If you’re looking for a futuristic cellphone that still maintains a nice elegant look, the Samsung A930 might be just for you. The A930 is currently available from Verizon in the United States.
The Samsung A930 is black with an external display that makes it look like a digital music player. The blue LCD screen on the outside of the A930 is large enough to display the titles of the song currently playing, along with additional information such as battery level and signal strength. The Samsung A930 has a clamshell form and it has multimedia buttons on its cover to provide easy access to the music playback capabilities. While the exterior of the A930 is quite appealing, the interior looks a bit dated in my opinion.
From a technological standpoint, the Samsung A930 offers the standard features usually available to mid-range cellphones. The A930 features dual speakers for stereo sound and can play back music and video from the V CAST service. The integrated 1.3 megapixel digital camera and cam recorder has a rotating lens and even a built-in flash! The A930 has also built-in GPS capabilities and is compatible with software applications that make use of this feature.
The Samsung A930 is a nice looking clamshell cellphone with a lot to offer in terms of multimedia capabilities, and a notable technological feature is the built-in flash that most cellphones in this category lack.
Samsung A930 Specifications
- Form: Clamshell
- Dimensions: 3.59″ x 1.89″ x .98″
- Weight: 3.98 oz.
- Networks: CDMA 800MHz / 1.9GHz
- Display: 176×220 pixels, 262000 colors, TFT
- External Display: 176×16 pixels, 4 shades of blue OLED
- Digital Camera: 1.3 megapixels, integrated flash
- Internal memory: Unknown
- Expandable memory: microSD
- Battery: 3.5 hours talk-time, 8 days standby
- Other: Bluetooth, GPS, Customizable fonts
Samsung A930 Reviews
CNET reviews the Samsung A930 and writes - “The Samsung SCH-A930 has decent call quality and an attractive feature set that includes Bluetooth, EV-DO support, an external memory slot, a speakerphone, a megapixel camera, and a digital music player. The Samsung SCH-A930 has an uninspiring design, and the external display is not suitable for such a full-featured phone. Plus, it suffers from spotty EV-DO reception. The Samsung SCH-A930 makes a mostly good showing, but there are better choices in Verizon’s EV-DO lineup.”
infoSync World reviews the Samsung A930 and writes - “While this jet-black, nearly four-ounce 3G clamshell is a little bulkier than we’d like, it makes up plenty of ground with its rock-solid music capabilities, ability to sync tunes with a PC, vivid display, Bluetooth and built-in GPS. Meanwhile, road warriors will appreciate the phone’s speedy data and dial-up networking abilities.”
PC Magazine reviews the Samsung A930 and writes - “The Samsung SCH-a930 isn’t a bad phone, especially if all you want to do is make voice calls. But if you’re interested primarily in that, the Motorola V325 cuts a sharper figure. Among multimedia phones, Samsung’s own a950 has superior data performance and very good voice quality, and the LG Chocolate VX8500 has far better music capabilities. I’d recommend one of those models instead.”
LAPTOP Magazine reviews the Samsung A930 and writes - “All of these extras wouldn’t mean much if the SCH-a930 stumbled in its intended purpose: communication. The phone maintained a strong signal in our tests, and we experienced hiccup-free calls, with good sound quality on both ends of the conversation. This clamshell features 3.8 hours of talk time.”
Samsung A930 Phone (Verizon Wireless)
Source: Verizon Wireless Announces Slick Black Samsung SCH-A930