UK - Can anyone suggest an Android smartphone with dual sim & a lot of onboard memory?

[Hedge Witch]

I currently have an HTC Desire - I love the phone but hate that it keeps running out of space on its hard disk (despite installing everything to the SD card).
I am on O2 at the moment but also have a PAYG Orange phone & I would love to be able to have both sims in the same phone & just keep the other phone switched off for emergencies.
Any ideas?

[Andi]

let me know if you find one
In asia/asia-pac dual and triple SIM phones are common

in europe almost nonexistent
where they do exist, they appear to be low-end and focused on providing Multiple SIM not feature/ android functionality, and many with no 3G connections (i.e. quad band 2G only)..

The primary one (with 3G) is the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos S6102
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_y...2-4385.php
(they do another one, that is US CDMA only)

and there is a new one Galaxy S due out very soon
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s...2-4883.php
"MEMORY
Card slot,microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal.4 GB storage, 768 MB RAM"

That when it is available, will be reasonable

All the DUOS range
http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sQu...sName=DUOS


Search for Dual SIM on Ebay,
Nokia and Samsung do traditional call/text phones with dual SIMs
and there are loads of chinese phones (many no 3G)

but totally agree, it seems a big loss to the market,
especially business travellers (and even tourists) to be contactable both on
- original foreign No from home
- local PAYG SIM for locals/taxi Co/shops/new friends to contact you without an international call !

Networks could easily protect themselves by SIM locking to have to have at least one of their SIM's in it.

But no, dual standby (listening on both) and a medium let alone high end phone,
not seen it from any company - even searching ebay, gsmarena or google.

best I can think of is
- test apps on a highend phone
- move the select few that you actually use day to day, to the lower powered phone

in reality, even with a small phone, you can usually install the usual suspects
- skype
- netflix
- news
- gmail/mail
- iplayer/itvplayer
- TuneIn (for radio)
- lookout (for recovery/anti virus)
- google earth
- twitter.tweetdeck
- facebook
even the odd quidco and windows 7 "launcher7" for fun (Ok, a few seconds)

might still be cheaper to get a t-mobile Full Monty SIM or Three ONE PLan SIM
with its unlimited usage, gives most of what you need..

if you need two contact numbers,
Orange used to (and as far as I know still) do, 2 lines/phone No's on one SIM
http://business.orange.co.uk/home/medium...sonal-line - there you are
- one for business and one for private,
it was an old promotion, (idea was Business was contract, and private could be PAYG or much cheaper contract.)

update: review of it
(totally disagree with low end expectation comments !)
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s...ew-799.php

"Frequent travelers and people looking to get the best out of multiple carrier plans are not after the ultimate in processing power or eye-popping screen resolution and the Galaxy S Duos is OK with that "

[Wayne]

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