DB OR NOT DB (NEC DB4000)

Member Name: yoshitoshi

Product:	NEC DB4000
Date:	22/08/01 (252 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: comfortable phone, easy to use

Disadvantages: lackluster phone, bland

The NEC DB (Dual Band) 4000 is one of a series of phones made by NEC. Its small light and easy to use looks nice and feels nice in the hand. The phone features a vibrating ringer, 14 ring tones, you can assign ring tones to 20 different people in your phone book and also features an answer/disconnect flip pad and flip pad auto keylock.

Aesthetics:

The flip is sturdy and not clumsy at all and the buttons are easy to use to navigate the menu system as well as for dialling. The antenna is not to big and will not make a big impression when carrying in your pocket.

The Menu system is the same as the previous DB2000 so software wise it does not appear upgraded. The ring-tones are also the same as the DB2000 and now sound very bland and boring for what should be a newer improved model.

Only thing I think it lacks is a bit of character, to separate it from the other phones, you have to remember this is about the forth phone that NEC have come up with in the series....

Problems:

For a start the battery life is shorter than the DB2000 so this is a downgrade instead of an upgrade. On the first phone I had there were two serious faults. One there was an echo problem when calling people and two there was a clicking noise the phone would make when on standby it would just sit there and click like the battery was about to run out.
These faults were not present in my second phone, which took the Pocket Phone Shop about two and half months to repair or replace as the case maybe. This did not leave a good impression of their company and also leaving me with a Nokia 5110 as a replacement without a battery charger, great customer service there.

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