Samsung SGH D500

INTRODUCTION I have read some cracking reviews on this phone, and they even managed to persuade me to buy one. I've had mine for a few weeks now and I thought I'd let you know what I think of it. I have decided to write a technophobes guide to the phone. I don't really understand all that technical stuff and I think there are plenty of reviews covering that side of things that give all the technical info you need. So I'm going to let you know the ...
...terms. I've broken it down into categories, so you can just look at the bits that interest you rather than trawling through all of it. I'll start off with a general overview of the phone. GENERAL OVERVIEW The D500 is a sleek little dark metallic grey mobile phone that opens with a slider instead of a flip up front. This is a nice feature, it opens smoothly and automatically locks when the slider is closed. This stops you from pressing buttons on ...

NATI 11.06.2005 · Read full review
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...not raised so sometimes when texting your finger may slip onto the key next to it. Thankyou for taking the time to read this, you deserve a cup of tea and a rest now!!!! Oh I forgot, one more thing…. The website address for Samsung is www.samsungmobile.com. ...

Andy0304 03.09.2005 · Read full review
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...little number from Samsung. Now Samsung are not a make I would ordinarily consider, but this particular phone has been the subject of rave reviews on the web, so I figured I would splash out. How does it look? -------------------------------- In a word, gorgeous. It is a very small phone, dominated by a huge screen. It is finished in a high quality glossy black plastic (sadly not metal). On one side, you are greeted by volume buttons, and on the ...
...Call quality is excellent, with Samsung using a proprietary call enhancement technology - that really works! I can defiantly notice an improvement in call quality when this feature is switched on. Storing names and numbers is a cinch too, with the phone enabling you to store 4 numbers, email, address, photo and other various bits of information. Of course, when the phone rings, you are greeted by the caller's ugly mug thanks to the photo-ID. Other ...

rickyshah 12.01.2005 · Read full review
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...search down to two different Samsung phones. In the end I decided on the Samsung D500 for a few reason. Mainly as it was a compact phone, which was selling for a reasonable price, it was on the network I wanted, it was a slide phone and it had many features that I was looking for. *****Price and Availability****** www.ebay.co.uk - £60.00 plus £7.00 postage second hand on Orange network www.carephonewarehouse.co.uk £159.99 free postage and free £10.00 ...
...has been replaced with the Samsung d600 on their site. ******Network****** I bought this phone on the orange network but it is also available on Mobile world, Virgin, O2 and T mobile. If you buy this phone on Ebay the chances are that the phone will be unlocked. Meaning that you can put any sim card in it. *****What's in the box when you receive it? ***** Providing you buy it new you will find the following within the box, *The battery, which will ...

marcellep2 04.01.2007 · Read full review
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...be honest I'd heard that Samsung phones weren't that good and were very fragile. I took a look on the Internet to see what other people thought of this phone and to see if what I'd heard was true. It wasn't and there was nothing but praise for this phone so I decided that I'd get one. The problem was that I didn't want to pay for it, and was reluctant to change my number or move from Vodafone. Unfortunately to get a good deal this wasn't possible ...
...loyalty to Vodafone and switched to O2. I got a very good deal through dial-a-phone (I'll be writing a review about them very soon) and got myself a free D500. So here are all the details about my sexy new phone. I'll start with the looks, as this is what drew me towards it in the first place. Appearance ========= It is very stylish phone. Small (measuring only 9cm high at it smallest before you slide it open), with a huge display. Mine is black, ...

TallPaul73 24.08.2005 · Read full review
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...soon as I saw the Samsung D500 advertised, I thought that I would wait for them to be available in the UK. Then I thought, hang on a minute, what if we are getting all the rubbish in the UK? I have often travelled to the continent only to see what appeared to be more sophisticated phones than we have! So when the Samsung D500 had been out in the Uk for sometime, I visited Amsterdam and set about searching for a phone over there instead. In Amsterdam ...
...straightforward. As with the latest Samsung phones the menus are fairly simple to navigate. The graphics are clear to understand. The phone is automatically locked when the slider is closed. So no need to press anything else. The graphics are so obvious that you can use the phone without the book. Open the slider and you have your usual menu style phone with a cursor for navigation and a 'left/right' option to select whatever you choose. Texting ...

Suziwann 22.04.2005 (09.12.2005) · Read full review
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I got this phone from my parents as a birthday present and i loved every second of it. I never knew that i would ever get this. This happened quite a long time ago but i could remember every bit of it. When i first got this phone, it was very easy to use. There was no complicated way of accessing files or folders. Also, the manual was very useful as well with quided pictures. The Look: It's absolutely amazing look. One of the best slide phones. ...
...making it smaller. It's smaller than the palm of our hand. When it's slided up, the camera is shown back of the phone and the feel of the keypad is sensational. There is a rubber thing in between the screen and te silver button and it's usage is for making it easier for us to slide it up and down. Basically it's stunning. The battery: (Li-Ion 1000mAh) Very important aspect of every phone. What's the use if the phone cannot last a day? No fun, eh, ...

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I bought this phone well over a year ago on a contract with O2 and it is still going strong, although it is probably a little out dated and probably doesn't look as stylish as it did when it was first released. The phone comes with a lot of features, some of which you can probably find on most current mobile phones (such as the vibrate alert, colour screen and java games). But it also boasts a number of extra features which at the time of release ...
...all of them in a single handset. The phone is capable of connecting to other devices (whether that be another phone, computer or hands free) via either Bluetooth or infrared. Both of these are easily activated/deactivated via the phones menu. However, for you to connect to a PC (or laptop), you will need to purchase some sort of Bluetooth dongle or similar device and software for the computer to be able to support Bluetooth. I have not had any problem ...

JamesLockett 21.02.2007 · Read full review
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...a 1.3 megapixel camera. How Samsung fitted all this into such a small phone I really dont know!! The phone slides open rather than being flipped, which makes it feel very professional. I would almost recommend this phone just to hear the satisfying clunk it makes when the phone slides open/shut. You can even set the phone to make a sound when you slide it open and shut which is a very neat feature, but you will find after a few weeks it will get ...
...into your files. Well done Samsung for a brilliantly simple Bluetooth phone. There are also other features such as calculator, a superb calender/organisor, convertor for weights, currencies etc. This is one annoying feature of the D500 though. The currency converter does not have Pounds Sterling as a defined currency so unless you are using this in a foreign country and do not use pounds at all, this feature is useless. There are 3 games on the ...

camilesno1 23.01.2006 · Read full review
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...the new phones but the Samsung D500 seemed to perform well in all the reviews I read so surely they were not all telling fibs. Well I'm pleased to say they were not. When your used to a once a week recharge, a daily recharge of the 6230 and spv was a complete pain in the a** however the Samsung does at least go about 4 days before charges so it is okay for the business user. As for the features well it has most of what people need these days. ...
...for some reason the screen resolution doesn't do the pictures justice when they are printed or downloaded to a pc. The video function is cool for taking short movies with sound but a snag I found is that the video format is not recognised by windows media player or real so you can only playback on the phone unless you purchase the player software online. Storage has no expansion facility but with 80mb built in this should be plenty for most users ...

wales34part 13.07.2005 · Read full review
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...in a black box with Samsung written in silver...extremely smart! On opening the box you have the manual on top and inside you have the handset, battery, wrist strap, handsfree headset, and a little black thing which is actually a handsfree speaker. It takes about 90 mins to fully charge the battery and then you can get going. The phone operates like a dream, I love my handset now (had it about 2 weeks) and still love playing with it. MP3: The mp3 ...
...left earpiece falling out my ear! Wallpapers: The selection of wallpapers isn't that good, but you can always download them from Samsungs Fun Club site (details in the manual package). Ringtones: There's a huge number of ringtones, and you can also set an mp3 as one. The only con with this is you can set the phone to vibrate, melody or vibrate then melody. I personally would have preferred having the option of vibrate & melody simultaneously. Camera: ...

sawan82 27.02.2005 (17.03.2005) · Read full review
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...extensively, I decided that the Samsung D500 would be the phone for me, paying £50 (after some haggling with the salesman) on upgrade for the privilege. I must admit to having some reservations about purchasing a Samsung as I had battery life and call quality problems with the A300 as well as the screen cracking. Despite all this I decided that I would go with the undoubtedly feature-rich D500 and put my reservations aside. With some excitement I ...
...my concerns with purchasing a Samsung phone was the poor call quality I had on the A300. However I needn’t have worried as the quality is excellent, no doubt the ‘advanced call clarity’ feature comes into play, as it detects background noise and increases the clarity of the call. No idea how this works, but I have enjoyed crystal clear calls so far. Texting on this phone is easy as it is T9-enabled. Once you have added in the words that you use ...

chriscube 29.03.2005 · Read full review
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...but decided on trying the Samsung D500 first. I kept it. Why? Its a very dinky phone, and very stylish - i have the black version and its looks excellent. I had looked at the Sony Ericsson V800 last year in black, but that in comparison - although it was black plastic too - didn't look as nice as this Samsung. It looked plasticy and toy like. The D500 is in another world entirely. The phone is a slide up and has a very sexy slide mechanism. It ...
...download a couple from the Samsung website. There is also a voice recorder (which doesn't work during calls), world time, and alarm clock, calculator, convertor, timer, and stopwatch. There is a good 1.3mp camera which a wide choice of fun effects for anyone who wants a kind of inhouse mini Photoshop. I'm not sure the camera is *as* good as the Nokia considering the jump in megapixels, but its still good. There is also a video recorder that lets ...

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Samsung is stylish and very functional. The SGH-D500 model is a completely new type of samsung phone, but of course you wont be without tackily coloured interface, voice ringing melodies and all the other well known samsung characteristics. Although old hat, samsung have brought this phone through the barriers of time and introduced us to some new exciting features that will not fail to get samsung users interested again. D500 is a sliding phone ...
...the display is fantastic alothough samsung still insist on the little pictures with less colour than this phone deserves. You will be amazed at the images you can get on your phone and the quality and colour they possess. The display allows for different arrangements of items and wallpaper is centred and can also be animated if you so desire. The clock is found in a large font towards the top of the dispaly and at the very top is your status bar ...

Gem1985 08.11.2005 · Read full review
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Samsung D500 Well the Samsung D500 is quite an awesome phone; it has the ability to do pretty much whatever you want well excluding things like making a cup of tea of course. It has so much that you can do. There are thousands of people who have bought one of these phones, it can be used as a personal phone for yourself but there are also lots of companies out there who supply them to their employees because they are such good phones. I used to ...
...time you phone rings. The Samsung D500 allows you to set MP3 files as you ring tone and message tone so you can have a unique ring tone. Also the phone enables polyphonic ring tones. As you already know the phone allows you to store and play MP3 files, so why not use the loudspeaker that attaches to the side of the phone and allows you to play music even louder so everyone can hear, with this attachment the quality of sound is so much better its ...

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