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Verzio Twinn Duplii: Want 2 SIMs with that?

A new mobile phone launched last week with an interesting proposition — two SIMs running on the same phone at the same time. While this idea is not actually new in the Philippines, Verzio wants to penetrate a the aggressive mobile market in the country.

Funny thing happened when I was heading for the press launch last week — got stuck in traffic due to a downpour and when I got the only remaining parking spot near the place, the security guard turned me away (he says it was reserved for another resto). So I headed back home. *heh*

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Anyway, dual-sims have been around for ages. Enterprising mobile vendors in GreenHills have been selling them for years while others hack existing (esp. Nokia models) phones to be able to support two SIM slots. In fact, there have been mobile units which offer triple and even quad SIM (yup, 4 SIM cards in one phone!) from China spotted at VirraMall.

What Verzio is trying to do is addressing the growing market of dual-SIM culture in the Philippines. One model, the Duplii, is even 3G capable. Because of the eat-all-you-can promos being offered by Smart, Globe and Sun, consumers are encouraged enticed to carry an extra SIM card or sometimes even have two phones altogether.

So, it’s only economically sound to just get a single phone to hold your 2 SIM cards right? Well for most people, maybe yes. However, I can also see several reason why people have 2 numbers:

  • One is a public number and one is a private number. (me!)
  • Others have a personal number and another office number. (24/7 tech support, people working for telcos or related industries)
  • Some have a dedicated number just for their special someone. Or, the other secret special someone (aha!).
  • Hard core SMS users who only have Php15 a day budget for texting. (Text-chatters popularized by Sun Cellular’s All-Day All-Night Promo)
  • And those who don’t actually need two numbers but are more gravitated to having two phone units because of specific features. (A QWERTY or Smart phone and a regular slim phone.)

The Verzio Duplii retails for P14,990 (US$ 350) while the Verzio Twinn, P11,990 (US$ 280). As for me, the benefit of having two phones is that I can turn off the other (public) one when I don’t want to be disturbed. *guilty*

It will be interesting to learn how much percentage of the market segment can Verzio attract — the selling point being it’s a cheap dual-SIM capable phone. So, let’s take a quick poll from our readers here who have 2 mobile numbers. Will you go for a Verzio or stick with your 2 mobile phones.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

119 Responses

  1. Avatar for rcsaint rcsaint says:

    skiebug:

    I’m sure you can find one there in Manila, maybe in your friendly Greenhills neigborhood. Please let me know where i can buy an extra battery and charger for the twinn. Thanks in advance!

    jopez:

    I can’t say if Verzio twinn is better that MyPhone S22, but if you google it, some people are saying that the twinn is better than the S22. In terms of appearance, I think the twinn is more elegant-looking than the S22. By the way, the verzio twinn that i bought comes with a one-year warranty from where i got it.

  2. Avatar for rcsaint rcsaint says:

    carol:

    verzio twinn can take in 2 gig micro sd card. i bought mine from cd-r king at 250 pesos with no adapter. maybe it can take in higher capacity micro sd card, but i haven’t tried it yet.

    jopez:

    it’s a good and reliable fone if you can live with its not-so-good slider fit and not-so-friendly software (texting lang naman). It’s also quite heavy but its better than carrying two phones. Speaker is very loud and even better than my mp3 player. U can browse or text while the mp3 player is playing. U cannot use bluetooth headset for listening mp3 player, only for calling. U can record ur call conversation with this fone which I find nice. U can also program this fone to turn off and turn ON to save battery…beats my laptop pc! At 3,9990, this thing is SWEET!

  3. Avatar for jopez jopez says:

    bro, Is verzio twinn good? I’m looking for a dual sim and it came down to 2 choice, the twinn and myphone s22. Anyone has a comment. Plus where in manila can i buy twinn with the 3990 price tag. Thanks

  4. Avatar for skiebug skiebug says:

    thanks rcsaint! i live here in makati cdo is too far from me anyway, many thanks for the info. will try to source extra batt for you…warmest regards

  5. Avatar for rcsaint rcsaint says:

    skiebug:

    i bought mine in cagayan de oro city from graphics center.

    zyx verzio:

    do you know wer i can buy a verzio twinn spare battery? i can’t find here in cdo city.

    do you know wat’s the passcode for the bluetooth of verzio twinn? i can’t pair it with my pc’s bluetooth. Thanks in advance!

  6. Avatar for zYx verzio zYx verzio says:

    there is a WCDA and GSM slot.. in short, if you have dupli and your in US you could use the WCDA slot for the US local sim……. and the GSM slot for your smart, globe etc.. roamed sim.. cnxa na sa mga wrong spelling earlier, lunch braek na gutom na tlaga..

  7. Avatar for zYx verzio zYx verzio says:

    hi, guys the Twinn current price is only 3,990 the dupli still at 12,990.. im from Bacolod city im not verry fammiliar to some other authorized stores outside visayas that also carry Verzio product.. but if you finding hard time finding one, i could also provide you just add up for shipment fee via air21 for philippines area. unfortunately, the twin doeast work to other country specially america, europe, autralia, japan.. in short limited only to selected asian country.. the Verzio dupli could would on othuer country, if you had further question feel free to hitn me back.

    zyllas C Porquez
    Bacolod City.
    +6392041*****
    zpor****@****.***

  8. Avatar for skiebug skiebug says:

    to: rcsaint
    where did you buy your twinn @PhP 3,999? Will appreciate it much. Thanks!

  9. Avatar for carol carol says:

    hello..expandable up to how many GIG po ang twinn? thanks :)

  10. Avatar for reikakou reikakou says:

    And how long is the battery life for each battery included on the package? Let’s say when i’m playing music/fm radio, or texting or having a phone call nonstop

    And how loud is the spekerphone?

    Is it also able to do multi tasking? like playing the music files while texting/navigating the menu/ fixing our phonebook.

  11. Avatar for reikakou reikakou says:

    Uhm.. is the price of P9K+ (My memoxpress shop)reasonable for a duplii? if not, where can i buy a reasonably priced handset. I’m really considering to buy that unit.

    How about the front camera? is it comparable to the front camera of LG 3G for all hadset (KU250 i think)?

    does it also support wav music files?
    how many sms can be save on the phone memory?

  12. Avatar for rcsaint rcsaint says:

    Verzio twinn is now only P3,999.00. I bought one yesterday and i like it so far except for the not-so-good slider fit (gumagalaw) and too many keys to press just to send an sms. Other features of the phone are comparable to branded cellphones. I like the security feature of the phone too, you can password protect your phonebook, messages and other files from the prying eyes of your girlfriends or wives…hehehe!

  13. Avatar for leejaehee leejaehee says:

    diba active both sim?

  14. Avatar for leejaehee leejaehee says:

    may available ako bnew na verzio twinn 5000 lang.. complete package and sealed.email me @ jek_****@****.***

  15. Avatar for och och says:

    compare to myphone, i can see better feedback for verzio, last time i checked in gateway shop price is down to Php5500, one thing i forgot to ask, if this phone is video ready?

  16. Avatar for poppy poppy says:

    i have the same question as nujnuj. other dual sim phones like samsung kasi, though a triband phone, only one of the sim slots is really triband. the other slot only supports dual sim. if that’s the case and you’re in the US, only 1 of your sims will work (Globe/Smart or US SIM)

  17. Avatar for Rhode Rhode says:

    I dropped by their office in Singapore to look at Duplii last week, but when i decided to buy it yesterday the place looks deserted. Their dummy phones on the shelves are all gone. So i wondered are they packing-up?
    So i decided not to buy it as if they are closing down.

  18. Avatar for nujnuj nujnuj says:

    Just wondering if this will work sa US? currently nasa US ako and I have 2 phones 1 is ung smart ofw sim and the other one is ung At&t.

    will this surely works? because if yes papabili ako right away!

  19. Avatar for je je says:

    last time i checked, duplii’s about 12k and twinn’s about 8k.

  20. Avatar for monay95 monay95 says:

    yep, Smart, Sun and Globe 3g/MMS/GPRS settings are built-in to the phone. For GPRS, you just have to choose the correct mobile provider’s browser profile.

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