Samsung SGH-A517 Review
You’ve probably heard this from our reviews before, but Samsung makes, on the whole, perfectly average phones that are designed to be cheap and attractive options for the everyday user. From their high end devices to their low end devices, nearly every item in Samsung’s cell phone catalog is aimed squarely at the common man, making phones like the Samsung SGH-A517 the cellular devices of choice for many people around the world.
The Samsung SGH-A517 is a clamshell styled, quad band GSM phone. Thanks to the quad band technology implemented in the Samsung SGH-A517, it can be used anywhere in the world simply by switching out the SIM card with one from a local provider. However, despite this great feature, there is no high speed 3G support built into the Samsung SGH-A517, so don’t expect to be able to access multimedia functions and data at blazing speeds.
This is currently one of the smallest, and easily one of the lightest, phones on the market. The Samsung SGH-A517 measures in at approximately three and a half inches by two inches by half an inch and weighs an unheard of 59 grams. Talk about a phone that you can easily lose track of. There is a downside to this tiny size, though, as the Samsung SGH-A517 has a very short battery life. Expect to get only three hours of talk time or 250 hours of standby time on a single charge.
The Samsung SGH-A517 is perfectly designed for the average user’s tastes in functions. The main screen is 176 pixels by 220 pixels and consists of 262 thousand colors – the average amount for most phones these days. Furthermore, there is a 1.3 Megapixel digital camera with a four times digital zoom built in. Also included in the Samsung SGH-A517 is a music player with expandable memory via microSD, Bluetooth support, a speakerphone, and various voice dialing commands.
Pros
-Very small and light
-Decent feature list
-Attractive styling
-Easy to use
Cons
-Short battery life
-No 3G support
Overall
The Samsung SGH-A517 is a great phone for those looking for a device that could easily be mistaken as high end. It is a perfectly average phone that looks as though it is on the cutting edge. A great device if you can find it for a good price.
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