BenQ Mobile
| BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. OHG |
| founding | October 1, 2005 |
| resolution | February 24, 2007 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
| management | Martin Prager, insolvency administrator |
| Number of employees | 7000 (2006) |
| sales | 5.6 billion euros (2004) |
The BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG was a daughter of Taiwanese electronics manufacturer BenQ . It was created through the takeover of the mobile phone division Siemens Mobile from Siemens AG and the merger with its own telecommunications division. With this, BenQ suddenly rose to become one of the five largest brand manufacturers for mobile phones in the world.
history
Since October 1, 2005, the division has been run under the name BenQ Mobile with headquarters in Munich and emerged from Siemens Mobile. This employed about 6000 people worldwide and was thus at times the largest area of activity of BenQ. Thanks to a license agreement, the company was able to manufacture devices under the double name BenQ-Siemens over the next few years , before all products would only have their own BenQ brand by 2010 at the latest .
After the parent company stopped making payments on September 29, 2006, BenQ Mobile Germany filed for bankruptcy . A spokesman for the insolvency administrator Martin Prager confirmed that on January 2, 2007, the official insolvency proceedings were opened by the Munich District Court. Production and operations were shut down on December 31, 2006. On February 24, 2007, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the last potential investor had dropped out and the company was now being broken up.
BenQ cell phones continue to be sold in Asia.
From June 11th to 15th, 2007, the production facilities and equipment at the Kamp-Lintfort plant were auctioned. The site of the plant was acquired by Walter Hellmich in October 2008 and was discussed as the location of the later Rhein-Waal University .
Products
The E71 and EL71 are a pure Siemens development. The E71 would probably have been launched as the S85 and the EL71 as the SL85, but BenQ's nomenclature prevented this. The EL71 is the slider version of the E71, which is a classic barphone . The E71 has an integrated radio, the EL71 has an LED photo light that can also be used as a torch. The EL71 is visually related to the EF81, the E71 has its own design that is very reminiscent of the S35i and ME45. The EL71 has an aluminum shell, the E71 has a special paint, on which fingerprints should be very difficult to recognize.
The EF81 is a UMTS mobile phone. A flat clamshell mobile phone (depth 15.9 mm) with functions such as video telephony and a 2 megapixel camera. The device also has an MP3 player and video player. The interior display has 240 × 320 pixels and shows 262,144 colors. In addition to plastic, the housing is also made of magnesium , brushed stainless steel and a display made of hardened mineral glass . The device was first presented to the public in December 2005.
The EF91 was the first device in the world to have HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), a further developed data transmission method of the UMTS mobile radio standard. In addition, the mobile phone includes a 3,2 megapixel - Digital camera with auto focus and other multimedia functions. The device came on the market in August 2006.
The S68 is a 13.2 mm thin cell phone. It is made of brushed aluminum and has a transflective display with 262144 colors.
The S88 is a multimedia - mobile phone with a 2.0-inch active-matrix OLED display with 262,144 colors and 176 × 220 pixels. It has functions such as: 2.0 megapixel camera with autofocus and 16x digital zoom, music player (MP3, AAC +, AMR) and microSD slot, 3D surround sound and equalizer, Microsoft Outlook® synchronization, Video playback, video recording, media player, GPRS, Bluetooth, digitized voice recording and programmable softkeys. The device was available from April 2006 in the colors Brilliant Black and Astral White. Due to its poor overall quality, the S88 did not sell particularly well and was available for half the price of a Sony Ericsson K750i despite similar technical specifications .
Of the devices presented, the S88 and EF91 were developed by the management of BenQ. The quality of the software is described by many Siemens experts as slow and unstable, probably one reason why the devices were not particularly popular.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/management/insolvenzverwalter-martin-prager-der-mann-der-benq-mobile-retten-soll-seite-2/2716256-2.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.areamobile.de/news/4301-benq-mobile-startet-operatives-geschaeft
- ↑ golem.de: Official insolvency proceedings opened
- ^ Heise Online: BenQ mobile phone business in Germany at the end
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The end of BenQ Mobile
- ↑ Markt & Technik, issue no.20 of May 18, 2007, page 28, ISSN 0344-8843 .
- ↑ derwesten.de: Hellmich buys BenQ premises
