Slimey Samsung phone! (Samsung SGH-D900)

Member Name: zikiman

Product:	Samsung SGH-D900
Date:	07/10/09 (17 review reads)
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Advantages: great look, 3megapixel camera

Disadvantages: plasticky feeling

The moment I laid my eyes on this phone, I stopped blinking. The Slimness of this phone is the sexiest bit of this phone with 12.9mm of thickness. The function of Slide also makes the phone even more stylish and also making it compact. What I like about this phone is when I put this phone in my jean pocket where I usually put it, it doesn't show at all. It's as if there is nothing in my pocket and sometimes, I forget that I have a phone in my pocket. The phone looks as if it has some weight, but in fact it's the opposite and its super light. Some people say that D900 is quite wide and thinks this is a bad thing but I think wide phones are useful because it gives you the grip of the phone and you hardly miss and drop the phone. The plastic feeling also acts the same way as I described with the width of the phone. I drop my phone couple of times, and there are hardly any scratches.

I thought this phone was going to be very expensive but then I searched through EBay and it was around 100 to 150 pounds and I said to myself that it is worth the money so I quickly bought this phone.

Whenever I received this phone, I was very happy with the product even more since I received Wireless Headphone with it. It was really easy to use.
The first thing I did when I received this phone, I checked the quality of the camera and compared to my digital camera since my digital camera is 3 megapixels too. The quality was very clean and outstanding. I thought it was better than my digital camera. Not only you can just take boring photos, but you can also add picture frames and effects. You can turn your friends or pets into clowns, lol. At the highest quality set on the camera, it takes a bit of time to take it and you have to hold it quite still but the output quality is worth all the effort.

Video function is also excellent with the function of pause during filming. During playback, if you press 1 you can view the video at the full screen size so that you don't have to squint your eyes.

I can't really say much about the battery life because it depends on what we actually do with the phone. I myself don't turn off the phone at all and I normally call people whereas text and I also listen to music and it lasts about 3 or 4 days. If you intend to go for a week holiday I suggest you to bring a charger.

The messaging is super convenient. I have used many other phones and I have to say Samsung phones are easiest to text. All the functions of predictive text and normal input are installed. One of the functions I have never seen was the vivid messaging where you type certain word, it changes to emoticon. For example, the word Happy is changed to Smiling Face. Although, it doesn't save sent messages automatically but you can save them by 'Save and Send' when you are about to send a text to someone. In my opinion, I liked the way it didn't save because I keep my received text and don't delete them for like a month and sent messages gets in the way of keeping my texts although you can keep 200 texts at the maximum.

One of the weird functions that I found was where you link the charger and you link this on the side of the phone where you also put the earphone which I found quite awkward. On the other hand, linking on the side is quite useful because it tucks away all the charger cables to the side and it's easier to text as well.

MP3 player is also in great quality. One of the things I found very useful is background player where it plays in the background and can do something else. The sound quality is amazing through the speaker but it could do with a bit more volume but then again, it's a phone. Like other phones, you can make your favourite Mp3 as a ringtone and show off your friends.

When you type the number, it comes out in large bold font making it easier to read. This is really useful if elders are using this phone. You can also group phone numbers into Family, Friends and you can have them different ringtones so you will know who is calling you. It's very useful if someone you don't like is calling you. You can also have the person photo displaying on the screen when they are calling you.

The internal memory given is not that great, however external memory slot is installed so you can expand the memory and the memory card is also not that expensive. The maximum memory card you can use is 1GB.

The connectivity of this phone is very easy to use. When you connect this phone to the computer, it recognizes as a hard drive so you don't really need to install the driver that is given. This is also useful because you Drag and Drop the files and it only takes couple of seconds to transfer.

Other applications include,
Voice Recorder
Image Editor
Bluetooth
Games (known as Java application)
Alarm
Calendar
Memo
World Clock
Calculator
Converter
Timer
Stopwatch

Overall, this phone is excellent for everyone and it also beats LG chocolate at most. I recommend this to everyone except the people who works at construction site, you wouldn't want this phone be dirty.

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