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Review of Samsung C3782 Duos phone

These are tough times for the good old push-button phones. Now users prefer touchphones, which, in terms of characteristics and prices, are not worse than devices with buttons. Phones with support for two SIM-cards are very popular, and Samsung is one of the leaders in the segment of these devices.

Not so long ago, Samsung C3322 was released, which has become very popular among users due to its low cost and pretty good functionality. It was replaced by the C3782 model, which will be discussed in this review. The characteristics of the device are relatively modest: a QVGA display, a 3.2 megapixel camera, support for memory cards, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, a radio and a proprietary interface with a bunch of settings.

Design

If you remember, the C3322 was very similar to the Finnish Nokia 6300. Fortunately, the appearance of our hero can be called original without exaggeration. On the other hand, the device has a classic design, which makes it ideal for business people, whose wardrobe consists mainly of suits.

The weight of the phone is 82 g. The device is light, it is convenient to carry it even in a shirt pocket. The dimensions of the model are 117.7x49x12.3 mm. The case is a little "bloated", although it is difficult to call it a problem.

The device is assembled perfectly, there is nothing to complain about. The body is made of matte plastic. Glossy surfaces are absent, which is good news. Fingerprints or minor abrasions are not visible on the phone.

On the top of the C3782 there is a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack.

There is a strap hole on the left side of the case. An oblong volume control key is installed under it.

On the right side there is a small button for selecting an active SIM card. Closer to the top edge is the microUSB interface. To protect it from dust, it is covered with a plug.

The back side of the device does not stand out in any way. Above, in a silver square frame, is the camera lens. Below is a pair of ringer holes, under which you can see the Samsung logo.

There is a battery under the back cover of the phone. Above it is a slot for a microSD card. If you remove the battery, you can get to the SIM card slots.

Keyboard

The developers made the bell buttons and soft keys flat. In practice, it was convenient to use them only because of their large size. It would be much better if these buttons were convex, like the model C3322.

Instead of a joystick, the C3782 has a touch-sensitive navigation button. At first, it is not very convenient to use it, but over time you get used to it. In the settings, you can set the sensitivity of the sensor. Personally, I liked this button. I would like to note that touch manipulators are installed in Blackberry devices, so there is no need to doubt their practicality.

Our hero is equipped with a standard telephone keypad, consisting of 12 keys. Each row of buttons is a solid plate. The rows are separated by silvery stripes. The keys are large, and when pressed, they emit a soft click.

The numbers and symbols on the buttons are gray. They are clearly visible on a black background. The backlighting of the keyboard is white.

Display

The device is equipped with an inexpensive 2.4-inch TFT-matrix. It has a resolution of 240x320 pixels and displays up to 262K colors. The viewing angles of the screen are very small.

On the street, the picture fades, but the information remains readable. In direct sunlight, the interface elements will be visible only if the screen backlight brightness is set to maximum.

The display has a plastic cover that protects the matrix from damage.

Interface

The C3782 interface has a wide variety of settings. I will only talk about the most basic ones.The user can customize the desktop for himself. For example, you can set the location of the clock on it or disable their display altogether. There is a line of program shortcuts. There are 15 applications available that can be added to this line: calendar, call log, radio, etc. Shortcuts on the desktop eliminate the need to go into the phone's menu every time in order to open a particular program.

The interface changes with themes, of which there are only three in the phone. You can turn on / off animation effects of transitions in the menu. The desktop image is adjusted, the font is changed both in the entire interface as a whole, and in the dialing menu in particular.

The left soft-button of the device is responsible for the menu, the right one for the phone book. You cannot assign other functions to the keys. There are 12 non-movable icons in the menu. Navigation using numeric combinations is supported. The device remembers the last opened item and the next time you enter the menu, this item will be highlighted.

Subscriber book

The book has three tabs. The first contains all the contacts that are on the SIM-cards and in the phone's memory. By the way, the phone can store up to 1000 numbers. The second tab contains a list of subscriber groups. Each group can contain up to 20 numbers. The last tab contains your favorite contacts. The user can store up to 18 phone numbers here. It is possible to enable the display of these numbers on the desktop. Phonebook entries are sorted by first or last name.

For each contact in the book, the name, surname, patronymic, address, birthday is indicated, up to five phone numbers are assigned, an email address, an ICQ number. For any subscriber, you can set your own ringtone and photo. The search function, which is available in the book, allows you to quickly find the desired contact.

Call log

The journal has six tabs: all, missed, outgoing, incoming calls, outgoing and incoming messages. In the first tab, as you understand, there is a list of all events, which includes all calls, text and multimedia messages, emails, messages from social. networks. This list is good because you do not have to search for the information you need in the magazine tabs - everything is collected in one place.

Call tabs display up to 30 numbers. The number of calls is indicated next to the number, and if you open the record, you can view the date and time of each of them. It is possible to save the number selected in the journal in the phone book. There is a "black list" function.

Working with SIM

To quickly switch between cards, use the button on the end of the phone. Only one SIM card can be active, and it is through it that calls and messages will be sent. It will also be used to access the Internet. For each card, you can set an icon, set a name. When switching between SIMs, the theme of the design and the image of the desktop are changed, which makes the work with the phone more convenient and pleasant. Also, for each card, you can customize its own sound profile. There is a timer that sets the time for automatic switching between SIMs.

The C3782 has one radio module, however, the user can configure the forwarding of incoming calls from an inactive card to an active one. Thanks to this, you will not be able to miss an incoming and, possibly, important call during a call.

Posts

This section is for SMS and MMS. The phone's memory is designed for 300 messages, messages can also be stored on SIM-cards. As usual, the type of message sent depends on its content and is set automatically. In the settings there is an item "Snooze": if there are unread messages, the phone will periodically (the time interval can be set manually) beep. To make typing messages easier, the phone has a T9 dictionary, where you can add new words.For some reason, if you turn on the display of added words, the phone starts to slow down.

Messages can be displayed in two ways: either each separately, or as a correspondence with a subscriber. In an open SMS / MMS, you can change the font size. To do this, use the volume keys. The recipient of the message is selected from the phone book or from the list of last used numbers. It is possible to block unwanted subscribers, while all messages from them will go to the "Spam" folder.

Email

Working with e-mail is quite convenient. All thanks to the built-in client, which has good functionality. It supports multiple accounts. The setup wizard will help you quickly and easily connect mailboxes hosted on popular resources such as Google, Yahoo, etc. Incoming messages can be viewed in each mailbox separately or displayed as a general list. It is possible to scale the font in the message. The client supports the protocols IMAP4, TLS, POP3, SSL, SMTP.

In the application settings, a period of automatic synchronization is set, a limit on the size and number of letters downloaded to the phone is set. The automatic signature of outgoing letters is configured. You can send messages with attached files taken from the device's memory. It is possible to block addresses, while all incoming letters from these mailboxes will be sent to a separate folder.

The mail client is well-developed, it is convenient, during testing, there were no problems with it. The only drawback of the application is that the automatic synchronization interval is configured immediately for all connected mailboxes. This is not always convenient, especially if letters are sent to different mailboxes at different intervals.

Camera

С3782 is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel photo module. There is no autofocus. Shooting mode is started from the menu. The camera interface is adapted for taking pictures in a horizontal position of the phone.

The maximum photo resolution is 2480x1536 pixels. In the camera settings, you can not only change the shooting parameters (white balance, exposure compensation, etc.), but also adjust some of the little things for greater convenience: change the viewing time of the captured frame, enable / disable additional icons on the display, select the storage location for photos (internal memory or microSD -map), assign some camera functions to the keyboard buttons. The pictures are slightly blurry, especially when shooting texts.

The camera can also record video clips at a resolution of 176x144 pixels. There is no need to talk about their quality, the videos will do only for sending via MMS.

Mp3 player

The player can play MP3, WMA and AAC files, which can be stored both in the built-in memory of the device and on a microSD card. The song library is divided into the following categories: all songs, playlists, albums, artists, genres, frequently and rarely listened to tracks. Album art and file tag information are displayed during playback. Cyrillic is displayed without problems.

The player can run in the background. If you minimize it, a line with playback control buttons will be displayed on the screen. There are two repeat modes: the current song and all tracks. The song being played can be assigned to a contact from the directory book, set as a ringtone or alarm clock. The application has an automatic shutdown function after a specified time, which can be selected in the interval from half an hour to two hours. The player's equalizer has nine presets; you cannot change its parameters manually. I was glad that the playback control functions can be assigned to the keyboard buttons. This greatly simplifies the use of the player.

The sound quality of the C3782 is at an acceptable level, for an undemanding music lover the device can replace an MP3 player.

FM radio

You can listen to radio broadcasts both through the speaker of the device and through the headphones, but the latter must be connected in any case, otherwise the radio will not work. RDS supported. The phone can search for stations in automatic mode. The user can sort the list of found stations, assign a name to each. The receiver is capable of running in the background. The application has a recording function, the audio files obtained with its help are saved in the device's memory or on a card. Like the player, the receiver has a timer to turn it off automatically. There is also one interesting function - a reminder of the upcoming radio show.

File manager

There is not much built-in memory in the C3782 - only 40 MB. But there is a slot for microSD cards. A 16 GB card was used for testing. She worked fine. By the way, the slot is blocked by a battery, so you won't be able to quickly change the card.

The functionality of the file manager is traditional. It supports copying and moving files from the device's memory to a microSD card and vice versa. Files and folders can be renamed, deleted. Images and videos are displayed as preview images. It is possible to send data to other devices via MMS, Email and Bluetooth.

Internet surfing

The phone has a NetFront browser. It has a large number of settings that allow you to customize the application, as they say, for yourself. The browser opens full-fledged "weighty" sites without any problems, but working with them is not very comfortable, since the phone starts to slow down. Considering that the device does not support 3G networks, one should not expect high speed from the mobile Internet.

Organizer

The calendar has two display methods (week, month), and two types of events can be saved in it: appointment and anniversary. Each event is assigned a start time, end time, and a repeat period, and a melody for the warning signal. It is possible to display all calendar entries in a single list.

There are ten alarm clocks in the C3782. For each, the melody and volume of the call, the day and time of activation, and the interval (from three minutes to half an hour) between repeated calls are set.

In the "Tasks" item, the user can create reminders about events of various types.

You can also create notes on your phone. There is a simple manager for this.

In the item "World time" you can find out the current time in any time zone.

There is a stopwatch, timer, calculator.

Installed programs for networks Facebook and Twitter.

There is a unit converter, dictionary, Bluetooth chat.

The "Downloads" item is a store of programs and other useful things for the C3782.

With the voice recorder, you can create unlimited sound recordings. Their maximum duration depends only on the amount of free memory.

The device has a simple photo editor that only knows how to crop images and supplement them with various effects.

Remote synchronization is supported. With its help, the user can, for example, copy a list of contacts from his Google account to the phone book.

The device has 6 preset and 3 user profiles. The latter can be configured manually, and most of the parameters in them are set separately for each SIM.

Communication capabilities

C3782 can only work in GSM networks.

The device is equipped with a Bluetooth 3.0 module. One of the many supported work profiles is A2DP. Thanks to it, you can connect a wireless stereo headset to your phone.

When synchronizing the device with a PC, you must select one of three operating modes: Kies, Media Player or Mass Storage. The last point allows you to "turn" the device into an external storage device, while there is no need to install additional drivers on the latter to exchange data between the phone and the computer.

Autonomous work

The C3872 is equipped with a 1000mAh Li-ion battery.According to official data, the phone will work up to 11.5 hours in talk mode, and up to 660 hours in standby mode. In real conditions, under light loads (half an hour of phone calls a day, up to two hours of listening to music) the device will have to be recharged every 4 - 5 days.

Outcomes

The volume of the earpiece is high, you can talk on the phone without any problems even on the subway. The ringer speaker is also very loud. The power of the vibrating alert is small, sometimes it is not felt.

The C3782 is similar in functionality to the Samsung C3322. The tested device also supports two SIM-cards, has the same high-quality and functional menu, excellent assembly and representative appearance. Samsung С3782, considering its price, has practically no drawbacks. Is that its optical joystick is inconvenient to use in winter with gloves.

Competitors

If you look at the "two-symbol" for the same price from other manufacturers, then the C3782 can compete with the models Nokia X2-02, Nokia C2-00, Nokia Asha 202 and LG S367.

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