Good Reliable Phone (Samsung SGH-D900)

Member Name: wwfc_barmy_army

Product:	Samsung SGH-D900
Date:	27/07/07 (345 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Looks good, reliable, durable

Disadvantages: A few of the settings, can't use custom sms tone

I've had this phone now since March this year, so around 4 months. I got the phone on an Orange contract in a special deal.

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Why did i choose this phone?
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I had previously had the Samsung D500 on PAYG (Pay as you go) and it had done the job very well. I found it reliable and pretty easy to use. So i decided to go for the D900.

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Useability
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Being a user of the D500 the D900 menu layout was reasonably similar with only a few more options and layout changes.

The menu layout can be seen here: http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inlin e/3457-8.jpg

Text Messages - Very similar to most phones, although the space key changes from phone to phone, and to bring up all the special characters you need to hold #. I'm sure this is mentioned in the manual but who reads that? ;p

Applications - The phone comes with a number of applications, Music player, Voice recorder, image editor, and java world (Games). All are self explanitary really and reasonably simple to use.

Camera - The camera is pretty easy to use and i'll discuss that later.

All other features on the phone are pretty easy to use.

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Reliability
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I've had the phone for 4 months, it's crashed (and reset automatically) once, i can't remember why is did it now though, but i was pretty sure i was messing about with it so it was probably my fault. Apart from that it's been fine.

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Durability
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Every phone that i get never gets treated with care lol The phone has been dropped a number of times onto our laminate flooring, and it's fine, infact there are hardly any scratches on it, in fact i can't actually see any scratches, i know someone with a sony phone, and he's had it for the same amount of time, and his is very scratched and he takes more care of his. I've happy with how durable it is.

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Camera
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The camera itself is easy to use, there is a shortcut button on the side which you press once to bring up the camera menu and again to bring up the camera. Then you point and press it again to take. Easy as that. It's got a 3mp camera on it, and also has a light for when you are taking a picture when it's dark. To be honest all picture stay on my phone, and look great on the phone. It will also record video. The quality of the video is also very good on the phone.

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Bluetooth
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I've connected it up to my laptop a few times with a bluetooth adapter, always me to get all the pictures etc from it. Works a treat.

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Memory Card
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I purchased a 1GB memory card for it from ebay a month ago, haven't used it much yet, i have a few songs on it, and it works fine. Well worth getting.

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Specs
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Network GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900
Announced 2006, June
Status Available
Dimensions 103.5 x 51 x 12.9 mm
Weight 85 g
Type TFT, 256K colors
Size 240 x 320 pixels, 32 x 42 mm
Type Polyphonic (64 channels), MP3
Amount 30 preset
Vibration Yes
- 3D sound speaker
Phonebook 1000 entries, Photo call
Call records 30 dialed, 30 received, 30 missed calls
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), buy memory
- 60 MB embedded memory
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v1.1
Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
Games Yes + downloadable, order now
Colors Black/Silver, Blue, Red/Gray
Camera 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, video(CIF), flash
- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/ACC+ player
- T9
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF)
- Organizer
- TV output
- Voice memo
- Built-in handsfree
Standard battery, Li-Ion 800 mAh
Stand-by Up to 260 h
Talk time Up to 6 h 30 min


Can't really think of what else to tell you. The phone has been great so far. Spot on.

Summary: Spot on.

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