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Sprint Summer 2006

Samsung A640 Sanyo Katana 2400 & A420 Comments  28

Jun 29, 2006, 6:26 PM   by Rich Brome

Hands-on with Sprint's basic phones for summer: the Sanyo Katana and 2400, and Samsung A640 and A420.

Sprint this week rolled out a quartet of basic new phones for summer. They're not high-end phones with EVDO, but each phone serves a purpose in Sprint's full lineup.

The Samsung A640 is a rather sleek clamshell phone with a slick OLED outer display that disappears into the glossy black front when it's not shining. The sleek black front echoes LG's popular Chocolate phones.

 

OLED outer display OLED outer display
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Its features are mostly basic. The OLED outer display is multi-color, not full-color. That means the blue parts will always be blue, the red parts always red, etc. Unfortunately, the outer display seemed rather dim to us. OLED displays are usually very bright, but this one seemed to be the exception.

The main display is rather small at 128 x 160 pixels. The camera is only VGA resolution. However, the A640 does have Push-To-Talk and Bluetooth going for it.

 

A920 vs A640 A920 vs A640

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It's on the small and light side, but not exceptionally so.

Both the Samsung A640 and A420 have a new high-contrast main menu option for those with poor vision:

 

simple main menu theme simple main menu theme	sub-menu sub-menu
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While Sprint is marketing this feature as a major innovation, it's really nothing more than a very simple main menu theme. It would have been nice to see larger fonts throughout the menus and phonebook, for example. Unfortunately this doesn't include that.

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Subject	Author	Date
are you kidding me?!	shleeban	Aug 7, 2006, 12:14 PM
razr copycats	elvis_hiccup	Jul 1, 2006, 4:17 PM
Re: razr copycats by AwpdsR   Jul 1, 2006, 7:09 PM Re: razr copycats by amosjones   Jul 3, 2006, 10:20 AM Re: razr copycats by monkeyracer   Jul 3, 2006, 6:02 PM Re: razr copycats by elvis_hiccup   Jul 10, 2006, 10:47 AM Re: razr copycats by SMARTWRLS   Jul 2, 2006, 2:54 PM
Other features	TinyJ316	Jul 6, 2006, 9:33 AM
Mistake on my part...	muchdrama	Jun 30, 2006, 3:58 PM
Re: Mistake on my part... by monkeyracer   Jul 3, 2006, 6:27 PM Re: Mistake on my part... by muchdrama   Jul 5, 2006, 12:19 PM
Katana Ports?	Big Poppa	Jul 3, 2006, 10:30 AM
Re: Katana Ports? by monkeyracer   Jul 3, 2006, 6:26 PM
Sorry about the quality	Rich Brome	Jun 29, 2006, 6:40 PM
Re: Sorry about the quality by sowhatsowhat10   Jun 29, 2006, 7:49 PM Re: Sorry about the quality by monkeyracer   Jun 30, 2006, 1:54 PM Re: Sorry about the quality by agostinod   Jun 30, 2006, 7:06 PM Re: Sorry about the quality by Rich Brome   Jul 1, 2006, 10:00 AM Re: Sorry about the quality by tuolumne   Jul 1, 2006, 2:11 PM other phones by Rich Brome   Jul 1, 2006, 3:48 PM
Fall EV-DO Push?	tuolumne	Jun 30, 2006, 2:14 PM
Re: Fall EV-DO Push? by monkeyracer   Jun 30, 2006, 4:03 PM Re: Fall EV-DO Push? by Rich Brome   Jun 30, 2006, 6:52 PM Re: Fall EV-DO Push? by tuolumne   Jun 30, 2006, 7:36 PM Re: Fall EV-DO Push? by Rich Brome   Jul 1, 2006, 9:54 AM Re: Fall EV-DO Push? by PhilR8   Jul 1, 2006, 2:18 PM (more replies...)
Nothing exciting in summer...	RingLeader	Jun 30, 2006, 10:29 AM

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