Review Samsung D307 Cell Phone

Written by Kenson on May 15th, 2006
Filed under Cell Phone Reviews, Samsung

Samsung D307 Cell Phone
[rate 2.5]

The Samsung D307 with QWERTY keyboard cell phone is the type of cellular phone that is optimized for text-messaging. The Samsung D307 messaging phone sports a unique dual-flip hinge design that allows it to open like a standard clamshell phone, or sideways for text messaging using the QWERTY mini-keyboard

One of the bad news about The Samsung D307 is this cellular phone is not powered by Windows Mobile as what the users have expected.

Nonetheless, The Samsung D307 cell phone is fairly well featured, and includes Bluetooth connectivity and EDGE high-speed data. Besides that, the Samsung D307 cell phone also comes equipped with speakerphone functionality and advanced voice recognition which allows you to use you voice to dictate messages rather than typing. In addition, you can also use voice recognition feature to control the menu of the cell phone.

Samsung D307 Cellular Phone

CNET.com had done a review on the Samsung SGH-D307 cell phone that give a rating of 6.6 out of 10. They have comments the cellular as below

The good: The Samsung SGH-D307 features a bright, large internal display; an innovative design with a QWERTY keyboard; Bluetooth; a speakerphone; and voice-recognition features.

The bad: Sadly, the Samsung SGH-D307 has a monochrome external screen and a confusing navigation layout, plus it lacks a camera.

The bottom line: Rocking an innovative flip design and a mini keyboard, the Samsung SGH-D307 will please messaging fanatics once they master the unintuitive navigation controls.

From our review, we have give a rating of 2.5 out of 5 for this cellular phone because there are couple of features that we think the Samsung D307 should have

Ability to use full QWERTY keypad when in Internet browser.
The address book can not have one entry with both a phone number and an email address. What a old-fashioned designed address book! You have to work around the address book by keying separate entries for email and phone number of a single person.
No expandable memory slot. The power of Samsung D307 is not fully utilized without the expansion slot.

If you are looking for a cellular phone for text-messaging purposes, the Samsung D307 is for you. Nevertheless, if you want to have more office functionalities cellular phone that enables you to view documents (Words, Excel), please go for Blackberry or Palm Pilots. The Samsung D307 will disappointed you in this area.

Samsung D307 Cell Phone

Samsung D307 Features and Specifications

Service	850/1800/1900 MHz digital
Weights	4.3 ounces
Dimensions	3.7″ x 1.9″ x .85″
Main Display Screen	176 x 220 pixel, 262K TFT color display
External Display Screen	monochrome LCD / 96 x 96 pixels
Polyphonic Ringtones	Yes. Chords: 64
Form Factor	Clamshell opens vertically, or horizontally for landscape mode Internal Antenna
Messaging
Email Client	Protocols Supported: POP3, IMAP4
EMS / Picture Messaging	EMS 4.3
MMS	SMIL / up to 300 KB message size
Text Messaging	2-Way: Yes plus IM (AOL, Yahoo!, ICQ)
Text Messaging Templates	Yes
Input
Predictive Text Entry	Technology: T9 portrait mode only
Side Keys	up/down keys on left / voice key on right
Text Keyboard	Layout: QWERTY
Data and Network
Data-Capable	Yes
Packet Data	Technology: EDGE (EGPRS)
WAP / Web Browser	WAP 2.0 / supports WML, xHTML, iHTML, cHTML (i-Mode), CSS, GIF, JPEG, WBMP
Connectivity
Bluetooth	Yes
PC Sync	Widesync
USB	Yes
Office Productivity and Organization
Alarm	Yes
Calculator	Yes plus currency converter
Calendar	Yes
	Yes
Voice Memo	Yes