Released for AT&T, the Samsung Flight SGH-a797 is a hybrid messaging-focused phone that sports with both a touchscreen and a vertical QWERTY keyboard. While satisfying both your needs for frequent web browsing and high-speed texting, the Flight also offers a user-friendly design and a set of functional and multimedia features, making it appealing to a mass of consumers.The Flight has a 2.8-inch touchscreen supporting 260k colors and a 242x320-pixel resolution, which is quite small compared with other touchscreen devices, but there is a widget tool bar on the screen to make your favorite applications, programs and community sites with just one touch away.
Boasting AT&T’s full HTML Opera web browser, the Flight gives users a unique three-window approach to surf the Internet. The first page is a homescreen where users can add bookmarks and enter URLs; The second page gives you local information such as restaurants, gas stations, maps and driving directions; and the last page delivers more global information like top headlines and entertainment news from various sites.
Using the slide-down QWERTY keyboard, text and multimedia messaging, instant messaging and typing emails are fast and easy. You can choose to use the virtual numeric keypad or the handwriting recognition feature as well. Email options found on the device are limited to AT&T Mobile Email, which offers access to POP3 services including AIM, AOL, Gmail, Windows Live and Yahoo.
In addition, its built-in music player supports MP3, AAC, eAAC+, WMA and more file formats. Equipped with AT&T’s 3G connectivity, the Flight gives users the full set of the carrier’s multimedia services, including AT&T Mobile Music for wireless song download and Cellular Video for streaming-video content. Other music-related features like XM Radio and a Billboard Mobile channel are also onboard. Apart from multimedia services, the GPS functionality supports access to AT&T Navigator for turn-by-turn directions and traffic mapping.
Other features brought by the Flight include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder with digital zoom, stereo Bluetooth, a 2,000-entry phone book, voice dialing and USB mass storage. It holds only 80MB of internal memory, but you can expand the storage up to 16GB via the microSD memory card slot. Comes in red and gray, the phone measures 4.17" by 2.2" by 0.5" and weighs 4.8 ounces.
Although the Samsung Flight a797 is not a smartphone, it is able to bring a likable design and some advanced features at an affordable price. The combo of a touchscreen and a keyboard makes it a desirable phone that will bring a lot of fun to your social life.
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