Beyond E-Tech Duet D8 Smartphone Review

Cell Phones — By Ricky on July 4, 2009 at 12:25 am

Yummy: A qualitative Cell Phone with the branding of Beyond E-Tech and cherishing pleasures of Dual SIM Card slot.

Oops: Nothing new, a flimsy touch screen and a weird keyboard.

Battery Life: 4 hours full talk time.

Our Verdict: Beyond E-Tech lovers would be disappointed by downsizing expectations. Dual SIM card and a slim outlook is nice feature but key board is a real frustration.

Beyond E-Tech is considered as a technical giant and also the most inspiring and innovative quality product dealers. They are one of the biggest importers of Chinese made phones with a substantial quality. The Cell Phone lovers await all the new launches of the company. The newly launched Duet D888 is the model that everyone was seeing as a substitute for the I-Phone. The day they announced the launching of this phones, the curiosity regarding to the model size and features were aroused among the company lovers.

The lastly launched D888 feature of Dual lines is being repeated in this latest model. The Dual SIM Card system enables to make and receive calls from two different numbers. This feature gives comforts to the user to avoid the traffic generating on just one SIM and also assures relaxation from keeping two different phones to load the pockets. The unlocked D8 phone dual SIM system can prove as a blessing for the land of locked down phones (of course we talk about the United States!!). Beyond E-Tech Reviews

Beyond E-Tech Duet D8 Deliberate Design

Although it’s a nice candy bar design, it has nothing new, just following the path of all the available touch screen phones in the market. The length has something new to offer and persuade as it is a pretty smaller model of 4.56 inches by 2.02 inches by 0.72 inch size. The impressive feature of the size is washed out with the extra weight of 4.79 ounces which is truly more than what the size should weigh. A person may or may not get the impressive and high status feeling while holding the phone in hand but definitely gives a solid and stronger feeling in the hand.

The goodies of the phone are extended by the soft touch and silky feel of the material on the back cover and also the silver rim around the front face.

Touch Screen

Wow, great features!!

The lowest potential of D8 is the touch screen shared with the impractical key board. There are definitely many attractive plus points like the tougher screen of 3.25 inches, the brighter and smarter QVGA screen which is just 2.8 inches from corner to corner and also a huge benefit of the toughened glass used for the touch screen that can be responsible for the excessive weight of the phone.

Oh no, not again

The touch screen also is supported by as many as 65,000 colors but at the same time it has a drawback of a lower resolution of 320X240 pixels which never suits fro the qualitative and sharper graphics and pictures. Menu tool is also the follower not the creator, as it is following the previous D888 model. The frustration of too many steps for opening folders is not considered seriously and the same problem is carried forward in D8 and the menu effects are also the traditional and depressing.

What went wrong?

The small screen is definitely an asset of the phone but there are many liabilities like the boring and weird behavior of the phone keys. The keys even in the fresh phones are working as the used ones that need a long press and sometimes even that’s not sufficient!!

The touch screen is full of probabilities that the tap icons will perform or not. The experts feel that the key functioning will demoralize the users as well as the sales. The trouble creeps when you try to make a call as you need to dial through the touch screen which is not at all reliable. Strange enough, it seems that the technician forgot to put the vibrating feedback mode in the phone!! Sometimes the configuration is strong enough to make you confuse. If you are lost at some point of time in the system, either God or switching off the phone could only save you!!

Navigation Keys

Touch screen is optional in the phone if you don’t want to increase your sorrows. Navigational array to maneuver is available to ease you. A four way toggle with a central OK button, two soft keys, two Talk keys, a short cut for the music player and an End/power buttons are ingredients of the navigation key. Toggle also enables short cuts on the touch screen. Navigation keys are amongst the easiest and safest mode of the phone.

No dial pad?

336997252440bk The phone really seems to have made in a hurry as along with the vibrator they also have forgot to keep the dial pad in the phone that leaves us with no option other than the touch screen for dialing and accessing the contact list.

Thanks God, the touch dial pad is easy to use and the structure of individual buttons is clear and revealing as the buttons are larger in numbers. Also the calling command for both the SIM is easier and smarter. Honestly, the satisfactory structure seems to be there in the dialing sector of the phone.

Virtual Keyboard

The entire satisfaction received in the dial pad is buried down by the depressing and disastrous virtual keyboard. Like I-Phones, there is no facility of accelerometer in the D8. The message typing is the compulsion forced on the users. The individual touch keys are quite compressed and also smaller that the user will definitely have to approach an optician shortly!! Also the Technician forgot to put the stylus in the phone, so finger tips are going to get polished and exercised with the typing of longer messages. Even for typing the message, you need to open the second keyboard and a complete menu is bound to get opened as that’s the source of getting symbols and writing numbers to attach with the message.

So, the final statement regarding to the keyboard is that this phone is not made for the prolific messenger.

What else?

The volume rocker is on the left spine, a camera lens and stereo speakers are on the rear face. Also an extendable antenna for FM radio is available with the services of charger and the USB cable.
The SIM card slots are located behind the battery as in other phones. The goodies are added by the 256MB micro SD Card and extra battery.

Phone Book

The D8 is having a 500 contact phone book with room for three entries for e-mail address, company name and birth date. 15 polyphonic ring tones with group organizing facility are available in D8. Languages like Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese are supported by the device.

Otherwise all the features that a normal phone does have are included in the phone. A file manager, text and multimedia messaging, a calendar, a to-do list, an alarm clock, a world clock, a calculator, a stopwatch, and a currency converter are the supportive features to the added specialties like Bluetooth, a voice recorder, chat, an e-book reader, call timers and recording, and a speakerphone.

So, numerous facilities with some technical faults are the review statement from us. If you are satisfied with the D-888, can really carry on the same!!