2 in 1: Samsung D880 Duos- A Review
Posted on April 21, 2008 in Technology by Annie
With the latest trend of two SIMs in one phone Samsung has launched its new phone Samsung D880 Duos. D880 is armed with super Samsung quality and excellent design. This phone provides you with flawless dual SIM functionality, without any compromise. Best feature about Samsung D880 Duos is that you can activate both the SIMs at the same time.
Samsung D880 Duos is not the first of its kind; there are many Chinese products available in the market with dual SIM slots. There is a large group of people willing to use 2 SIMs in one phone. Samsung D880 can be an excellent option for them. Besides dual SIM slots the other key features of Samsung D880 Duos are listed below:
- 3 mega pixel camera with autofocus and superior image quality
- With QVGA resolution 2.3” 262K color TFT display
- Bluetooth with A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile)
- Large capacity battery
- Expandable memory with microSD memory card slot
- MS Office document viewer
- FM radio
- Quick interface response
- Comfortable keyboard and controls
- TV out
Other general specifications of Samsung D880 Duos are:
- Color: Noble black
- Dimensions: 104×51x18.9 mm
- Weight: 116 g
- Memory: 60 MB internal memory, expandable memory upto 2GB
- Battery: Standard battery, Li-lon 1200 mAh
- Phonebook: 1000 entries with photocall
- Call Records: 30 dialed, received and missed calls
- Infrared Port: Not available
- Bluetooth: Available, v2.0 with A2DP
- USB: v2.0
- Edge: Class 10, 236.8kbps
- Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML
- Camera: 3.15MP, 2048×1536 pixels, video recording and autofocus
If there are advantages there ought to be disadvantages as nothing is perfect. The key disadvantages observed in Samsung D880 Duos are:
- Old and unexciting sliding design
- Large size
- Out dated interface options
- Secondary SIM can be used only for making calls and messaging
- Secondary SIM is backed with dual band support only
- Camera is with portrait orientation
- Poor web browser
- Poor music player
- Uncomfortable file browser
- Poor sunlight readability
- No 3G support
Samsung D880 Duos is pretty expensive as the initial cost ranges around $700. Samsung Company is planning to expand and launch a series of Duos in this year. In fact recently company announced the next Duos: Samsung D780 and it is expected to release in the month of May this year.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I bought this D880 15 days back and a deeply disappointed. I had N70 preveousto that and proformancewise, N70 is far better than D880.
The most hurtening is the music quality and the maximum volume level.The the sound while talking on the second sim is very bad and
the signal for second sim is always bad.
I am already thinking of selling the phone within15 daysof purchase.