National Geography Launches its Own Dual-Sim Phone - Duet D888

If you’ve been following the cellphone market, you’d know that National Geographic has already release a mobile phone not so long ago. Following up this phone is its second dubbed Duet D888. What’s so special about this phone aside from being a National Geographic branded phone is the fact that it has dual-sim capability. The D888 has one slot for your international sim card and another slot to hold the SIM card of a carrier of your choice.The Duet D888 is an unlocked phone, so you can pretty much use whatever SIM card you want to use. You can use a prepaid or postpaid SIM card such as AT&T’s various data plans.

The National Geography Duet D888 phone was manufactured by Beyond E-Tech. While it maybe special for the fact that it is a dual-sim phone, the Duet D888 is still an ordinary looking mid-range mobile phone with features such as a 2.8-inch QVGA screen, MP3 Player, FM Radio, Bluetooth, and a not so great 2 megapixel camera. Interestingly, given that you’d be using the D888 when you travel a lot, a higher megapixel resolution camera would have been better. Nonetheless the camera phone can also be used for video capturing and it support3GP video format.

The Duet D888 is tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900MHz) phone with GPRS, WAP, GMS and STR connectivity features.

The phone can max out 4 hours of talk time and 130 hours standby time. It is available now at the Beyond Etech site for around $349.