Samsung SGH-D807

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D807

12 Nov 2008 G

5.3 out of 10

I liked the thought put into this design a lot. My trouble was a cracked screen, which my part played a role, cracked ribbon, and now broken leads from the connection/charger port to the board. I haved replaced the screen plus bought two ribbon which I also replaced one of them; saved one for future. So many trouble with this beauty queen, thats probably why its discontinued.

Pros

Nice design and easy to use. Call response quick.

Cons

Bad quality in material and internal designs. Software is very limited; examples, only able to install java applications under 300k, only able to use mp3 as ringtone if under 30 seconds, not able to display some format of pictures.

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Issues...

6 Jul 2008 Cary C.

4.6 out of 10

Ive had this phone for about 2 years now and hate it! I really like the design intent but it was executed poorly.

The first major issue I had with this phone is that the screen started to lose the color red and started working erratically, going on and off. When I saw this happening, I started to manually transfer all of my phone numbers I had from it onto the sim card. Unfortunately, this cannot be done all at one time because there is no option to transfer all of the phone numbers from the phone memory to sim card if you didn't specify it to save the numbers onto the sim card in the first place. After my screen finally died, I took it to an authorized Cingular store to have them hook up to a computer my screen-dead phone to get the numbers transferred to sim, but even though they have the device was hooked up, the phone didn't allow transfer because the phone would not work unless screen was operational. At this point, I wanted to get my numbers out so I wanted to find out myself what was wrong with the phone.
Since I deal with electronics at work, I felt comfortable taking it apart to see what was wrong with it and to repair it if possible. What I found out was that the ribbon cable that slid between the screen and the mainboard was cracking on one edge where there there was a bend which was there to allow for the screen slide. This is something that has to be replaced so I told called up customer service to get a new phone. They sent a new one and I took it apart, used the new screen to hook up to my old phones mainboard and was finally able to extract all of the stuff I needed. Then I buttoned everything back together and everything works! I sent the old phone back to cingular and they told me that even though my phone broke 2 weeks prior to a year of ownership, they were still going to charge me for the phone because there was no warranty on hardware. Only the software was covered under warranty, which I think is pretty stupid because my phone was practically in mint condition. Anyways, I was able to complain enough to get a refund back in the form of credits towards my monthly bill.

Pro: Design Concept, customization of settings, good slide feedback

Con: Phantom Restarts, microphone picks up a lot of background noise for the person on the other line, bad ribbon cable (maybe just mine), the majority of the time the screen stays on when talking on the phone wasting precious battery life, battery life could be better, bluetooth connection could be a bit more solid (too much static), audio recording is faint, system freezes every so often

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Horrible

23 May 2008 Jen

1.6 out of 10

So I take pretty good care of this phone, and I must say it's the worst one I have ever had. It constantly freezes, restarts, hangs up on people. It also likes to wait until I'm in the middle of a conversation on it to start the ringtone. So I have to hang up on whoever I am talking to and take the battery out. I can't put it right back in or I have the same problem. I have to wait a few minutes. I would never recommend this phone. My fiance got the same one and his only lasted two weeks. He never dropped it or did any damage. No scratches nothing! It won't even power on. And no the battery isn't dead because I can use it in mine just fine.

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