The Samsung A920 is a sleek clamshell form factor digital Sprint Power Vision phone. I bet you can’t say that 3 times really fast. Basically, what that means is it’s a fliping digital flip phone that was made for the Sprint PCS network by Samsung. Last time I checked, I had some on www.cellchecker.com listed for around a $100 with a $100 mail in rebate. If you hate mailing in rebate crap as much as I do, Letstalk.com cut a deal with Sprint so that you can get the A920 for free without having to mail in any rebate stuff. I might have to have a talk with Letstalk.com and see if I can get a job. (Or at least get my A920 cell phones as cheap as they do)
The Samsung A920 is 3.66†high, 1.93†wide, 0.98†thick and weighs in at 3.88oz. The standard Lithium-Ion battery has continuous CDMA digital talk-time of up to 3.5 hours; with extended battery talk-time being 6.0 hours. This cell phone powers down with an audible alert when approximately 5 minutes of talk-time are left. The battery talk-time and standby time are most effected by backlighting, vibrate mode, Bluetooth®, browser and searching for service, so if at all possible, turn the lights off, shut down the vibrator, deactivate the Bluetooth and keep the phone turned off untill you need it. OK, I’m just kidding, but, the aformentioned actions would give you a standby time of around 10 years… LOL. The dual-display on this phone has a 176 by 220 pixels, 262 thousand color TFT internal display screen and a 128 by 96 pixels, 65 thousand color STN external display. The phone has a TransFLASHâ„¢ memory slot for upto 512MB external memory storage. This phone is TTY/TDD compatible.
The Samsung A920 is a digital, dual-band, 800/1900MHz CDMA 1xEV-DO phone. The maximum achievable data rates with 1x EV-DO service are 2.4Mbps downlink and 153Kbps uplink. Bluetooth® wireless technology is used to bond with other Bluetooth® devices: head-set and car-kit for hands-free operation, PC and mobile phones for data transfer: synchronization and modem. PictBridge technology can be used to print pictures by connecting the Samsung A920 to a printer with a USB cable.
The messaging features on the Samsung A920 are: voice mail, SMS, EMS, MMS, e-mail and messenger. The picture, animation, sound and text can be sent and received in EMS; audio-video clips can be sent with Sprint PCS Picture MailSM. Internet services such as email, AOL Messenger, MSN and Yahoo are accessible on high-speed internet link. the A920 uses T9® predictive text tool for fast text entry. GPS service is also available to get current location information; E-911 Assisted GPS service is always available.
The entertainment features on the Samsung A920 are: screen saver, wall paper, TV, radio, www surfing and a camera. The 1.3 mega pixel camera has flash, self-timer, fun frames, color tones, brightness and white balance control, adjustable picture resolution and quality, a shutter sound (oooh, hey, it’s got a shutter sound) and view mode. The pictures are saved in the phone’s internal memory unless a TransFLASHâ„¢ memory card is present. Other Sprint PCS VisionSM services available are Sprint TVSM, downloadable ring tones, games and applications, SIRUS music and web access. On demand services like news, weather, financial updates, sports and movies are provided based on zip code.
The call features on the Samsung A920 are 3-way call conference, call history, pause while dialing and call waiting. The PIM features are: notepad, voice memos, digital clock, alarm clock, calendar, scheduler, calculator, countdown, task-list, world clock and a 500 entry phone book. Each phone book entry can have 5 phone numbers, e-mail, URL, nick-name to voice dial, 1/2/3-touch speed-dial number, abbreviated dialing, ringer & picture caller ID and call group name. There is a speakerphone available for hands-free operation.
Security features on the Samsung A920 include: Netguard , hide caller ID, Call Guard , restrict outgoing calls to contacts or special numbers, Picture/Video lock and phone lock. E-911 can be called even when the phone is locked or the account is restricted. Sprint PCS Vision and Sprint Power Vision Services can be locked. The phone book entries, downloaded content and built-in camera pictures/video can be deleted.
For more information on the Samsung A920 visit Samsung.com.