Panasonic GD92 is my first phone and I would like to say that I LOVE it. It has been two years since I purchased it, but it is still going on, only with few problems like low battery and a flickering display (due to the dropping of the phone).
The year was 2002 and I felt the need to have a phone to impress the girls in my college(he he). I browsed through the market for a cheap phone which could come in my meagre student budget. Since it was to be my first phone, I didn't knew of the features I was expecting. So money was the main criteria. After going through different models of phones of different manufacturer, my eyes set up on two phones Nokia 3310 and Motorola Talkabout.
Nokia is a good brand name, most popular and had great features but due to cash constraints I settled for Motorola Talkabout which was costing me about 3500. I was going to purchase this mobile from Gaffar Market, New Delhi because there we get really cheap mobiles although there is always a suspicion about the reliability of the product sold from there.
On the designated day, I went to the shop to purchase my new mobile. While I was standing at the shop, I saw the salesperson showing a cool phone to some customer. I immediately enquired about that phone, it was Panasonic GD92. The looks fascinated me and when I took it in my hands, it was very light as compared to the phone that I was going to purchase (bulky, Motorola Talkabout). I enquired about the features of the phone and was overwhelmed by what this phone has to offer. Immediately I decided to abandon the plan of buying Motorola and made my mind to buy Panasonic GD 92.
Panasonic GD92 was costed me around Rs 6500 but till date I don't regret my decision to buy this phone. It has been working fine without any hassels. Let me list out the Features of this mobile:
Weight : 77 g (Standard Battery), This is one of the best feature of the mobile, its the weight of this mobile that makes people buy it. It was the lightest phone I can find in the market even today. Panasonic specializes in making light weight phone. The light weight makes the phone easy to carry along without feeling its burden.
Battery Life : The battery used in this phone is Standard Battery, 650 mAh Li-Ion battery. According to the specification the Stand By Time is 160 h and the Talk Time is 210 min
Display : 6 lines and LCD illuminates in 4 different colours. The screen is big giving a clear view of the message or the phone numbers. The LCD has 4 colors blue, red, greed and magenta. Display Type is Monochrome graphic.
Vibration : It has got two vibration modes Continuous and Intermittent.
Ringtones : The Ringtones are not very cool. It has only one ringtone that sounds good and used by majority of Panasonic GD92 user, other ringtones are more and less of no use. There are two Recordable ringers in which you can record any sound.
Memory : 100 phone numbers can be stored in the phone memory alongwith the email of the person. The memory space allocated to SMS is very less. You can store only 10 sent and 10 received messages on this mobile
Call records : The call record is maintained only for 5 dialed, 5 received, 5 missed calls. Too less, but anyways who needs the history of calls.
Other General Features of the phone are:
Network : GSM 900 / GSM 1800
Size Dimensions : 118.1 x 40.5 x 16.4mm
Data speed : 9600 bps
Messaging : SMS, Email
-Clock
-Alarm
T9
Voice memo
On/off timers
Dictaphone
Ring Tone Composer
CallerID graphics
Calculator
Cons :
Cannot add words to T9 directory.
No Games
Less Memory for storing SMS
Although the phone has less features, has limited memory but performance wise I would rate this phone as a BEST one from Panasonic. I would have loved to, but I cannot recommend this phone as it has been DISCONTINUED.
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