Samsung Galaxy A3 – PC World

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  Case

The Samsung Galaxy A3 is one of the nicer smartphones to 1000 zł. The metal housing is simple and very stylish. In nothing like other “plastic” Samsung smartphones. In terms of design it is much closer to the iPhone. Importantly Galaxy A3 comfortable in the hand and the screen is protected by Gorilla Glass coating 4.

The shore of the housing slightly above the surface of the display which protects your screen from scratches. Buttons for volume control located on the left side of the housing. On the other side is a button to start the smartphone. Placed directly below a SIM card slot (Nano-SIM) and a memory card reader.

Manufacturer he looks like a different invoices, rear flap and sides of your smartphone have a “rough” the texture and the edges are smooth (metal frame). Similarly, the buttons are designed to have a metal rim. Samsung Galaxy A3 immediately catches the eye, and that is also light and thin (139.3 x 69.7 x 6.7 mm, 123 g) is convenient to use it.

Just below the screen big button placed to operate the system and two additional highlighted.

  Super-AMOLED screen

The Samsung is a major producer of AMOLED screens, and those mounted in the Galaxy smartphones are one of the best. Similarly, the 4.5 inch screen mounted in the Galaxy A3, which impresses with a very wide viewing angles and expressive, saturated colors. Although the resolution of the screen is not too high (960 x 540 pixels
), is for everyday use, watching movies, playing games suited perfectly.

With maximum backlight image is clearly visible even in very sunny days . Galaxy A3 has an auto-adjust screen brightness to suit ambient conditions. The display options can also be set barwowy diagram image and increase the sensitivity of the touch positioning system, so that the screen can be operated with gloves.

Snapdragon 410

The Samsung Galaxy A3 is powered by a quad-core ARM Cortex A53 processor clocked 1.2 GHz. This is the main element 410 Snapdragon platform, which slowly replaces Snapdragon processor 400. Unfortunately, there are not too high CPU clock speed and test Galaxy Prime A3 received just over 3,000 points, or about the same as NavRoad NEXO handy that uses MediaTek MT6582 system. It’s just that NEXO costs about 400 zł.
Course of the performance is not determined only smartphone processor, equally important is the layout.

The Samsung Galaxy A3 is equipped with an accelerator Adreno 306, which turns out to be a very good choice in correlation price performance. In 3DMark 4505 Unlimited earned points, or about 35% more than handy NavRoad Nexo (2864 points). However, compared to the “top” of smartphones Samsung Galaxy is A3 performance is quite low.

In practice the system, like most of the applications running quickly and without problems. Of course it is far in this respect to the Galaxy S5, but for everyday use Snapdragon 410 is enough. Samsung Galaxy A3 has 1.5 GB of RAM.

Battery life

Snapdragon 410 is well optimized for battery life, as we expected a good result in the test battery life. Although the battery is not a najpojemniejszych (1900 mAh) is a test web browsing Galaxy A3 worked for more than 13 hours. This is a very good result. During the test, all power-saving options were excluded. Screen brightness was calibrated to the screen brightness IPS working with 200 cd / m2.