Samsung SPH-A800 / MM-A800
had it in my hands...and didn't choose it!
went to the sprint store today and checked out the ONE they had in hand. I was not disappointed, the phone is solid, but I still chose the Sanyo 5600 over it.
For me...the voice-to-text test they allowed me to do did not work well... 40% misses and a lot of repeats.
The lack of a speakerphone in the a800 is huge to me and I have a tiny and very sweet 7mp camera.
The final killer is that while i couldn't make a call on either... I could turn the volume to max with a few selected ringtones and the Sanyo kicked butt and it sounded nice too.
As far as Ev-Do...it's not available but for a small percentage of covered areas and the 1xRTT is fast enough for anything short of a city-based IT professional.
Conversely, this was my fi...
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