Possible details emerge on Samsung D830

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Brent @ Nov 25th 2006 11:48AM

I have this phone . . . well it is the Chinese version (SGH-D838). I got it in Taipei when I was on a business trip. Battery life seems OK, but I always put my phones on the charger every night.

Physically the phone is great. Thin means a great deal to me (I keep it in my front pants pocket). This phone is thin. The height of the phone is great for me, it gets the mic right in front of my mouth where it belongs.

I have had some fun getting it to work with T-Mobile I have everything going except the EDGE. I have the modem going, but the through-put is not comparable to my wife's EDGE-ebnabled MDA. I think there must be something else done to make the EDGE on this phone work with T-Mobile's EDGE.

The 240x320 screen is awesome! You should see Google Maps Mobile on "Satellite view" on this phone. It rocks!

Obligatory comparisons to the RAZR:
_ * Thinner (9.9mm vs 14.9mm), longer, about the same width.
_ * Keypad is different than the RAZR, not better or worse, but different.
_ * Menu system is much better
_ * Screen is much better
_ * Reception seems comparable (no "real" testing done, just seems about the same)
_ * Games, web and so forth are better . . . but largely because of the bigger screen.

Having a completely unlocked phone is good, I could not get my RAZR to cooperate with much of anything as far as Bluetooth was concerned (I must admit I did not try real hard) but with this phone I transferred photos to my wife's MDA in seconds.

One cool feature: Plug in the supplied cord to your PC and the microSD appears like a USB flash drive. Very nice. The cable and PC software are included (you can download the latest software from Samsung's site). I had to pay extra for the software and cable for the RAZR. Corresponding bummer: It will not charge from the PC over the data cable.

In all, I think it is an awesome phone.

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