Product: Siemens SF65 camera phone Price: $3,480 Pros: It features trendy, high-gloss colours, a large display and a megapixel camera Cons: Expensive for its limited range
First impressions count with Siemens' new SF65 clamshell-format camera phone. The stylish handset integrates a 1.3-megapixel digital camera, LED flash, 4x zoom, swivel-action screen, 64-chord polyphonic ring tones and a 65,536 colour display - all the fine aspects of digital photography wrapped in a mobile phone.
Emulating recent models released by Nokia in Hong Kong, the SF65 has a high-gloss finish in colours described as Polar White and Onyx Black.
At just 97 grams, the SF65 is also light enough to put inside a jacket pocket.
The phone's camera function only works after turning the screen and snapping it flat, facing the user, on the clamshell phone's keypad area.
This makes the SF63 look and feel like a typical digital still camera. The constant switching and snapping into camera position worried me because there was no user manual that came with the demonstration phone.