 2.0-Seiten error free, offers with the small dissolution of display and a unfortunately very large text size to not much place for the representation of the mobile web pages. There mobile phone UMTS, but only GPRS supported, does not last that loading from larger sides or pictures one while. The WAP bookmarks can be sorted into files and be administered by Copy&Paste very comfortably. An alternative to the before-installed WAP Browser is the free of charge available Browser "Opera mini". This Java based Browser could be installed on the S68. With the side structure of very large web pages (> 40KB) it fell however (contrary to many other current Siemens-mobile phone) regularly.
Worth mentioning it is in times of data Flatrates for mobile phones still that BenQ Siemens offers a firmware update service over GPRS also for the S68. Who must look a mobile Datenflatrate thus not on the data counter and possesses, thus at any time on the most current software conditions to hold without data cables mobile phone can be.
Videos and MP3s cannot be played with the S68. It is thus also not possible to adjust MP3-Klingeltoene. But one can by 64-stimmigen polyp-hone bell tones on calls or reports to be made attentive be able. Bell tones can be stopped in the MIDI -, WAV- and AMR format.
Result
The S68 is particularly interesting for Business-kunden very, which can to do gladly without an integrated camera and the MP3- and video rendition and put beside the extensive Business-funktionen value a very much responding optics and Haptik.
A somewhat highly soluble display would have done to the S68 well, in addition, with the existing dissolution of display one comes well over the rounds.
BenQ Siemens must as soon as possible repair the date error with the data alignment with the PC, mentioned above, otherwise with the S68 with the firmware design 31 no serious errors arose and to mobile phone fell not once.
The S68 qualifies itself thus despite or straight because of the missing Multimedia functions as second and/or Business mobile phone and can be coupled owing to Bluetooth functionality also with most current BT Freisprecheinrichtungen.
To note it is the moreover one that that is to be already had mobile phone under 150 EUR at very a favourable price without contract and therefore a very good price performance ratio offers.
Note:
This is one automatic translated review, made by mopodo.com.
Thanks for sharing, modopo
Many enterprises try to meet espionage and idea robbery by a prohibition camera on the firm area, integrated by portable radio devices with, preventively.
BenQ Siemens the S68 , which we submitted to an intensive test here, was conceived for all those, which are confronted with such a restriction regularly.
The ultraduenne (13mm) and at first sight very elegantly working Handy did not insert a camera, whereby it can be used on still so secret places - it is in an enterprise, at the airport or in a government building.
Which has to still offer the S68 however except the beautiful exterior and the Abstinenz of a camera and whether it is suitable as Business or Zweithandy, the following test report is to show.
The first impression
BenQ Siemens the S68 comes along as the first Handy from the house "BenQ Siemens" in a again arranged lila white packing with sight, so that one can regard the Handy therein before unpacking.
The front of the Handys consists it of brushed metal and is already a special feeling to touch the cold metal if one holds the Handy the first time in the hand. The back of the Handys consists soft "Touch of easily roughened up plastic and provides for good pavement grip with one pleasantly". The S68 is easier with 13mm only one millimeter more thickly than the Motorola SLVR and even still 6 gram and fits thereby into each trouser pocket.
To the scope of supply only the equipment belongs, Akku, battery charger, driver CD and the operating instructions. One looks for a data cable unfortunately in vain. Who can adjust its data not via Bluetooth with the PC or wants, must umschauen itself with the S68 however after a new data cable, because it possesses a new interface , which is not compatible with the old Slim Lumberg Datenkabeln Dca-510 and 540 any longer.
With the Handy tested by us it acted around equipment with the firmware design 31.
Processing
The equipment is not very well finished, it is Knarzen to be heard and the Akkudeckel sits bombenfest. In order to open it, one must exercise on both sides at the same time on the right of and on the left of "pressure". One should look at oneself very exactly before first closing of the cover, to which places one must press, in order to be able to open him again.
The keyboard is likewise well finished and the sufficiently large keys offers a pleasant pressure point and lies apart far enough. Very pleasing is also the very even key lighting, which ensures that in the dark all keys can be well read off. Negative mark it be, that the key very loud "klackern", if one they operate. When tapping long SMS in quiet environments that can work very fast disturbing. The Navi key has itself already in past Siemens models opposite the usually very wackligen Joysticks worked satisfactorily and also in the S68 sets BenQ Siemens again on the 5-Wege-Navigation.
The display is not with 132x176 pixels the largest and one can the pixel raster clearly recognize, but one can read off it by the transreflexive matrix however from very diagonal viewing angles or with adverse lighting conditions perfectly. Also with the display glass one recognizes the trend of the new mark "BenQ Siemens" to set on high-quality materials: the hardened mineral windowpane protects optimally against scratches.
One can regulate the display brightness and the contrast very sensitively and extend by a low display brightness the Akkulaufzeit strongly (the display is the largest Stromfresser in Handys and laptops).
On the right and left housing exterior Stereolautsprecher are attached on the height of the display. One can through-look by the slots of the loudspeaker lattices even completely by the Handy. Dust might however not by those extremely purifies lattices into the housing to come.
A memory card plumb bob is missing with the S68. The internal memory is 27 MT largely, about which 18 MT are still vacant in as-delivered condition. Since the Handy cannot play MP3s and videos, the memory for Java applications, bell tones, Themes and Businessdaten should be sufficient.
Prompting
The S68 is the first Handy, which comes under the label name BenQ Siemens on the market. But even if now "BenQ" is also in the name, it is to be marked to the Handy very clearly that it originates still from the Siemens development department. Who used so far a Siemens Handy of the 6ër or 7ër-Reihe, also with the S68 will feel fast domestic. The menu is exactly the same developed as with the S75/SL75, only some entries for the camera and the Mediaplayer are missing. The menu symbols are pleasantly simply held and one can between a lattice opinion and a large opinion select, which provides for clarity.
The menu speed is much fast and it comes not to call-worth delays with navigating. Very practically already are in many places in the menu from the Firefox Browser and from SonyEricsson Handys admitted of " tabs ", over which one can and very fast between different ranges change. Who would like to occupy the keys on its Handy gladly in the last detail after own discretion, becomes again lucky also with this Handy, because in Siemens-typical manners one can occupy all Hotkeys over its own menu directly in the Handy.
Also with the S68 the complete appearance of the menus, background pictures and animations can be changed again over "Themes so mentioned". Fortunately the S68-Themes has the same format as with the S75/SL75, so that one already finds a rich selection in the InterNet, if the before-installed Themes does not correspond to the own taste.
Telefonie
The language quality is to be settled with the S68 as with Siemens usually also very high level, the interlocutor is very clearly and sufficiently loud audible. During the discussion one can adjust the volume comfortably over the side keys. Also acquitting functions smoothly.
The receipt quality is to be settled on the same high level as with the 6ër-Generation von Siemens. The o2-Homezone-Anzeige functioned perfectly, the little house symbol appeared immediately after that inserts to a o2-Simkarte on the display.
The vibration alarm is very strong and provides duly for attention. That could be because of the fact that the Handy is so easy and so that the vibration can work more strongly. A nice idea is the possibility of being able to variable stop the vibration rhythm. One can select among other things between the rhythms "helicopters", "UFO", "mosquito" or "course".
Business functions
With the S68 the emphasis is particularly on the Business functions. The contact administration is, as extensive with Siemens usually, very and in the comparison to the 6ër-Handygeneration was again extended. One can store contacts with several call numbers, company, address, email address, URL, caller picture, personal bell clay/tone, birthday and still very many further fields and arrange the contacts then in ten different groups. The new filter function is very practical , with which one has already well-known groups a further dynamic arrangement possibility for the contacts beside that. Thus there is for example a filter for "the most frequently used contacts", which extends then over all groups.
Also the Organizer can shine with its function range. It waits with date -, giving up and note function up, birthday dates are taken over from the contacts and it give a daily -, week and monthly opinion. With the date types can be selected between note, call note, discussion, language memory, birthday and vacation.
The whole is rounded off by a pocket calculator, Waehrungsumrechner, COUNT down, stop watch, dictating machine, date computer and a bell. While in other new Siemens Handys like the SXG75 for individual weekdays different waking times can being stopped, one must be content with the S68 further with only one waking time for all days.
The e-Mail-Client supports only the Pop3 and smtp minutes. IMAP accounts are not supported unfortunately. With the integrated dictating machine one can take up Voice notes up to a length of maximally 100 minutes.
The S68 is compatibly permitted to in HP services and thereby the call of accessibility information or the structure of appropriate Chats, if one has the entrance to a in-HP-conformal server. An appropriate Client was before-installed already and is integrated also into the contact administration.
The program "document Viewer" for the announcement of Office and pdf documents, applied in the data sheet, and application "mobile ZIP" shone on our test equipment by absence. But were before-installed the mobile RSS reader "News2Mobile", a "SurvivalDictionary" and a program named "WeatherForecast" for the weather forecast. Very practically for inexperienced users also the Java program is "digital manual", with which one can to be able to be explained the most important Handyfunktionen step for step illustrated.
Data exchange
The S68 does not have no more as the first BenQ Siemens Business-mobile phone an infrared interface. However Bluetooth with and is board, which has to offer more in things transmission rate and range.
On a management program for the PC is contained of the CD contained in the scope of supply named "mobile Phone manager", with whom one can administer and synchronize mobile phone over the PC. The installation under Windows XP folded problem-free and the Bluetooth drivers to to couple the S68-mobile phone was recognized automatically and installed. Subsequently, the contacts and Organizerdaten could be synchronized with Outlook and Lotus Notes. Here unfortunately reproducibly a consequence-fraught error arose:
Dates (and in particular birthday dates), which a date before that 01.01.1970 had registered, were put on after the synchronisation in Outlook with a date in the year 2016 and are useless thereby. The same problem arose also with the synchronisation from the PC to the mobile phone and also with alternative programs as S25@once, so that the error in the firmware of the S68 is to be searched. Here BenQ Siemens must improve as soon as possible with a new firmware design.
The remaining functions mobile of the Phone of manager functioned perfectly. Like that it was easily possible to access by Explorer for mobile phone and also a Backup of all mobile phone-daten and attitudes became within approx.. 5 minutes put on.
Other functions
The before-installed WAP Browser of Openwave represents WAP 2.0-Seiten error free, offers with the small dissolution of display and a unfortunately very large text size to not much place for the representation of the mobile web pages. There mobile phone UMTS, but only GPRS supported, does not last that loading from larger sides or pictures one while. The WAP bookmarks can be sorted into files and be administered by Copy&Paste very comfortably. An alternative to the before-installed WAP Browser is the free of charge available Browser "Opera mini". This Java based Browser could be installed on the S68. With the side structure of very large web pages (> 40KB) it fell however (contrary to many other current Siemens-mobile phone) regularly.
Worth mentioning it is in times of data Flatrates for mobile phones still that BenQ Siemens offers a firmware update service over GPRS also for the S68. Who must look a mobile Datenflatrate thus not on the data counter and possesses, thus at any time on the most current software conditions to hold without data cables mobile phone can be.
Videos and MP3s cannot be played with the S68. It is thus also not possible to adjust MP3-Klingeltoene. But one can by 64-stimmigen polyp-hone bell tones on calls or reports to be made attentive be able. Bell tones can be stopped in the MIDI -, WAV- and AMR format.
Result
The S68 is particularly interesting for Business-kunden very, which can to do gladly without an integrated camera and the MP3- and video rendition and put beside the extensive Business-funktionen value a very much responding optics and Haptik.
A somewhat highly soluble display would have done to the S68 well, in addition, with the existing dissolution of display one comes well over the rounds.
BenQ Siemens must as soon as possible repair the date error with the data alignment with the PC, mentioned above, otherwise with the S68 with the firmware design 31 no serious errors arose and to mobile phone fell not once.
The S68 qualifies itself thus despite or straight because of the missing Multimedia functions as second and/or Business mobile phone and can be coupled owing to Bluetooth functionality also with most current BT Freisprecheinrichtungen.
To note it is the moreover one that that is to be already had mobile phone under 150 EUR at very a favourable price without contract and therefore a very good price performance ratio offers.
Note:
This is one automatic translated review, made by mopodo.com.
Thanks for sharing, modopo