Samsung a900 AKA Blade released!

I agree with everything said here.

 

I would say that a phone so thin has necessarily have bad battery life especially with such large screen. Had Samsung cut the resolution on that screen a bit (less power consumption) and made the phone a bit thicker (to accomodate a more powerful battery), this would've been the perfect christmas present for someone I know. But I don't want to make anyone a slave of a charger. That would be a punishment rather than a present.

 

From what you're saying battery life doesn't seem to be any better or worse than my Razr...

 

The GSM RAZR does have slightly better battery life, but the difference is not that great. But even that is poor battery life to me. Charging a phone every night doesn't convince me because that means that sometimes when you use it more than usual the phone may not make it to the end of the day. I like my phones to last 2 or 3 days with HEAVY use, so at least I am sure I don't ever have to go running for the charger when I need the phone the most. Only Nokia and Sony Ericsson make phones that last that long.

 

I have the a900 and I cannot upload pictures to anywhere, I get the old error message from sprint. I called Sprint and they said it was a common problem with samsung phones on thie network. I have a sanyo pm-8200 and had some trouble, but thats the tower near my area. Sprint says my phone is a hot in demand phone. Sprint expects this problem to be fixed within 4 months, as the ready link problem that was fixed when earlier ready link phones came out. Does anyone have other problems with their a900?

 

Can you put music you have on your computer on your phone? or do you have to download from sprint? if you can how do you go about doing so???? Your help would be greatly appreciated!

natalie

 

I'm having the same problem with pix mail...says I need to register my account. I keep trying to input a password, but it doesn't take it. Keeps telling me I need to register the account. Bummer. Fix it Sprint!

 

Just ordered mine yesterday, can't wait to get mine hands on it. The battery life issue has me concerned, but I can't find anybody selling them. Does anyone know where you can purchase extra batteries?

 

Figgered this one out. It needed my ancient existing picture mail password. Duh. I'm up and running now. I also learned that you need to set the camera view to widescreen to see the whole view of the picture. Interesting, this new phone.

 

Hello to you all.
This is my first post on this forum, but my comment is very important about this phone.

I just bought the a-900 along with a plantronics BT headset.
Phone rocked but the Plantronics bluetooth HS was so horrible that I exchanged it for a Motorola brand. The moto headset was better quaility (less static) but I kept hearing a beeping every 4 seconds or so (continuous whether on a call or not.) I called Moto and they said its (obviously) not supposed to be doing that and to take it back for exchange. Today I went to the local mall and started talking with a very nice man at a little accessory stand. I told him about the problem and the beeping so we tried different brands. THEY ALL MADE THE SAME BEEPING SOUND EVERY 4 Seconds or so. Needless to say the man had an idea and remembered helping a customer with the same phone and the same problem but mainly with static issues.

The solution I have found is that ONLY the VIM headset (http://store.treoden.com/vim.html) would work propoerly without static and the beeping sound.

Does anyone have ideas or the same problem? Love to hear from you all.

Thanks

 

Hi- Try going into settings and then choose other. Then choose number 8 which will allow you to download any recent firmware fixes for the phone. These fixes are normally available once a month, which I was told by a technician I spoke with at a Sprint store. I had the same problem your having not being able to upload or post pictures. After downloading the fix it solved the problem for me.

 

As was said before, you can store 500 contacts into your phone. Each contact can have up to 5 separate numbers stored. I realize this is a month old, but i noticed the question was not answered and hope this will help.

 

REALLY? 0.06"??? REALLY?
Isn't that, like, the thickness of paper?

I think you meant 0.6", or just over half an inch. :O

 

Thanks for the tip on the update feature! Now that my picturemail account is properly set up, I haven't had any technical problems, however.
I probably wouldn't have found out about the update feature unless I got intimate with the user manual for a good couple hours to learn about all the great features of the phone. One day I'll do it, I swear!

My phone is being "optimized" as I'm typing this...maybe it includes better power/battery management?? Maybe not. Yah well. "optimized" sounds good.