Venus V900 review.

Well, actually this was my first gadget from DealExtreme, I bought this because it was interesting to test this phone. Nowadays I use it every day. :) It's really good phone.

At DX this phone indicated as
V900 2.1" Touch Screen Dual SIM Dual Network Triband GSM Cell Phone (900/1800/1900)

Shortly about the phone.
- It's cheap, about $55
- It has dual SIM card slots (but anyway i couldn't test this feature because i have only one SIM). This means you can use both SIMs simultaneously (stand-by both SIMs)
- Touch screen feature and stylus
- SMS, MMS ability
- photo camera 0.3 MP, instead of indicated 2MP (!)
- microSD slot with 256M tflash card
- FM radio, sound recorder, audio player, video player(avi,3gp), video recorder (avi).
- Bluetooth
- Java not supported
- built-in games (Mahjong, puzzle)
- Calculator, calendar features

What's in the box
- the phone
- charger with USB cable
- 2 Li-Ion batteries 1100 mAh
- Earphones (hands free headset)

The phone itself was smaller than i thought, similar to NOKIA 1100, just a bit larger.

The speaker is so fucking loud i set it to only 2/6 of it's power :)

I liked the FM-radio. It can store up to 10 stations :D and has a pretty cool receiver.

The supplied earphones have a good quality. They are also a "freehand set" with a microphone.

There's no any driver supported, but they are not necessary (i guess) because the phone recognized as two flash drives. First drive as built-in memmory (about 780K), second as tflash card (if inserted).

You can easily transfer diles from PC to the phone and back, both on Windows and Linux.

The vibration does not work at all, i don't know why. This is a production fuckup, i guess.

You can set custom MP3 phone rings, upload them to the tflash card or built-in memory.

Also there's a book reader, supported Western, UCS2, UTF-8 encodings. You have to upload txt files to the Ebook directory on the tflash or memory.

Radio and player volume are regulated by pushing * and # buttons.

The camera photos & video quality is shitty, and dark :( But sometimes you can make a satisfying photo. It's enough for me, I think.

This phone has a funny feature called "Voice changer" with 8 presets. This is for those who do not want to be recognized during the conversation ;)

Well, i gotta say that this phone is OK because it's too cheap for it's features. I like this phone, really :)