Samsung SGH-D500 Expert Reviews

The SGH-D500 delivers the latest multimedia and imaging technology in a compact and elegant soft-touch slide up design. Small it may be but you will find a bevy of impressive features hidden underneath its elegant facade.

Samsung dropped a real bomb on the European market with the release of its beautiful new SGH-D500. The latest Samsung slider has not only a 1.3MP camera built in, but Bluetooth. Yes, you heard that correctly. It is due out later this year.

The D500 is equipped with 80Mb shared internal memory which can be used for saving those high quality mega pixel images or for saving your favorite albums on. A groovy flash is also included on the Samsung D500 so that you can take pictures in the dark or...

Design, size, features,

It's a tempting bijou black beauty

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Bright and clear screen, easy-to-use interface, 1.3 megapixel camera with flash, sturdy build, impressive features list

Hard to keep free of fingerprints, no voice dialing, poor battery life, connector cover not attached

The D500 is an excellent mobile handset and comes highly recommended. It is packed full of features and offers an impressive camera, but the battery life is substantially poorer than most other models.

It's not often that a company releases a product that is as functional as it is stylish, and can wow the masses in droves. Samsung's D500 does just this, combining the looks of its last generation E800 slide phone and a feature set to rival anything curre...

Unfortunately there's also no facility for external memory expansion as is the case with Sony Ericsson's S700i, so you'll need to use it sparingly. Samsung also includes an external speaker with the kit which can be used for speaker phone calls or making

When I heard about the D500, with an MP3 player, 1.3mp camera, high-res color screen, and almost 100mb to store my music, I was excited, but not completely awesruck: no way to add more memory, and no FM tuner....

Sleek, great looking, effortless slider; great 262k 176x220 display, 1.3mp camera and MP3 player, Bluetooth/Infrared

Thick, uncomfortable keys, slow UI (slow SMSing), arguably limited memory, no built-in handsfree speaker for voice, camera has a 2-second delay, can't send multiple files via BT/IR, definitely not the 'world's best mobile phone'