TDG-9920

• Handset
• Charger
• Manual
• Headset
• Disk with software
• Cable for synchronization with PC (СОМ)

A customary user of the majority of European countries knows at least 7-8 mobile phone manufacturers and others arouse his suspect. Asian manufacturers are treated this way the most, besides the companies are not widely known they may be associated with low-quality products by the country of origin only. And a manufacturer's announcement that his phone is the smallest, loudest and the best is one of the factors putting a user on his guide. If such an announcement is the one that makes you think the product is of a middling quality, but if the whole package box is abounding with such descriptions in a superlative form the product makes no any wish to have a look at. By the way many phones didn't reach us just because of it. One look at their package was enough to refuse from committing a test. In a TDG-9920's case first we received the specifications and only then the model itself. We are grateful to the manufacturer for the efficient delivery of the test example.

The package box looks like mage following the guide "How one shouldn't make a package box". If such a manual really existed the designers of this box probably would be the authors. First, a note telling the device belongs to a new generation and is the smallest one with a camera is placed on the front side. The folding part tells about some unique functions like:

• Worlds First Ultrasonic Mosquito Repellant function for GPRS
• Worlds First Acupressure Reader function for GPRS
• Bio-Rhythm Reader function
• Worlds First Phone to have Flashlight function

The first two functions have nothing in touch with batch communication and why the word GPRS appeared here is not clear. Just following some logics it either has to be in the whole three items or in none of them. The fourth announcement is not true, there are many phones equipped with a flash function and it appeared far longer ago than yesterday or a day before. Similar faults are easy to find on a box and that doesn't make the device look better in our eyes. As for me, the manufacturer should reconsider the notes on the box for a European user and take all the superlative degrees away as soon as possible. Having got upset because of the box I expected some dirty tricks from the device itself. Integrated functions announced by the manufacturer frightened the most, what is a Mosquito Repellant for in the phone? They'd better integrate a coffee-machine. Phones are rich in functions today and some of them are too exotic just scaring a user away but not attracting. How do ordinary customers think? They think if something is added to a phone it's charged for extra. And who is ready to pay more for a not very necessary function? The answer is plain - only some individuals. Wishing to attract a customer the manufacturer get just the opposite effect scaring them away (not mosquitoes but people).

A standard componentry is the first positive factor. A cable for synchronization (COM not USB that is not very attracting) and a disk with software may be found in a package besides the phone, the manual and the headset.

The phone is really not large and looks like an accurate bar with round corners. The design resembles the devices by Maxon in some kind that were manufactured in the same form-factor and similar color solutions. But everything is not the same here. Thus a sliding panel protecting the VGA-camera may be seen on a front panel. An external screen is absent because there is too little space for it on this small device. There is a service indicator having 7 different backlighting colors on the external panel. A flash lamp is from the side (works like impact and is a point light source really). Loudspeakers are hidden by the slits on both sides, they provide a volumetrical sound in the phone. That's curious that a NEC chipset is used, usually it's integrated into devices of a higher class.

The manufacturer offers several body colors, they are silvery, pearly red and pearly black. The two last colors go with a glossy surface and a body colors around an external shutter is different in all the cases. As for me, a silvery solution looks customary and two other colors are of interest and make the phone more fashionable in some kind.

The dimensions are 71x39x26 mm and the weight is 95 grams. The size is not big but the thickness is comparatively big. Holding the phone is comfortably even having big hands. The device is noticeable in a pocket of a shirt and it's its thickness that plays any role here but not width or height. In all the rest the device is quite comfortable and carrying it is possible just as you like, no any problems appear. The external shutter is easy to move and open but almost doesn't slide accidentally.

Source : http://www.mobile-review.com