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Samsung Ultra Edition 9.9 D830
By: Aalaap Ghag   |   Dec 26, 2006
  • 2.5
Extremely slim
Good 2mp camera
Good display
Too wide and big
Keys offer no tactile feedback
Monochrome external display
Expensive
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User Interface
Like the other Ultra Edition phones, the user interface on the 9.9 D830 is typical Samsung with uMenu, uSearch etc. There are menu items that pop out submenu items which you can choose without having to enter the item. The phonebook is normal; it has only one searchable field and not the inconvenient two like the D900. Features that didn’t make it to the 9.9 from the 12.9 are Living World and Vivid Messaging. Living World is not of much use on a clamshell anyway.

The user interface is fast. Other than the picture gallery loading, there’s almost nothing that doesn’t instantly show up on the screen when chosen from the menus. This is one of those benefits of a firmware UI that makes me stay away from smartphones!

The 9.9 comes with the Picsel viewer for viewing Office documents such as Word and Excel on the go.

Tech
The 9.9 is a tri-band GSM handset and it supports GPRS as well as EDGE for faster data transfer. There is no 3G in this phone. There’s also a WAP/XHTML browser and MMS support, which is so standard I wonder why I even write about this anymore.

The phone has Bluetooth along with stereo A2DP support so you can rock your wireless headsets when on the move. There is no Infrared on the phone, but USB 2.0 is around to save the day.

The 9.9, like most other Samsung phones in the class, has around 80MB of phone memory and it also comes with a microSD/TransFlash memory card slot. The slot is on the outside and is hotswappable.

Multimedia
Multimedia on the 9.9 is pretty standard stuff with an MP3/AAC/WMA player. There is also the ability to use MP3s as ringtones. The speaker on the 9.9 is the same as the earpiece of the phone. When ringing, it can get really, annoyingly loud, and since the speaker is on the inside of the phone, it isn’t possible to temporarily muffle the sound by covering it with a finger.

There is no FM radio tuner on this phone, like any of the other Ultra Edition phones. Even the RAZR doesn’t have one, so if the 9.9 had added FM, it would have gone up a few points.


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i have problem with my samsung mobile blue thooth when make it activate its faild what shoud i do
sameer @ Sep 30, 2008
wtf u all on about it being crap. this deserves a 4 star tbh. Its great and ive had no problems. this sucks
Jonn @ Jun 16, 2007
it sucks dick!!!!!!!!!!!!
marcos @ May 18, 2007
it sucks dick!!!!!!!!!!!!
marcos @ May 18, 2007
great phone but presently i am using Samsung SGH-X670. But its giving me me sort of hanging problems. Probably this would stop me from trusting Samsung in future purchases but still apparently this one looks good.
Joyoti Roy Chowdhury @ Dec 28, 2006
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