Samsung SGH a877 Impression – Cellular phone – 3G – WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM – touch / slide-out keyboard – crystal blue – AT&T

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1. 35 of 35 people found the following review helpful

   
   Great phone! would recommend to everyone!!, July 29, 2009

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   Greg Kommel (Southern California, USA) –

   This review is from: Samsung SGH a877 Impression – Cellular phone – 3G – WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM – touch / slide-out keyboard – crystal blue – AT&T

   The Impression is an amazing phone. I chose this over the LG xenon because its bigger and better. It’s AMOLED screen is super bright. Pictures and video looks amazing. The touch screen is responsive and has 4 different levels of haptic feedback. For receiving calls and messages, you can choose different vibration patterns and 7 different levels of vibrate.

   The keyboard is pretty big and if you have a small hand, it might slow down your typing a bit. There’s a handy message button on the keyboard that opens a new message. There are 4 different ways to text(full qwerty keyboard, virtual qwerty, virtual T-9, and you can also draw letters to type). The keyboard is slower than me, so I’ll stop typing and it will keep going.

   Calls are loud and clear. You can also use videoshare during calls with other videoshare enabled phones. The camera is great. You can’t zoom with the camera, but you can zoom in the video mode. The camera also has frames which are kind of cool. You can also take panoramic pictures, you take a picture then you put the aim thing in the box and it auto takes a picture and it does this 6 times and automatically lines them all up.

   Overall, It’s a great phone and I would recommend it to anyone who asks.

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2. 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful

   
   Good smart phone alternative., July 7, 2009

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   James Ganong –
   
     

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   This review is from: Samsung SGH a877 Impression – Cellular phone – 3G – WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM – touch / slide-out keyboard – crystal blue – AT&T

   This phone was just what I wanted with a little more added in. I was basically looking for something that could function like a “smart” phone (iphone, palm pre, blackberry, etc) but wouldn’t have a proprietary monthly charge for using. I mainly text message, talk on the phone, take pictures, and occasionally surf the web.

   The slide out keyboard is a real plus. It is a bit large, so you have to get used to that. The AMOLED screen is really bright and has a great picture. The phone quality is pretty good. The camera doesn’t have a flash, but at 3 MP it takes decent pictures. On some screens (viewing pictures, browser, typing a message), you can turn the phone sideways and it will rotate the picture (like the iphone), but the rotating is inconsistent (doesn’t work in some places where it seems it should).

   My main gripe about this phone is that AT&T’s webmail doesn’t include gmail (which I already knew, so maybe it’s more of an AT&T gripe). Also, the downloadable gmail app or just browsing to gmail in the browser doesn’t work as well as it should, which brings me to my next concern. The web browser is a standard mobile phone browser, very rough. It loads pages pretty fast, but it’s not fun to use it for any length of time. Another issue, is the lock key is on the side of the phone in such a way that it’s hard to unlock. Trying to hold the lock key usually results in sliding the keyboard out a bit. After you’re used to it, it’s not too bad, but still annoying.

   Even with all the problems, this is a great phone, and I would purchase it again.

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3. 17 of 18 people found the following review helpful

   
   Unresponsive Touchscreen, July 22, 2011

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   Jenna B –

   This review is from: Samsung SGH a877 Impression – Cellular phone – 3G – WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM – touch / slide-out keyboard – crystal blue – AT&T

   I loved this phone when I got it! It was easy to use and texting was a breeze!

   HOWEVER…

   My first one went from perfect to unresponsive screen in a matter of minutes one day, for no reason at all. I’d only had the phone for about 6 months and took very good care of it. I was able to get it replaced, but my second one suddenly did the same thing (at the 6-month mark again!) and my warranty is now void. The customer service rep for AT&T said that she receives many calls about unresponsive touchscreens on Samsung Impressions.

   I do not recommend this phone for anyone who wants to use it for more than half a year.

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