Ultra Thin Power Vision Phone

by Sprint

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• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B000FNJSBE
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,889 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

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Slim, sleek, and incredibly powerful, the Samsung A900 is the most advanced Sprint phone yet. With a design that is sure to turn heads and powerful features, including support for Sprint's awesome Power Vision high-speed data and media service, a 1.3 megapixel camera, advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth, and more, the A900 can duke it out with the best of them in the contest to be the most powerful phone on the market.

Take a closer look at the A900's functions.

Sleek and powerful: The A900 supports Sprint PCS' amazing Power Vision services.

Design
While it's true that the A900 takes many design queues from the Motorola RAZR V3, the A900 ups the ante with a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 2.5mm stereo headset jack, 50 MB of internal memory, and support for PictBridge-based direct-to-printer printing (via USB). The A900 also sports a massive 240 x 320 color display with 262,000 colors. The outside cover of the handset features a supplementary 96 x 96 full-color display that can display pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. The camera lens is housed above this display and it features a swiveling mechanism that allows it to face in or out. Meanwhile, media control buttons are placed below the outer display. Up/down buttons are placed on the left side for volume control, while most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's backlit control pad. A charging port and USB data cable port are placed on the bottom of the phone.

Calling Features
The A900's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contacts, and the phone's picture ID system allows you to assign pictures and ringtones to your most common callers. The phone ships with 29 polyphonic ringtones, but for those times when you want to be discreet, there's a vibrating alert. A built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear, and advanced voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family and associates easy. Simply say the name or number of the person you want to call and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad. No prior voice training is needed. Lastly, because the A900 is Bluetooth enabled, wireless headsets can be configured with the phone for total handsfree operation.

Messaging, Internet, and Tools
The A900 is a messaging powerhouse, with support for Sprint PCS picture and video mail services. Shoot high quality pictures and video clips with sound and instantly send them to email addresses and or other Sprint PCS phones that are compatible with picture and video mail services. Or upload them to the Sprint PCS pictures Web site (sprint.com/picturemail) to create albums. You can also use the A900 to send and receive email, exchange text messages, or join a chat room. Plus, the A900 features an embedded SMS voice messaging client for quickly sending voice messages to other wireless users or any working email addresses.

The real power of the A900 comes alive with Sprint's PCS Power Vision services. Relying on Sprint's new EV-DO high speed data network, Power Vision allows you to enjoy full-color video clips or live TV of the latest news, sports, and entertainment from CNN, Fox, The Weather Channel, and more.

You can also stream or download music to your phone with Sprint's Music Store service. Download stereo-quality, digital tracks instantly to your phone. Choose from hundreds of thousands of full-length songs from virtually every genre. Select songs directly from the phone and listen to them wherever you go. Even download them to your PC.

And last but not least, enhanced 3D games, personalized news and information tickers, and downloadable screen savers and ringtones are also available through the Power Vision service.

Sprint's high speed data network allows you to browse the web like never before while you're on the go. Check out full-color versions of popular web sites or purchase and download premium applications to your Sprint Power Vision Phone. You can also use the included USB cable or Bluetooth to connect to a PC, allowing Internet and email access on your laptop wherever you roam.

The A900 is packed with useful tools to make your life more productive and fun. A message dictation system lets you speak your SMS text messages into the phone, while a customizable favorites menu makes it easy to personalize your phone based on the applications you use most frequently. A voice memo recorder lets you record up to five minutes of spoken voice notes. The phone also includes an alarm clock that can be set one time or daily, a calendar with a to-do list and a scheduler, a calculator, a stopwatch, and a world clock. A PC synchronization application makes it possible to sync your phone's data with your PC.

Imaging and Entertainment
As mentioned, the A900 features a powerful camera that can be used to capture and send video and still images. The camera also has an LED flash and a self-timer, as well as controls for brightness and white balance. The A900's built-in media player lets you see and hear streaming and stored media, and it supports MP3, AAC, and AAC plus audio files. And where will you put all these pictures, videos and songs? The phone's 50 MB of mass storage does the trick. The phone takes gaming to the next level, too, with support for advanced, action-packed 3D games.

Vital Statistics
The Samsung A900 weighs 3.9 ounces and measures 3.86 x 2.01 x .57 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of digital talk time. It runs on the CDMA 850/CDMA 1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Product Description

The ultra-thin, sleek design of the A900 by SamsungSM is enough to turn heads, but this phone is not just another pretty face. Coupled with the great features of the Sprint Power VisionSM Network, Bluetooth Wireless technology, and megapixel camera it is the perfect blend of fashion and function.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

67 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review for people without a great deal of spare time., June 9, 2006

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P. Allen (DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultra Thin Power Vision Phone (Wireless Phone)

Downside:

Battery life is so-so and you have to charge it every night; supplied USB cable doesn't charge phone and you have to get a 3rd party one; doesn't sync with Apple iSync; T9 predictive input doesn't allow you to add words (T-Mobile Samsung phones can -- hmmm); can't change phone fonts so super hi-res screen isn't so valuable and this means lots of scrolling; sending text messages is cumbersome; most sites still detect it as a phone and stories are broken up into chunks for older, slower phones (more scrolling); and the 'Favorites' quick selection key doesn't delve into the phone so you can get at every function.

Upside:

Screen is fab; blazingly fast mobile Web; runs Google Maps (wheee! google.com/gmm); the EV-DO 'modem' is brilliant and very fast; Bluetooth is uncrippled (take that, Verizon) and works well as a modem with MacBooks and probably your Windows laptop; phone is light and fits in that little pocket in your jeans; camera takes pretty good pictures for a phone; ringer is loud and vibrate mode gets your attention; has one single 'beep' ringer mode (great for meetings); audio is crisp; works well in windy environments.

For the really, really busy:

Great phone, so-so text messaging device, built-in EV-DO modem means you're not tied to Starbucks for fast data when you travel.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent alternative to over-hyped Motorola Razr, July 16, 2006

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ViperGeek (Merrimack, NH, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ultra Thin Power Vision Phone (Wireless Phone)

I'm a big fan of taking the alternate, subjectively more advanced, route to my toys. Creative Zen vs. iPod, Viper vs. Vette, and now Blade vs. Razr. I was looking for something slimmer than my old flip phone, and being an exclusive fan of Samsung, I came to know about the A900 (aka. MM-A900 or SPH-A900) "Blade" phone.

Initially I looked at Samsung's other sexy phone, the D807 "slider" from Cingular. This is an incredible phone, but unfortunately, I can't get reliable GSM service at home, and so moved onto Sprint and the A900. The A900 is a gorgeous phone. I get compliments every time I whip it out. The user interface (partially Sprint's fault) is very well laid out, and superior in every way to Verizon's UI. The phone feels rugged; a trademark of Samsung. I've played with friends' Razrs and have to say, I've never been and never will be a Motorola fan. The flip part of the Razr starts to wiggle and doesn't close cleanly after 6 months of use. Motorola hit the mark with the Razr, but still hasn't improved on quality and durability.

The A900 does everything I want and need. The only minor nits I have are: battery life, lack of flash card, lack of Bluetooth SYNC profile (all other profiles exist and work great), and a funky headset jack. NOTE: The A900 won't work with most 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapters. I've only found one so far on eBay that works well (search "A900 headset adapter"). I've conquered the battery life issue by disabling Bluetooth when not in use, and making sure the phone doesn't try to hunt between Sprint and Roaming (I lock it in "Roaming" mode) while at home. I'm up to three days standby time, which is respectable.

Overall, I love the phone and look forward to using it for the next two years, 'til my contract expires and a new batch of sexy Samsung phones are available.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Actually 4 1/2 Satrs,Some Shortcommings!!!!!, June 14, 2006

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D. West (Bridgeport.CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultra Thin Power Vision Phone (Wireless Phone)

Okay, I Had this phone since 12/30/2005 so i can honestly say i know what this phone can & can't do.
-Yes it is a nice razor clone,theres more to this phone.It has a built in mp3 player that you can download your own music to instead of paying an insane $2.50 a pop for limited songs.
-Media Players kinda nice,but Once Again pricey mounthly downloads make it hard to enjoy it,unless you watch the free stuff thats comes with your plan(without it more money added on your plan).
-THE BATTERY!!!!!!!!!!!Because of all the stuff(Talk time,MP3,Media Player,Web Browesr(@ high Speeds WoW!)The STANDARD battery Litterly dies quickly(don't know if extended one exsists,but you'll need it).
-Camera is awsome, as well as Camcorder both have a built in light for dark settings & you can also use you're video capture as a screen saver as well.
-The Memory with all that goes on inside you would figure that it would have a memory card slot....But alas it dosen't,so everything has to Share the overall memory in the phone which leaves no room for downloading alot of songs.

Overall it's a good phone but for all the power it has.....Thats the very thing that brings it down in the end,But dispite it's cons the pro are well worth it.