Customer Rating:  
Summary: Batteries are not available except thru Siemens at $216 each
Comment: Don't bother buying this phone unless you get it cheap! battery replacement is $216 thru Siemens repair depot only. This phone is a real orphan. Talk about a short life cycle!!!
I bought mine 2+ years ago and gave up on the phone portion (GSM coverage was lousy). With all the hype about good coverage I switched from TDMA phone back to GSM. Coverage is still bad. What is worse the battery doesn't hold much of a charge now and can't handle PDA and celular functions. As per the above, Siemens wants $216 to replace it plus a nominal 10 day turn around. AT&T / Cingular wants to know nothing!
Customer Rating:
Summary: very useful, but EXTREMELY unstable
Comment: Like one of the other reviewers, I also used to carry around my cell phone, my PDA, and my pager. This extremely useful device consolidated all three items into one. I love that part.
The PDA functionality is truly great, and I'm finding it more and more useful every day.
The only downside is that it's more UN-stable than the "crazy" girl I dated in college! :-) This thing reboots itself (generally at very inopportune times) at least once a day.
Many times it stops sync'ing with the PC, and I have to shut the PC off, manually reboot the PDA, switch the USB cableto a different port, and then boot everything back up. It's a major pain.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Phone PDA Combo
Comment: I love my sx56, I have taken it everywhere, snowboarding, skydiving, beach, everywhere. Mine has never broken, in fact it is the sturdiest cell phone I've ever owned. Once I upgraded it to the Windows Mobile 2003 OS it was even better. All the cool standard software was great. Plus I added the Microsoft Voice Command software and can make calls to all my outlook contacts by pushing one button and saying "Call so and so home", you don't even have to train or record the voice commands, it does it all by voice recognition!
Customer Rating:
Summary: large, heavy, fragile
Comment: I bought two of these, one for my wife and one for me. It was so large, heavy, and difficult to use the numbers to dial the phone, my wife didn't like hers. Therefore, when the VERY FRAGILE glass on the screen broke on mine after 5 months, I took hers. The glass broke on the seconed one after 3 months. I was just using it for normal calendar checking and phone calls - nothing rough. Stay away from this phone. BTW, it cost me $100 to purchase and they quoted $300 to repair. ATT doesn't sell them anymore.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great PDA, horrible phone
Comment: I've owned this phone for about 18 months and if I hadn't paid so much for it I would have taken a hammer to it long ago. Even in the center of a large town I get lousy signal strength; people can't hear me and I can't hear them. The PDA works well and I bought it so I could carry my calendar and contacts with me and dial them directly with one tap...nice features, well worth the $700+ I paid...IF I could get a signal. Now I have learned this is because this phone doesn't work on the "third" GSM band.
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