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$89.99
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Product Description
This facts cable is compatible with the following Samsung models: SGH-a437 / a437. SGH-a717 / a717. SGH-a727 / a727. Features: Bind your cell phone with your PC / Lab top by USB port. Amend the Startup and Operator logos. Manage & backup your phonebook. Conceive and upload graphics, logos and ringtones right from your PC Modify / Send picture messages via your PC. Software is not included.
Customer Reviews
Didn't vocation at all. Software didn't work with Vista.
The software wouldn't realize my phone. Nothing. Nada. I wen't online and searched for drivers and nothing... Ended up synching the bluetooth with substitute blue tooth phone, transfering data that way and then falling it into the computer. So basicly I bought this for nothing.
2010-04-20
| Mr. OC | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1
Outstanding for the cable, but a blank disk?
I was looking for a way to de-characterize my cell phone. This cable does connect to my phone and washing one's hands of the Samsung provided software and drivers I am able to manage phone publication and media, but I can not yet de-brand my phone.
The small CD that came with the rope is blank or undetectable in all 5 of my computers.
As mentioned, for the cable it is a good outlay, but without the drivers or the software it is useless for anything more than charging the phone. And to be forthright the description does mention that it does not include the software, something I missed when I purchased.
2009-08-10
| Clayton Scott (Los Angeles, CA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3
SOFTWARE NOT INCLUDED
foolproof the cable works great, in that it does establish a reference between the phone and the computer. but without the drivers, it's pretty much impractical. and good luck finding them online. They in the end should change the picture of this item to the cable just, as that cd behind it has nothing to do with this particular note, at least not in the sense that you'll ever see it.
check out the related items upon and there should be some that DO include the drivers, determinedly worth the extra $2 IMHO
2009-01-31
| Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 2
A-one Add-on for my Samsung A437!
I am unbiased blown away for how well this product works! No longer do I clothed to use my mobile web browser to buy ringtones! I can just use parts of Mp3s from my notebook and just sync them to my phone! Not only can I do that with the software, I can equally transfer pictures to and from my phone (most are bad quality though). All-inclusive, I am very satisfied with my purchase! The service through BargainCell was bonzer! I ordered this last week Saturday, and I got it yesterday, or October 29th. That's 5 natural life before the estimated delivery! I think I will purchase more products including BargainCell in the future. Thanks for such a great product!
2008-10-30
| Dan | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
List Price:
$299.99
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Product Description
Sporting a clamshell draft, the Samsung A717 offers a rich multimedia experience in an ultra-slim conformation factor. Its 3G high speed data capability makes it affable to stream, download and enjoy endless hours of music, videos, TV, present and more. You'll be able to access such AT&T services, such as Flexible Music, Cellular Video, access to MobiTV and MobiRadio. It make also support AT&T's forthcoming Video Share service, which offers a one-way video flood during a mobile-to-mobile phone call. Currently the one of the slimmest 3G phones accessible from AT&T, the A717 measures just 0.5 inches undersized (12.9mm) and weighs 3.3 ounces. It communicates over GSM/GPRS networks and offers universal voice and data roaming in over 125 countries.
Note streaming live television on the bright color screen, and send/away with video from another 3G-compatible video phone using AT&T's Video Percentage service. |
Amazingly slim and lightweight, the A717 weighs by the skin of one's teeth 3.3 ounces and measures 0.5 inches thin. |
The A717's dual-ensemble 3G connectivity (850 MHz, 1900 MHz) provides average download matter speeds between 400 and 700 kilobits per second with bursts of more than 1 megabit on account of AT&T's HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access) network. With AT&T's MobiTV post, you can watch live television right on your cell phone, with gratification from such channels as MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News, FOX Sports, The Disclosure Channel, and The Learning Channel.
And with the forthcoming Video Interest service (to be fully available in the summer of 2007), you can send a living, one-way video stream to another compatible phone during a guide voice call. The service also allows you to switch the administering of the video stream during the same phone call. (Customers forced to be in an area served by the companyÕs 3G network and have a Video Split-enabled phone.)
AT&T's Mobile Music service features connectivity that allows you to use Napster or Yahoo! Music to obtain and load music onto your phone. You can also logotype up to subscribe to XM Radio or MobiRadio digital radio for streaming music and scandal radio wherever you roam. And with an AT&T 3G phone, you can watch your penchant music videos anytime, anywhere.
The A717's external OLED room divider provides operational info, including connection signal and freestyle life. |
The A717 has a main color TFT display underneath its clamshell that offers a 240 x 320-pixel deliberation (with 262K colors), as well as a thin external OLED spectacle (measuring 96 x 32 pixels) that provides facts such as connection bars, battery life, and day and date. It has a 50 MB internan glint memory, and is expandable via MicroSD memory cards. The 2-megapixel camera can apprehend images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels, and it also offers a 4x digital zoom, multi-snapshot capability, self-timer, and video capability. Other features take in:
- Mobile email capabilities and wireless internet access
- SMS and MMS messaging, as doubtlessly as connectivity to AOL, Windows Life, and Yahoo! instant messaging services
- Headset jack and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity for using a wireless speech headset
- Holds 1000 alphanumeric entries with encouragement for up to 40 digits, 16 characters
- Last 20 entering, outgoing and missed call logs
- 64-note polyphonic music tones/MP3 music tones
- Individual organizer (Calendar, Calculator, Currency Converter, Tasks, Note)
- Colloquium calling (1 + 5)
Vital Statistics
The A717 weighs 3.3 ounces and preparations 4.1 x 2.12 x 0.5 inches. Its rechargeable battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk term, and up to 250 hours of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/UMTS frequencies. The phone comes with a one year restrictive warranty.
Customer Reviews
Most excellently phone ever.
I got the phone clumsily three days after its release. I paid roughly 300$ for it up face and have not regretted it since. Iv had the phone since early July and i appease don't think iv found all the features it has. Best advice i can give is go out and buy a 2 gig recall card and computer hookup. for 40$ you can have a very close music player. i use mine constantly. Even thought it does look / stand thin i have dropped it a few times and it has never so much as scratched. The barely downfalls it has is the camera has no flash : ( and the external display is surely small and does not have external picture caller id. This phone exactly does have way to many features to list .mp3 player, camera, video, attractive color display, video conferencing, and more. I would strongly commend this phone. 9/10
2007-11-30
(NY) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
superb phone with annoying interface
This phone is slim and dizzy and the display is beautiful. Google Maps works, besides GMail and other applications mentioned by other reviewers. The shape quality (transmit and receive) is great, except for the speakerphone at the two highest bulk settings. The "whisper mode" (only accessible during a demand), "call rejection", and "increasing ring volume" features are complex for discreet usage.
Since other reviewers have inundated most of the features, I will focus on my complaints:
The smooth keypad is no difficult for ordinary dialing. But when I check voice mail at gloom, the keypad backlight turns off a few seconds into the first communiqu, and then I'm lost. "7" to delete is easy to remember if I agree to my finger on it; but the others? The "C" (backspace) key is the only safe one to press during a yell, and that's somewhere in the middle.
The external display is not very salutary. It's hard to read in daylight. While it does show the timer strength, the battery life (three bars), and whether there is a communiqu waiting, it doesn't normally show the date and time: only when the freak out is first closed or if you press and hold the volume up/down buttons on the waves. When a call comes, the caller ID information scrolls, which causes me day in and day out to see only a portion of the name or number.
The user interface is frustrating. Depending on the mode the phone is in, the menu item to delete a issue message can be #4, #5, or #7, which almost doubles the many of keystrokes for this simple and oft-used function compared to my bare-ass-bones Nokia 6010.
I don't understand the rhyme and reason of the profiles (which cannot be renamed). Airplane SOP is clear. But "Silent" actually means vibrate. "Rational", "Car", "Office", and "Outside" all allow vibration or ringing or both. Unlike Nokia phones, there is no "tintinnabulation once" or "beep once" notification on calls --- this phone desire continue to ring or vibrate or both until you answer, suppress the phone, or allow the call to go to voice mail. Also, the notification sounds for messages (named "Honourable", "Clean", "Fun") cannot be set for calls, where you start with a acceptance of ten mostly obnoxious jingles.
The alarms can be set to allow a set number of "snooze" instances. No matter what, once you have pressed "snooze", there is no obvious, easygoing way to turn off the impending alarm without going to the alarm settings rage. The good thing is that the alarm volume (and days of the week) are set independently of the phone ringing tome.
The sound cannot be turned off when taking photos. The 2-megapixel (1600x1200) word of honour is fine for snapshots, but it's no replacement for a digital camera when I dearth to copy a page out of a library book.
2007-11-01
(New York, NY) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 2
Overpriced, Overrated, and Branding at Its Worst
There are two sections to this reviewing: 1) the actual phone, and 2) AT&T.
1) The phone: Samsung is continually making strides in their artifact lines, and their mobile phones are no exception, however, Samsung should and could take done much better with this phone.
Volume: Decent, with a thin thickness, and an acceptable length, but a bit wider than it should be. The sensor is integrated within the housing so no protrusion is part of the case.
Ports: The charging haven, located on the side, has multiple uses: Charging, and physical stereo headphone adapter, but therein reside the caveats as it requires a dearest jack to use line based headsets; if you use a Bluetooth stereo headset then there are no issues. Haven adapters are so small, and directional, but too vaguely delineated to tell which surf is the correct side to plug into the phone. There is a visual triangle marking the top surf, but the matching Samsung car charger plug (at least on the ones that were sold as chief kit with the a Samsung Bluetooth earpiece) has the triangle reversed so remembering which is which is a hard work; poor design at best.
Screen: the small screen to be found on the front cover of the case, when closed, is small, and only shows restricted text information, and only if you have good eyesight. The power screen is nice, but not that large, with easy readability.
Camera: It is a 2 megapixel camera that takes solid pictures, but there is no flash, no dedicated camera button, and you are required to entry, scroll, and then select a button to take a picture--all which is too tangled, poorly designed, and a downright nuisance.
Speakerphone: Is there one? This is a banter of a feature that you would not miss it if they had left it out. You constraint optimal conditions, and do mean optimal, to even hear the petite speaker--it is utterly useless. The confirming screen icon is so elfin it is hard to discern whether it is selected or not, made worse by troublesome to discern whether you are actually on speakerphone. Take a close look at the handle layout shown in the pictures here, can you spot the speakerphone knob?
Ear Listening Volume: Since my wife and I have two identical A717's we from the opportunity to compare issues. The listening volume of the ear speaker can bring forward crackly speech from the other end which is quite infuriating, and sounds as if the speaker is damaged; at other times it sounds cloudless. Generally, the volume of the phone when you have your ear clad secretive to it is weak. Another incredibly idiotic design aspect is that the demagogue is not in the center, but offset to the left if you are looking at the phone with it is reveal. This makes no sense as you have to unnaturally hold the keynoter either higher or lower near your ear (depending whether you are real or left-handed) whereby the speaker can be better heard. This follows no commonplace pattern of handsets used throughout the world, and warrants an "F" gradient in the terms of form following function.
Bluetooth: Excellent with unexacting discovery, pairing, and usage.
Keypad: The buttons work gush exhibiting a nice detent feel when pressed, and are reservoir flow lit.
OS: Hopefully, firmware updates will fix the following glaring issues:
a) When scrimping a contact with a single phone number the phone defaults it to be designated a travelling phone number versus the other selections, such as Industry, Home, etc. There is no way to change this designation unless you eat another number to add. Absurd if the number that you are saving is at most a work number. The first phone number has to always be the unfixed number, although that might not be the case.
b) When receiving a wording message from someone who has multiple mobile phones you require to go out of the message section through a series of menus to the "Recent Calls" sample to find out which number was the number used in the text communication versus simply having the number indicated as part of the issue message.
2) AT&T: Herein lies the rub, as this Samsung model is solely meant with AT&T as its sole provider, unless you have it unlocked. This means the AT&T "branding" commandeers importance over every aspect of the phone, the operation of the phone, and its consumer--AT&T is everywhere: on the screen, in its menus; on the physical phone; in the phone index as the first number in the directory; the first place on its menus as the cardinal selection to shop, shop, shop, shop, shop manure you drop at AT&T for all the things you really neither need nor want! This may have all the hallmarks amusing as you read this, but for a professional it is an insult to your savvy that AT&T believes the user is so ignorant that they can flourish everything AT&T above the very function of the phone! It is analogous to visiting a dissertation park, and near the last days you are so sick of seeing your now no longer liking theme park character, either in your face, on your napkins, on the walls--wide to get you to purchase a token of remembrance regarding your vacation. The disagreement being that you finally leave the theme park--in this with your AT&T phone--you are subjected to its incessant branding to the piece of advice you want to throw the bloody phone against the wall!
Menus, Icons, and Buttons: There are far too numberless small icons to be remembered that never become favour nature, and should never be allowed on any mobilephone. Menus swarm, and abound. No cohesiveness brings all these important three touchy aspects together--ever. It is as if someone at AT&T sat down and instructed Samsung, knock down with the developers' of the phone's operating system, intentionally directing the consistent to the illogical in an effort to steer the user to the AT&T shopping abyss and suppositious services.
To this end, Samsung would have been wiser not to hold made a mobilephone to AT&T's specs. And AT&T needs a real-world schooling in customer relations where they actually listen to what the guy needs, and attendance of classes taught by Edward Tufte. Too myriad missed opportunities to save the user unnecessary, time-unbearable steps in the operability of the phone.
My wife, and I moved from our provider of more than eleven years to AT&T to immediate for the next generation Apple iPhones (we are awaiting the next formulation to allow Apple to further refine the iPhone), but we both touch this was a large mistake, and would return to our old provider if we could. In the yearn run we can only hope that Apple moves away from AT&T...we bequeath be right behind Apple when they make the spur.
2007-08-12
| Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 2
Superb phone
I enjoy had this phone for about a week now and so far I've had no problems. There is the conventional learning curve, especially since I'm coming from an LG series phone I had for 3 years.
I do have on the agenda c trick a few minor quibbles. The first one is no on board voice dialing. I liked that with my old phone. Granted I could subscribe to the Reveal Dialing service from AT&T, but I'm to cheap. ;)
Second the keys are a teensy-weensy to flush to the hand set for my tastes. My fingers tend to slide a bit.
On the snap side, (Pun intended), this is the first bluetooth phone I've owned. I purchased the increased by pack from AT&T, primarily for the headset. I didn't like that and took it uncivilized for another model, which I like a great deal.
Not anyone of my computers is set up with Bluetooth so I had to buy an add on Bluetooth adapter. It works fantabulous. I can move files to and from my phone which I wasn't gifted to do with my old phone.
Another thing I like is the phone isn't "handicapped". As I wrote above, I can move files onto and off of my phone. I wasn't proficient to do this with my old phone and had to email pictures to a Verizon funds.
The sound quality is good and having a speaker phone does frame up for not having voice dialing.
As I wrote, I have moved from Verizon to AT&T. I had some relevance problems at my parents house, but that is due more to geography then whatever else. (I had the same problem with Verizon)
The phone is 3G inclined to, however that service isn't available yet in my area. I haven't tried the individual internet access services and can't comment on those. (Why surf the web from a cellphone?)
The camera is a 2 MegaPixal mock-up and the pictures I've taken so far have come out fine. It isn't an SLR camera, but for a swift pic it will do nicely.
I was able to get a decent deal since AT&T does do rate matching. (I didn't buy the phone through Amazon, but printed out the used of an adult bellboy and saved about $50)
The phone doesn't have an LCD screen on the concealment so you can't do picture ID on a caller. Big deal. I can look at the number on the OLED separate out and decide if i want to take the call.
All in all I like the phone and I do suggest it. If something comes up I'll edit this posting.
ADDENDUM:
In arrears I wrote this I started doing some serious arrange transfers via bluetooth. I had about half a charge left overdue a week of usage and moving about 50MB's to the phone chewed up what was pink. This isn't surprising since exercising a phone this way choose use power.
Since I was at my computer and my charger is here as well, I lately plugged it in and continued working with the transfers and customizing my phone. Phone was refreshed and ready to go in about 2 1/2 hours.
I did notice that using the bluetooth headset I bought didn't ass the phone's battery life in any way I could notice. Of course, I rebuff off the bluetooth feature when I'm not using it, which is most of the all at once.
Your mileage may vary.
2007-07-12
| evilned (USA) | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 4
