The VGA camera takes pictures in four resolutions (640x480, 320x240, 160x120, and 128x104), and you can choose from three quality settings (superfine, fine, and normal). Other features include a self-timer, a night mode, 18 fun frames, a digital zoom, multishot, and mosaic shot modes, five color tones, and a brightness setting. Photo quality was decent for a VGA camera. Some images tended to be blurry, but colors were mostly bright. The SGH-A437 does not support video recording.
You can personalize the SGH-A127 with a choice of wallpaper or alter tones. You can always download more options for AT&T using the WAP 2.0 wireless Web browser. Gaming options are few; you just get demo versions of Jewel Quest and Tetris.
Performance
We tested the dualband (GSM 850/1900) SGH-A127 in San Francisco using AT&T service. Call quality was acceptable on a couple levels, but ultimately it didn't measure up. Though voices sounded natural and the signal remained free of static, the volume could be somewhat louder. On their end, callers could hear us, though they knew without being prompted that we were on a cell phone. Also, they said the phone picked up a lot of wind noise, and we noticed that sound around us tended to reverberate through the phone. Automated calling systems could hear us as long as we were in a quiet place. The speakerphone was quite poor, however. On our end, the sound was garbled at all volume levels, and we barely understood what our friends were saying. On their end, they had trouble hearing us, as well.
We noticed that the SG-A127's was sluggish at times. It was particularly noticeable when entering contacts, opening games, and toggling between different menus.
The SGH-A127 has a rated battery life of 5 hours talk time and 10.4 days standby time. Our tests confirmed the rated time at 5 hours and 15 minutes.
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