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hey guys it's brandon minimun from pocket now calm and in this video we're going to show you the dual sim card functionality of the acer d x 900 so this will actually allow you to have two phone lines on one device and we're going to go through that now so so far i haven't installed the second sim card and let me show you what it looks like if we look in the upper right corner and this device runs spb mobile shell will see a 1 and a 2 the one is the sim card that has the internet connection and then the two is the auxiliary sim card that will only make phone calls so if we go back to the home screen we can actually see more about this it says no sim 2 and up here at the top there's a little sim card picture with an ex that has a number 2 implying that you do not have the second SIM card installed so I'm going to get it installed and I'll show you what that looks like in a sec okay here we are behind the battery and there are two sim card slots so I put one in one and one on the other alright so now we've both sim cards in the device and let me show you how this operates basically there are two fronts that this works phone calls and text messages right because text messages actually go through your sim card rather than through the internet data plan that you have so much turn on the device and the first thing that you'll notice here in mobile shell in the upper right corner we have two system notifications or to network notifications to is actually the auxiliary sim card or the secondary one that doesn't have any internet data and number one is the main sim card that does do the internet data and you can see individually which one has the signal strength and it's kind of interesting because both cards that are in right now are on the same network and yet one card has a lower signal strength and the other which is kind of strange and by the way in theory you could have a tmobile sim card in here and an AT&T sim card in here there's nothing keeping it from doing that as long as they operate on the correct frequencies so we're going to go out of this screen and go over here and we can see the two names of the two networks that we're using now what happens if you want to make a call well just like on any windows mobile device you press the call start button and you're taking to the dialer but what's different here is that there is a talk one and a talk two button so quite simply if you want to use line two or the auxiliary phone you would dial the number press talk to simultaneously if you want to use the main sim card you talk press talk 1 it's very simple but what about when you get a call in how do you know which line it's coming in on well I'll call my device now and you'll see how that looks all right so it's dialing I'm just gonna cover up the screen for security and what you see it says phone one at the top and so just like we had and so just like we had when we were making a call when we receive a call line one or two is designated by the number one or the number two and that is how you determine between the two lines now when you're making a text message you actually get a choice on whether you want to send it out on the first sim card or the second SIM card so I'm going to go into the messaging application and here's something that's kind of neat you probably can't see it let me zoom in on the screen but you can actually keep track of which account you're using to send the text messages for example on this one from jon rettinger there's a one but on this one from this guy appeared there is a two and that's how you know who you are getting the message from so if I tap on this person and I reply and I type a message and I click send I get an option to use sim card 1 or sim card too so overall I'm generally impressed with how well the acer d x 900 can handle two phone lines whether it's receiving a call and being able to tell which phone line it's going to or making a call and being able to tell the phone whether you want to go on line 1 or line two that said it would be nice to be able to differentiate better between line one and line two perhaps the device could allow you to designate a word like home work personal business so that you know you're getting a phone call to your business phone rather than to line two so if you're looking for a two line two SIM card device you don't have many choices and the and though the acer d x 900 does a really good job at handling to two phone lines at once as we're going to find out later in the software tour this device has issues with software in terms of lag eNOS of software and other build quality issues that we're going to talk about so we'll be back next with the software tour that's it for now