Cect HT-508 dual SIM mobile phone test

I think in these days everybody who has an active life and lives in a city owns a mobile phone. There are a lot of brands like Nokia, Sony Ericsson , Samsung that create a lot of types of mobile phones, everyone better than the previous and with a lot of gadgets for them. Al most every non-low-cost phone has a camera build-in, a music player, a video player and stuff like this that are meant to make our life nicer and proud of ourselves , but in the same time they make us want every time a better gadget.

A big problem appeared along with the great offers of the telecommunication companies. Everyone has great offers but for using inside their network. Many people began to wear with them 2 mobile phones. I am one of those. So time asked a new invention: 2 mobile phones in a single one.

There are many companies that created Dual Sim phones, but mainly their origins are in China . One of the best company is CECT. They create a lot of dual sim phones, some of them unfortunately being copies of mobile phones from well known companies.

I’ll give you a few examples :

• Cect P-168 Ifone vs. Apple Iphone

• Nokia 6300 vs. Cect 6300

• Cect N95 vs. Nokia N95

• Cect N73 vs Nokia N73

….. and this list can continue as they are very good working people.

Anyway this is maybe the bad side….no inspiration, but the results are very good and the company is growing very fast. They give nice looking product at very affordable prices.

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Special Case – CECT HT-508

As I heard a lot of talking about these phones and I was caring 2 mobile phones with me I decided to test one of these products. I bought a Cect HT-508:

First impression… very nice. I expected something maybe cheep looking, but I had a nice surprise. My first problem with it was …turning it on. I pun the battery in it but… no turning on. After a few “scientific researching” of pushing every button like crazy I made a long press on the top right button and the phone started.

When the phone started I instantly had a problem: CHINEESE language. So I searched the internet and I found the magic key sequence: *#0000# . This resets the language phone to english. The screen is looking great, has a very good resolution 240×320 and 265.000 colors. So personally no complaining about it . The touch screen works very good , nice response. I hate the pen for the touch screen. That looks cheap and it’s not extendable. It has a fixed length and …it’s kind of short.

The sound is ok…I really don’t know how to describe it. It has a very high volume, so until now I didn’t manage to set it to ring decently so I won’t have a heart attack sometime when it will ring. Beside this is a very nice mp3 player and if you use your earphones it’s really nice. The AudioPlayer can be played in the background so it can be used easily as an mp3 player. You can customize very well the ringtones for every sim separately, so that you’ll know from the ringtone on what phone are you called.

What I hate about it is the default sounds and that I can’t customize the message tone. I had to deal with what the phones has and they are not really nice.

The camera is …just an ordinary mobile phone camera. Definitely not a 3.0 MegaPixels camera. It’s very good for a quick photo so that you can remember something nice. The maximum resolution is 1280×960 and the clarity of the photos is ….let’s say almost ok. I kind of like how it records videos….continuous with no braking and you can easily see what it meant to record. So the video recording is very ok for a mobile phone … as much as I’ve tested. By the way it has 2 cameras one in the back and one in the front, but if you wonderer…..NO, it doesn’t support 3G.

The games are boring. Nothing special….you’ll get bored by them in the first day. So that’s it about the games.

For connectivity the phone has Bluetooth, GPRS and cable connection. They are ok. Nothing special about this section. Everything is exactly as you know from every phone. Special thing about it is that once you connect your phone to your PC with a data cable you get 3 options on the phone screen: Mass Storage ( option that shows your phone to the PC as a mass storage device), WebCam (with this you can use your phone as a personal webcam) and the last option is COM port.

Once you have connected your phone to your PC by a com port you’ll need some software to work with the phone. I tried a lot of them and only one worked : PhoneSuite v2.1.4.

The PhoneSuite

It’s very nice, very intuitive and good for basic modifications and operations.

Some hints :

• For making your phone silent you have to make a long press on the # key.
• For locking the keys…well here is a little problem. The only way is to set from the menu a timing in which you want the keys to get locked. For unlocking them you have to press # twice.
• The annoying icons non removable from the screen (in the buttons) are real buttons. Every one has the function given by the icon.
• When you installed your second sim don’t panic is nothing happens it will react but it will take some time.
• The card used by this phone is microSD and it works very nicely.

Another good resource for this phone is the website : http://zen2cool1.free.fr/. Here you can download tons of wallpapers , screen savers and bootscreens. Very nice website.

Download PhoneSuite 2.1.4