Samsung Ego S9402: luxurious Dual SIM

Samsung Ego GT-S9402 was announced on December 2008. It's a really expensive Dual SIM handset, around 1700$ (1200€).

It's been built with the most expensive materials used for manufacturing such us a scratch resistant glass or a metallic mix alloy from rhodium and platinum. The alloy covers the handset's shell making it almost indestructible.

Other Samsung Ego S9402 specs include:

* Triband GSM (900/1800/1900 Mhz), GPRS/EDGE connectivity on 1st SIM card
* Dual band (900/1800 Mhz), GPRS/EDGE connectivity on 2nd SIM card
* 2" 262K color QVGA AMOLED display
* 5 mpx camera with autofocus, image stabilization, smile detection, WDR and LED flash
* FM Radio with RDS
* 1 GB of built-in memory
* microSDHC memory card slot (up to 8 GB)
* Bluetooth 2.0 and USB
* 960 mAh battery
* Dimensions: 115 x 48 x 16 mm
* Weight: 140 g

Who's willing to pay for this handset??

Via movilesdualsim.com

Samsung restrained from making DuoS in India

The Madras High Court Monday restrained mobile phone manufacturers Samsung, Mirc Electronics and Spice Mobile and several retailers from manufacturing and selling multiple SIM holding mobile phones.

This is the first step made by Ramkumar, a 36-year-old electronics engineer, who holds the Indian patent for plurality of SIM cards in a single mobile handset as well as plurality of bluetooth devices in headphone and earphone jacks.

The case was supposed to be taken for hearing April 13. I've got no more news about that.

Via siliconindia

Top 2 SIM 1 Phone: April 2009

Most readed posts about Dual SIM handsets during last month:

1º Samsung D880 DuoS
2º Sciphone i68+
3º Dual SIM on Android
4º Samsung c5212 DuoS
5º Samsung D980 DuoS

Samsung C5212 DuoS

Samsung C5212 DuoS is last Dual SIM from Samsung. As Samsung B5702, this cellphone was announced in Russia.

Samsung C5212 is a candybar that features:

* Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity
* 2.2 inch TFT display with 176 x 220 pixels and 262K colors
* Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
* 1.3 MP camera
* 40MB of internal memory
* MicroSD card support, up to 4GB
* 97.5 x 55 x 16.3 mm

It is expected to go on sale in other Eastern-European countries, as well as on the Asian market. In Russia, the cellphone can be purchased for around $200 (6990 rubles), the cheaper Samsung Dual SIM cellphone.

Via unwiredview

Dual SIM Samsung B5702 in Russia

Dual SIM Samsung B5702 was officially announced in Russia via press release.

As we already guessed, you can connect the Internet via EDGE, but it doesn't have 3G. It's a quad-band handset (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), with FM radio, 3megapixel autofocus camera and 2.4 inch TFT display.

Other specifications:

• Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR
• Music and video players
• Document viewer
• 50MB of internal memory
• MicroSD card support, up to 8GB
• 106 x 52.5 x 17.5 mm

Samsung B5702 will be on sale May 2009 at approximately 14.000 rubles (415$). After that it will be spread in many other countries.

Via unwiredview

Samsung Omnia Dual SIM (clon)

A Samsung Omnia clon is being sold by Fastcardtech.com. Of course it doesn't bring the same features as it's original model, but at least it is a Dual SIM phone.

It operates in GSM 900/1800MHz frequency, weights 125gr and has a 2.4 inch touchscreen.
It's a nice phone. Anyone pretending to have a Samsung Omnia would need to hide SUMSANG logo.

Via JAMP

D980: Samsung DuoS

Samsung D980 DuoS is the third Dual SIM phone presented by Samsung. It was released in October 2008 and designed for the Chinese market (also known as D988 DuoS in other markets).

This iPhone-style phone has a 2.6inches touchscreen, 5 megapixel autofocus camera, microSD slot, Bluetooth 2.0... Both SIMs in Samsung D980 work simultaneously with GSM triband networks (900/1800/1900).

Several opinions can be found at GSMarena review.
Samsung D980 video-review :




Unfortunately, this Samsung DuoS has no 3G.

Via MobileWhack

Samsung D780 Dual Sim

Samsung D780 Dual SIM (also branded as Samsung P240 DuoS) is the second Dual SIM handset made by Samsung.

The most important thing about this phone is the Dual SIM capability. This bar-style phone has a 2 megapixel camera, 2.1-inch TFT display, microSD memory expansion, FM radio, Bluetooth and MS Office document viewer.

Main disadvantages are shown at GSMarena review:

Secondary SIM good for telephony and messaging only
Secondary SIM dual-band only (no 1900 MHz support)
Large size
Interface options well behind the times
Poor sunlight legibility
No 3G support
Portrait-oriented camera
Poor web browser
Awkward file browser
Poor music player

As we can read at Unwiredview, you have to reboot if you want to initiate calls from the "Secondary" card. You can buy it at ebay for about 250$, pretty expensive.

Video-reviews at Youtube:
Allmobiletech Samsung D780 Review:


Phone Arena SGH-D780 Review:

B5702: Fifth Samsung Dual SIM

Samsung B5702 is their last Dual SIM phone. Previously they launched their first and most famous Dual SIM: Samsung D880 DuoS. From them on Samsung D780, Samsung D980 and Samsung S9502 were presented.

Info about this phone is still a rumor. It is supposed to be and slimmer like Samsung D880 DuoS (18,9mm thick), a 256K color QVGA display...

But as they don't say anything about WIFI or 3G, we guess B5702 won't have those features.

Via GSMarena and Techblog

Samsung SGH-D880: Video-reviews

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 Dual SIM

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

Just Dual SIM Phones

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!