It was around this time one year ago that I became fascinated with the new product line of just-merged BenQ-Siemens. Sadly, the company had filed for bankruptcy a few weeks ago ending the one year reign of the East meets West partnership. Here is a short Q&A I posted at that time with an excerpt:
Our […]
You know, at the back of my mind I knew something like this would happen. Even if they made promising phone models like the S88, it wasn’t enough to sustain the merger of both companies. Damn, to think they almost survived for one year!
Even though BenQ and Siemens have managed to release several successful mobile […]
You know, despite the fact that this phone has a low resolution screen, no camera and really nothing much to brag about on the inside, it is the outside that really counts. Hello Mot— err .. Kitty!
I really wonder how much these things sell for when you brand them with Sanrio. But if you base […]
A friend of mine in retail asked whether the Benq-Siemens S88 was a top performer in the local market. With so many phones swimming on store sheleves, a new player in the phone industry, backed by several years of UGH (Siemens wasn’t exactly good with phones) makes me wonder how the hell its strengths can […]
After talking about the P50, then comes the anticipated P51. There have been some small but significant upgrades to the new Windows Mobile 5.0 device.
The following features are included:
- a speech to text application (as well as the text to speech app which the P50 already has)
- upgrade of WLAN to 802.11g
- an optional GPS […]
Augh! My wireless life is a mess right now. In the past five days, the BenQ P50 I’ve been using was doing hard resets like anything during a call. What sucks is that BenQ doesn’t have a packaged backup solution (like iPAQ backup) so I can just restore on the fly. So there. Until I […]
UPDATE: Alas poor BenQ-Siemens we knew you well. Sadly, BenQ-Siemens is no more. Read more about it here. My friend in retail is now having a much harder time selling off the S88 after the company declared its last hurrah.
The S88 is BenQ-Siemens’ first flagship phone for 2006. It comes in two colors - black […]
I had a chance to grab a sneak peek into the upcoming line of phones from BenQ-Siemens. Codenamed Pandora (in Asia), this phone is a prototype version of the new company’s music phone. I’m quite pleased with the way the new company is churning out sensible phones with attractive designs.
The Pandora has two modes. When […]
It’s Valentine’s Day once more and if you’re reading this tonight, then I’m assuming you had bad luck scoring a date. My condolences to you then. If it’s any consolation, I’d like to take this opportunity in cyberspace to tell you that all men are asses, while all women are too picky. Heh.
Today is […]
A lot of critics have been at it with BenQ and Siemens and how they are going to make an impact in the mobile phone industry.
In my previous post, I did a short preview of the BenQ-Siemens S88, their flagship release which is supposed to be the merger of Eastern form factor and Western […]
Mobile Phones and the Wireless Life: Because your cellphone will soon be able to make coffee!
Written by Jayvee Fernandez [email] for b5media.
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