Samsung SPH-A900 Reviews

11. Official Unoffical Review

16 Apr 2007 by Janestopthiscrazything

70%7out of 10

Purchased from Sprint(retailer, not online). SPH-A900 came with earbuds for music listening, USB phone-to-PC connector for up/downloading music(AAC+, MP3), and two-prong (USA/Canada) charger.
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Now, this phone does allow for a moderate amount of peer jealousy! With standards such as an MP3 player, 1.3 megapixel swivel video/still camera, Bluetooth-capabilities, and dual color screens this is one incredible phone! Did I mention that it can record phone conversations to internal memory, create its own ringtones, and play video/pics for in-coming calls, and doubles as a mass storage device(47.3MB useable - 2007 phones come standard with 3Gigs).
The phone comes with three demo games, and a host of relatively useless camera features like decorative boarders and an effect to overlay one photo atop another.

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Am employed by Cingular Wireless as a retail sales representative; have extensive knowledge of cellular market. Simply put, the Razor is a better phone simply due to its software stability.

SPH-A900 suffers from software instability. At 80% or greater storage usage, phone will often shut down after using Photo Album. Under same conditions Photo Album unexplainably looses ability to view images which were previously viewable.
Antenna is actually in the handheld section of this flip phone making it almost impossible to achieve a full signal in any situation when held during voice use. The official insturctions direct user to hold phone in very unrealistic manner.
The battery life is a problem. While its meant to be used as a music player, the battery life is very inhibiting at only three hours.
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Lastly, that is not my email address listed here. Please disregard it.

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12. Battery problems!!

23 Dec 2006 by Battery problems

86%8.6out of 10

ok first of all you guys got it all wrong. Everyone who knows electronical science knows that any new battery must be charged more than 5 times to the fullest for it's electrons to flow faster and get used to the recharge. I have this phone and I absolutely love it. The battery lasts around 3 days straight for me. (you gotta charge it at least 5 times at each minimum 15 hours) It's a good phone I'd say worth the money. It just misses the microSD slot. If it had that. This would be a fantastic phone. Good looking, great features everyone gets jealous of you. I'm satisfied.

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13. crap!!

17 Dec 2006 by Scott Ross

62%6.2out of 10

i got the new samsung a900 phone last seeptember i had this phone for around two to three weeks and i sent it back! i got it back from samsung thirteen weeks later and still no change, the battery never lasted more than half a day at school when i was not even using it that much, its a sharp looking phone but i would not go by that agian when looking for a new phone, i would have to say this phone would rate 6.5 and dont get it! unless you like crap.

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14. NIce!

3 Oct 2006 by Vern

90%9out of 10

I've got to say, wow, I really love this phone. It has all the features I need and I continue to find other features. Battery life? Just have to carry charger around.lol

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15. blade??? more like blunt spoon!

1 Oct 2006 by alistair_h

60%6out of 10

ive had it a week now and wish i went for a Nokia

battery life is a joke!!
no spell feature like nokia and sanyo for saving words in the t9.
no games come stock and no converter tool in the tools menu.

Slow to boot up and power off.

cant make your own ring tones

no software for the usb like nokia PC suite.

get a sanyo or a nokia!!! stay away from the blade!

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16. Sturdiness

22 Sep 2006 by David

80%8out of 10

I have had this phone, since before they came out. Bought pre-released, from samsung, through sprint. I must say for a phone, this phone is the most reliable phone, I have ever had. I have had many many cell-phone. Even the motorola made for contractors, dosen't evr compare. I have drop, thrown, let is fall in water, and even ran over my phone. And the only problem, that has appear, is that the volume buttons on the side do not work anymore. I am rough on any device, but my cell phone has to be realiable, And I have to say that the Samsung MM-900 (SPH-A900) is the most reliable phone, I have ever owned. Out of aluminium, pluss the vibration padding inside, Fantastic. I give it a 9 out of 10.

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17. sleek and sexy

1 Sep 2006 by titto

96%9.6out of 10

ive had this fone for quite a while now and its great...and with the broadband speed internet i recive free ring tones emailed for my pc threw a free program on download.com(a little hard to find the right one) its called " tone this" and you choose what part of the song and how long and send it to your a900 free also uploads backgrounds wich doesnt matter with the usb cord that comes with the phone. you can use the blade as a digital camera while sidways and (with your phone updated) the picture autamaticly flips!! a great feature is you can talk to your phone to type text messages great for on the go.the only downfall is as every one says the battery life but there is a new expandable battery out but it ruins the sleekness..compared to the skin thin RAZR wich may be thin but is wide and tall, the blade sounds and looks even sexyer not acounting that the shell is make out of alluminum wich gives a great feel at hand..i think the blade is a perfect buy and adds up to the RAZR and then some

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18. dunno why

31 Aug 2006 by michguy

62%6.2out of 10

I've had my Samsung SPH-a900 since Jan of 06 and I've replaced it 5 times. I've had it freeze up several time and in one case it wouldnt go past the start up screen there for I lost over 200 phone, pictues of family, friends, all my text messages and e-mail addresses. My girlfriend told me that maybe this phone wasnt made fot someone who's very busy and depends one only one phone to keep in touch with everyone. Now thats the bad, now the good things about the phone is the pictures are nice and clear, sounds good even with the bluetooth headset.

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19. Bad choice

23 Aug 2006 by erico

52%5.2out of 10

Hey !!!

Few honest words after 2 months of use.

Cons

- Battery life is as great as my first Motorola Startec phone . Non existing. I left the phone alone fully charged not touching it at all at my desk to measure stand by time. It lasted 48 hours. If you make 2 phone calls a day without using anything else ( web, picture camera, text messaging etc. )it last less than 12 hours.
If you using all features it will go down within four.
- I am forced to have one battery as a back up just to make it thru the day.
- Battery indicator horrible it jumps from 3 bars to 2 bars than to one and back up to 2 . What is this all about ?
- Power save feature makes your phone unusable in a daylight ( wheather sunny or cloudy cond) You can not see anything
- " speaker phone " should have been operated by pressing a button not by going into menu after you have received a phone call
- lousy selection of ring tones and not enough of them(about 1/3 what Razor has)Some ring tones can not be heard properly even at laudest settings.
- customizing wallpaper involves resizing and renaming your pictures in order to assign them.
- no midi or mp3 files can be used as your ring tones
- pictures mediocre quality for 1.3 mb camera and require super steady hand to take them or the come out fuzzy
- reception terrible inside dwelling and not much better outside. I have yet to reach full signal strenght ( all bars ) I live in Toronto Canada so it is quite under the coverage area.
- docking for charger inpractical
-quality of phone calls ( and I do not mean what kind of people I am talking to) is not great either.

Pros

- great quality screen.
that is it

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20. Samsung A900 Review.

20 Aug 2006 by Yonni

68%6.8out of 10

I read a few pages of reviews on the phone, here is my 2 cents.

I bought this phone because sprint doesnt offer the Razr. First off I like it a lot more than the razr.

up sides:
-The display and picture quality are AMAZING!
-I also enjoy uploading my own screen savers from the computer via blue tooth, or usb.
-The battery life on 'standby' is about 3-4 days. Pretty impressive.
-The keypad layout is great for texting.
-Canera functionality w/ swivel and display flip is great!
-very durable. I drop this thing daily, and it still looks sharp and works smoothly.

down sides:
-holds about 6 songs max...
-without sprint PCS internet, you lose functionality of everything. you cant play MP3s, games, or even download upgrades, etc.
-headphone jack is too small for any every-day headphone.
-I have yet to find a way to upload my own ring tones via blue tooth or usb cord (if you know of a way plz contact me!!)
-When i go to place a call, and recieve a call at the exact same momemnt (doesnt happen all that often) The phone freezes up, It wont let you call nor answer the incomming call. they NEED a firmware update for this.

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