Samsung SGH-A400 GSM phone review

The question of which model of a mobile phone should be considered female and which male should be asked for a long time. However, no one has yet been able to get an exact answer to it due to the lack of objective criteria for comparison. The decisive role in most cases was played by external characteristics – weight, size, design, ergonomics, however, the phones were comparable in terms of the set of functions.

Samsung has released the first phone model exclusively for ladies. So what exactly is so feminine about her?

Features of a “female” phone

First, of course, the design. Neat and elegant, the A400 is a small clamshell phone with a rectangular, slightly rounded shape (which, by the way, is not very typical for Samsung) with a small silver rose in the lower corner of the front panel. At first glance, the case of the A400 is somewhat reminiscent of a powder box from Lancome. The size of the device is also quite feminine – 70×48.5×19.9 mm. It fits so well in the hand that it is almost invisible in the purse, respectively, it also does not take up much space. The phone weighs only about 80g, which, you see, is not much.

The body of the phone is made of high quality plastic. To prevent the panels from scratching each other when folded, two small rubber fuses are made on one of them. However, they are not very securely attached and, if the movement is unsuccessful, they can fly out. Body colors: red, black, white and blue metallic – complement the set of “feminine” qualities of the A400.

And one more small detail worth mentioning: initially the phone (without battery) is packed in a beautiful leather case – a wonderful gift!

Earlier, in the discussions on the topic “Who is this phone more suitable for?”, one could put an end to this place, but that was before .

Flipping through the phone's main menu, one unconventional sub-menu can be seen, marked with an open-and-close rose icon. It is called “Life” and has two sub-items: Games (there are seven of them and with which you will not surprise anyone now), and Health. The latter, in turn, has 4 sub-items with very unusual names for a mobile phone: Biorhythm, Overweight, Calories and Biocycle. By the way, it is the last subparagraph that makes the phone 100% female, since men are unlikely to ever need to calculate the probability of pregnancy or the day when the next “critical days” come. Let's consider these sub-items in more detail.

Health menu item

The first one is Biorhythm. Here you can get information about your physical, emotional and mental potential. To do this, in the Settings item, enter your date of birth and select the day for which the calculation is made. The results are displayed as a chart with the exact value from -100 to 100.

The name of the second subparagraph speaks for itself – Overweight. The weight calculation scheme is greatly simplified. The calculations take into account only the gender and height of a person, and parameters such as age, professional sports, and many others are not taken into account. One of my acquaintances, a plump (but not more than that) woman, having found out that she was 24 kg overweight, said that this was a “phone for thin people”.

The calculations are very strange, even if we consider this scheme correct. So, for example, with a height of 178 cm and a weight of 70 kg, the excess weight is 5 kg, and with the same height and weight of 65 kg, we are talking about a weight deficit of 2 kg. Thus, to be consistent, you must first lose weight by 5 kg, and then gain 2 kg. Having reported overweight, the phone automatically issues a conclusion about your complexion. In total, five gradations are provided: thin, thin, normal, full and obese. “Normal” is considered to be all people whose weight differs from the norm by no more than 10 kg ">Custom Aquarium, Aquarium,Aquarium, Aquarium.

The next sub-item, Calories, allows you to roughly calculate the number of calories a person burns in one day. This takes into account quite a lot of parameters, for example, housework (cooking, cleaning, washing dishes), gardening, taking a bath, reading, playing sports (swimming, tennis, aerobics, dancing, etc.) and even talking on the phone. However, how many calories are spent while working at a computer (a very relevant lesson today), we will never know from this subparagraph.

The last sub-item of the Health sub-menu is the Biocycle. By entering the start date of the last biocycle and its average duration, you can calculate the day of ovulation and the estimated day of the next menstruation, and, based on these data, obtain information about the likelihood of pregnancy on any of the days you specify. It should be noted right away that this calculation system works correctly only during one cycle. So, for example, if on August 28, 2001. enter the start date of the last cycle, let's say May 28, 2001, and the average period is 30 days, then the probability that on August 28 (three months later) you are pregnant will be only 10, not 90 or 110%, and the start date of the next cycle will be anyway September 25, 2001

You can do all these calculations not only for yourself, but also for your girlfriend, and even a friend. The word “friend” on the menu is definitely a lack of Russification. In general, it was carried out very successfully, but this incident is a clear flaw. There is no such error in the menu for German-speaking users, although gender separation exists in both German and Russian. There is no support for the Russian language in the phone, i.e. to edit the greeting message, make notes in the phone book and write SMS messages in Latin.

Other Functions

With its parameters, this phone in many respects resembles its predecessor – Samsung A-300. The same system for organizing menus, a phone book containing the same 100 numbers in addition to the SIM card memory. In the A-400, as in the A-300, you can choose one of 48 melodies, which, in my opinion, are quite pleasant, or record 2 of your own; set one of 10 tones for incoming SMS messages (according to the group of subscribers), view the lists of 10 received, 10 missed and 10 made calls. However, despite the fact that the A-400 is a fairly high class device, it does not have voice dialing or a voice recorder. True, the existing infrared port makes it possible to synchronize the organizer with a PC using Samsung's EasyGSM program; there is also a built-in modem (speed 14400 bps) and WAP-browser version 1.1.

Additional features that make using your phone more enjoyable are also very similar to those of the A-300. Therefore, I will limit myself to listing them. So:

• calendar;
• alarm clock (once, daily and weekly);
• calculator (without currency converter);
• date/hours;
• auto redial;
• per-minute signal during a call;
• timers that show the time of the last call, the time of outgoing and incoming calls;
• vibrate, decent enough;
• predictive text input – Т9
• backlight mode selection – short/long (saves battery life);
• enable/disable service signal;
• display contrast adjustment (up to 26 gradations);
• Call forwarding with a choice of options (if the subscriber is busy, not answering or not available).

Display and Battery

The display of the A400 is graphic, high-contrast, with a resolution of 128×96 pixels. It is slightly smaller than the A-300's screen and can only display 4 lines of text of 18 characters each. The backlight of the screen is emerald, very pleasant.

One of the six available screensavers can be used as a screen saver. All the pictures are cute in their own way, but the images of a kitten trying to catch a butterfly and a panda wandering in an unknown direction seem especially funny.

To be fair, the first and last screensavers that appear when you turn the phone on and off, respectively, are also very pleasant. This is again an image of a rose opening and closing. As you can see, the image of this flower is an integral part of the phone's design. The headset included in the standard package was no exception. It itself is made to match the color of the phone, and the earpiece has the shape of a small rose – it looks very stylish and beautiful.

The battery, which is also included in the standard package, is a 650 mAh lithium-ion battery. According to official figures, a phone with such a battery should work 3.5 hours in talk mode and about 90 hours in standby mode. In life, with 15-20 minutes of calls per day, the phone normally works without recharging for about three days.

During charging, which lasts about an hour and a half, a charge indicator appears on the screen, showing the percentage of charge with an accuracy of 5% (when the phone is turned off).

The most important thing

Of course, you can praise the additional features of the device for a long time, but the main function of the phone is still providing communication. With this task, this device copes well, although not ideally. Subjectively, the call quality of the A-400 is slightly worse than, for example, the Nokia 8210, a phone of the same class.

The sensitivity of the device is also not at the highest level. In places with poor reception, the device often does not catch the network, there are cases when the connection is interrupted.

Total.

Samsung A-400 is the first "female" phone. During its development, many little things were thought out, which will surely appeal to many of the fair sex. We must immediately make a reservation that the phone is intended, of course, for wealthy women or wives of wealthy husbands. After all, the average estimated price of the device is about 400 dollars. Whether it's worth the money or not, it's up to you. In any case, Samsung A-400 is not just a phone that you can talk on, but a device that has a lot of additional features. Among its various functions, there are those that will most likely be of interest only to women, such as calculating the biocycle and overweight (I personally found this idea quite interesting). Of course, I would like the communication quality to be excellent for such an amount, and there were such functions as voice dialing and a voice recorder, but, nevertheless, the A400 leaves a very good impression.

In general, testing this device gave me pleasure. I hope that the shortcomings that exist today will be corrected in new versions of the software.

Editor's word

It is quite difficult to write about an exclusively female phone for a man, but I still want to add a few words. The A400 will include a headset made in the same color scheme as the body of the phone. It is still unknown which headset model will be delivered to our country, so we do not provide its photo.

Experience shows that prototype phones from Samsung almost always have mediocre sensitivity, which was mentioned in the review, while commercial products in this parameter, as a rule, differ from prototypes for the better. I think that this model will not be an exception, because it is similar to the A300.

The last thing I would like to note. Despite the high price, this phone will find many fans immediately after the release and will become one of the best-selling Samsung devices. The A400 is able to fill the vacuum in the sector of expensive fashion models (after all, at the moment they are not just not enough – they are missing). In a word, this phone has a great future, and this is the main thing.

Samsung SGH-A400 GSM phone review

The question of which model of a mobile phone should be considered female and which male should be asked for a long time. However, no one has yet been able to get an exact answer to it due to the lack of objective criteria for comparison. The decisive role in most cases was played by external characteristics – weight, size, design, ergonomics, however, the phones were comparable in terms of the set of functions.

Samsung has released the first phone model exclusively for ladies. So what exactly is so feminine about her?

Features of a “female” phone

First, of course, the design. Neat and elegant, the A400 is a small clamshell phone with a rectangular, slightly rounded shape (which, by the way, is not very typical for Samsung) with a small silver rose in the lower corner of the front panel. At first glance, the case of the A400 is somewhat reminiscent of a powder box from Lancome. The size of the device is also quite feminine – 70×48.5×19.9 mm. It fits so well in the hand that it is almost invisible in the purse, respectively, it also does not take up much space. The phone weighs only about 80g, which, you see, is not much.

The body of the phone is made of high quality plastic. To prevent the panels from scratching each other when folded, two small rubber fuses are made on one of them. However, they are not very securely attached and, if the movement is unsuccessful, they can fly out. Body colors: red, black, white and blue metallic – complement the set of “feminine” qualities of the A400.

And one more small detail worth mentioning: initially the phone (without battery) is packed in a beautiful leather case – a wonderful gift!

Earlier, in the discussions on the topic “Who is this phone more suitable for?”, one could put an end to this place, but that was before .

Flipping through the phone's main menu, one unconventional sub-menu can be seen, marked with an open-and-close rose icon. It is called “Life” and has two sub-items: Games (there are seven of them and with which you will not surprise anyone now), and Health. The latter, in turn, has 4 sub-items with very unusual names for a mobile phone: Biorhythm, Overweight, Calories and Biocycle. By the way, it is the last subparagraph that makes the phone 100% female, since men are unlikely to ever need to calculate the probability of pregnancy or the day when the next “critical days” come. Let's consider these sub-items in more detail.

Health menu item

The first one is Biorhythm. Here you can get information about your physical, emotional and mental potential. To do this, in the Settings item, enter your date of birth and select the day for which the calculation is made. The results are displayed as a chart with the exact value from -100 to 100.

The name of the second subparagraph speaks for itself – Overweight. The weight calculation scheme is greatly simplified. The calculations take into account only the gender and height of a person, and parameters such as age, professional sports, and many others are not taken into account. One of my acquaintances, a plump (but not more than that) woman, having found out that she was 24 kg overweight, said that this was a “phone for thin people”.

The calculations are very strange, even if we consider this scheme correct. So, for example, with a height of 178 cm and a weight of 70 kg, the excess weight is 5 kg, and with the same height and weight of 65 kg, we are talking about a weight deficit of 2 kg. Thus, to be consistent, you must first lose weight by 5 kg, and then gain 2 kg. Having reported overweight, the phone automatically issues a conclusion about your complexion. In total, five gradations are provided: thin, thin, normal, full and obese. “Normal” is considered to be all people whose weight differs from the norm by no more than 10 kg ">Custom Aquarium, Aquarium,Aquarium, Aquarium.

The next sub-item, Calories, allows you to roughly calculate the number of calories a person burns in one day. This takes into account quite a lot of parameters, for example, housework (cooking, cleaning, washing dishes), gardening, taking a bath, reading, playing sports (swimming, tennis, aerobics, dancing, etc.) and even talking on the phone. However, how many calories are spent while working at a computer (a very relevant lesson today), we will never know from this subparagraph.

The last sub-item of the Health sub-menu is the Biocycle. By entering the start date of the last biocycle and its average duration, you can calculate the day of ovulation and the estimated day of the next menstruation, and, based on these data, obtain information about the likelihood of pregnancy on any of the days you specify. It should be noted right away that this calculation system works correctly only during one cycle. So, for example, if on August 28, 2001. enter the start date of the last cycle, let's say May 28, 2001, and the average period is 30 days, then the probability that on August 28 (three months later) you are pregnant will be only 10, not 90 or 110%, and the start date of the next cycle will be anyway September 25, 2001

You can do all these calculations not only for yourself, but also for your girlfriend, and even a friend. The word “friend” on the menu is definitely a lack of Russification. In general, it was carried out very successfully, but this incident is a clear flaw. There is no such error in the menu for German-speaking users, although gender separation exists in both German and Russian. There is no support for the Russian language in the phone, i.e. to edit the greeting message, make notes in the phone book and write SMS messages in Latin.

Other Functions

With its parameters, this phone is in many ways reminiscent of its predecessor, the Samsung A-300. The same system for organizing menus, a phone book containing the same 100 numbers in addition to the SIM card memory. In the A-400, as in the A-300, you can choose one of 48 melodies, which, in my opinion, are quite pleasant, or record 2 of your own; set one of 10 tones for incoming SMS messages (according to the group of subscribers), view the lists of 10 received, 10 missed and 10 made calls. However, despite the fact that the A-400 is a fairly high class device, it does not have voice dialing or a voice recorder. True, the existing infrared port makes it possible to synchronize the organizer with a PC using Samsung's EasyGSM program; there is also a built-in modem (speed 14400 bps) and WAP-browser version 1.1.

Additional features that make using your phone more enjoyable are also very similar to those of the A-300. Therefore, I will limit myself to listing them. So:

• calendar;
• alarm clock (once, daily and weekly);
• calculator (without currency converter);
• date/hours;
• auto redial;
• per-minute signal during a call;
• timers that show the time of the last call, the time of outgoing and incoming calls;
• vibrate, decent enough;
• predictive text input – Т9
• backlight mode selection – short/long (saves battery life);
• enable/disable service signal;
• display contrast adjustment (up to 26 gradations);
• Call forwarding with a choice of options (if the subscriber is busy, not answering or not available).

Display and Battery

The display of the A400 is graphic, high-contrast, with a resolution of 128×96 pixels. It is slightly smaller than the A-300's screen and can only display 4 lines of text of 18 characters each. The backlight of the screen is emerald, very pleasant.

One of the six available screensavers can be used as a screen saver. All the pictures are cute in their own way, but the images of a kitten trying to catch a butterfly and a panda wandering in an unknown direction seem especially funny.

To be fair, the first and last screensavers that appear when you turn the phone on and off, respectively, are also very pleasant. This is again an image of a rose opening and closing. As you can see, the image of this flower is an integral part of the phone's design. The headset included in the standard package was no exception. It itself is made to match the color of the phone, and the earpiece has the shape of a small rose – it looks very stylish and beautiful.

The battery, which is also included in the standard package, is a 650 mAh lithium-ion battery. According to official figures, a phone with such a battery should work 3.5 hours in talk mode and about 90 hours in standby mode. In life, with 15-20 minutes of calls per day, the phone normally works without recharging for about three days.

During charging, which lasts about an hour and a half, a charge indicator appears on the screen, showing the percentage of charge with an accuracy of 5% (when the phone is turned off).

The most important thing

Of course, you can praise the additional features of the device for a long time, but the main function of the phone is still providing communication. With this task, this device copes well, although not ideally. Subjectively, the call quality of the A-400 is slightly worse than, for example, the Nokia 8210, a phone of the same class.

The sensitivity of the device is also not at the highest level. In places with poor reception, the device often does not catch the network, there are cases when the connection is interrupted.

Total.

Samsung A-400 is the first "female" phone. During its development, many little things were thought out, which will surely appeal to many of the fair sex. We must immediately make a reservation that the phone is intended, of course, for wealthy women or wives of wealthy husbands. After all, the average estimated price of the device is about 400 dollars. Whether it's worth the money or not, it's up to you. In any case, Samsung A-400 is not just a phone that you can talk on, but a device that has a lot of additional features. Among its various functions, there are those that will most likely be of interest only to women, such as calculating the biocycle and overweight (I personally found this idea quite interesting). Of course, I would like the communication quality to be excellent for such an amount, and there were such functions as voice dialing and a voice recorder, but, nevertheless, the A400 leaves a very good impression.

In general, testing this device gave me pleasure. I hope that the shortcomings that exist today will be corrected in new versions of the software.

Editor's word

It is quite difficult to write about an exclusively female phone for a man, but I still want to add a few words. The A400 will include a headset made in the same color scheme as the body of the phone. It is still unknown which headset model will be delivered to our country, so we do not provide its photo.

Experience shows that prototype phones from Samsung almost always have mediocre sensitivity, which was mentioned in the review, while commercial products in this parameter, as a rule, differ from prototypes for the better. I think that this model will not be an exception, because it is similar to the A300.

The last thing I would like to note. Despite the high price, this phone will find many fans immediately after the release and will become one of the best-selling Samsung devices. The A400 is able to fill the vacuum in the sector of expensive fashion models (after all, at the moment they are not just not enough – they are missing). In a word, this phone has a great future, and this is the main thing.

Samsung SGH-A400 GSM phone review

The question of which model of a mobile phone should be considered female and which male should be asked for a long time. However, no one has yet been able to get an exact answer to it due to the lack of objective criteria for comparison. The decisive role in most cases was played by external characteristics – weight, size, design, ergonomics, however, the phones were comparable in terms of the set of functions.

Samsung has released the first phone model exclusively for ladies. So what exactly is so feminine about her?

Features of a “female” phone

First, of course, the design. Neat and elegant, the A400 is a small clamshell phone with a rectangular, slightly rounded shape (which, by the way, is not very typical for Samsung) with a small silver rose in the lower corner of the front panel. At first glance, the case of the A400 is somewhat reminiscent of a powder box from Lancome. The size of the device is also quite feminine – 70×48.5×19.9 mm. It fits so well in the hand that it is almost invisible in the purse, respectively, it also does not take up much space. The phone weighs only about 80g, which, you see, is not much.

The body of the phone is made of high quality plastic. To prevent the panels from scratching each other when folded, two small rubber fuses are made on one of them. However, they are not very securely attached and, if the movement is unsuccessful, they can fly out. Body colors: red, black, white and blue metallic – complement the set of “feminine” qualities of the A400.

And one more small detail worth mentioning: initially the phone (without battery) is packed in a beautiful leather case – a wonderful gift!

Earlier, in the discussions on the topic “Who is this phone more suitable for?”, one could put an end to this place, but that was before .

Flipping through the phone's main menu, one unconventional sub-menu can be seen, marked with an open-and-close rose icon. It is called “Life” and has two sub-items: Games (there are seven of them and with which you will not surprise anyone now), and Health. The latter, in turn, has 4 sub-items with very unusual names for a mobile phone: Biorhythm, Overweight, Calories and Biocycle. By the way, it is the last subparagraph that makes the phone 100% female, since men are unlikely to ever need to calculate the probability of pregnancy or the day when the next “critical days” come. Let's consider these sub-items in more detail.

Health menu item

The first one is Biorhythm. Here you can get information about your physical, emotional and mental potential. To do this, in the Settings item, enter your date of birth and select the day for which the calculation is made. The results are displayed as a chart with the exact value from -100 to 100.

The name of the second subparagraph speaks for itself – Overweight. The weight calculation scheme is greatly simplified. The calculations take into account only the gender and height of a person, and parameters such as age, professional sports, and many others are not taken into account. One of my acquaintances, a plump (but not more than that) woman, having found out that she was 24 kg overweight, said that this was a “phone for thin people”.

The calculations are very strange, even if we consider this scheme correct. So, for example, with a height of 178 cm and a weight of 70 kg, the excess weight is 5 kg, and with the same height and weight of 65 kg, we are talking about a weight deficit of 2 kg. Thus, to be consistent, you must first lose weight by 5 kg, and then gain 2 kg. Having reported overweight, the phone automatically issues a conclusion about your complexion. In total, five gradations are provided: thin, thin, normal, full and obese. “Normal” is considered to be all people whose weight differs from the norm by no more than 10 kg ">Custom Aquarium, Aquarium,Aquarium, Aquarium.

The next sub-item, Calories, allows you to roughly calculate the number of calories a person burns in one day. This takes into account quite a lot of parameters, for example, housework (cooking, cleaning, washing dishes), gardening, taking a bath, reading, playing sports (swimming, tennis, aerobics, dancing, etc.) and even talking on the phone. However, how many calories are spent while working at a computer (a very relevant lesson today), we will never know from this subparagraph.

The last sub-item of the Health sub-menu is the Biocycle. By entering the start date of the last biocycle and its average duration, you can calculate the day of ovulation and the estimated day of the next menstruation, and, based on these data, obtain information about the likelihood of pregnancy on any of the days you specify. It should be noted right away that this calculation system works correctly only during one cycle. So, for example, if on August 28, 2001. enter the start date of the last cycle, let's say May 28, 2001, and the average period is 30 days, then the probability that on August 28 (three months later) you are pregnant will be only 10, not 90 or 110%, and the start date of the next cycle will be anyway September 25, 2001

You can do all these calculations not only for yourself, but also for your girlfriend, and even a friend. The word “friend” on the menu is definitely a lack of Russification. In general, it was carried out very successfully, but this incident is a clear flaw. There is no such error in the menu for German-speaking users, although gender separation exists in both German and Russian. There is no support for the Russian language in the phone, i.e. to edit the greeting message, make notes in the phone book and write SMS messages in Latin.

Other Functions

With its parameters, this phone is in many ways reminiscent of its predecessor, the Samsung A-300. The same system for organizing menus, a phone book containing the same 100 numbers in addition to the SIM card memory. In the A-400, as in the A-300, you can choose one of 48 melodies, which, in my opinion, are quite pleasant, or record 2 of your own; set one of 10 tones for incoming SMS messages (according to the group of subscribers), view the lists of 10 received, 10 missed and 10 made calls. However, despite the fact that the A-400 is a fairly high class device, it does not have voice dialing or a voice recorder. True, the existing infrared port makes it possible to synchronize the organizer with a PC using Samsung's EasyGSM program; there is also a built-in modem (speed 14400 bps) and WAP-browser version 1.1.

Additional features that make using your phone more enjoyable are also very similar to those of the A-300. Therefore, I will limit myself to listing them. So:

• calendar;
• alarm clock (once, daily and weekly);
• calculator (without currency converter);
• date/hours;
• auto redial;
• per-minute signal during a call;
• timers that show the time of the last call, the time of outgoing and incoming calls;
• vibrate, decent enough;
• predictive text input – Т9
• backlight mode selection – short/long (saves battery life);

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• enable/disable service signal;
• display contrast adjustment (up to 26 gradations);
• Call forwarding with a choice of options (if the subscriber is busy, not answering or not available).

Display and Battery

The display of the A400 is graphic, high-contrast, with a resolution of 128×96 pixels. It is slightly smaller than the A-300's screen and can only display 4 lines of text of 18 characters each. The backlight of the screen is emerald, very pleasant.

One of the six available screensavers can be used as a screen saver. All the pictures are cute in their own way, but the images of a kitten trying to catch a butterfly and a panda wandering in an unknown direction seem especially funny.

To be fair, the first and last screensavers that appear when you turn the phone on and off, respectively, are also very pleasant. This is again an image of a rose opening and closing. As you can see, the image of this flower is an integral part of the phone's design. The headset included in the standard package was no exception. It itself is made to match the color of the phone, and the earpiece has the shape of a small rose – it looks very stylish and beautiful.

The battery, which is also included in the standard package, is a 650 mAh lithium-ion battery. According to official figures, a phone with such a battery should work 3.5 hours in talk mode and about 90 hours in standby mode. In life, with 15-20 minutes of calls per day, the phone normally works without recharging for about three days.

During charging, which lasts about an hour and a half, a charge indicator appears on the screen, showing the percentage of charge with an accuracy of 5% (when the phone is turned off).

The most important thing

Of course, you can praise the additional features of the device for a long time, but the main function of the phone is still providing communication. With this task, this device copes well, although not ideally. Subjectively, the call quality of the A-400 is slightly worse than, for example, the Nokia 8210, a phone of the same class.

The sensitivity of the device is also not at the highest level. In places with poor reception, the device often does not catch the network, there are cases when the connection is interrupted.

Total.

Samsung A-400 is the first "female" phone. During its development, many little things were thought out, which will surely appeal to many of the fair sex. We must immediately make a reservation that the phone is intended, of course, for wealthy women or wives of wealthy husbands. After all, the average estimated price of the device is about 400 dollars. Whether it's worth the money or not, it's up to you. In any case, Samsung A-400 is not just a phone that you can talk on, but a device that has a lot of additional features. Among its various functions, there are those that will most likely be of interest only to women, such as calculating the biocycle and overweight (I personally found this idea quite interesting). Of course, I would like the communication quality to be excellent for such an amount, and there were such functions as voice dialing and a voice recorder, but, nevertheless, the A400 leaves a very good impression.

In general, testing this device gave me pleasure. I hope that the shortcomings that exist at the moment will be corrected in new versions of the software.

Editor's word

It is quite difficult to write about an exclusively female phone for a man, but I still want to add a few words. The A400 will include a headset made in the same color scheme as the body of the phone. It is still unknown which headset model will be delivered to our country, so we do not provide a photo of it.

Experience shows that prototype phones from Samsung almost always have mediocre sensitivity, which was mentioned in the review, while commercial products in this parameter, as a rule, differ from prototypes for the better. I think that this model will not be an exception, because it is similar to the A300.

The last thing I would like to note. Despite the high price, this phone will find many fans immediately after the release and will become one of the best-selling Samsung devices. The A400 is able to fill the vacuum in the sector of expensive, fashion models (because at the moment they are not just not enough – they are missing). In a word, this phone has a great future, and this is the main thing.

Samsung SGH-A400 GSM phone review

The question of which model of a mobile phone should be considered female and which male should be asked for a long time. However, no one has yet been able to get an exact answer to it due to the lack of objective criteria for comparison. The decisive role in most cases was played by external characteristics – weight, size, design, ergonomics, however, the phones were comparable in terms of the set of functions.

Samsung has released the first phone model exclusively for ladies. So what exactly is so feminine about her?

Features of a “female” phone

First, of course, the design. Neat and elegant, the A400 is a small clamshell phone with a rectangular, slightly rounded shape (which, by the way, is not very typical for Samsung) with a small silver rose in the lower corner of the front panel. At first glance, the case of the A400 is somewhat reminiscent of a powder box from Lancome. The size of the device is also quite feminine – 70×48.5×19.9 mm. It fits so well in the hand that it is almost invisible in the purse, respectively, it also does not take up much space. The phone weighs only about 80g, which, you see, is not much.

The body of the phone is made of high quality plastic. To prevent the panels from scratching each other when folded, two small rubber fuses are made on one of them. However, they are not very securely attached and, if the movement is unsuccessful, they can fly out. Body colors: red, black, white and blue metallic – complement the set of “feminine” qualities of the A400.

And one more small detail worth mentioning: initially the phone (without battery) is packed in a beautiful leather case – a wonderful gift!

Earlier, in the discussions on the topic “Who is this phone more suitable for?”, one could put an end to this place, but that was before .

Flipping through the phone's main menu, one unconventional sub-menu can be seen, marked with an open-and-close rose icon. It is called “Life” and has two sub-items: Games (there are seven of them and with which you will not surprise anyone now), and Health. The latter, in turn, has 4 sub-items with very unusual names for a mobile phone: Biorhythm, Overweight, Calories and Biocycle. By the way, it is the last subparagraph that makes the phone 100% female, since men are unlikely to ever need to calculate the probability of pregnancy or the day when the next “critical days” come. Let's consider these sub-items in more detail.

Health menu item

The first one is Biorhythm. Here you can get information about your physical, emotional and mental potential. To do this, in the Settings item, enter your date of birth and select the day for which the calculation is made. The results are displayed as a chart with the exact value from -100 to 100.

The name of the second subparagraph speaks for itself – Overweight. The weight calculation scheme is greatly simplified. The calculations take into account only the gender and height of a person, and parameters such as age, professional sports, and many others are not taken into account. One of my acquaintances, a plump (but not more than that) woman, having found out that she was 24 kg overweight, said that this was a “phone for thin people”.

The calculations are very strange, even if we consider this scheme correct. So, for example, with a height of 178 cm and a weight of 70 kg, the excess weight is 5 kg, and with the same height and weight of 65 kg, we are talking about a weight deficit of 2 kg. Thus, to be consistent, you must first lose weight by 5 kg, and then gain 2 kg. Having reported overweight, the phone automatically issues a conclusion about your complexion. In total, five gradations are provided: thin, thin, normal, full and obese. “Normal” are all people whose weight differs from the norm by no more than 10 kg Custom Aquarium, Aquarium,Aquarium, Aquarium.

The calculations are very strange, even if we consider this scheme correct. So, for example, with a height of 178 cm and a weight of 70 kg, the excess weight is 5 kg, and with the same height and weight of 65 kg, we are talking about a weight deficit of 2 kg. Thus, to be consistent, you must first lose weight by 5 kg, and then gain 2 kg. Having reported overweight, the phone automatically issues a conclusion about your complexion. In total, five gradations are provided: thin, thin, normal, full and obese. “Normal” is considered to be all people whose weight differs from the norm by no more than 10 kg. Custom Aquarium, Aquarium,Aquarium, Aquarium Custom Aquarium, Aquarium,Aquarium, Aquarium .

The next sub-item, Calories, allows you to roughly calculate the number of calories a person burns in one day. This takes into account quite a lot of parameters, for example, housework (cooking, cleaning, washing dishes), gardening, taking a bath, reading, playing sports (swimming, tennis, aerobics, dancing, etc.) and even talking on the phone. However, how many calories are spent while working at a computer (a very relevant lesson today), we will never know from this subparagraph.

The last sub-item of the Health sub-menu is the Biocycle. By entering the start date of the last biocycle and its average duration, you can calculate the day of ovulation and the estimated day of the next menstruation, and, based on these data, obtain information about the likelihood of pregnancy on any of the days you specify. It should be noted right away that this calculation system works correctly only during one cycle. So, for example, if on August 28, 2001. enter the start date of the last cycle, let's say May 28, 2001, and the average period is 30 days, then the probability that on August 28 (three months later) you are pregnant will be only 10, not 90 or 110%, and the start date of the next cycle will be anyway September 25, 2001

You can do all these calculations not only for yourself, but also for your girlfriend, and even a friend. The word “friend” on the menu is definitely a lack of Russification. In general, it was carried out very successfully, but this incident is a clear flaw. There is no such error in the menu for German-speaking users, although gender separation exists in both German and Russian. There is no support for the Russian language in the phone, i.e. to edit the greeting message, make notes in the phone book and write SMS messages in Latin.

Other Functions

With its parameters, this phone is in many ways reminiscent of its predecessor, the Samsung A-300. The same system for organizing menus, a phone book containing the same 100 numbers in addition to the SIM card memory. In the A-400, as in the A-300, you can choose one of 48 melodies, which, in my opinion, are quite pleasant, or record 2 of your own; set one of 10 tones for incoming SMS messages (according to the group of subscribers), view the lists of 10 received, 10 missed and 10 made calls. However, despite the fact that the A-400 is a fairly high class device, it does not have voice dialing or a voice recorder. True, the existing infrared port makes it possible to synchronize the organizer with a PC using Samsung's EasyGSM program; there is also a built-in modem (speed 14400 bps) and WAP-browser version 1.1.

Additional features that make using your phone more enjoyable are also very similar to those of the A-300. Therefore, I will limit myself to listing them. So:

• calendar;
• alarm clock (once, daily and weekly);
• calculator (without currency converter);
• date/hours;
• auto redial;
• per-minute signal during a call;
• timers that show the time of the last call, the time of outgoing and incoming calls;
• vibrate, decent enough;
• predictive text input – Т9
• backlight mode selection – short/long (saves battery life);
• enable/disable service signal;
• display contrast adjustment (up to 26 gradations);
• Call forwarding with a choice of options (if the subscriber is busy, not answering or not available).

Display and Battery

The display of the A400 is graphic, high-contrast, with a resolution of 128×96 pixels. It is slightly smaller than the A-300's screen and can only display 4 lines of text of 18 characters each. The backlight of the screen is emerald, very pleasant.

One of the six available screensavers can be used as a screen saver. All the pictures are cute in their own way, but the images of a kitten trying to catch a butterfly and a panda wandering in an unknown direction seem especially funny.

To be fair, the first and last screensavers that appear when you turn the phone on and off, respectively, are also very pleasant. This is again an image of a rose opening and closing. As you can see, the image of this flower is an integral part of the phone's design. The headset included in the standard package was no exception. It itself is made to match the color of the phone, and the earpiece has the shape of a small rose – it looks very stylish and beautiful.

The battery, which is also included in the standard package, is a 650 mAh lithium-ion battery. According to official figures, a phone with such a battery should work 3.5 hours in talk mode and about 90 hours in standby mode. In life, with 15-20 minutes of calls per day, the phone normally works without recharging for about three days.

During charging, which lasts about an hour and a half, a charge indicator appears on the screen, showing the percentage of charge with an accuracy of 5% (when the phone is turned off).

The most important thing

Of course, you can praise the additional features of the device for a long time, but the main function of the phone is still providing communication. With this task, this device copes well, although not ideally. Subjectively, the call quality of the A-400 is slightly worse than, for example, the Nokia 8210, a phone of the same class.

The sensitivity of the device is also not at the highest level. In places with poor reception, the device often does not catch the network, there are cases when the connection is interrupted.

Total.

Samsung A-400 is the first "female" phone. During its development, many little things were thought out, which will surely appeal to many of the fair sex. We must immediately make a reservation that the phone is intended, of course, for wealthy women or wives of wealthy husbands. After all, the average estimated price of the device is about 400 dollars. Whether it's worth the money or not, it's up to you. In any case, Samsung A-400 is not just a phone that you can talk on, but a device that has a lot of additional features. Among its various functions, there are those that will most likely be of interest only to women, such as calculating the biocycle and overweight (I personally found this idea quite interesting). Of course, I would like the communication quality to be excellent for such an amount, and there were such functions as voice dialing and a voice recorder, but, nevertheless, the A400 leaves a very good impression.

In general, testing this device gave me pleasure. I hope that the shortcomings that exist at the moment will be corrected in new versions of the software.

Editor's word

It is quite difficult to write about an exclusively female phone for a man, but I still want to add a few words. The A400 will include a headset made in the same color scheme as the body of the phone. It is still unknown which headset model will be delivered to our country, so we do not provide a photo of it.

Experience shows that prototype phones from Samsung almost always have mediocre sensitivity, which was mentioned in the review, while commercial products in this parameter, as a rule, differ from prototypes for the better. I think that this model will not be an exception, because it is similar to the A300.

The last thing I would like to note. Despite the high price, this phone will find many fans immediately after the release and will become one of the best-selling Samsung devices. The A400 is able to fill the vacuum in the sector of expensive, fashion models (because at the moment they are not just not enough – they are missing). In a word, this phone has a great future, and this is the main thing.