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Samsung Sells 1 Mil. Sync Music Phones
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Posted by: tuolumne

Samsung Electronics said on Monday that one million of its Sync SGH-A707 HSDPA mobile phones were sold in just five months in the U.S. HSDPA is a next-generation high-speed wireless service that allows data to be transmitted five times faster than other services. The Sync comes with a two mega-pixel camera and strengthened features for playing digital music such as external music controls.

Samsung released its first HSDPA mobile phone in America in June 2006 and its BlackJack, another HSDPA phone, in November. Over 500,000 Blackjacks have been sold in the U.S.

(englishnews@chosun.com )

Posted by: CowboyNYC

Samsung A707 SYNC Phone
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-A707-...r/dp/B000K2F1N4

Customer Reviews
Cell phones are supposed to be portable, April 9, 2007
Reviewer: C. Kelleher "cmkelleher" (new york, ny United States)
This phone works best when plugged into an AC power supply. Thus for most users who may need to be away from power outlets for long periods of use, this phone is not a good option. Big bright screen is attractive, but a massive power hog. Forget the quoted 4 hour talk time and 10 day standby; you will be very lucky to get 90 mins of talking or 2 days of standby, and that is with Bluetooth turned off. With Bluetooth on, you'll be charging this every other day. Even worse, the battery goes from 2/3rds to no power very quickly and unpredictably. You will start the day thinking you have several hours of talking left, and will find yourself at zero power after a 15 minute call. Carry a spare battery and / or charger to avoid frustrating and inconvenient downtime, or better yet get a more efficient phone. Another big problem with this phone is the music player feature. Unless you plan on purchasing an expensive media plan from your carrier, all the connectivity features of this phone are pointless. Downloading stuff by the kb is insanely costly, and the media plans add significant cost to the monthly plans. Also, to transfer music from your PC to this phone by USB is agonizing, as the phone takes more than half an hour to transfer a single CD (10 songs). To put a lot of music on this phone takes inhuman patience, and then you have to use junky Samsung proprietary earphones to listen to your tunes as no headphone adaptor jack is available. On the positive side, MP3 playback through the Sync speakers sounds surprisingly good. The signal strength is usually very good, a pleasant step up from older Samsung designs, as good or better than Nokias, a big achievement for Samsung. Call quality and speakerphone performance is also very good. Camera takes good pics, but only has a 2X zoom on 1.3 MP and no zoom at all on the 2.0 MP setting. Samsung has much better camera features on some of its other models.The phone does look nice and it is pretty durable and well-built. Bottom line: if you want a phone to make calls on, the A707 Sync has good call quality and excellent signal strength. However, the rotten battery life and rapid non-geometric decrease in battery life makes this phone unreliable and irritating to use for its primary purpose. If you add silly junk to your usage like watching videos and browsing the web, you will only decrease the battery life and make the phone even less useful as an actual telephone. The true Achilles heels to all these multimedia phones are the added cost to users for subscription plans, and the limitations of current portable device battery life. The Sync makes you acutely aware of both of these problems. Until better batteries are available, Samsung should not build phones this inefficient, or at the very least should not call them "wireless". You don't need a phone line attached to these, but you will need a power cord!

Go with something else., April 4, 2007
Reviewer: Jedidoug (Tatooine)
This phone is poorly made junk. The outer LCD cracked for no reason after a few months of use. The camera is hard to access and very difficult to get decent looking pictures with. Phone is also very hard to open without using two hands

terrible phone!!!!!!!!!!!!, March 14, 2007
Reviewer: Anthony Richards "Richie Rich" (Wash DC)
the battery on this phone is terrible...evewryday i'm charging it, and the reception is very poor.....i miss my nokia

Don't buy this phone (yet) , March 8, 2007
Reviewer: Tom-az (Tempe, AZ United States)
This phone has the possibility to be one of the greatest phones you buy.
Problems: The mp3 player & volume.
Volume: is very very low and only goes up 5 settings which is barely audible in any sort of crowd or noisy place. Headphones don't help, its almost like they get quieter if you use the headphones.
Mp3 player: They partnered with Napster, Yahoo Music etc etc but the problem is that all those services sell music as WMA files to protect the licenses. The phone does not play WMA files- so you must then attempt to find a mp3 translation program on the web to turn your WMA files into Mp3 files and not all of them have the music text option, so you have to rename your files after your done converting them. Quite annoying. The other problem is music does not play with bluetooth- so don't bother getting a nice new bluetooth if you intend to use this phone for music at all again, no other phone yet has all of these options and potential in one phone, but there are ALOT of kinks that Cingular needs to work out first.

Posted by: I have a phone

and they still suck in 2G mode

Posted by: FARfetched

Forget the V3xx fanbois, why didn't the girl come with my phone???

Posted by: pauldg

Quote:

Originally Posted by FARfetched

Forget the V3xx fanbois, why didn't the girl come with my phone???

she was found to be defective

Posted by: bikemanj7

Quote:

Originally Posted by I have a phone

and they still suck in 2G mode

Yes they do.

Posted by: cozz36

What they didn't report is that 900,000 of them have either been returned or resold on ebay. My wife has given hers up and my son is soon to follow.

Posted by: tuolumne

2 = 900,000 ?

Just more evidence the American educational system is so behind.

Posted by: cozz36

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Originally Posted by tuolumne

2 = 900,000 ?

Just more evidence the American educational system is so behind.

You're proof of that, otherwise you would've caught on to my tongue in cheek response. I knew my post would generate posts like yours. The Sync has generated much discussion, mostly about reception in 2G areas. Its battery life is low and it is nowhere near the phone of any Moto, SE or Nokia. While the display is brilliant, it typically shows you few bars or no service in greater clarity.

Posted by: HelloRobo

The only reason the SYNC is so popular is because everybody at Cingular pushes it like crack.

Seriously. It's not a particularily quality phone. It's not a particularily unique phone. It's not particularily cheap, and it sure as hell ain't stylish. It's just...there.

BUT IF YOU BUY IT NOW YOU GET A FREE YEAR OF NAPSTER TO GO AND A FREE ONE GIGABYTE MICROSD CARD!!!

...Yeah.

But hey...just 99,000,000 to go, and it'll have caught up to the iPod!

Posted by: CaCHooKa_Man

mine was free with a month of data service

Posted by: suthurnlatino

Lol, I'm sure the intention was not just for a month. Anyways, the phone feels cheap.. but so do AT&T's other 3G Phones. I hate that cheap V3xx keyboard and the LG well just look at it

Posted by: tuolumne

How is the V3xx's keyboard cheap?

Posted by: .7

I surprised my wife with one of these as it seemed like it was going to be a match made in heaven. I brought home the red one and she loved it. I got her signed up for CV and everything, SD card, headset so she could go jogging with it. However, it got but back in the box an hour later…

Volume was way too low.

She couldn’t walk more than 10ft before her BT headset was rendered useless. Her clunky RAZR she could walk downstairs with very little issue.

Also, I charged it so when I gave it to her it would be fully charged. We watched 3 short Cingular video clips and she talked to her mother for about a half an hour…battery was half gone.

I’ve always been a fan of Samsung’s build quality, but this one just seemed to miss the mark IMO. It’s a great product on paper and esthetically, that’s why it’s in so many hands, but they do come back more so than other models I’ve seen.

I know there’s a high end Samsung slider on its way, I hope they improve when that’s released.

Posted by: tuolumne

What do you know of this slider?

I'll be praying for the D900 Ultra Edition.

Posted by: didefresh2006

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Originally Posted by pauldg

she was found to be defective

She looked like one of those that can be refurbed for quality purposes if she was defective. Otherwise, quality product.

Posted by: .7

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuolumne

What do you know of this slider?

I'll be praying for the D900 Ultra Edition.

I believe it is from the looks of it, but I could be totally off. It has a 3 MP camera from what I remember.

Posted by: tuolumne

That's the D900

Posted by: Vegeta9901

Great!

So where's my:

-USB 2.0.
-DST fix so next year, I'm not an hour late to work for a week before I figure out the problem.
-VeriSign certificate so I can use the GMail other than through the browser
-Ability to install .JAD/.JAR files over the USB cable.
-Improved Media Player
-Louder Ringtones
... etc etc.

Hello firmware update!

Posted by: jthoske

I bought a SYNC @ Walmart for like $30, no rebates, etc. I had the CU500 first and hated it, and have heard mixed things about the V3xx. I have been more than happy with my a707. Not sure why people have been complaining about 2G reception, because I travel 55 miles one way to work a day and pop in and out of 3g/2g service. Reception is better than my old Nokia 6230, SE s710a, LG CU500, and Samsung X497.

Shouldn't the 3G service only affect data transfers?

Posted by: FARfetched

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Originally Posted by jthoske

Shouldn't the 3G service only affect data transfers?

It's also used for voice calls, supposedly gives higher fidelity… but in a noisy car, who can tell the difference?