Samsung SCH-A870 (Verizon Wireless)

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The VGA camera took good but blurry shots.

The VGA camera on the SCH-A870 takes pictures in three different resolutions (640x480, 320x240, 160x120) and has a self-timer of up to 10 seconds, a flash, five different white-balance settings, three quality settings (Fine, Normal, Economy), nine different color settings, and three shutter sound options. Unfortunately, you can't turn the shutter sound off, even if you turn the phone's volume all the way down to silent. While the picture quality is pretty good for a VGA phone, photos still appeared blurry and washed out.

Personalization options come in the form of ring tones, sounds, wallpaper, banners, and themes. You can even download more via Verizon's Get It Now download service. Though the phone supports BREW games, it doesn't come with one preinstalled, so you'll have to download one if you want your video-game fix.

We tested the dual-band trimode (CDMA 800/1900; AMPS) with Verizon Wireless, and we experienced spectacular call quality. Callers couldn't tell we weren't on a landline, and we could hear them loud and clear. Speakerphone quality was similarly impressive, though we did have to raise our voices a little for callers to hear us. We paired the Samsung SCH-A870 with the Plantronics Explorer 350 Bluetooth headset successfully.

The Samsung SCH-A870 has a rated talk time of up to 3 hours and 20 minutes, though we managed to get only 3 hours of talk time in our tests. It has a rated standby time of up to seven days. According to FCC radiation tests, the SCH-A870 has a digital SAR rating of 1.47 watts per kilogram.

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"Good phone"

by thandel on September 5, 2006

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"Poor reception/call quality"

by RobGarn on December 15, 2006

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