General Mobile (a rather unknown company) has recently announced the first Dual SIM phone running on Android. The DSTL1 Imaginary will be presented during the MWC from 16 to 19 February 2009 in Barcelona (Spain).
The DSTL1 Imaginary has some impressive features such as:
In July 2008, Motorola MING A1800 was presented as the first Motorola Dual SIM phone. It was launched in China and designed for the Chinese market. Motorola has released more models of the PDA series MING, these pen-based PDA's are rather useful in China because of the Chinese preference of writing characters by hand.
Main features:
The Philips 699 Dual SIM was announced at the same time as Philips Xenium 9@9w, August 2007. I didn't get news about when and where this phone was going to be sold.
This handset has a candybar design. It includes a full touch screen display of 2.5inch (262K TFT), a 1.3 megapixel camera, dual SIM slots and the micro-SD card slot.
As Philips Xenium 9@9w, the Philips 699 doesn't come with a dual standby mode. Only one SIM remains active, so you'll have to reboot the handset and wait for about five seconds to switch SIMs.
This is a dual-band (GSM 900, 1800MHz) phone with Bluetooth 2.0, GPRS and a rather small internal memory of just 11MB.
Philips 699 was announced to be sold on the Chinese market, and it probably won't be sold outside this area.
Via: Complete review of Philips 699
Philips Xenium 9@9W first Dual SIM handset was announced in August 2007 and released in December. It's an ultra-slim candybar handset (only 12mm thick) which only weighs 90 grams.
It has a small screen display (just 1.9 inch), a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth and USB connectivity. No news about WI-FI connection. It has an internal memory of 11MB and it comes with microSD slot.
Philips Xenium 9@9W is a triband Dual SIM (GSM 900/1800/1900), so it can be used in most countries around de world. To verify if your Mobile Network Operator (MNO) try this website: GMS Coverage Maps.
However, both SIMs are not active at the same time, so you'll have to switch between card slots before using the inactive card:
Couple of video-reviews about the first Dual SIM cell phone from a major manufacturer.
TigerTV explaining Samsung D880 features. The guy says it has WI-FI, a feature SGH-D880 does certanly not have, apart from that the review is ok:
Italian review of Samsung D880. It shows how easy is to switch numbers (4.50min). A great & complete review:
Samsung D880 DuoS was the first Dual SIM mobile from a major manufacturer. Several models had been made by little known manufacturers (such as CECT and Anycool) and mainly in Asia before Samsung D880. It was announced in October 2007 and released in December 2007.
Samsung SGH-D880 was headed for mainstream Europe. It can work with both cards simultaneously to make and receive calls, send/receive SMS messages. The phone is only 2.5G as far as Internet access goes. It's a pity that it hasn't got WI-FI connetion.
Main features:
* GSM 900/1800/1900 EDGE connectivity
* 2.3″ QVGA Display
* 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus
* FM Radio
* Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP, USB 2.0
* 1200 mAh battery
* Dimensions: 104×51x18.9
It was expected to cost around $700. Nowadays (January 2009) you can buy this slider handset for less than $300.
Full specifications and opinions: gsmarena.com
Via: Unwiredview
In January 2007, Dubao 728 was presented as the first Dual SIM phone.
From then on, a long list of Dual SIM cell phones started to be manufactured. But just few of them were made by famous manufacturers such us Samsung, Motorola and Philips.
As a matter of fact, most of them are Chinese cell phone clons.
The dual-SIM feature allows a device to operate on two different networks at the same time. This is great for those who need two handsets and two different phone numbers (business and personal), as they only have to carry one handset.
From today this blogger will just talk about this kind of phones.
Welcome readers and opinions!
