Making the Impression: Samsung Impression Reviewed by Dagny Reardon
The Samsung Impression from AT&T (also recognized by its model number, SGH-A877) is one of the most popular cell phones presently offered by both Samsung and AT&T. It is a direct competitor to the iPhone, complete with widgets instead of apps and a touchscreen that rivals all competition.
The device is both smooth and curved. The phone feels comfortable in your hand, noticeably weighing enough to convey a sense of capability. The subtle accents, like the well placed chrome, make the Impression stand out. It’s detailed features, like the well designed proximity sensor that turns the display off when near your face, adds greatly to the overall quality of the Impression.
Unique to Samsung phones, the TouchWiz technology on the Samsung Impression is both fast and fun to use. Dragging your widgets onto the background from the side dock was fun, and the sheer number of widgets keeps one entertained. There’s also a dedicated Bluetooth widget that makes for easy pairing, providing a cool graphical representation of nearby devices, which makes device selection nice and easy.
The media player was simple enough, and the microSD card expansion slot allows for up to 16GB of additional storage, something that eclipses even the iPhone.
Whatever else you think of the Samsung Impression the first thing you notice, and the key selling point, is the fantastic AMOLED display. The Impression’s display is beautiful, even when viewed under direct sunlight. The colors are sharp and vibrant and details on the screen simply pop out at you. The color-rich display is a 3.2″ wide TFT touchscreen, offering 256K color support at the surprisingly sharp resolution of 240 X 400. Doubtlessly, the sharp phone display is the major draw to the Impression. AMOLED displays are brighter, have better viewing angles, and consume far less power than any previous generation of displays.
The actual touchscreen is capacitive, and offers the user haptic feedback whenever a selection is made or when scrolling through menus. There is one weakness to the screen – it is thin plastic and it honestly scratches way too easily. This shouldn’t dissuade you too much, though. If you buy this phone, just get a screen cover.
For its most basic purpose, the Samsung Impression is a good phone. Call quality was superb. The signal was rather strong for the AT&T network and the reception was clear and sounded good. The speakerphone on the Impression also worked well.
The AT&T MEdiaNet browser and 3G connection operate well together. The included browser does well to offer a nearly prefect imitation of a full-size browsing experience. Pages tended to load quickly, which is not at all bad for a device lacking WiFi. The Impression’s web browser is quite adaptable, and can be used with both the touchscreen keyboard or the slide out full QWERTY keyboard. The accelerometer made browsing in either portrait or landscape possible. The experience of web browsing was in fact rather satisfying.
The camera is superior for a cell phone. With 3.0MP, it takes high-quality photos that aren’t too soft due to built-in noise-reduction. Additionally, the AMOLED display’s colors are decidedly brilliant. The included suite of photo editing and enhancing features are surprisingly easy to use, especially considering they are phone-level software. It almost borders on too much. Of course, the 3.0MP camera runs into the exact same problem every other camera phone does: it simply cannot replace a decent point and shoot. With no intention of shorting the technology as it now stands, the picture editing software included with the Samsung Impression is definitely a step in the right direction.
In short, the Samsung Impression is an impressive feature phone. As long as the price is low, it is worth considering as an alternative to the iPhone. As of right now, most AT&T online retailers are providing the Samsung Impression free with any new contract or contract extension. It certainly is worth every cent (or lack thereof!).
Dagny Reardon is a cellular technology consultant and author who works for a variety of cellular and wireless technology websites. If you have read this review and are an AT&T customer (or want to switch to AT&T) you may want to get a
free Samsung Impression
, or simply just look around for the best price on AT&T Samsung Impressions.
Article Source: http://www.earticlesonline.com/Article/Making-the-Impression–Samsung-Impression-Reviewed/647739
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