The Siemens M65 is a robust mobile phone

Phone

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. It is made shock resistant by its metal frame and rubber bumpers. The device is dust

Dust

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 and splash water

Water

Water is a chemical substance with the chemical formula H2O. A water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds. Water is a liquid at ambient conditions, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state . Water also exists in a...

 resistant complying with IP54 standard. The phone features a VGA

Video Graphics Array

Video Graphics Array refers specifically to the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, but through its widespread adoption has also come to mean either an analog computer display standard, the 15-pin D-subminiature VGA connector or the 640×480 resolution...

 camera

Camera

A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...

, which can be used to record both still images and video, and a 65k colour display.The image resolution is 640x480 and video is 128x96. It also came with several action based games pre-installed.

The phone's built-in battery

Battery (electricity)

An electrical battery is one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first battery in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and especially since the technically improved Daniell cell in 1836, batteries have become a common power...

 is large enough to power the phone for 330 minutes, or up to 300 hours if left in stand-by mode. It takes two hours to charge the battery

Battery (electricity)

An electrical battery is one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. Since the invention of the first battery in 1800 by Alessandro Volta and especially since the technically improved Daniell cell in 1836, batteries have become a common power...

 to full capacity. The phone can be used to create own text files of many charactersets, create HTML pages, ZIP archive and own skins (SCS format). This phone has a fast browser and a 1MB cached Java system. The phone is not equipped with Bluetooth

Bluetooth

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 or the ability to change covers, nor does it have an MP3

MP3

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 player. The network frequency

Frequency

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 of the phone is Triple Band EGSM 900 / GSM

Global System for Mobile Communications

GSM , is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to describe technologies for second generation digital cellular networks...

 1800 / GSM 1900.

One can edit or create Mid, JPG, GIF, BMP, BMX etc. files by using various software.(Ex. PhotoEditor, MidEdit, SieFM, PaintCAD or TextEditor)

Critics of this phone state that its battery lasts for only two days even in stand-by mode and then needs to be recharged. Also, at the beginning of its production, the phone was said to sometimes hang or switch off. This was fixed in later versions of firmware

Firmware

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.