Samsung SGH-A737 / SGH-A736
Average Ratings
Not for the hearing impaired
First I loved the feel of the phone. I actually felt like I had something in my hand instead of all these "razor" thin phones. However it wiggled back and forth when holding it to talk.
I found the menue a bit more difficult to figure out than other phones, but once I did it was OK.
My main complaint and the reason it's going back it earpiece quality. It is so muffled it is very difficult to have a conversation. I was talking with my husband last night coming home from shopping (each on the same phone) and it was horrible. He called me back on his disposible Motorola Go-Phone and he heard me clearly but he was still muffled. I came home and put my SIM in another Go-Phone and we heard each other great.
I'm not a tech lover. All I need is to hear someone clearly and text. Texting is also very difficult.
Pros
Great look and feel
Slider locks
Bells and whistles for those that want them
Camera adequate for a camera phone
Good price
Cons
Hard to hear (muffled)
Hard to text (tiny cramped keyboard)
Wiggles when your talking
Reception was a bit worse than other phones we've had
This is the 3rd phone I've tried since I could upgrade. If only the 6555 had a battery that was worth anything, I'd get it, but we are sticking with the Go-Phones. (don't laugh)
Decent Phone !
Im not a big fan of Samsung but i needed a phone after my wife washed my 790a .
Pros :
Small enough to fit in your pocket.
Very good reception. Good signal from Denver to Albuquerque no Problem.
3G works great very fast with CV.
Good sounding ear piece but i use a BT most of the time so others might disagree.
Get to all menus without needing to open the phone.
CONS :
Talk time is half the SE 790a about 4hrs. But consider some of this time was in a 3g area where the 790a is edge only but ive had talk times of 8 - 8.5 hrs with the SE 790a.
Lack of edge/3g select.The phone selects 3g automatically. This feature would help when you need maximum talk time.
Ringer isn't loud at all. Having to cut all custom ringers down to under 300kb i think has something to do with it. Anything over that the a737 doesn't recognize as a ringer .
Its a nice 3g phone and works very well for just a quick transition between high end phones. This will be great for a back up.
Overall a good phone
Pros
Decent camera, 1.3 mega pixel camera
You can watch Celluar Video in landscape mode
Music sounds good on the phone's speaker
Good reception, I have been able to get service everywhere... So far.
Decent battery life. I use the music player, internet, and watch CV and the battery will last me a day and a half.
Slider makes it easy to answer the phone, especially when driving
when you close the slider, the phone automatically locks
Cons
If you are rough with phones, slider can brake
CV screen looks choppy, especially in landscape mode
Different charger from the Blackjack, D807, Sync, and A437
Hard to text message
No flash with camera. Why do most phones not have flash???
Overall
I have had the phone for overall a week, and do like the phone. I had the Nokia 6555, and was a good phone, but the battery life was terrible. I love the size and style of the A437, and overall recommend it.
A Little Disappointed
I love SAMSUNG cell phones and always have but this phone as a 1.3 mega pixel camera and it amazes me that the screen resolution is so poor for a camera of such good quality. The pictures that the camera takes is better then the actual screen savers provided. The camera is actually very good quality but the phone's screen resolution is just so POOR. There's only like 5 screen savers. AWFUL!!!!!!! It doesnt make sense to me how a 1.3 megapixel phone can have this poor screen quality. Samsung makes 2 kinds of phones. One with 265K colors on screen and the phones that dont have that much color on screen because its for consumers who only need phones to make calls. I was very disappointed in some of its features and the overall setup. For me this is a step backwards. Samsung really needs to out do itself on its next line up. LG is really stealing the SPOT LIGHT from them.
Pretty good phone except . . .
This phone does a LOT of stuff. The overall quality is excellent, and everything works pretty darned good. Here's my short list of what doesn't:
1. I have had troubles with files migrating around on my memory chip. You can edit the stuff on the chip in My Stuff on the phone. But editing doesn't always produce what you expect. In My Stuff I emptied the contents of an album, but when I open the album up in Music Player, the songs are still there. I tried copying two songs from my Play List into an album, and it copied everything from the Play List, duplicating nine of the songs already on the album.
I created another album by plugging the chip into our home computer, loaded songs onto it from RealPlayer, but when the chip's was back in the phone, songs were missing (when they showed up as being there in Windows Explorer on the computer). When I looked in My Stuff on the chip, they were all there. Weird.
2. When you open up Music Player, "Album", though it starts with the first letter of the alphabet, does not show up first. "Shop for Music" does. To me, this says that Samsung or AT&T has a first priority of selling you more stuff, not serving you.
3. The volume setting for the Music Player has only five settings, so you're stuck if level 3 is too soft and level 4 is too loud. The two or three headsets available for this phone from Samsung do not have thumbwheels to fine tune volume with.
4. As mentioned by others, there are no adapters available from Samsung to allow you to use a regular headphone jack with this phone.
good samsung
this is a really good phone people complain about screen resolution its a phone and has a good screen
Just got phone today the little bit I used it I really like it....but I havent used it enough to create pros and cons....I really wanted the red one but the phones I see that are red are not really that nice so I got the blue which semms to be a much richer color.....
It's okay
I got this phone when it came out almost a year ago. It has been replaced twice already.
Overall it's just an okay phone.
PROs
-Small, lightweight
-Easy to use and navigate
-3G is a plus
CONs
-DOES NOT hold onto a signal very well, in and out service
-Switches between the Edge network and 3G, thus bad service
Definite Downgrade
This phone was a definate disappointment. I need an efficient, reliable, easy-to-use phone. This is not. If you need a phone for business or efficiency, this is the wrong one.
Part of the problem is the phone itself; a bigger part is the software from AT&T.
Pros:
Smaller size and weight
Bluetooth capable (a pro only if I decide the earpiece will benefit me)
All the extra features are of no use to me
Cons:
- AT&T mall is the first thing on the menu. To make a call or retrieve messages, I have to slide it up, navigate with two or more clicks just to the menu, then find the number.
- It takes at least two motions just to get to my phone list. Old phone? One click.
- The keys on the bottom (*, 0, and #) are partially blocked by the ridge at the bottom, not a big deal for a child or person with slim fingers, but I have to be very careful.
- Do you text? This phone takes practice to do it well with one hand. The old phone was no problem for either right or left hand texting.
- My Nokia stored several numbers under the same name with an icon to show type (work, home, mobile...). When the phone numbers were transferred to the new phone, they were listed as name1, name2. I had to go thru about 150 numbers and figure out which were cell, work or home numbers and RENAME them
- Won't display the entire number at once. Even on the smallest font, you have to wait for the super-slow scroll to show the number
- This phone must be charged EVERY DAY. What a pain! My old Nokia? Charged on Sunday night. My usage hasnât changed. I donât waste much time when on the phone and I can get maybe five calls in (avg about 3-1/2 minutes) before I need to start watching the battery bars.
- No profile timer. My Nokia in Normal profile could be set to another timed mode and at the set time, it automatically switched back to previous profile. Great for meetings!
- There are more disadvantages, but I sure wish I could get my old phone back!
Bad Experience
I purchased this phone for my 12 year old son and were on phone number 3 right now. As far as the phones capability... oh he loves it, but phone #1 wouldn't take a charge, phone #2 wouldn't come on although the back of it was hot and the battery was being drained which brings us to the current phone he has now. Personally, I think it's a battery issue, but who am I to tell these people how to make their product better?
I don't think I would recommend this phone to anyone. I wish we would have just stuck with the razr instead.
Thanks!
Samsung Not cool
This may infact look like a neat and "cool" little slider phone. But take it from me, one who sells this "cool" phone daily, and also has to deal with the very dissatisfied customers about this phone.
Pros.
-Non flip phone
-small and stylish
-a few color options
Cons.
-poor signal
-very poor sound quality
-not a good camera
-very cheaply put together
