Samsung D807 Phone (Cingular)

by Samsung

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• ASIN: B000FYUYT8
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (106 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,611 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

This feature-packed quad-band phone from Samsung combines a super-slim slider design with the latest technologies, making it a must-have tool for those who demand the best. Goodies include Bluetooth, support for EDGE high-speed data, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a music playwer, and a microSD memory card slot. The Samsung D807 is the perfect way to take advantage of all that Cingular service has to offer.

Design
The D807's sliding design hides the phone's number pad under the display until you need to make a call. The big 176 x 220 display supports up to 262,000 colors -- plenty of resolution and color depth for your videos and photos. A five-way center control button is positioned below the display, as are shortcut and selection keys. The phone's 1.3 megapixel camera is housed behind the screen. There's also a connector for a stereo 2.5 mm headset.

Calling Features
With 18 MB of internal memory, the D807 is designed to hold all the contacts, phone numbers and addresses you can throw at it. A call list remembers your most recent missed, received and dialed calls, and in addition to a vibrating alert, the D807 supports polyphonic ringtones and MP3-based music ringtones. You can also download additional MP3 music ringtones from Cingular's MEdia Net service. A speakerphone lets you talk hands-free while you're doing other things, and picture caller ID lets you assign a photo to specific callers. Similarly, a ringer ID lets you assign ringtones to callers. Speaker independent voice dialing makes it easy to speak the name of a contact and dial it instantly. And lastly, the phone's Bluetooth connectivity means that your favorite Bluetooth headset is fully compatible.

Messaging, Internet, and Tools
The D807 has all the bases covered when it comes to messaging. Support is built in for sending and receiving text, video, graphics and sound via messages. When used in combination with the phone's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. Messaging clients for AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, and ICQ are included. Meanwhile, the phone's email client lets you stay on top of your emails when you're on the go.

Getting on the Internet is easy with the D807, too. It supports the GPRS protocol, as well as the high speed EDGE data protocol. When used with a Cingular data plan and the phone's Bluetooth data capability, the phone can be used as a wireless modem for laptops and PDAs. There's also a built-in browser for MEdia Net downloads and mobile Web browsing. Cingular's MEdia Net service lets you receive and send emails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit-- a plus for mobile text messaging users.

A number of handy productivity tools are bundled with the D807 including a voice memo recorder, an alarm clock, a calculator with unit and currency converters, a calendar, and a to-do list.

Imaging and Entertainment
The D807's built-in 1.3 megapixel camera captures stills and video to the phone's internal memory, or to an optional microSD memory card. The still camera features white balance and brightness controls, as well as a multi-shot mode and a self timer.

Into music? You're in luck with the D807. Store your favorite MP3-based music on a memory card and listen whenever the feeling strikes you. And if you want to dress up the D807, picture effects, custom screensavers, backgrounds, and themes can be set to fit your personality.

Java support is built into the D807, making it a powerful gaming companion. Games are downloadable via the MEdia Net service.

Vital Statistics
The Samsung SGH-D807 weighs 3.46 ounces and measures 3.82 x 2.05 x .61 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of digital talk time, and up to 10 days of digital standby time. It runs on the GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Product Description

The Samsung D807 is a great device for people looking for a multimedia rich phone with great style and form factor.

Customer Reviews

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215 of 222 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch Out RZR & SLVR, June 11, 2006

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Jonathan W. (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung D807 Phone (Cingular) (Wireless Phone)

This "star-trek" slider style phone just came out in Cingular stores last week. I went in looking for the ultra slim Motorola RAZR flip phone or its cousin the "candy-bar" SLVR and walked out with this brand new Samsung instead. The rebate deals that Cingular had (as does Amazon) were also a factor. I paid only $[...].

I have been using it the last few days and wow!! A great phone. I've owned several phones and never one like this. Some quick observations:

Its about as small as it gets and still is a usable size. Its also clearly going for some design awards like its Motorla competitors. It is probably one of the smallest phones out there and not as "flimsy" feeling as the Motorola minis.

Fine voice reception and the "WAP" data reception is great (I live in a fringe area).

Great screen, in fact when the slider is closed... its all screen (and the phone works just fine when its closed by the way).

Its got a great speaker phone and also fine voice recognition... you know say "ET call home" ..and it does. Also it has a tape recorder. All are accessible with one button (even with the phone closed).

It has an unbelievable number of features like most other high end "bluetooth" and web enabled phones. I've never surfed the web or checked e-mail with my phone before. But it was pretty easy with this one. (Be sure you get a Cingular data package...the kilobytes add up, even at a penny a unit).

The camera at 1.3 Meg is about as good as they get with these phones. I haven't tried the video yet.

It has room for a micro-SD card - I just ordered a half a Meg card for about $[...] on Amazon to store pictures, files, and maybe music.

Speaking of MP3s, after reading the documentation (which is poor by the way) and after calling Samsung tech support (which didn' yet have an info on the new phone) I still can't figure how to (or whether)I can play MP3s with a stereo headset. There is only a proprietary plug on the phone and no Samsung headphone accessories as of yet (thought the box says one "is available".) If that's your goal, buy the RAZR or maybe the Sony Ericsson w600i.

The phone is a quad-band and can be used globally. A great thing about Cingular is you can use their phones abroad for no extra fee (and with a fairly reasonable per minute charge.)

I haven't come up with any negatives yet (though one of course needs to be patient with all these features). I don't know about Samsung's reliability track record with high end phones, we'll see. Be sure to understand the warranty you're getting and how to handle tech support if there are problems.

I could make a few comments about the pros and cons of Cingular, but the wireless companies all have their ups and downs and this review is really about the phone.

So bottom line... great phone! You may want to go to a store to see how it feels in your hand, but my guess is you will really like it.

P.S. 6 weeks has gone by since my mid-June review. I still love the phone, the voice-recognition is the best I've ever seen. I rarely use the key-pad to make calls (its adequate...but not great). I've bought standard Samsung dual ear-buds (with a mike)and the stero MP-3s sound just fine (and it can be used for calls as well).

109 of 114 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Actually, 4.5 pretty close to 5 though!, June 24, 2006

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Totobenki - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung D807 Phone (Cingular) (Wireless Phone)

All in all, very good phone. It's sliding face is very slick and sure to be eye-catching. Sizewise, the samsung and the motorola razor is almost identical. The width of the samsung may be a bit (and I mean a bit) smaller. Height is exactly the same. The thickness of the samsung is a bit larger. Here are the gists of pros and cons:
Pros:
- very cool looking
- the all-black-look may be more geared towards men then women but who knows, they may come out with different colors.
- the slider face feels sturdy enough not to worry about breaking it or anything
- you CAN make a call without fliping it up using voice-dial, recent call, or phonebook (with minor caveat. see below)
- the display is BEAUTIFUL. Better than anything else in this class phone. (meaning better than razr, slvr, or equivalents)
- the photos taken are very good. However, don't expect too much from the zoom. If you want a really good phone with camera and nice zoom, go for the nokia6682 which is on sale at the same price right now (june, 2006)
- the video is pretty good and crisp for this size phone. It is hard to say what the limit of the video recording time is because I do not have a miniSD yet. On the phone memory, I let the video do its thing and then it quit after 1min7sec but it didn't use up all the memory (not even close). I'm guessing if I got a miniSD, it will record a lot more. (I think it only records a pre-determined ratio of memory that is left to prevent too much memory loss)
- The best feature of this phone is the great voice-dialing software. The voice dialing is very good. My relatives with heavy accents are able to call all of the entries in the phonebook without any problems. The best thing about this thing is that you DON'T HAVE TO RECORD THE NAME. The program estimates what you are saying without pre-recording anyone's contact name and does a darn good job at that. really cool.
- battery life seems pretty good.
Con:
- not much here. But there is one thing that REALLY bothers me. This is the caveat that I mentioned above and the reason my personal rating is 4.5: While you can make calls on the phone and answer calls with the face flipped down, the phone automatically locks the keypad on the face. Because of this, you have to UNLOCK THE PHONE by making two keystrokes before doing any calling with the face down. This includes calling on voicedial, phonebook, recent calls etc. I find this to be highly annoying and it seems that this function can not be turned off. Surely a glitch by samsung programming department. If there is a way to correct this problem, please post somewhere.
- The directional keys are very small and can cause problems if you have thick fingers.
Conclusion:
the only reason the phone got a 4.5 is because of the requirement to unlock the keypad each time you want to make a call with the face down. Seems like a very stupid thing for samsung to do. Otherwise, the phone is very slick, beautiful and full of decent features. The screen is large and beautiful. The voice-dialing is superve. All in all, I recommend getting this phone. Now that this phone is out, I would definitely recommend AGAINST getting a razr. I've had both and the samsumg d807 beats the razor in style, functionality, and pretty much everything else hands down.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Correcting a few errors in other reviews, July 20, 2006

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wesleyme (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung D807 Phone (Cingular) (Wireless Phone)

Regarding the ability to use the underscore and other symbols while entering text, you only need to press the lower left (star/asterisk) key a few times when in text edit mode, and you'll eventually get to the large symbol palette that has dozens of symbols, including the underscore that a previous reviewer thought wasn't available.

Second, I've downloaded and installed many 3rd-party, non-Cingular J2ME java apps to this phone with no problem - games, email utilities, browser, Google Maps, whatever - so the comment that only Cingular-branded apps will work is incorrect. I used both the Cingular MediaNet browser and Opera Mini to download the apps.

Finally, I've also installed many of my own photos for wallpaper and quite a few of my own sounds for ringtones, mostly by emailing them to my phone as multimedia messages (I haven't received my USB cable in the mail yet, so I have yet to try that method). The process was smooth and speedy. I emailed the photo or ringtone as an attachment to (my number)@mms.mycingular.com, and then when viewing the message on my phone I just hit the "options" softkey > "save media" and the file was saved to the appropriate folder automatically (sounds, photos, whatever). It was virtually instantaneous.

By the way, for those who are dying to have something other than the awful Cingular homepage in the MediaNet browser, it's as easy as going into settings > connection settings and changing the "home URL" to whatever you want it to be.

One more thing. Yes, the camera leaves something to be desired, though it's quite a bit better than the unbelieveably bad one on the Cingular 2125/T-Mobile SDA. However, you can improve the images quite a bit just by upping the brightness level in the camera settings (just hit the "up arrow" on the d-pad when in camera mode). I have mine set at 5 or 6 most of the time, and it makes a huge difference for some reason.