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  Samsung p510

  💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: Auto-opening and close feature for the clamshell

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 9/10

  ⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2004 | 💰 Release Price: ~400 $

  📊 Units Sold: ~700k

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  📰 Why this phone matters: The first thing you’ll notice about the P510 is that it has an auto-opening feature for the ultra-lazy. A press of the side button and the phone will open and close automatically, through a smooth motor driven action. While such automation may seem twee, until you have experienced the sweet sound the motor makes, or felt the adoration of inspired onlookers, you shouldn’t be too hasty to write it off as a novelty gimmick.

  📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗

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  Siemens CF62

  💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10

  ⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2004 | 💰 Release Price: ~150 $

  📊 Units Sold: ~3M

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  📰 Why this phone matters: Siemens is not very strong in the clamshell phone segment, its first product, clamshell CL50 was accepted more than just cold by the consumers. The next product – CL55 did not even reach the market, this ODM-model was silently cancelled in the first quarter of year 2004. That’s why it was pretty useless to expect warm feedback from the consumers for the CF62 phone, it undeservedly lost attention by consumers who considered this phone another asian model. The irony is that this time Siemens had developed the model by itself and did it with their best traditions. After a long break Siemens introduced successful model, which has slipped out of consumer’s sight due to previous failures. I’d like to make a note here, that by saying successful model you should not expect maximal functionality, you will not find it here, but try looking for match of functions and segment – and you will find it, it is new generation of what Siemens M55 was for its time, by the way CF62 is the clone of this model.

  📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗

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  Siemens SK65: The Corporate Weapon With BlackBerry DNA

  💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: A rotating crossblade keyboard that still feels like a mechanical trick from the future

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 9/10

  ⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2004 | 💰 Release Price: 500 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~500k

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  📰 Why this phone matters: The Siemens SK65 was introduced in late 2004 as one of the most advanced enterprise phones ever created, built during a period when Siemens placed enormous engineering resources into its high end S and SX series. The internal development codename is widely understood in documentation to align with Siemens’ business class platforms of the era, specifically derived from the SXG and BB integration programs. It runs on Siemens’ proprietary OS with a full BlackBerry Connect layer on top, giving it access to encrypted push email, corporate sync and RIM’s secure communication protocols.

  When released, the SK65 targeted senior professionals and executives who needed BlackBerry functionality but preferred a sleeker eur;opean device. Launch pricing depended on region, but the unsubsidized cost ranged between 450 and 550 eur;os, placing it directly in the high end business category. Early reviews from major publications praised the crossblade mechanism as one of the most ingenious mobile keyboard designs ever made, noting that it allowed full QWERTY typing without increasing the device’s footprint. Reviewers highlighted its solid construction, the crisp Siemens display and the deep integration with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The only criticisms at the time were limited multimedia features and the fact that the device focused purely on productivity, not entertainment.

  The engineering story behind it is equally impressive. Siemens created an entirely new hinge system that rotates two symmetrical keyboard wings outward with perfect balance and alignment. No consumer phone before or after replicated this exact mechanism. When closed, the SK65 appears to be a traditional bar phone. When opened, it transforms instantly into a communication terminal, a true pocket sized workstation.

  This unit is preserved in mint condition, with the crossblade mechanism still locking with the same satisfying precision it had in 2004. The BlackBerry Built-in branding remains fully intact on the back cover and the front chassis retains the clean Siemens lines with no warping or discoloration. The display still boots into the original BlackBerry menu structure, complete with the corporate iconography that defined mid 2000s business mobility.

  The Siemens SK65 represents the moment when two giants, Siemens and BlackBerry, merged technologies to redefine what a business phone could be. It was a niche device at launch but has since gained legendary status among collectors because of its unusual hybrid nature, discontinued form factor and limited production run. Now considered one of the most unique enterprise phones of the early smartphone era, a mint example like this stands as a mechanical and historical masterpiece.

  📝 Reviews when released: Engadget.com 🔗

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  Siemens SX1

  💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: The first Siemens with Symbian

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 8.5/10

  ⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2004 | 💰 Release Price: 599 $

  📊 Units Sold: ~1M

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  📰 Why this phone matters: The Siemens SX1 is a GSM mobile phone running version 1.2 of the Series 60 platform for the Symbian OS. It is the first such smartphone from the German phone manufacturer Siemens AG following their licensing agreement with Nokia for the use and development of Series 60. Though unveiled in February 2003 it launched only in December of that year. The phone has a very high feature list for its time of release. It had three built in games and support for more by downloads. The three games which were bundled with the phone were Mozzies, which was awarded the title of best mobile game in 2003, Typegun, which was a game made for acquainting users to the keypad layout, and Sitris, a Tetris version with multiplayer support (via Bluetooth). In Mozzies, the Camera is used to detect the motion. So you have to position the gun on the flying mosquitoes which are superimposed on the video feed from the camera. The objective is to shoot down the mosquitoes by moving the phone around and clicking when you are aiming correctly.
  The phone also has a good number of connectivity options from Bluetooth to IrDA. It can also be used as a Fax Machine by connecting it to an appropriate device like a computer through the software provided. The File Manager allows sending and receiving of various files over either infrared or bluetooth. The phone has two shortcut keys on its side. One is used to start the camera and click pictures, while the other can be used to make a voice command driven call or start the voice memo. There is a built in picture editor which allows modification of images taken by the camera or any other type of image present on the phone. The phone has a few organizer capabilities. There are applications to take down short notes, a To-Do List, a scheduler application with reminders and a converter to convert currency and different measuring units. The mobile has been popular because of a Linux port to this mobile called “Linux on SX1”.

  📝 Reviews when released: Cnet.com 🔗

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