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this is Jessica doll curtain for cnet taking a first look at the National Geographic talk a broad light now that is the name of the phone provided by the National Geographic brand but it's not who makes the phone the phone is actually made by a company called blue and it is the blue DJ light phone so it is being used in this case in service of the talk abroad program which was really aimed at tourists travelers students people who really need a phone and a single phone number that they can be reached at all times while they're abroad and overseas so it's an interesting service I'll get to that in a minute but first let's look at the phone it is extremely simple in fact so simple that it does not even have a volume rocker I would never recommend this phone for day-to-day use it's a very poor construction very cheap quality seems toy like doesn't have a lot of extra features it does have a penlight it also has an FM radio on here which is nice and players for video and audio playback so that is good but the address book is bare bones and so is much of the rest of the phone it's also very small text into my hand a really small screen to less than two inches there are two SIM card holders on here one of them the talk a broad international sim goes into there is another sim slot as well so you could technically use it or at least store another sim card in there also beneath the battery there's a microSD card slot so you can load in music and any videos that you want so why would you ever buy this phone well if you're interested in the talk abroad service it gives you a sim card that we just saw with two phone numbers one for the u.s. one for the UK basically anybody can call either of those two numbers and reach you wherever you are you can also dial out the service is prepaid in the sense that you buy a $29 bundle of credit you can keep buying more more bundles of credit and then every single thing that you do basically outgoing costs a certain amount so checking voicemail will cost 45 cents texting somebody will cost a little bit of money most of the incoming texts and phone calls will be free for you so that's good it is a GSM world phone so with the taco broad sim card you will be able to use it in over 230 countries around the world I highly recommend if you're interested in the phone and the service that you look at my full review on cnet com because all of the rates can get a little bit confusing so this is your first look at the blue DJ light which is also known as the National Geographic taco broad light I'm Jessica doll court for seen it