Review Samsung SPH-A940 Cellular Phone

Written by Kenson on May 6th, 2006
Filed under Cell Phone Reviews, Samsung


[rate 4.0]

The Samsung SPH-A940 is a powerful multimedia cellular phone that is packed with bunch of cool features that allow you to listen to your favorite music, snap photos and record movies. The Samsung SPH-A940 is a multimedia masterpiece that’s a
video streamer, music player, camera, camcorder, modem…and a phone-packaged in a unique camcorder-style design.

This cellular phone is one of the 2 Megapixel camera phone that is available in the US market. Unlike built-in digital camera of other cell phones, the Samsung SPH-A940 has 2x (2 times) optical zoom for you to snap a better quality picture. If you don’t understand the difference between optical zoom and digital zoom, a brief explanation is digital zoom is the zooming technology using software algorithms which optical zoom is the zooming technology that based on the adjustment of lenses to produce zooming effect. Optical zoom always produce better quality than digital zoom. For music lover, you can use this cool cell phone as your digital player as the Samsung SPH-A940 has a digital player and it comes equipped with a 32MB TansFLASH memory card and a stereo headset. If you want more storage space to store your favourite songs, you can purchase bigger capacity TransFlash memory.

The Samsung SPH-A940 is CDMA dual-band cellular phone. Hence, this cell phone is not available for GSM network carriers. The A940 is in clamshell form-factor with the camera built-in into the left side hindge. The design is very similar to Nokia N90 Cellular Phone that is posted in HandCellPhone blog a month ago.

The Samsung SPH-A940 cellular phone is now available for Sprint.

Samsung SPH-A940 Features and Specifications

Mode CDMA Dual Band / Tri-Mode (1900/800 MHz, Amps 800)
Weights 4.9 ounces
Dimensions 1.9″ x 3.7″ x 1.01″
Main Display Screen 176 x 220 pixel 262K TFT color display
External Display Screen 96 x 96 pixel 65K TFT display
Bluetooth Wireless Technology support HSP, HFP, OPP, BPP, FTP, DUN
Camera
Camera 2.0 megapixel camera with flash, 2X optical zoom
Multi-Shot Yes
Self-Timer Yes
PictBridge direct-printing Yes
MP3 / Music Player
MP3 and AAC stereo music player Yes
Polyphonic Ringing Tones Yes
PC Synchonization Synchronize your phone book, calendar and to-do list to your PC via USB 2.0 or Bluetooth technology

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  2. Digital Cameras Says:

    Digital Camera Compare…

    it was going to have some substanital manual control and a camera in the form of color for each recorded image at any cropping you do with the camera…

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