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Samsung's new Ultra range is designed to illustrate just how much technology they can fit into a slim phone design. So, whilst they've now got the skinniest candybar title, the slimmest HSDPA phone and a host of other accolades, they haven't skimped on the specs. The D900 was the first of these to be launched, featuring a sliding design and measuring just 12.9mm in width. And yes, it's the world's slimmest slider phone. Available free on contract, it's in the shops now.

Techdigest made a review of this phone and here are some of their impressions. The camera is the best found on a slider phone at 3 megapixels, which takes stills and video footage. There is 60MB of internal memory to store your photos, as well as a MicroSD slot for expanding that. The screen is 2.1" which is noticeably larger than previous Samsung screens such as the one found on the E900. It also supports 262,000 colours, so is bright enough to take advantage of all the fancy pants graphics it comes with.

However, despite offering 3 megapixels, it loses against the competition as it still appears as a camera phone, rather than something that you'd consider dumping your camera for. The light is LED, so doesn't use a flash, making your subjects look odd in low light. Unlike many of it's contemporaries, there is a limited number of things you can do with the photos once you've taken it. Yes, you can MMS it, and you can send it via Bluetooth to a printer, but there's no extended applications, such as loading it onto a blogging site, which both Nokia and Sony Ericsson have included.

So, the conclusion is that on paper, the Samsung D900 looks great. But it's once you take it from the box that you lose the excitement. Whether it's the large screen which makes it look bigger than it is, or the green or red buttons that make it look old fashioned, designwise they seem to have let the fact that it's thin excuse any effort on the rest of it.

Read full review on techdigest.