The Siemens SK65 is a 2005 model mobile phone. Engadget reviews the Siemens SK65 and writes, “Siemens turned some heads (pun sort of intended) last year with their announcement of their SK65, a pretty radical form factor departure from the regular QWERTY keyboard-equipped mobile communicators out there. And what’s more, they produced a version with BlackBerry Built-In (a fancy way of saying it’s got a bunch of BlackBerry software, and runs with BlackBerry servers and services). But, as you may have heard, Siemens’s cellphone business at home and abroad has been languishing lately, and there was some concern that the SK65 might never get produced in any large number. And would you know what? We got our greedy little mitts on one and gave it the once over—click on to read what we think!”

MobileBurn reviews the Siemens SK65 and has this to say about physical aspects, “Make no bones about it: the SK65 is a large phone. It weighs nearly as much as a Sony Ericsson P910, coming in at 147g. It is long and thick, too: 123mm x 47mm x 22mm. But it still fits the normal candybar form factor, and as such, is very pocketable. The gloss black and matte silver finish is very attractive, but the black surfaces are very prone to smudging. The front of the handset is home of the large, bright 132×176 pixel 64K color display, the metal screen inlay speaker grille, and the keypad and controls. The keypad, though low on the SK65’s body, is quite usable, has no odd quirks to it, and is lit with a soft white backlight. The directional controller, or d-pad, also works very well. It is both large and easy to control accurately. The dual softkey call control buttons on either side of the d-pad also work well as long as you don’t press them too hard. Since the pressing on the top end of the keys is how you get the softkey functionality and pressing on the bottom the call control features, pressing too hard can sometimes confuse the phone as to which you wanted since they don’t have a solid pivot point in the middle. But that really will only be a problem for button mashers.”

Mobile Gazette reviews the Siemens SK65 and writes, “this is a fairly large phone, measuring 120×47x22 mm and coming in at a hefty 144 grams. It has tri-band GSM, GPRS (but no EDGE). The SK65 supports CSD but not HSCSD data which is a shame because many businesses still use HSCSD extensively. The SK65 will also synchronise directly with a PC via Bluetooth, USB cable or infra-red, and it comes with an impressive array of PIM functions, a web browser, Java support for games and other applications and some impressive media playback capabilities. Push-To-Talk should be available when the phone is launched too. Talk time is a business-friendly 5 hours with up to 10 days standby time.”

Mobile-Review reviews the Siemens SK65 and writes, “The device rouses no cavils in the quality of connection and is similar to S65. The price for Siemens Sk65 is about 450 USD now and that is not right. The maximum price of a similar device may get up to 300 USD not more. The device is a niche one with a poor ergonomics. I think those ones who needed a similar device have already bought Nokia 6800/6820. And to compareNokia 6820 costs about 260 USD but loses due to the general functionality and out-of-date screen. At the same time the text input capabilities and connectivity possibilities are comparable.”

ZDnet reviews the Siemens SK65 and writes, “The SK65 is a tri-band GSM/GPRS phone. There is 30MB of user memory but no storage card support. The display delivers 16-bit colour, Bluetooth is integrated, and email support covers SMTP, IMAP4 and POP3. You get calendar, to-do and notes applications built in, along with Java and support for MIDI ringtones (the latter two features sit oddly with the camera’s absence — clearly this is not an entirely pin-striped, buttoned-down device).”