Supporters of smartphones with a screen diagonal of less than 5 inches may feel overlooked, because the market is becoming less decent equipment of this type. These circumstances are conducive to very new to Samsung Galaxy A3, which with its display diagonal of 4.7 inches and an excellent quality of workmanship is a kind of white raven smartfonowym - equipment, which some people are almost doomed. But Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016) is a form of necessary evil? Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016) - test
The new Samsung Galaxy A3 and just what we described the new Samsung Galaxy A5 are smartphones, which outside differ actually just size. This means, therefore, that more and more phones of this brand looks like the Galaxy S6. On the one hand it is a good idea, because thanks to the entire catalog of the company is more uniform and transparent, and on the other hand ... if you do not like the design of the last flagship of the Korean giant, is in its tender did not find anything for himself. Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016) - Specifications The dimensions of 134.5 × 65.2 × 7.3 mm LTE Cat 4 Weight 132 g Wi-Fi 1-band, n Screen 4.7 inch NFC Yes 1280 x 720 Infrared Do not AMOLED FM Radio Yes Exynos 7578 processor output image not 4 x 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 USB Host Not Mali-T720MP2 Noise reduction Yes RAM 1.5 GB of available memory approx. 9.5 GB Battery 2300 mAh Micro-SD Yes (64+ GB) The camera on the back of photos: 13 MP, F / 1.9, LED, HDR Video: 1080p @ 30 fps. Front camera Photos: 5 MP Video: 1080p @ 30 fps.
Fortunately (for Samsung), the company's designers learned to create nice (of course, a matter of taste, but the majority of smartphone users agree with this statement) and well-made gadgets. True, metal and glass are not some extraordinary material, the right mix them together is not quantum physics, and the panes of glass with rounded edges (called the glass 2.5D) is not new, but the practice has repeatedly shown that proven ideas often can surprise . And so is the case with the new Galaxy A3. Many people will like it immediately after you take it in your hand. Its size, weight, curves and edges - all this fits extremely well. On the occasion of new launches little sentimental journey into the past, I can remember it was like to use a smartphone at a time when housing with a width of 65 mm was the standard, not a feature worthy of the show curiosities. With the construction of the Galaxy A3, we have actually only one problem: this neat in icon is very slippery and a careless, to be directed toward the floor. Other elements of the construction of Galaxy A3 (2016) is almost perfect, much less that a copy of their counterparts from the Galaxy A5. The buttons were in reasonable places, easy to feel with your fingers, have a very clear and pleasant stroke, and, we are very pleased that Samsung does not resign from placing them under the screen. Once again - the old, proven solutions that simply work. The only pity is that, unlike the Galaxy A5 novelty no fingerprint scanner integrated with the home button, and in this price range can already see smartphones with this addition. Nice, neat and comfortable - so in a nutshell you can describe the new Samsung Galaxy A3. And it is expected that after this smartphone. The transfer of design and quality of the Galaxy S6 to a smaller model slightly lower grade, produced good results and as mentioned, to like this year's variant of the Galaxy A3 from the very beginning is very easy.
Deficiencies and problems Wifi
Nowadays, more and more rarely we encounter problems with the quality of phone calls, coverage, etc., And although we notice some differences between smartphones, the vast majority is doing in this respect at least decent. However, in the course of testing Galaxy A3 noticed that surprisingly often lose connection to the Wi-Fi networks . In places where the vast majority of the tested devices that we had no problems with maintaining Internet connectivity, the Samsung Galaxy A3 hoisted the white flag. Later it turned out that much depends on how you hold the phone ...: especially do not like it when you hold it with both hands horizontally. So if you live or work is not perfectly covered with network coverage Wi-Fi, know that after the purchase of the second-generation Galaxy A3 you have trouble connecting.
Fortunately, the other elements of the smartphone does not confer us unexpected problems. The handset could be a little louder, but in most cases turned out to be sufficient. The software, based on the new version of TouchWiz, also worked properly and we have not found any major errors and nuisance. Generally, aside from the issue of Wi-Fi, the Samsung Galaxy A3 operates as it should.
Decent screen Super AMOLED 720pThe screen in the new Galaxy A3 is much better than the screen mounted in the predecessor. Increased him not only the diagonal (0.1 inches) and resolution (with qHD HD), but also - and very strongly - the maximum brightness, which now is so high that you can see everything in all conditions. Additionally, in the display settings menu are three color profiles, so that everyone can decide whether you prefer a more intense color or their precise mapping (although these profiles are not as well calibrated as in the Galaxy A5 and other smartphones Samsung's higher-end).
Generally, as is usual in the case of these devices, we do not have too many reasons to complain about the screen second generation Galaxy A3. Some may not correspond to the relatively low resolution (especially that it is a matrix-type arrangement of subpixels PenTile). Finally, in this price range there is no shortage of smartphones with screens Full HD. It should be remembered for one detail: all those "other smartphones" are much larger and the market virtually no other devices with similar screen sizes and 1080p (even measuring 4.6 inch screen Xperia Z5 Compact has a resolution of 1280 × 720, and matrix diagonal of 4.7 inches on the iPhone 6s - 1334 × 750). In short, as for the type and class of the phone it is very good.
Great uptime ...... Largely I owe precisely to the fact that the screen Galaxy A3 has a low resolution. Of course, the smartphone can not compete with larger phones with higher capacity battery on the operating time at rest and talk, but the toddler Samsung's really surprising how slowly discharged in time to play in undemanding for hardware games, watching movies and surfing the web. There simply is not anything that would be greedy for energy. Thanks to Galaxy A3 in terms of running time often embarrasses larger and mocarniejszych rivals. It is true that the new Samsung Galaxy A3 does not officially support any technique rapid charging, but as it turns out, when you connect the dedicated charger the battery is filled very quickly, most of the time is a little over 1% per minute, and 100% indicator appears when less 2 more hours, which is a good result.
Not bad, but not outstanding cameraThe camera Galaxy A3 has a lot in common with the camera Galaxy A5. It is based on the same die with a resolution of 13 MP and has a lens with the same aperture (f / 1.9), so it provides the same quality of photos and videos. In fact, the only difference between these two cameras in smartphones applies to optical stabilization, the Galaxy A3 has been deprived. It sounds innocent, but in practice this is a really big difference. It makes fact that the camera Galaxy A3 becomes very uninteresting. For a very similar sum can buy LG G3 or G flex 2, which provide even better image quality, optical stabilization, laser autofocus, and to record movies UHD ... I think I understand what you mean. In the final analysis, we must admit that the camera and video mode in Galaxy A3 are not bad, the image quality will be fully sufficient for less demanding and progress compared to the previous generation is noticeable, but at this price you can offer a lot more.
Improved performance ...... Which would not be the highest. GPU computing power has increased two to three times, but it pales against the performance of graphics chips in Snapdragonach 800, 801 and 810, installed in other smartphones in the same price. Similarly, the processor performance: faster clock speed and faster memory gives a noticeable improvement over the previous generation of this phone, but as the central unit of the new Samsung Galaxy A3 much more would fit into equipment cheaper a few hundred dollars.
It is true that this model will not be purchased for its performance and that during everyday use, many people consider his performance to be sufficient (to a large extent this is due to the low resolution of the screen), but it is not difficult to find equipment that is just as nice and just as well made, while not condemning the holder's so big compromises in performance. If in the case of the Galaxy A5 situation it looks like, but at least no one thought that 1.5 GB of memory is a reasonable amount of
SummarySamsung Galaxy A3 (2016) is the second tested by our representative of the second generation of smartphones Samsung belonging to the family A new Samsung Galaxy A5 very stimulated my appetite for more, mainly because as things changed in the terms of its predecessor, and I had hoped it more will provide us with the new Samsung Galaxy A3.
Unfortunately, soon it turned out that this year's A3 was not included so much news and amendments at the Galaxy A5, and therefore makes it feel much more conservative design and - as a result - less interesting. It's a shame that Samsung did not go with the flow and reduced in this model the most basic and obvious improvements, it is very difficult to justify. The more we observed in the context of our problems with Wi-Fi.
This does not mean that the second generation Galaxy A3 is a bad equipment, but just look at what the competition offers a similar price to understand what the problem is new Samsung. Assuming that we take into account only the phones of a similar quality of performance, you can buy Honora 6, Honora 5X or OnePlus X. If quality is a secondary issue for you, you can join this list yet LG G3 and G Flex 2 - the device far from ideal and sometimes quite problematic, but much better equipped and very profitable.
However, in this wyliczance it is a small catch: all the listed models just are much larger than the Galaxy A3 and so many people do not recognize them as fully fledged competition to Samsung. That's true, but I just wanted to show, with how many compromises you have to accept buying A3.
In one sentence: Samsung Galaxy A3, we can recommend only strong opponents over 5-inch smartphones, who do not have special requirements for the equipment, functionality and performance, and believe that their new phone has just work. Other advised to shop around for something else. And it will not be a long search, I will not be at all difficult to find in similar priced equipment as well-made and / or much better equipped.
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