Review : Samsung Galaxy A3

Review : Samsung Galaxy A3

Samsung Galaxy A3 - The latest series of the Galaxy, has been present in front of you. Yes, the Samsung Galaxy A3 been present adorn the smartphone world with luxurious design.The South Korean company, equip their products with the type of Super AMOLED screen that has been somewhat qualified to be quality. With 410 MSM8916 Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, CPU quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 and Adreno 306 GPU makes this one pretty amazing smartphone in mid-end class. Like what the overall performance of Samsung Galaxy A3? Here we apply a full review for you.

Design

Samsung Galaxy A3 has an innovative design that is sleek, thin and looks very luxurious. Seen from the body is wrapped using full metal coating, making the Samsung Galaxy A3 has a premium impression. With unibodi concept, on the back of the smartphone is designed that uses a metal material but rough. Thus, the handset is not slippery and not easy to slip or slump when you hold it.

The first impression of grasping the Samsung Galaxy A3, was once a premium impression. As it became a young executive who has a high taste, and did not look cheap. With heavy weights 110 grams with dimensions of 130.1 x 65.5 x 6.9 mm, quite easy to keep this smartphone into a pants pocket.

On the bottom side of the frame, the Samsung Galaxy A3 provides a slot for a 3.5 mm audio jack and USB 2.0 ports. To the right side of the frame, there is a button up and down to adjust the volume. Turning to the left side of the frame, there is a button to Activate and deactivate the lock and turn off and turn on the smartphone. Under the lock button, there are two slots for dual-simcard and external memory that must be opened using a pin that has been provided in the smartphone sales package.

At the rear, there is a camera that is coupled with LED flash, and loudspeakers. In addition, the Samsung logo with the size as usual placed in the middle part of the back. Then, to the front, there is no front camera located on the right screen. Then next to them, there is a light sensor and light for incoming notification. At the top of this screen as usual there earpiece speaker and the speaker below the Samsung logo. After that, there is a home button to display the smartphone to the homescreen.

Screen and Interface

The screen used Samsung Galaxy A3 manifold Super AMOLED, has a size of 4.5 "with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels QHD and has a density of up to 245 ppi. As a result, the screen looks pretty clear and sharp. However, for the protection part, this smartphone does not provide Corning Gorilla Glass , thus making the screen of Samsung Galaxy A3 vulnerable scratched.

Samsung Galaxy A3 has embedded operating system Android 4.4.4 KitKat, which is wrapped with TouchWiz interface. In the area lockscreen, as always there is time and date information, as well as a major shortcut access the camera. Turning to the homescreen, you will be presented 1 homescreen that can be expanded up to a maximum of 5 pages with each featuring four columns app icons. To set the page, you stay pinching or pressing the screen for about one second. Homescreen this will be the canvas to place and arrange widgets you want. Additionally, you can create folders on the homescreen pages.

On the main menu, this smartphone can display the entire application, either the default application, downloaded applications and applications that are frequently used. Moreover, the handset offers features to hide applications available. In the zoom, you can change the custom version, or in accordance with the alphabet. Not only that, you also can adjust the position of the application on the main menu.

With a screen size of 4.5, of course Samsung Galaxy A3 is a great choice for you who do not like a smartphone with large dimensions. Galaxy A3 has a thin bezel size, wrapped in 4 colors that envelop the body made of this metal. Switch to typing, this handset features a fairly complete text input, there is a swipe function, as well as the vocabulary in the dictionary can be updated from a written message and Contacts applications available. In addition, there are also features like auto capitalization, punctuation auto, auto spacing and so forth.

Camera

Samsung Galaxy A3 sized main camera offers 8 MP CMOS sensor that has been equipped with autofocus and LED flash. These features are embedded in the rear-facing camera is quite a lot, such as Auto, Beauty face, continuous shot, HDR, Night mode, Panorama, Rear-cam selfie, and Create AGIF file. All features in the rear camera is truly extraordinary.

Switch to the front of the camera. Samsung Galaxy A3 front camera equipped with a 5 MP size. These features are found on the front of this camera does not much like the rear camera, but these features really amazing. As Wide selfie, which can perform selfie in a gang but all objects can be seen clearly. Then, there is also the Create AGIF same file as the rear camera. In addition, there are features Palm selfie, which can perform selfie by simply touching the screen one time without having to be detained long in advance.

The quality of the video is equally interesting. This camera presents a full HD 1080p quality with 30fps. The result, not least with a smartphone in the high-end. Sharpness make video recordings of these look fabulous.

Performance

What about the performance of the Samsung Galaxy A3? With the specification screen resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, chipset Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410 quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53, GPU Adreno 306. In addition, the smartphone is embedded RAM capacity of 1 GB. Galaxy performance A3 already somewhat qualified to carry out your daily activities. Not only that, the Samsung Galaxy A3 can be devoured all the heavy work without problems, such as playing games and watch full HD movies.

Other

Samsung provide Galaxy A3 with the default application that is quite abundant. Applications include Calculator, Camera, Chrome, Clock, Contacts, Drive, Email, Galaxy Apps, Galaxy Gift, Gallery, Gmail, Google, Google Settings, Google+ Hangouts, Internet, Line, Maps, Memo, Messages, My Files, Phone , Photos, Play Books, Play Games, Play Movies & TV, Play Music, Play Newsstand, Play Store, Radio, S Planner, Settings, Video, Voice Recorder, Voice Search, and YouTube.

Samsung Galaxy A3 combines photo galleries and videos into one. You can see the option All which means all files yanag in the Gallery application will be displayed. Then Albums option, which makes this application are composed according albums you have created. Then, there is a third option Location. This option will display the appropriate file location that you have generated.

When you choose one of the photos, you can instantly share to social messenger application and other media. Additionally, you can edit photos with Photo Editor features, but those features must be downloaded first.

For the music player, the default application of the Samsung Galaxy A3 namely Play Music. The dominant color orange and white are attached, make you will feel comfortable when opening the application. The songs are available on the memory, will be grouped by Genres, Artists, Albums, and Songs.Format that can be played on the music player of this smartphone include: MP3, 3GA, AAC, OGG, OGA, M4A, WAV, AMR, AWB, FLAC , IMY, MID, MIDI, XMF, MXMF, OTA, RTTTL, RTX,.

For a video player, although it has been incorporated in the Gallery application, but Samsung Galaxy A3 equip with video applications. Thus, in this application only displays the file is a video course. In this application, the display can be changed according to your wishes. Like features View as, Sort by, and Auto play next.

When you play one video, then the file can be shared to messenger applications and social media. In addition, there are features Subtitles and Listen via Bluetooth that will make you feel more comfortable when watching a video with this smartphone. Format which can be played in the video include, MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, MKV, WebM.

Connectivity

• Dual SIM (Nano SIM)
• Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, AVRCP, IN, HFP, HID, HOGP, HSP, MAP, OPP, PAN, PBAP
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g 2.4 GHz
• ANT +
• USB 2.0
• 3.5mm jack
• For data connectivity, the Samsung Galaxy A3 has supported GSM network 4G LTE (optional). For 3G networks, this smartphone supports download speeds of up to 42.2 Mbps and 150 Mbps for LTE 4G network.

Battery Life

Smartphone Galaxy A3 been embedded battery with a capacity of 1,900 mAh. It is small enough battery capacity is not it? Given the excellent specifications of this smartphone, so there must be a lot of demand on the battery. The battery life can last no longer than one day under normal use and connectivity data is active.

We test the battery life is to watch full HD 1080p video, in a time of 1 hour 54 minutes, the battery is reduced from 100% to 84%.

Excess

• Premium and luxury design
• Specifications are fairly high
• Features on the camera pretty much
• Affordable prices

Shortage

• Low battery power
• No Corning Gorilla Glass
• RAM capacity is small

Conclusion

Samsung Galaxy A3 is a smartphone that is pretty good at mid-end class. With a fairly high specification and design that impressed the premium and luxury, making this smartphone is amazing. However, with low battery capacity, this handset thirst for power.