Sx1?

[matt_g_uk]

Hi there - thinking about getting a new phone, and was just about decided on the Nokia 6230, then saw the Siemens SX1. Does anyone have any experience with this phone, and is it decent? Most important thing for me is SMS, MP3 playback with memory card.

[Great_Admirer]

go for sx1

it has mp3 (not just mp3 stereo mp3 support with bass reflex sound)fm radio,
hot swapable mmc card ,series60,65k screen,640x480 camera with zoom,bluetooth,ir etc
even 7610 does not match these features

only rival forSX1 is SendoX


so choose either of them


see ya

[commedecargons]

go for sx1

it has mp3 (not just mp3 stereo mp3 support with bass reflex sound)fm radio,
hot swapable mmc card ,series60,65k screen,640x480 camera with zoom,bluetooth,ir etc
even 7610 does not match these features

only rival forSX1 is SendoX


so choose either of them


see ya


Total AGREE ! SX1 rocks (specs) SendoX rocks (form factor) I'd personally go for Siemens. A reliable brand is important.

[cdover]

The SX1 looks great...but I don't know...I heard there are some serious problems with it, like too slow and MMC reading is a hastle. If those aren't true, then I'd go for it :).

[dee]

The SX1 looks great...but I don't know...I heard there are some serious problems with it, like too slow and MMC reading is a hastle. If those aren't true, then I'd go for it :).

I heard this as well. I ALMOST got it a week or so ago. But I am contempt with my 6600 for now.

*Apparently* the sx1 has a very slow UI. However I cannot back this up as I have never used one. My opinion, wait for the 6630. Its not too long. Only a few months! ;)

[stingah]

Take SX1!

[Ruler_70]

Also dont forget the terrible key config of SX1 - a real mission to get youst to.

[adwilson11]

I've had my SX-1 for less than a week, and the phone is simply stellar. I can't say enough good things about it. The memory card feature is fantastic. I bought a 512 meg card last night but I'll be returning it as I found a 1GB card on ebay that will work. 1 Gig in this thing, incredible! Mp3 playback sounds very good, but there isn't a way of tweaking the sound (bass and treble) that I've found so far. The picture quality on the camera is so-so, but hey, it's incredible that it has a camera with zoom that does video as well. Surprising features that I didn't know about before buying it like the hands-free speakerphone are really cool as well.

I really enjoy the FM radio when I'm sitting at my desk at work, even if the reception is so-so.

As for the UI being slow, I'd argue that it's very quick. Every once in a while there's a slowdown when you're running multiple apps (yes, you can run multiple things at once. Talk on the phone and play games, listen to the radio and browse files on the memory card with the file manager, etc). It has a task manager like a pc does where you can view what is running. There is 16 meg of RAM and it seems very capable of keeping up with things. There is a slight delay when starting up the camera app, but I think it acceptible.

If you "heard" that the UI is slow, I'd say that you should see an SX-1 in person and play with it for a while before rendering an opinion. :rolleyes: Take my old Sony/Ericsson T68i ... now THAT was a slow-ass UI. Total junk. The SX-1 is in another universe in terms of features, look, feel, and slickness.

The number arranagement is a bit awkward, but a lot of times I dial a number from the contacts list and you can set up speed dial options on the phone as well. I think it's a non-issue considering how much other stuff this phone does. Anyone who is dialing all their numbers by hand in a phone of this caliber isn't using it to it's maximum potential, agreed? :D

I'll list a few complaints just so this doesn't sound like a review by some Siemens fanatic that will say nothing wrong about it. Every once in a while there's a slight pause when switching between apps, but nothing has crashed. It just pauses for a second. I wouldn't call this a slow UI, as it's less than a second. The joystick is a bit hard to push at times especially when your hand gets sweaty playing one of the great games you can get for this phone. It needs to stick up a bit more and be slightly easier to push. And I wish there was a way to make the backlit display stay on longer. And I wish the web browsing had some way to load standard web pages and not just the smaller, lite versions that are text based. It probably wouldn't look right on the SX-1 screen anyway as it's not big enough to support that. I hear there are some 3rd party app web browsers that might work so I may try one.

As for my version, the SX-1 McLaren, the phone looks simply stunning in black and you can be fairly sure you'll never run into another person with the same phone, even if you had a standard SX-1. Everyone I've shown is amazed by it, which of course doesn't say that much considering how bad a lot of the phones are that people have here in the United States. Old Nokias that are big and clunky with only a few, mono ringtones and black and white screens, etc. If someone has a color screen phone, that's still rare here in the US. The SX-1 looks like something that I went into the future to buy and brought back to 2004.

I'd buy one again in a heartbeat. How many phones out there have a 65K color display, FM radio, mp3 player, Java apps, an OS as slick as the Symbian, Bluetooth, IR, a camera, and support for a separate memory card?

Say it with me now .... SX-1. Here are some pictures of my phone next to the old T68i I used to have :eek: .


http://www.e12m535i.com/MISC/cell_phone/McLaren_SiemensSX1_4.JPG

more pictures here:

link to more pictures of my SX-1 (http://www.e12m535i.com/MISC/cell_phone/)

Adam Wilson
Chicago, USA

[cdover]

If you "heard" that the UI is slow, I'd say that you should see an SX-1 in person and play with it for a while before rendering an opinion. :rolleyes:

Making it as an opinion? It's not an opinion if it's 2nd hand. It would be wrong to say that the UI IS slow if one hasn't used it before, but I didn't say that. Hence the 'heard' and the 'if'.

[shaheen]

i so love the mclaren version, and the best part is is that its still very cheap! like 400US or something right?.. shouldve bought it but i thought that since its a collaboration wiht mclaren it had to be expensive. but it isnt. i just wish they fixed the keypad but hell, with that kind of black colour id easily forgive not fixing the keypad...hmm. maybe ill get it anyway! i mean for a device that dominates symbian market now its pretty darn cheap. just a few questions about the sx1

1. does it support bluejacking?
2. what kind of headset port is it? 2.5mm or 3.5mm or custom siemens one?
3. is the camera pics better then standard sx1? i know theyre both vga but like p900 is to p910, p910 cam is better. ive seen pics.
4.does it have any new apps or software or games or anything besides just the Mclaren edition name add on and black colour compared to standard sx1?


thanks alot bud!

[Nutzu1]

i don't think the sx1 mclaren is 400 US cuz i'll buy it right now i think is around 600 us whitch is to much for a phone who has cheange the face plates and add some app with mclaren common is to much

[xerxes]

Before you buy the SX1 take a good look at the Sendo X.

It is smaller, has much better battery life, has a lot more built in memory, takes SD cards and MMC cards up to 1GB, and has a normal key pad layout.

You can see it here.

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/52923/art/sendo/x.html

[shaheen]

i don't think the sx1 mclaren is 400 US cuz i'll buy it right now i think is around 600 us whitch is to much for a phone who has cheange the face plates and add some app with mclaren common is to much
there was one for 408 this morning but it just sold. heres one for 442

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=64355&item=5720875015&rd=1

[shaheen]

Before you buy the SX1 take a good look at the Sendo X.

It is smaller, has much better battery life, has a lot more built in memory, takes SD cards and MMC cards up to 1GB, and has a normal key pad layout.

You can see it here.

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/52923/art/sendo/x.html
and is also 515US! compared to standard Sx1 at 365US. which does the same thing without the huge thickness.

[adwilson11]

Cdover, if you want to be picky about the semantics, yes you didn't offer an opinion without having seen the phone. You related a non-firsthand experience with it, which is also known as "heresay". My point is you should try out the phone yourself, before repeating what others "supposedly" said about the UI.

I don't know if it supports "bluejacking". The headset port is a Siemens proprietary thing, i.e. it only uses the one port which is also for connecting the USB cable, or the charger. There is not a standard headphone jack.

The camera photo quality is o.k. Still nothing compared to a real digital camera, but it's adequate.

Yes, the McLaren version comes pre-loaded with some McLaren stuff. There's a whole menu folder called McLaren with videos, pictures, and when the phone boots and shuts down, there are McLaren graphics that are displayed letting you know it's the real Siemens McLaren SX-1 phone. It also has a McLaren F1 car ringtone which is very cool. I think the phone is worth the premium over a standard SX-1 because I like F1 and the McLaren team. Even if you changed the cover plates on the SX-1 to the black ones, it'll never have the "limited edition" written on there as the McLaren does. And trying to locate all the McLaren specific things on my SX-1 to load on a standard SX-1 would be a waste of time.

With shipping to the United States, I paid $530 for mine. You can get them for around $450+ right now on ebay. If you want the person's ebay id that I bought mine from, I can tell you. I'd recommend her highly.

Refering to the memory card, I've already had a 512MB MMC stick in there, which I returned after I found a 1GB one on ebay from the same brand. That card is on the way which will work I'm sure in the SX-1. People have said that the slot and pins actually are set up to support SD, but it is believed to be a firmware limitation that the SX-1 does not recognize the card. Perhaps they will add this in a future firmware release?

Finally, I'm not familiar with the Sendo brand the way I am with Siemens. The Siemens brand was one that I felt comfortable spending $500 to buy a phone from.

Adam Wilson
Chicago, USA
Siemens SX-1 McLaren

[shaheen]

niiiiiiice. gd job, have fun with your phone.

btw

GO GO MCLAREN! WOOO!!!!!!!

boo ferrari....

[MikeUK]

Ok, that's it. If I can't get the S700 I'm gonna get the o2 edition of the SX1, because it's in black.

[cdover]

Cdover, if you want to be picky about the semantics, yes you didn't offer an opinion without having seen the phone. You related a non-firsthand experience with it, which is also known as "heresay". My point is you should try out the phone yourself, before repeating what others "supposedly" said about the UI.

Yeah, but if I were to get a new phone, but someone else had heard from a few places that it was really slow, I'd want them to tell me so I can check it out before buying off, say, the internet right? But now you've cleared that up, we know it isn't. Thanks. No need to get your panties tied up in a knot :).

[Ruler_70]

Shaheen: I wouldnt waste cash on the SX1: Maclaren now, the SX2 should be out sometime soon and then you'll prob regret getting the old SX1.

[shaheen]

yea but u see its because of the so called sx2 im gona buy the sx1, price will plummet! and besides what can teh sx2 have over the sx1? maybe a 1.3mp cam and thats it! the sx1 already has everything that a person needs. and i hardly doubt theyre gona changed the whole design of the phone and OS of the phone... frankly speaking i dont need a mp cam. i really really dont..

[Ruler_70]

Well hopefully the SX2 will have a more userfriendly input system. Yup its true that it'l get a lot cheaper, but heck, at this point i think the next that everyone should get is the 6260 (especially if you dont care for MP cam)

[cdover]

Yup, I mean there doesn't seem anything to add. Perhaps a TV tuner? :S Expensive. Though there were SOO many rumours a long time ago that the SX2 will be announced, and supposedly it was on that Siemens Press Italy site (was pretty fake though...), and so yeah... I think it'll be here in 2005...

[abarth673]

go for sx1

it has mp3 (not just mp3 stereo mp3 support with bass reflex sound)fm radio,
hot swapable mmc card ,series60,65k screen,640x480 camera with zoom,bluetooth,ir etc
even 7610 does not match these features

only rival forSX1 is SendoX


so choose either of them


see ya
I must answer your comment about Sendo x. Have you bought the X ? I have and beleive me, I tried 3 phones before departing empty handed, why? two of them switch on[power on] and hang up, the other was ok.......till you go outside and notces that the screen is so dull that is impossible to see. When i tried to adjust the brightness it was super bright which means maximum adj. SX1 is by far a proven mobile.

[xerxes]

I must answer your comment about Sendo x. Have you bought the X ? I have and beleive me, I tried 3 phones before departing empty handed, why? two of them switch on[power on] and hang up, the other was ok.......till you go outside and notces that the screen is so dull that is impossible to see. When i tried to adjust the brightness it was super bright which means maximum adj. SX1 is by far a proven mobile.

You must have very bad eyes if you cannot read a Sendo X on Super Bright. I leave mine on medium brightness and it's fine outdoors, even in bright sun.

[Ruler_70]

Maybe he got unlucky and tried a damaged batch of sendo x's.

[xerxes]

I suppose it could also be because the sun nnever gets all that bright in London :D

[carcomptoy]

Before you buy the SX1 take a good look at the Sendo X.

It is smaller, has much better battery life, has a lot more built in memory, takes SD cards and MMC cards up to 1GB, and has a normal key pad layout.

You can see it here.

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/52923/art/sendo/x.html

You seem to have forgotten the big thing the SX1 has over the Sendo...it has a radio!

[meanmachine]

If SX1s weren't so hard to get on eBay (UK of course), I'd probably get one. It looks really good, but I really am a graphics maniac, so the lack of theme support puts me off.

[carcomptoy]

Everyone I've shown is amazed by it, which of course doesn't say that much considering how bad a lot of the phones are that people have here in the United States. Old Nokias that are big and clunky with only a few, mono ringtones and black and white screens, etc. If someone has a color screen phone, that's still rare here in the US.

Adam Wilson
Chicago, USA

I think that's being unfair to Americans...people have improved and have color screens already...I don't know very many people with chromatic screens anymore. But anyway, I was wondering, can the theme color be anything other than the bluish-greyish color?

[Rahulk]

I HAVE ALL 4 OF THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SX1'S...THEY ALL HAVE SOMETHING UNIQUE TO OFFER...The only problem with them is

1) The screen is grainy
2) no form of 'quickshare' you can not send ringtones etc via bt

otherwise the phone is a good well priced cheaper alternative to a pda/smart phone...


Soon,

RK

[Great_Admirer]

theme is supported in fw version 15.

it is not the screen that is grainy,it is the screen cover that after some usage makes a grainy effect.

and btw u can send any ringtone by bt.besides it is the only series 60 phone with mmf ringtone support.

[commedecargons]

I'd picked a SX1 over any Series60 phones currently. (Not the normal but the Mclaren version) it looked so damn good. Firstly when it's launched (around 6600's time) i thought this is a weird thing... but as time goes by, i still think SX1 looked good but turning back and looking at the 6600, the SX1 looked so damn fine. I think partly is because of the design of the keypad.

[commedecargons]

Speaking of picking a SX1 over other Series 60 devices.....

Quoted from Mobileburn's news section regarding the replication of Skulls virus: Interestingly enough, the Siemens SX1 seems to be immune to Skulls.B for some unknown reason, whereas the other Series 60 devices tested by F-Secure are all vulnerable.

[Great_Admirer]

hmmmmmmmm!

[commedecargons]

Just saw the Miglia edition..... wow !~ Mclaren version looks nothing close to as cool it is......... !!

[heman]

Can send ringtones through BT, IrDA, MMS if you open through File Manager.