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| Siemens SX1 is the original cell phone for the McLaren |
Siemens released its Siemens SX1 mobile phone in December 2003, which has an exotic keyboard and many unique aspects that can be announced in certain places and will not be out of date. The company introduced Siemens SX1 McLaren Limited Edition at CeBIT 2004. It was originally from McLaren.
The company only manufactured 200 Siemens SX1 McLaren phones, each with custom animations, backgrounds and images with McLaren MP4-19 Formula 1 and Kim Raikkonen and David Coulthard drivers pre-installed.
The original Siemens SX1 used an unconventional keyboard at the time, with Siemens placing keys 0 through 9 and * on either side of the 2.2-inch screen. This change takes some getting used to simple digital requirements. SMS is also a completely different adventure.
The phone was included by Typegun to facilitate the learning of the keyboard, just as it did in Solitaire's offer to new Windows users ten years ago.
T9 input mode is activated, although the direction key mode continues to make entry difficult.
Another game is Mozzies, the first person to shoot and use a 3D image of a phone and mosquito camera and has to direct the user towards the target.
The game behaves like augmented reality game running on a dual-core processor at a speed of 120 MHz, which was a powerful processor at the time, and indicates that the Nokia 6600 with a Siemens SX1 phone competes with the processing frequency of the device 104 MHz.
Siemens SX1 also features an MP3 player, and is the first phone powered by the S60 software platform that allows users to download music files to MP3 folders on an optional MMC card and listen with the included headphones.
Ten and a half years later, China OnePlus and McLaren launched the OnePlus Concept One mobile phone. However, Siemens SX1 is not the only competition-inspired mobile phone, as Siemens has also released a limited (50) mobile version. Siemens SX1 F1 Bahrain in 2004.
The Mille Miglia edition is also available in two versions: from 1927 to 1957, the long-distance race continued in Italy, one with 500 phones and the other with only 99 phones.
Siemens also uses Siemens SX1 to create future models. In CeBIT 2005, use lasers to show off the full QWERTY keyboard for mobile phones. This idea is similar to Samsung's idea of introducing SelfieType in CES 2020. However, Samsung uses a front camera instead of a laser.
At CeBIT 2005, Siemens showcased another model called "Tourguide", used as an addition on the underside of the phone and containing an A-GPS receiver.
Siemens is said to be a leader in mobile, but soon after the launch of Siemens SX1, it abandoned the mobile market while its subsidiary Gigaset still exists and produces Android phones, but it is usually unknown outside Germany.