Customer Reviews

Duet D888 Unlocked Phone with Dual SIM, Camera, GPRS, WAP, GMS, MicroSD Slot, and Video Player--International Version with Warranty

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First, the User's Manual is written in incorrect English. Difficult to understand. The user would just have to set the phone up by gut-feel, and from previous working experience on electronics.

The SIM/line-selection keys (to choose which one to send SMS or make a call on) are not easily identified, nor clearly pointed out in the manual. With "trial-and-error", and some patience, the user can ultimately find out for himself. Not a very easy switching way either.

Then, the "Input Systems" for typing text messages do not include any by which one can easily shift from upper to lower case. At best, one shall have to press a key at least 17 times, to shift from upper case to lower case, and/or back.

Within a very short time (few weeks) of very light, careful use, the keypad starts to fail. Particularly in my unit, the "2-5-8-0" section, would intermittently not respond to pressing them, until it totally would not function at all.

The battery discharges very, very fast, when on TV viewing mode. The extra battery is of little practical use, unless an external battery charger is made available (even as an option), so that it can be charged, as the other battery is in use.

Ah but in fairness' sake. There is one easy thing to do with/on this phone: Give-Up on it, early enough, while the return-period is still in effect. The faults may just come in sooner, but worse, just after the warranty period is over. ...The reason why I took time to write this review. BEWARE!!! WARNING!!! YOU'VE BEEN TOLD!!!

In my country, we have two mayor mobile phone companies and a lot of people have two lines, one on each of these services. So I wanted a phone which works with two sims cards at the same time. Unfortunatelly, eventhough the phone looks fine it doesn't work with the 850 Mhz band so I can't use it with one of my phone services.

The graphics on this phone were great, but I couldn't change the ringtone or figure out how to use text messaging application.

This is a neat phone but a bit fragile.
One fall and that was it!