Samsung D500 (Samsung SGH-D500)

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Product:	Samsung SGH-D500
Date:	03.01.07 (174 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Phone

Disadvantages: None

Samsung D500

Well the Samsung D500 is quite an awesome phone; it has the ability to do pretty much whatever you want well excluding things like making a cup of tea of course. It has so much that you can do. There are thousands of people who have bought one of these phones, it can be used as a personal phone for yourself but there are also lots of companies out there who supply them to their employees because they are such good phones. I used to have one of these phones before I upgraded to a D600 which I will also be writing a review about. I had no trouble what so ever using this phone, and it allowed me to do everything I needed to, at the time it was the top of the range phone and I was quite chuffed with the value for money because it’s such a great phone.

Here are all of the features that can be used with the phone:

•  Band : Tri-band (900/1800/1900MHz)
•  Camera : 1.3 Mega pixel Camera with Flash and digital zoom
•  Display : 262,144 TFT LCD (176x220 pixels)
•  Dimension : 93.5×45.7 ×23.5mm
•  Weight : 99g
•  Video Recording & Messaging (H.263/MPEG4)
•  Music Player (MP3/AAC)
•  E-Mail Client / vCard / vCalendar
•  MMS / Java / WAP 2.0
•  Bluetooth / USB/ 80MB memory/ SyncML
•  64 Polyphonic Ring tones / MP3 Ring tone
•  Speaker phone / Voice Clarity

This is some quite amazing stuff, all thanks to technology. Well I will explain all of the features to you, the first one being:

Tri band: this means that the phone can be used in all different countries from around the world allowing you to keep in touch with relatives whilst on holiday etc. the only downfall to this feature is that when you are using the phone abroad then the costs to ring people are extremely high so really this is not really much of a good feature unless you are quite rich lol.

The next feature is the camera, for a mobile phone this is an excellent quality camera. It’s a 1.3megapixel camera. This means that for every photo that you take on the phone there are 1.3 million dots in the picture. The more dots called pixels the better the picture and this quite good for a phone. Although digital cameras go up to 8megapixel and higher for the size of the image and the quality of the phone 1.3megapixel is more than what can be expected and I think is great.

The actual screen that you look at is an LCD screen, this means liquid crystal display which is very good quality and manufactures are now making TVs with this substance. The liquid crystal makes the screen very vibrant and bursting with colour so that it looks better than any phone before it. In my opinion I think that this is an awesome quality for a phone it just makes the phone look so much better than phones before it.

The dimensions and weight which can be seen above makes the phone very small and lightweight. Which is great; why would you want a phone in your pocket totally weighing you down and be ashamed to take it out of your pocket. With the D500 you will want to have your phone out more often and show it off to the world because its so good. As an extra feature with this phone the design of it means that the phone slides up and down which when slid upwards reveals a keypad which can be used to text and things.

As well as being able to take pictures with great quality on the phone, you can also record videos on the phone making it even better, with the ability to record things and then view them later with friends etc. I find that this is wicked. The quality of the video is also amazing as is the pictures which makes viewing them even better.

With this phone having a camera and also being able to use the camera to video then this brings us on to the next feature, being able to send video and picture messages to another phone through the use of GPRS, although it cost more to send a picture or video that a standard message it is still a great feature that you can use. I find that this feature is pretty awesome. I send pictures to my family all of the time.

The phone can also store and play music files. This is in the file format of MP3, this is a good format for music to be stored because it is small compared to some file sizes of songs that are in WMA. Anyway the phone can play these files by you going into your files and selecting the song that you want to play, or you can use the music player application so that it continuously plays. This is a good feature because it allows you to do what you want and then also play music at the same time. I find that this is a good feature because I like to listen to music whilst I text people etc.

Also because the mobile phone has GPRS then you are able to send emails and E-cards etc. this is great for the user because it also acts as a mini portable computer that can be used anywhere that you have a signal. This is a good feature for a business man which is another reason that some companies use them for there employees to be contacted when they are around the building etc.

As with most mobile phones these days the phone comes fully complete with Bluetooth so that you can send data to other Bluetooth devices wirelessly. This was an excellent invention of somebody. One of the most common things that people do is use Bluetooth printer, Bluetooth headsets and all sorts of Bluetooth things. Data can be sent from one phone to another through the use of Bluetooth. This is so that file transfer becomes even easier. You can also connect you mobile phone to a computer with the Bluetooth adapter so that you phone can be synchronised with the data on your computer and also so that files can be stored on the computer.

Well everybody loves the songs in the charts these days so why not set them so that they are your ring tone so that you can listen to it every time you phone rings. The Samsung D500 allows you to set MP3 files as you ring tone and message tone so you can have a unique ring tone. Also the phone enables polyphonic ring tones.

As you already know the phone allows you to store and play MP3 files, so why not use the loudspeaker that attaches to the side of the phone and allows you to play music even louder so everyone can hear, with this attachment the quality of sound is so much better its just quite amazing for all of this technology for a phone.

Well that sums up all of the features that the phone has. I found that it was a great phone before I upgraded, it allowed me to do anything that I wanted because it was the top of the range at that time. Wherever I went people were asking to see my phone because it was so good. I had all of the newest music on my phone because what ever I got on my computer went straight on to my phone and I also had some quite cool pictures that I got off the internet and also had lots of family photos that I had on the computer.

Now really what more could you want from a mobile phone, I cant wait to see what else technology brings us. I really wanted to spread the word of how much of a good phone his is because it really is. I would recommend it to any potential buyers as it is going for quite cheap now. I think that it can be purchased for around £80.00, from places such as Amazon and even in some manufactures shops, which is awesome value for money.

Thank you very much for reading, and I hope you read my other reviews.

Summary: Great, Great, Great

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