SAMSUNG: Samsung D820

Wednesday 11 July 2012

Samsung D820

The D820 is an attractive and slim slider phone with a large 2-inch screen and internal antenna. The black design with 262K colour screen looks stylish when closed, however, the operation of sliding it open is a little clunky. It feels somewhat heavy to push open and we tended to hit buttons on the front of the phone when sliding it upwards. This generally means that the incoming call options page or music player facility is accessed accidentally and as a result, on multiple occasions, when opening the phone to answer calls, the caller was cut off. However, you don't need to open the phone to answer it, which means you can avoid cutting off calls.

With an incoming call, the LCD screen lights up and displays incoming caller ID. You can accept or reject the call through option buttons on the front of the phone while closed. Otherwise, the keyboard and most of D820's functionality can only be accessed by sliding open the phone.