Samsung D800 Review

**Anilrgowda** · 05-Jan-2007, 01:42 AM

How to start describing the Samsung D800? Let's start with the outside. It's a slide-up phone, as all the best Samsungs are these days. The slide is super-smooth, and the appearance of the phone is simply stunning. It has a black textured magnesium surface with chrome edging, and is Samsung's thinnest phone to date (note: now beaten by the D900). The D600 was 21.5 mm thick: the D800 is just 15mm. Even the Motorola RAZR is just a hair's breadth thinner at 14mm. Due to the thinness of the phone, the keypad is flat (like the Motorola RAZR) and is not quite as easy to use as a conventional keypad, but it's no real problem. Samsung describe the D800 as a premium slide-up phone, and in making it they have built a phone akin to the premium Nokia 8800/8910i series. It's a phone that you want to look at, to hold, to slide up and down, up and down ... but we're getting carried away - let's take a look inside.
Moving on to the camera, we're a tennsy weensy bit disappointed. It's the same camera as the D500 - 1.3 megapixels. What happened to the 2 megapixel camera used on the D600? Samsung have taken a step backwards here, but we're willing to forgive, because the display is the same as that used on the D600: a very bright TFT LCD with 262,144 colours and 240 x 320 pixels. Superb! The MP3 player is stereo and supports a very side range of formats. A stereo headset is supplied in the sales package too. Ringtones are the usual high quality 64-voice MP3 tones that we now expect from Samsung. There's an integrated speakerphone, a voice recorder and a new feature - speaker independent voice dialling - which works very well.
Like the D600, the D800 supports a TV-out connection, so you can view images and videos directly on a TV. Bluetooth and USB connectivity is supported too. The D800 also supports PicBridge for direct printing of images to compatible printers.
The D800's messaging options are SMS, MMS and email. PicselViewer enables office documents (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) to be viewed, but not edited. The TV Out feature can be used to display documents on a TV screen.
Turning to memory, the D800 disappoints once again, as there is no memory card. Whilst 80 Mbytes lets you hold quite a lot of stuff (one hour of video or around 20 MP3 tracks), a memory card would have been the icing on the cake. Still, with a phone this slim and this nice-looking, some compromise is inevitable and we can live with this. Battery life is OK but not brilliant.
We don't have any real complaints about the D800. Granted it hasn't got a memory card and the camera isn't state-of-the-art, but everything else is absolutely top-notch, and the looks are to die for. The new D900 is even better however!
How to start describing the Samsung D800? Let's start with the outside. It's a slide-up phone, as all the best Samsungs are these days. The slide is super-smooth, and the appearance of the phone is simply stunning. It has a black textured magnesium surface with chrome edging, and is Samsung's thinnest phone to date (note: now beaten by the D900). The D600 was 21.5 mm thick: the D800 is just 15mm. Even the Motorola RAZR is just a hair's breadth thinner at 14mm. Due to the thinness of the phone, the keypad is flat (like the Motorola RAZR) and is not quite as easy to use as a conventional keypad, but it's no real problem. Samsung describe the D800 as a premium slide-up phone, and in making it they have built a phone akin to the premium Nokia 8800/8910i series. It's a phone that you want to look at, to hold, to slide up and down, up and down ... but we're getting carried away - let's take a look inside.
Moving on to the camera, we're a tennsy weensy bit disappointed. It's the same camera as the D500 - 1.3 megapixels. What happened to the 2 megapixel camera used on the D600? Samsung have taken a step backwards here, but we're willing to forgive, because the display is the same as that used on the D600: a very bright TFT LCD with 262,144 colours and 240 x 320 pixels. Superb! The MP3 player is stereo and supports a very side range of formats. A stereo headset is supplied in the sales package too. Ringtones are the usual high quality 64-voice MP3 tones that we now expect from Samsung. There's an integrated speakerphone, a voice recorder and a new feature - speaker independent voice dialling - which works very well.
Like the D600, the D800 supports a TV-out connection, so you can view images and videos directly on a TV. Bluetooth and USB connectivity is supported too. The D800 also supports PicBridge for direct printing of images to compatible printers.
The D800's messaging options are SMS, MMS and email. PicselViewer enables office documents (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) to be viewed, but not edited. The TV Out feature can be used to display documents on a TV screen.
Turning to memory, the D800 disappoints once again, as there is no memory card. Whilst 80 Mbytes lets you hold quite a lot of stuff (one hour of video or around 20 MP3 tracks), a memory card would have been the icing on the cake. Still, with a phone this slim and this nice-looking, some compromise is inevitable and we can live with this. Battery life is OK but not brilliant.
We don't have any real complaints about the D800. Granted it hasn't got a memory card and the camera isn't state-of-the-art, but everything else is absolutely top-notch, and the looks are to die for. The new D900 is even better however!

05-Jan-2007, 01:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,715 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	Samsung D800 Review How to start describing the Samsung D800? Let's start with the outside. It's a slide-up phone, as all the best Samsungs are these days. The slide is super-smooth, and the appearance of the phone is simply stunning. It has a black textured magnesium surface with chrome edging, and is Samsung's thinnest phone to date (note: now beaten by the D900). The D600 was 21.5 mm thick: the D800 is just 15mm. Even the Motorola RAZR is just a hair's breadth thinner at 14mm. Due to the thinness of the phone, the keypad is flat (like the Motorola RAZR) and is not quite as easy to use as a conventional keypad, but it's no real problem. Samsung describe the D800 as a premium slide-up phone, and in making it they have built a phone akin to the premium Nokia 8800/8910i series. It's a phone that you want to look at, to hold, to slide up and down, up and down ... but we're getting carried away - let's take a look inside. Moving on to the camera, we're a tennsy weensy bit disappointed. It's the same camera as the D500 - 1.3 megapixels. What happened to the 2 megapixel camera used on the D600? Samsung have taken a step backwards here, but we're willing to forgive, because the display is the same as that used on the D600: a very bright TFT LCD with 262,144 colours and 240 x 320 pixels. Superb! The MP3 player is stereo and supports a very side range of formats. A stereo headset is supplied in the sales package too. Ringtones are the usual high quality 64-voice MP3 tones that we now expect from Samsung. There's an integrated speakerphone, a voice recorder and a new feature - speaker independent voice dialling - which works very well. Like the D600, the D800 supports a TV-out connection, so you can view images and videos directly on a TV. Bluetooth and USB connectivity is supported too. The D800 also supports PicBridge for direct printing of images to compatible printers. The D800's messaging options are SMS, MMS and email. PicselViewer enables office documents (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) to be viewed, but not edited. The TV Out feature can be used to display documents on a TV screen. Turning to memory, the D800 disappoints once again, as there is no memory card. Whilst 80 Mbytes lets you hold quite a lot of stuff (one hour of video or around 20 MP3 tracks), a memory card would have been the icing on the cake. Still, with a phone this slim and this nice-looking, some compromise is inevitable and we can live with this. Battery life is OK but not brilliant. We don't have any real complaints about the D800. Granted it hasn't got a memory card and the camera isn't state-of-the-art, but everything else is absolutely top-notch, and the looks are to die for. The new D900 is even better however! How to start describing the Samsung D800? Let's start with the outside. It's a slide-up phone, as all the best Samsungs are these days. The slide is super-smooth, and the appearance of the phone is simply stunning. It has a black textured magnesium surface with chrome edging, and is Samsung's thinnest phone to date (note: now beaten by the D900). The D600 was 21.5 mm thick: the D800 is just 15mm. Even the Motorola RAZR is just a hair's breadth thinner at 14mm. Due to the thinness of the phone, the keypad is flat (like the Motorola RAZR) and is not quite as easy to use as a conventional keypad, but it's no real problem. Samsung describe the D800 as a premium slide-up phone, and in making it they have built a phone akin to the premium Nokia 8800/8910i series. It's a phone that you want to look at, to hold, to slide up and down, up and down ... but we're getting carried away - let's take a look inside. Moving on to the camera, we're a tennsy weensy bit disappointed. It's the same camera as the D500 - 1.3 megapixels. What happened to the 2 megapixel camera used on the D600? Samsung have taken a step backwards here, but we're willing to forgive, because the display is the same as that used on the D600: a very bright TFT LCD with 262,144 colours and 240 x 320 pixels. Superb! The MP3 player is stereo and supports a very side range of formats. A stereo headset is supplied in the sales package too. Ringtones are the usual high quality 64-voice MP3 tones that we now expect from Samsung. There's an integrated speakerphone, a voice recorder and a new feature - speaker independent voice dialling - which works very well. Like the D600, the D800 supports a TV-out connection, so you can view images and videos directly on a TV. Bluetooth and USB connectivity is supported too. The D800 also supports PicBridge for direct printing of images to compatible printers. The D800's messaging options are SMS, MMS and email. PicselViewer enables office documents (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) to be viewed, but not edited. The TV Out feature can be used to display documents on a TV screen. Turning to memory, the D800 disappoints once again, as there is no memory card. Whilst 80 Mbytes lets you hold quite a lot of stuff (one hour of video or around 20 MP3 tracks), a memory card would have been the icing on the cake. Still, with a phone this slim and this nice-looking, some compromise is inevitable and we can live with this. Battery life is OK but not brilliant. We don't have any real complaints about the D800. Granted it hasn't got a memory card and the camera isn't state-of-the-art, but everything else is absolutely top-notch, and the looks are to die for. The new D900 is even better however!

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