Mobile Phone News :Samsung C6112 Dual Standby Review

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Given the popularity of mobile phones, and given that it is more common for people these days to have more than one telephone, and telephone line, one technology that has taken its time in coming through in the UK market is dual SIM functionality. There have been a few phones,

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Given the popularity of mobile phones, and given that it is more common for people these days to have more than one telephone, and telephone line, one technology that has taken its time in coming through in the UK market is dual SIM functionality. There have been a few phones, over the years, and a few attempts to bring dual SIM capability to devices, but it is still something that is a bit of a novelty on a handset. This may be set to change during 2010, as Vodafone have announced they are looking to bring Dual SIM handsets to market, and the other networks are sure to look at offering this as well. To this end, Samsung have recently announced a Dual SIM product, the Samsung C6112. The C6112 is a sleek and stylish handset, finished in a brushed metal design casing, slightly large in slider terms, measuring 106 x 50 x 16.5mm and weighing in a 112g.

The Dual SIM handset allows you to have two SIM cards inserted and active on the device, and switching between the two cards is done via a dedicated key on the side of the phone. SIM one support is for quad band GSM, offering coverage worldwide, whilst SIM two offers dual band coverage, which is good enough for most of Europe and Asia, New Zealand and Australia; the main places dual band does not cover is the Americas. In its styling, this slider phone is unmistakably Samsung. The main display is a standard QVG TFT display, supporting up to 256,000 colours. Under the display are the main menu navigation options, two soft option keys, main Navi key and send/end call keys.

Apart from the Dual SIM option, the remainder of the features on the device are pretty ordinary, and sets the phone in the low to mid range market. In line with other recent Samsung devices, the C6112 supports Social Networking Services (SNS), with one click access to popular SNS sites, we know the players here, Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, etc. The C6112 sports a ‘point ‘n’ shoot’ quality 2.0 Megapixel camera, and can also record video clips at up to 15 fps. There is no front facing camera, but then the C6112 is not a 3G handset. All data transfer is handled via either EDGE or GPRS where supported.

The device offers a capable media player, with support for MP3, MP4, WMA and WMV amongst other formats, and although the onboard memory is rather low at just 30MB, this can be expanded by MicroSD memory cards, up to 8GB is possible. There is also a Stereo FM radio with RDS included, with an FM recording facility as well. You will need a wired headset in place to be able to listen to the radio, but for general music playback the handset supports Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, which supports A2DP wireless technology as well as supporting the higher speed transfer of the latest Bluetooth technology.

One area that has always been of concern with Dual SIM handsets is battery performance. The C6112 ships with an average Li – Ion 960 mAh battery, which Samsung suggest is good enough for 385 hours of standby or up to 9 hours of talktime. If this is the case then it sets the device well within acceptable performance for a modern mobile device.

The Samsung C6112 isn’t the first Dual SIM phone to market, and not even the first device with such capability from the Korean manufacturer. It is easy to see though that once the networks start to promote such devices that Dual SIM handsets will soon become more the norm than is currently the case, and Dual SIM technology will no doubt soon be included on a wider range of products. The Samsung C6112 is available to buy, and should start making its way onto our network deals in the next few weeks.

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Mobile Phone News :Samsung C6112 Dual Standby Review