Cingular introduces Samsung's D407

We know well enough that Samsung's D407 features really next to nothing to SMS home about, but if you're in the market for a turbocheap Cingular handset, this VGA camera packin' Push-to-Talkin' multi-client IMing Bluetoothing EDGE quad-bander is now on the nation's largest carrier for a hundie and a twenty, including contract. We can think of a few better ways to spend a Benjamin and a Jackson, but, well, you know us.

[Thanks, Zac]

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2006 12:23AM]

There are a few issues that the new (Cingular)
Samsung D407 has. When you copy your contacts
from the Sim Card to the Phone memory you then
have duplicate entries for every contact
in your contact list. There is presently no fix
for this. Samsung and Cingular both told me to
just erase the SIM card. Gee, theres great idea!
Why would i then need a Sim card? If you want
to add custom ring tones and pics to your contacts,
they need to be in the phone's memory. Also if
you do erase your contacts off of your SIM be
prepared for this. There is no way to batch copy
the contacts from the phone's memory to the SIM.
You need to copy each contact one at a time. That
can be a real pain if you have a lot of telephone
numbers in your contact list. The phone can
batch copy from the SIM to the phone but not from
the phone to the SIM. Another issue lies in the
text messaging. Everytime you insert punctaution
anywhere when you reply text message the cursor returns to the top of the message. If you text a lot, that can be very frustrating. My friend also bought a Sasung D407 and has the same issues. Both Cingular
and Samsung were very rude and not helpful at all.
I just want everyone to know about these issues so
they don't get stuck with a phone that clearly
has a software and/or firmware problem.

Besides the above issues, it is a very nice phone.
The PTT works great. You do not need to open the
lid at all to make a normal phone call or a PTT call.
It has voice reconition that is very accurate and a
decent quality speakerphone. Also, Cingular does
not include a USB cable. The Phone also has bluetooth. Samsung has an app free for download (Samsung PC Studio 3). You can take any mp3 or wav clip and transfer it to your phone via blutooth or usb and use it as a ring tone. Cingular won't tell you this because they want you to keep shelling out 3-$5 for a ring tone and also pay for the bandwidth to download it. Why would you do that when you can buy a whole song for .99 ?

In conclusion, I don't think that i will ever purcahes another Samsung product. They were made aware of the problem and they refuse to do anything about it. The same goes for Cingular. They are both aware that a phone they are selling has a software and/or firemware problem and they just don't care. I forgot to mention that Samsung also told me that if i would like to try and research the problem and
fix it myself, i am more than welcome to. The tech rep at Samsung also told me that i should start by contacting their friends in Korea that wrote the firmware. This should tell everyone what kind of
companies they are dealing with when it comes to Samsung and Cingular.

The Samsung D407 was clearly not ready to go market.