The beauty was that Samsung managed to sample the style and feeling of the RAZR yet still make its phone feel different enough to be a compelling alternative. This month Samsung quietly launched the slightly updated A900M on Sprint.
There are few updates to this model, but the phone continues to be a clear winner in the slim class. The main variation is an updated case. Samsung has exchanged some of the metal casing for high impact plastic. I’m always worried when I hear metal is being exchanged for plastic, but there really isn’t an issue here. The phone feels completely solid—more so than any phone I’ve ever owned. The reason plastic was swapped in is that many users were complaining about case dents. The plastic additions seem to have remedied that problem.
Another change is that the A900M features customizable themes. Users can change menus amongst several presets or personalize them further. Not really that big of a deal, but perhaps this will appeal to the high school cheerleader in you.
Functionality-wise, the phone remains the same, but for those of you unfamiliar with the A900, here are a few details. The Blade has the best call quality I’ve tested from any phone in this class. Furthermore, the camera is easily the best of any phone I’ve ever used, period. The picture of me you see there was taken with the A900M and it’s good enough that it’s become my official profile picture.
It also features an MP3 player that I can’t say I ever really put to much use. It sounds OK, but with the lack of microSD, it’s essentially useless. To be honest, I’ve had trouble finding many people who use their phones for MP3s anyway, so I can’t see this being much of an issue for anyone.
Finally, like its older brother, the A900M supports EV-DO, so you can expect nice and fast mobile broadband wherever you’re at. I could never get DUN to work, but I think there is some sort of hack you can use to enable it.
Anyway, I’m disappointed that this revision features so little revising, but still feel confident that the Blade is superior to the RAZR. It’s available now on Sprint for $99.99 with a two year contract and a mail in rebate.
Yeah, I have the MM-A900 and I’ve proved time and time again that it’s such a better phone than the RAZR. I do use the MP3 capabilities, too. I have to convert the songs to a lower bitrate so that the files are small enough to fit but it works. I have about 10 of my favorite songs on it as well as 60 pictures. I tried to load video on it but it only seems to playback movies that it records, even if i encode video with the same audio and video codecs. I also think that Sprint Live TV is way better than Verizon’s Edge. I watch a makeover show on TLC during my lunch break and I don’t even like shows like that. I got to watch ABC and Fox News channels when there were breaking news like when someone got shot on an airplane in Miami and one of my coworker’s aunt was on that plane. The phone also has a Bluetooth connection so I can transfer files to it wirelessly. Also Opera Mini works great on it.
The fact that you are comparing the phone to a RAZR speak volumes about the RAZR.
Dude, I know this is probably a noob question, and I was just looking through the net trying to find an answer for it and came across your blog. Good blog by the way lol. Anyways how do you use the Mp3 Player?!? Do you have to buy the song’s or can you get them off your computer? If you can get them off your computer, how do you to that?!?. Sorry to be a pain, and I know that it’s not really a technical blog, but I though you might know.
Thank’s for your time man.
Peace.
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