Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 – the youngest and most affordable model in the updated line of A-Series in 2017. Outwardly, it looks the same as the older model, the A5, and the A7, only smaller.
SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 (2017) REVIEW
DESIGN: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
The smartphone is available in four colors – gold, pink, blue and black; the latest version has visited the editorial office. Like the older models, Samsung Galaxy A3 boasts a 2.5D glass on the front panel, metal frame, and glass rear panel. Due to the rounded corners and smooth edges, and small size it fits nicely in the hand and tries to slip, despite the smooth surface of the rear panel.
The boxes around the screen is relatively small (display occupies 67.9% of the front panel), traditionally for Samsung smartphones, it uses the hardware Home button (with built-in fingerprint scanner) and touch the Back button and the Tasks (illuminated at the time of contact), which further increases the “useful area “the desktop by removing from it the standard toolbar buttons to the screen system.
The top of the microphone is noise-canceling and a slot for SIM-card and microSD memory card, on the left – the volume buttons on the right – the power button and multimedia speaker on the bottom – connector USB Type-C, a microphone and a 3.5 mm jack for a headset.
Overall, the device looks good, but the front it looks clearly more advantageous than the rear – due to the mainly 2.5D glass. Note also that the black version, in our view, a few plays “color” version of the smartphone. It is also worth noting that as the rest of the model A-Series 2017 chassis Samsung Galaxy A3 is protected from dust and moisture under the standard IP68 (complete dust ingress protection, it can be submerged to a depth of one and a half meters for up to 30 minutes).
SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 (2017): SPECIFICATIONS
DISPLAY: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
The Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 uses Super AMOLED-display diagonal of 4.7″ and a resolution of 720 × 1280 pixels. the pixel density of 312 PPI – see some graininess can only be staring at the screen at close range; in normal use, smartphone image perceived dense fonts – smooth.
Although the AMOLED, the colors of the display are quite quiet, close to those of the IPS-matrix. However, in the display settings, you can switch from video mode “Main” (default) in the more “colorful” – “Adaptive Display” (the strongest effect) or more moderate, but still much more intense than the “main” – ” AMOLED film “and” AMOLED Photo “. Here, by the way, you can activate the blue filter, which makes the image warmer and more pleasing to the eye when reading long text on a white background.
The screen is bright, it remains quite readable even in direct sunlight. Thanks, AMOLED black – really black, not gray flashes on when viewed at an angle. However, a large angle of the image appears greenish tinge, characteristic for this technology.
Measurements made in the “Basic”, show almost ideal characteristics -line color temperature near 6500K standard, correct gamma curve and color gamut, slightly larger than the standard sRGB.
CALLS, MULTIMEDIA: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
In addition to charts hit one SIM version of Samsung Galaxy A3, on sale in Ukraine will dual SIMs option (with optional microSD memory cards instead of the second SIM-card). The earpiece is loud enough, the interlocutor is heard well, but the media could be louder – on the street through the clothes is quite possible to call and hear. By the sound of the headphones, specific claims have arisen unless the high frequencies might sound a little brighter.
HARDWARE PLATFORM PERFORMANCE: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
The smartphone is based on its own eight-processor Samsung Exynos 7 Octa 7870, manufactured on 14 nm technology. It includes the ARM Cortex-A53 cores with a clock speed of 1.6 GHz, as well as the video subsystem Mali-T830. This processor is designed for mid-range models, and in his time has been used in the smartphone Galaxy J7 (2016). RAM is 2 GB, internal – 16 GB (of which the user can use 10 GB), with the possibility of its expansion with microSD memory cards.
The chipset refers to the middle class, and in benchmarks smartphone expectedly demonstrates appropriate performance – relatively speaking, between “medium” and “medium-high”.
It will be enough for any modern problems, except maybe the most difficult three-dimensional games.
SOFTWARE: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
Samsung Galaxy A3 is running Android 6.0.1, supplemented by a new proprietary shell – Grace UX (the first time we saw her in the Galaxy Note7). It is distinguished by the updated notification panel and a new kind of setup menu; In addition, the new A-line now includes a screen to the left of the home – it is the aggregator of news; depending on the firmware, it can be either Russian-language Briefing (based on the known Flipboard service) or an English Update. The shell maintains a system of interchangeable skins and icons downloaded from the corporate store, displays the off-screen clock, notifications and other information in the Always On Display mode can keep the screen on, while you’re at it, see, offers its own menu to optimize energy consumption and also contains a fairly large the number of additional features.
The fingerprint reader works quite confident, the screen is unlocked in less than half a second. The interface works as a whole quickly and smoothly, minor braking is rare and mostly when accessing the built-news aggregator.
CAMERA: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
The smartphone is equipped with a 13-megapixel main camera (f / 1.9), and an 8-megapixel – front. Own the camera application, except for the fully automatic mode, also offers a Pro – in this case, the user can manually set the white balance, ISO, exposure compensation, and to enter to select the metering method (Spot / Center/matrix).
The camera quickly focuses and makes the frame, the pictures are quite good – with a decent dynamic range, natural color and accurate enough automatic detection of the white balance. In low-light conditions or indoors, the quality deteriorates slightly. Clarity could be higher, small details like thin twigs, grass or pine needles can be significantly affected by the noise reduction algorithm.
The camera has the HDR mode, it works very nicely, and if the frame is not strong enough difference in brightness between the different parts of the picture, the result of his work may be purely cosmetic. However, in a situation where the frame has a light source or a very bright object on a dark background, the shooting mode can significantly improve the image, “stretching” the shadows. An example of his work (on the left – the usual frame, right – HDR):
AUTONOMY: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
Samsung Galaxy A3 has equipped with a non-removable battery capacity 2350 mAh. Thanks to Super AMOLED-display, as well as the use of energy-efficient processor Exynos 7870 Octa smartphone is very “tenacious”, even though not very high capacity battery – so, in the PCMark test, it lasted almost 10 hours, which is a very good result. We can say that in high load conditions it will almost certainly hold 2 full days.
VERDICT: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 (2017)
PROS of Samsung Galaxy A3 2017: quality screen; waterproof casing; Fingerprint’s scanner; good camera; for a long time
CONS of Samsung Galaxy A3 2017: relatively high cost
CONCLUSION: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017
The performance characteristics of Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 looks interesting, in terms of the design of the smartphone (especially in black) does not particularly outstanding can not boast. But with ergonomics, he’s all right. Is somewhat overpriced, both for the low-end model in the series – so you could say that the interest in this exercise are the ones who need a compact smartphone with a small screen, but not those who it is looking for “something the budget.”
Title: Review of new smartphone Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)
Updated: 2017-01-25
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