two SIM at once Quadband phone!

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Originally Posted by bbob

thanks for the info I have ordered one. At the moment I always carry 2 phone. I standard prepaid phone to initiate my own callback and than a phone using a um+ card to receive my own callback and to make calls.

Having 1 phone with dual sim will make things a lot easier for me.

when surfing around today i did notice some chineese phone, most were triband and some had the dual sim. But this one seemed to have a good value.

I wonder how long battery lasts. On I site it said:

Talk time :80-160 minutes

Standby time :80-160 hours

80 minutes seems very short, on the other hand there are 2 phones/sims active on 1 battery. So I am interested in baterry life

Funny - that's the calling strategy I plan to use when we travel overseas in early September: use a standard SIM to dial out and trigger the callback to my TravelSIM.

Can't really comment about stated run times, except to observe that various specs on this type of product tend to be wildly inflated (e.g. the camera resolution and mAH capacity of the batteries). I won't be doing a real talk time test until I go on the trip that this phone was really purchased for. My battery rundown test after 24h standby shows the slim battery at 3/4 bars and the fat battery still full scale - both without a real conditioning pass.

I should mention also that the setup menu lets you turn off either SIM instead of using both. The phone kinda "soft reboots" after you make such a change, so I assume the power consumption will be less as the radio circuits aren't working as much.

After another day playing with this phone I agree with the reviews on DealExtreme. It (and probably the very similar YEPO K630i) are very good performers for an almost-giveaway price. Build quality and quality control also surprisingly good. I'm sooooo glad that I didn't fork over the huge sum that GT was asking for their 2 SIM phone a couple of years back. This does more, at a fraction of the price.