Are you one of those who hold 2 different mobile numbers? Or if you are a frequent business traveller who keeps in touch with your local counterparts using a local mobile number, and yet wants to be in touch with your own mobile number, look no further! Samsung B5722 does the magic by integrating two mobile lines in a single handset!
One look at it, it reminds me of Samsung Lindy and Corby. It features a minimalist design similar to Samsung Lindy and Corby, uses the TouchWiz interface and keeps you up to date with instant access to social networking websites like Facebook and Flickr! To chat with your friends or colleagues, you can use the Messenger application to stay in touch on the go!
The built-in camera is pretty basic like Samsung Lindy which I had reviewed before - It is 3.2 Megapixel with digital zoom. But hey! Samsung B5722 comes with LED Flash! The Samsung B5722 features a 262K Colours QVGA TFT LCD screen and the resolution is 240 x 320. The colours are vivid and the touch screen is pretty responsive.
Like Samsung Lindy and Corby, it also features the music player and the FM Radio. The volume buttons can be found at the left side, together with the USB, charging and ear piece jack - It is not your regular standard USB jack and looks pretty new to me. Well, if you have a Bluetooth headset, you can stream music via Bluetooth!
Apart from the camera and phone lock buttons which can be found at the right side of the phone, you will be able to find the “switch” button which makes switching between the two mobile lines extremely easy. Once pressed, the other line will become the master line and the signal bar of that line will be highlighted in blue.
Like Corby, it is a GPRS phone and doesn’t support 3G connection. SIM card slot 1 supports GSM Quad-band (850, 900, 1800 & 1900 MHz) and SIM card slot 2 supports only GSM Dual-band (900, 1800 MHz). Not a big issue for Singapore as our GSM network runs on 900 and 1800 MHz. If you are a business traveller, I’ll recommend you to put your Singapore Sim Card in SIM 2 slot. To make things easier for you, when you insert the SIM cards for the first time, the phone will prompt you to key in the description for the respective SIM cards so as to help you identify the number later.
Samsung is very thoughtful when they design this phone - They actually created a programme which selects the master mobile line based on time specified automatically! Definitely a good application for people who practise work-life balance!
If you like Samsung Corby and have a need to be in touch using 2 mobile lines, this is the phone for you :)
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Posted by victortan
01-Apr-2010