Samsung SGH-D880 Dual SIM Mobile Phone

Samsung SGH-D880 Dual SIM Mobile Phone technology on the rise?

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Introduction
General Mobile has with the Black Hill DST11 a mobile phone with the possibility equal to 2 SIM cards inserted successfully in the marketplace. This equipment feature gives the user the opportunity, for example, a private business and its SIM card in the same cell phone use. The success of General Mobile electronics giant Samsung can not rest - with the result that in South Korea when a dual SIM-Phone was developed. The Samsung SGH D880 is a slider and at market prices (without a contract) from the 219th - €. The amount of equipment is abundant. What is missing at the first glance nothing. A 3-MP camera with extensive photo and video capabilities, an MP3 player, memory expansion via Micro SD cards, a comprehensive, contact management, calendars and notebooks with integrated function. How the dual SIM mobile phone, in practice, read in the following test.


Processing

Fitting of battery compartment cover made of plastic
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Two SIM cards of different network operators
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Well equipped controls regulating the volume
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Processing feature
1. The first impression of optical / special features to support the design - simple acting slider phone with rectangular display and slightly back with rubber structure.

2. Housing material / surface quality - Plastic with soft and rounded forms.

3. Quality of the keys - Plastic keys with buttons and boundaries of the steady pressure point.

4. Quality (sharpness / resolution) of the display - TFT display with 242,166 colors and a resolution of 176x144 pixels, the display of colors does slightly pale, but the sharpness is high, without seeming unnatural.

5. Implementation of the folding or sliding - unstable-looking slider mechanism, which already use after a short game to get right and left.

6. Quality of the battery cover - Plastic battery compartment cover easily gummed, with very good fit.

7. The quality and extent of the accessories supplied - Manual, charger, headset, USB cable, software.

8. Conclusion - The timeless look of sliders, with a slightly rubberized plastic, medium-weight and handy forms speak for the SGH-D880. The plastic keys comes with steady pressure point. The TFT display, with its 242,166 colors, images and videos sharp, but a little pale dar. The sliding effect at first glance stable, but still gets short time playing to the right and left. The battery compartment cover is fit.

Business features
1. Supported networks - Triband 900, 1800, 1900.

2. Data transmission / connections - Bluetooth 2.0, EDGE, USB.

3. Reception and voice quality - Good quality of reception even in poor network coverage. In addition, it often comes to dropouts, which is not really good, if the other party to repeat the words must urge.

4. Dual SIM Integration - The dual SIM technology causes concerning the operational safety of any problems. But are the exchange between the two cards are not too comfortable, because for this purpose a small shift button needs to be access from the primary card on the secondary card. When competitors from General Mobile, the Black Hill DST11, this will still work perfectly and comfortably.

5. Battery life (with normal use) - Max. 3 Tage 3 days.

6. Storage facilities contacts - First name, surname, name map, section 1, paragraph 2, e-mail 1, group picture, ringtone, memos, add details: Nickname, private mobile, mobile business, fixed network private, fixed network business, fax, Other, private email, e-business URL, MFA, group, mailing address private, business mailing address, birthday, company, job title. It is highly praise that details to choose from and, if desired can be added, so that the effective contact management individually.

7. Profiles - Normal, without sound, cars, meeting, outside, offline, the preset profiles can be on their own needs.

8. Calendar options - Ads; view by day, week; create: Date, anniversary, holiday, important, private; Go to: Today, date, event list: dates, anniversaries, holidays, important, private, delete selected periods, this month, Date, all; settings: the start date: Monday or Sunday; standard view: month, week, day, alarm in absent; Memory status: 1000 calendar of: appointments, anniversaries, holidays, important, private.

9. Notes function - 1000 characters per note; ads, create send by: Bluetooth, SMS, MMS, email, delete selected several, all in their own files, memory status: 100 memos; much to praise, as other models or competitors in the frequency only 100 to Max. 500 characters per memo.

10. Integrated Voice Recorder (dictaphone) - Playing, recording, voice memos to switch send by: MMS, Email, Bluetooth; move: selected several; copy selected several; Set as: ring tone, caller melody, alarm, delete selected several, all; rename, create folders ; View by: List, thumbnail; listing by: date, type, name, size, Bluetooth visibility selected several; Protect Details: name, date, format, length, size, protection, city, the reproduction of the recording sounds realistic and clear, but with noise audible in the background. At max. Volume, the result is exacerbated by distortions. When a middle or low volume chooses, we will accept the result with quite satisfaction.

11. E-mail functionality - Right quick and easy to create an account. Emails will be quickly downloaded and displayed - despite a lack of UMTS / HSDPA.

12. Internet functionality - Legal rapid loading of their respective Internet sites and good representation.

13. PC synchronization - The software installed easily read, even the Sychronisation went without a hitch. The corresponding data cable is also included.

14. Further facilities - Tasks function, stamp images, image processing, time zone, calculator, conversion, timer, stopwatch.

15. Conclusion - The good reception quality is only sufficient network coverage scores for the Samsung SGH D880. Unfortunately, it disappointed sounding voice playing in telephone calls and use of the speaker reproduced easily distorted voice. 3 day battery life, and the individual contact preferences, profiles, calendars, note the functions and voice recorder are bilanzierend plus points as stated. Thanks to EDGE Internet pages are loaded fairly quickly and orderly.

Multimedia features

Camera in action
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The included Headphones sound mature
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Feature
1. Camera equipment - 3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, camera settings: Quality: Extra Fine, fine, normal; scene Program: normal nocturnal landscape; Metering: Matrix, stressed resources, Spot; Focus Mode: Auto Focus, Pan-focus; single shot mode: host and store automatically save ; Shutter sound, from 1 to 3; zoom sound, brightness sound, on / off; focus sound, on / off default memory: phone or memory card standard name; recording mode: single shot, serial image (6, 9, 15 Recordings), mosaic recording, Panorama; Size: 2048x1536, 1600x1200, 1280x960, 1024x768, 800x600; Timer: off, 3, 5, 10 sec; effects: black and white, negative, sepia, embossing, sketch, antique, moonlight, fog No effects; framework, WB: automatic, daylight, incandescent, fluorescent tubes, cloudy, sunset; ISO: automatic, 100, 200, 400; search function modes: full-screen mode, full-screen viewing and display, full-screen view and guidelines, standard ratio view; camera quick access; post-processing options: new image : Open, photo record, save under; effects: filter, style, warp effect, part blur; balance: Auto level, brightness, contrast, color, modify: resize, rotate, flip, image, adding: Framework, picture, clipart, Emoticons, text, set as wallpaper, caller picture, send by: MMS, Email, Bluetooth; Print by: USB, Bluetooth; picked.

2. Camera quality - In normal lighting conditions can be satisfied with the result - the 3-MP camera sharp and detailed images with balanced, not so with color reproduction. Unfortunately, the picture quality, as we also know very many adversaries, photographs, under conditions with little light held strong. The objects photographed are almost impossible to detect the contours.

3. Video camera equipment - Preferences: Quality: Extra Fine, fine, normal, standard memory: phone or memory card standard name: video; Size: 352x288, 320x240, 176x144, 128x96; timer, effects, WB and search functionality, such as camera, audio recording: on / off; recording mode : Normal, limit for MMS, video camera quick access; plus points are there for the SGH D880, as you adjust the recording sizes. Some other competitor can be only one or max. two record.

4. Video quality - In daylight and normal lighting conditions within a closed space, surprised the SGH-D880 with convincing results, since a proper representation of movement without the typical pixel clouds often possible. Unfortunately, it may be in the dark (even with low light) does not score points, as well as in photography, recorded a maximum rudimentary objects to recognize - the light sensitivity is not high enough to rest with little light yet to provide convincing results.

5. Facilities of the built-in music player - Format: AMR, MP3, play on: Telephone, A2DP device; playlist open: News, all; remove from playlists, send by: MMS, Email, Bluetooth, set as ringtone, caller melody or alarm; settings: Repeat mode: on / off ; Random playback: on / off; equalizer: normal, classical, jazz, rock, 3D Sound: on / off, volume: 0 to 14, music drowns other sounds: on / off; details: name, date: on / around, format , Bit rate, length, size, protection, the ground; shortcuts.

6. Sound quality of the music player - The very favourably placed speakers are songs in "normal" setting in ordinary quality again: The presentation is dynamic and fresh. Depending on the source material, this much interpretation but a little too much of a good thing: Some songs sound a little high in garish. Even in songs with heavy bass potential is playing only minimally disrupted by distortions - very good. Samsung typical convinced the supplied stereo headphone through balanced, harmonious sound.

7. Radio yes / no, sound quality radio - Radio; speaker on / off; automatic station search; favourites to add favorites open to listen, add, edit, remove selected, several all; than alarm, program memory; settings: background music: on / off; Reproduction of the Channel is almost completely scratch.

8. Storage capacity - 44 MB of dynamic photos, videos, music and other files, 4 MB Java and 6 MB for MMS and email; expandable with Micro SD cards up to 2 GB.

9. Conclusion - With a rather extensive camera equipment and good results in photo and video recordings, the D880 scored again. The music player includes a standard equipment and surprised with good sound. The radio stations are almost can play up to 29 seats show. 44 MB internal memory is sufficient for user data, but thanks Micro SD cards is the SGH D880 still expandable to 2 GB.


Total Conclusion

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Samsung is currently equipped with fully processed and noble, innovative mobile phones worldwide on the rise. The SGH-D880 has the task by the integrated dual SIM technology also play its part to help. In many concerns the optical succeed in this simple, but appears somewhat antiquated slider, too. This caused the dual SIM operating no difficulty in terms of operational security, battery life and reception quality as well as to praise the generously measured 1,000 characters per note. Also contact the individual processing facilities are considered an advantage to mention. The 3-MP camera comes with gratifying results in daylight, the same is true for the video mode. Not convinced us have minimal interruptions during the leadership of a conversation, regardless of the reception conditions. But we are convinced that this is an isolated phenomenon of our test unit. The use of dual SIM function could be even more convenient, as we would be on board with HSDPA wish, so that even faster into the Internet reaches.

price of this phone

The price of Samsung SGH-D880 is approx Rs 13,799 in India.

Hye. just wanna share my experience using this SGH D880.
(It is not mine, but got the opportunity to use it for a while).

There is no need to restart the phone to make a call or text with either sims. If u want to make a call with the other one sim just press a dedicated button to swap sim. Same goes with text.

The button located above the volume control button.