Review Of Samsung Flight SGH-A797 Cell Phone
Cell Phones — By Ricky on November 18, 2009 at 7:30 pmA phone that is good looking but is low on features.
Sum and Substance:
Thumbs Up:
Sturdy, easy to use design, great looks.
Thumbs Down:
Sluggish, bad call quality.
Inside the Trunk:
Technology – GSM
Band – GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband)
Phone Design – Slider
Caller ID – Yes
Additional Features – Speakerphone, Touch screen, microSD card slot.
The Whiz Kid Speaks:
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 (Quadband), Phone Design – Slider, Display – TFT LCD Touch Screen display 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inch, 18-bit (262000 Colors), Supported Digital Audio Standards AAC , MP3,
Playback Digital Video – Formats MPEG-4, H.263 video and AMR audio, WMV (Windows Media Video)
Lithium ion battery,
2 MP Camera, multi shot support,
Messaging – Text messages, Instant messages, E-Mail, Voice mail.
Razzle Dazzle:
Samsung Flight SGH-A797 is a great looking cell phone but doesn’t have enough features on the inside. The phone is a sleek slider phone model; the keyboard has plenty of buttons which slides underneath the display and the surface only three physical buttons.
Inside Dope:
The touch screen is 2.8 inches big and the resolution that you get is 240X320 pixels which is good for a screen like this. Remember that this is not a smart phone, even though it has a full QWERTY keyboard and a touch screen. You can adjust the brightness, backlight time and font type. The touch interface is responsive and registers touches quite well whether it is for selecting an icon or surfing through a list.
There is no virtual keyboard on the phone all you get is the physical QWERTY keyboard.
Below the screen are three physical buttons the call, call end, back buttons. The buttons are quite big and go well with the tone of the phone.
The camera of the phone is a 2.0 mega pixel. We don’t know why manufacturers are still making phones with 2 mega pixel cameras. Those days are gone; phones now have three or five mega pixel camera. Though, we agree that a five mega pixel camera would be too much to ask, a three mega pixel would have been good.
Photo quality is good from the standards for a two mega pixel camera. We tested various camera phones of two mega pixel and we have to say that the quality of this is the best we have seen. The camera can take pictures in four resolutions and three quality settings. There are other settings like four color effects, night mode, exposure metering, four white balance modes, an adjustable brightness tool, a self timer, a multi shot mode, 20 fun frames, a smile shot feature where in camera will take a picture when you smile at it, three shutter sounds plus a silent options and mosaic shot mode. The video shooting option gives you two options of 320X240 and 176X144. You cannot send video clips of more than 50 seconds through MMS but there is no time limit for shooting videos to store videos on the mobile phones internal memory.
We tested the phone for call quality and we were not happy with the results. The call quality was bad and we couldn’t hear the voice of the person on the other side of the phone. The voice was cracking a lot and didn’t sound good. Person on the other end also reported that the phone was carrying a lot of noise from the background.
Speaker phone calls were not as bad as calls from the handset. Sound gets distorted if you push the volume too high and you have to speak quite close to the phone if you want to be audible to the other party. You can also pair up the device with wireless Bluetooth headset for a better quality.
The streaming of videos also is not that good. There is a little pixelation but the audio and video are in sync.
For game enthusiasts the device comes in with five demo games – Ms. Pac-Man, Dinner Dash 2, Tetris and Uno. The phone also has a built in GPS.
Coming to the music, there is support for XM Radio Mobile, a Billboard Mobile channel, a Music ID application, an application for creating ring tones, music videos and a community section with access to fan sites and downloads. We thought the application for creating ring tones was the best one; we enjoyed clipping tracks and saving them as ring tones. The formats supported are MP3, AAC, eAAC+, WMA, etc. and features such as album art, play lists, shuffle and repeat modes. For storing your music the phone comes in with 80 MB internal memory and supports cards up t0 16 GB.
Nitty Gritty:
We weren’t happy with the phone much. The phone gives you the idea that it is a smart phone because of the touch screen capability and QWERTY keyboard. But it is not a smart phone. We experienced sluggishness on the phone quite a lot of times and this phone is not worth your hard earned money.
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1 Comment
I love this phone! The volume is very loud and I love the calendar because it has lots of memory. I jotted down all my friends and family birthdays and and an alarm will go off every year till 2030. The key board is great the camera is fun, it has a neat sketch pad, and it holds like 7 or 8 alarms that you can name whatever you want. It also has a world clock which I use allot because I travel back and forth from U.S. and Germany. My only complaint is that it has some ugly factory installed pictures that you cant delete and they are your screen saver. All in All I would definitely recommend you buy this phone =) I never wrote a review on anything before , however I loved this phone so much I had to write this.