Samsung Galaxy A3 – Multiplayer.it

The mobile division of Samsung is not living happy months and many point the finger too many versions of its low-cost terminals, often similar and yield economic Limited. Likewise also the fierce competition in the top-end of the range is giving a hard time to the Korean giant, struggling with the cumbersome presence of Apple on the one hand and the other producers who are working to gain ground. In an effort to give a boost to their business Samsung unveiled three new terminals dedicated to the mid-market, the new Galaxy A7, A5 and A3, designed specifically for a young audience with a price starting from 309 €.

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The basic design remains true to the philosophy adopted by the previous products of the Colossus Korean, with the difference that in this case it was decided to abandon the plastic body and replace it with an entirely of metal, including the back cover. It is, therefore, of a unibody chassis rectangular very similar to previous models. On the right side of the frame is the classic release button, beneath which are positioned two slots, one for the SIM card and the other dedicated to miniSD with which it is possible to increase the internal memory of 16GB. The speaker is on the back right of the camera that protrudes a few millimeters while the front is dominated, as usual, from the display and the center button; since the screen of 4.5 “and compact size, 130 x 65 x 6.9 m m, the use of the terminal with one hand is smooth and overall ergonomics is excellent. There is no denying that Samsung have worked carefully to model the body to make it comfortable during use, although not the same care has been taken in the design of the phone, which is anonymous and does not stand for some originality. A matter of taste, you might observe. Despite the materials Quality the first true compromise that the Korean company had to do to lower the cost is related to the display: it is a Super AMOLED with a resolution of only 540×960 and 245 ppi which is able to maintain a definition just decent but totally inferior to the minimum standards today , and also appears to be too saturated images returning totally unrealistic and too “pumped.̶ 1; Fortunately in the settings you can select some modes that modify the color profile used, greatly improving the color rendering of the screen . The operating system is mounted KitKat, namely version 4.4.4 , while there is no news on the release of Lollipop, but knowing Samsung you can be assured of having to wait before you even get your hands on ‘ latest release, the reason for this delay is the custom skin that mount all the terminals of the Korean, Touchwiz. The changes affect virtually every system screen and compared the experience stock is heavier and less responsive, which is easily seen after you install some widgets; also thanks to the inclusion of additional applications that go to integrate or replace some system apps free space in memory is only 11 GB compared to 16 GB declared.

Under the hood a Panda

Being a terminal of the medium-low you can not expect a first-class hardware equipment and in fact under the shell is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 1.2 GHz which are flanked 1.5 GB of RAM. The features are not just from last cry and you can see after installing some widget or applications that require more computing power . It is observed in fact more than some uncertainty during use and the closure of particularly exorbitant app is virtually always rebooting the home screen, a sign that the hardware is not up to the most demanding tasks. The rear camera is equipped with an 8-megapixel sensor and produces discrete images in case of good lighting, while in serious difficulty in dim light. Most of the time the photos are colors that are slightly subd ued and not too detailed but overall there were no unpleasant to see on the small display. The front camera, however, is the real protagonist: 5 megapixel camera and viewing angle of 110 ° make this smartphone the real director of your Selfie. Clearly the target audience are the young lovers of self-portraits, as you can easily see from the web page, which highlights the ease with which you can simply click through a voice command or showing the palm of the hand that starts the timer. In addition there is a submenu with three sliders that allow you to touch up your face making it more beautiful and glossy, assotigliarlo to make you look leaner and finally enlarge the eyes making you look like a manga. You have to admit that despite the apparent futility of these functions, the evidence shows if used properly can give their results, provided that they are not abused at the risk to transform you into something like an alien. Besides all this there are the c lassic standard features such as panoramic pictures and HDR, while note is the ability to create animated GIFs from a series of multiple shots. The battery is non-removable, since the body unibody, and only 1900 mAh which are enough for a day of average use, but are likely to be few in case of heavy usage; fortunately there is the ultra power saving mode that turns off all non-essential functions, limits their use to a few applications and apply a theme grayscale screen so as to prolong the total duration of use. The Samsung Galaxy A3 is available in four colors: black, gold, gray and white, priced at € 309. Given the low-end hardware equipment this number seems a bit ‘too much for what it offers the terminal, especially when you consider that for th e same price you can safely buy a Nexus 5, an LG G2 or an Xperia Z1 Compact , all phones with technical specifications by far the best. Nevertheless it should be given credit to Samsung have tried to work in a different way than in the past trying to improve the design of its products; at present, however, we can only advise against the purchase, but as soon as the price will reach 200 € the Galaxy A3 will become a terminal very attractive for those who want a phone that allows you to run smoothly social apps (Facebook and Instagram particular), surf the web and check e-mail.