Thread: Samsung SGH-D840 Mobile Phone

Flashing a silver body, a slider, and the thinnest of dimensions, Samsung's SGH¬D840, a GSM tri-band, immediately catches wandering eyes. One of the three products launched in the ultra range 'Metal series' by Samsung, the D840 slider is a mix of both metal and plastic. The metal feel is rendered to the overall body and the silver hue immediately reminds one of LG's Shine. However, there is less of metal in Samsung's line up with much of the casing on the D840's sides and back made of plastic. Only the front sliding section incorporates significant amounts of metal. The forte of Samsung and its market strategy has always revolved around dimensionally sleek and thinner handsets, and the D840 is no exception. With the overriding theme of thin and sleek mobiles, Samsung claims that the SGH E840 is the world's slimmest slide-up metallic phone in the world.

The phone is equipped with a full mirror LCD, hidden touch keypad and 2.22in wide TFT LCD screen. The fairly wide screen has good display and is clear and bright. In spite of its sleekness, this is a well built sturdy model, for those with butter fingers.
Sporting a large LCD display and minimalistic key pad on its front slider panel, the D840 looks clean and stylish. Samsung's hologram along the top of the screen adds to the effect. Besides the elegant look, the phone is incorporated with high end multimedia features such as a 2MP camera, FM Radio, MP3 player, Bluetooth, mobile printing, document viewer and 80MB internal memory with expandable microSD flash external memory (upto 2GB). It features a good and easy to use interface. There is a little ridge just below the screen which you can grab with the thumb and the slide mechanism itself is 'assisted' - just a gentle push is all that's required. Vibrancies in the colour display stands out and makes the screen look very appealing. The date and time are nice and large so they can be seen at a glance. The screen however becomes smudged very easily, especially from fingerprints.

As the slider moves up, beneath is a soft touch numerical pad. These soft touch buttons are smooth on your fingers and aligned below the screen are a bunch of standard navigation buttons which are nicely designed and easy to use. Call and End buttons are fairly large and convenient as well. The menu keys, four in number, aggregate around the 'i' (OK) button. The 'i' button functions as the central select key which doubles to start the Internet browser running. Under the navigation button is a long, thin delete key. Other features are similar, including a QVGA display, EDGE high-speed data, music player, memory card slot, and USB with mass storage mode. The camera quality, 2- , megapixel, as always with Samsung is a notch up. The flash assisted camera has good resolution and a clear display and incorporates a multi- shot feature too. Similarly, the video recording offering four qualities achieves optimal results as well.