Which SIM card is needed for Samsung Galaxy A3. Installing a SIM card in Samsung Galaxy A3

SAMSUNG 2017 has become the year of championship. Koreans not only released one of the most technologically equipped flagships Galaxy S8 by setting the bar for the famous iPhone, but also updated many more younger and simple models. Among those who are noticeably prohapgrrew, the line of the middle class Samsung Galaxy A. And not only senior models of a number, but also its most younger representative - Samsung Galaxy A3.

SPECIFICATIONS SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 (2017)

The South Korean developer is quite a cunning - while most manufacturers are still chasing the screen size of their smartphones, Samsung is chasing the quality of technology. The guys from this company know their buyer. And they know that a small, but productive gadget among ordinary people is valued much more than a large-sized smartphone with a weak processor.

As a result, we see the annual updates of the South Korean middle class rule.

In Technical Plan, Samsung Galaxy A has undergone significant changes. However, among themselves the models of the series differ not so much.

Housing

Like senior colleagues, A3 became smoother and rounded. Corners of the housing now do not protrude so clearly, and the edges smoothly flow from one to another. Many such a decision do not like the redesign, they say, the phone has become similar to the soap. However, these are modern trends - the angular buildings now seem to be the trea of \u200b\u200bthe last century.

The perimeter of the phone is framed by a metal frame, the front panel is covered with a glass of Corning Gorilla Glass 4 with a 2.5D effect. Behind the same glass covers a slightly curved back panel. By the way, the panel is now smooth, no protrusions on it, the camera lens is perfectly removed deeper into the body, which is quite convenient. The glass surface can sometimes play with its owner a cruel joke - glass and metal in the case materials make the phone inconveniently slippery. If you are going to wear it without a cover, be careful and keep the device stronger. Any fall in this case guarantees cracks and scratches on the body of the phone.

The front panel is not much different from the 2016 version - the screen, takes about 70% of the entire front of the device, the speaker, the logo, front camera and the approximation sensor are located above it. The bottom is the "Home" button on mechanics with a built-in fingerprint scanner. Here "Return" and "Application List" on the sensor. The touch buttons do not remain visible on the panel in inactive mode, although it is one of the signs of the budget - there are no such luxury models.

Photo Gallery: Features of the appearance of a smartphone

Many users noted that after a redesign, the phone was similar to the soap
The camera now practically does not protrude beyond the surface of the case

At the bottom there are a mechanical return button to the main screen and the touch "context menu" and "back"
The speaker in the original way was placed on the side, next to it the lock key

On the bottom there are two connectors - for headphones and for charger
Over the display, you can find a speaker, front camera lens, motion sensor and the familiar logo of the developer

On the top of the phone, the developers justified the connector for the SIM card and the microphone
On the left side of the tradition, the zoom and volume buttons are located

The dimensions of the device remained almost unchanged. The length and width of the phone was 135.4 x 66.2 mm, respectively, its thickness is 7.9 mm. The weight of the model at the same time 138. Compared to the version of last year, the length of the hull, its thickness and weight, but decreased width. It can be seen, the developer tried to bring the phone as accurately as possible to FullHD parameters with 16: 9 proportions.

Color solutions are only three: Black (Black), Blue (Blue), Golden (Gold), Pink (Pink). In general, they tried to please everyone.

Small dimensions of the phone make it extremely ergonomic and comfortable. Hold your phone in your hand, and an attempt to reach the opposite angle, if necessary, is crowned with undoubted success even among girls.

Tekhnachinka

Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 works on a rather productive eight-year EXYNOS 7 OCTA 7870 processor, which is manufactured by 14 nanometer technology. This was placed here four Arm Cortex-A53 kernels, whose clock frequency is 1.6 GHz, and as much as the MALI-T830 graphics processor cores. By the way, this chipset was previously stood in the most senior representative of the budget line J - Samsung Galaxy J7 last year. Waiting for high results from the filling designed for medium-class phones is not worth it. However, for its price and niche, the phone demonstrates good performance and stable operation. For the daily work of local equipment is quite enough. More resource-intensive tasks although the processor is noticeably loaded, but still it "on the teeth". But on heavy 3D games testing the power of "iron" is useless.

Photo Gallery: Performance Tests Galaxy A3 2017

Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 Works on a rather productive eight-cherished EXYNOS 7 OCTA 7870 processor here four Arm Cortex-A53 kernels, whose clock frequency is 1.6 GHz also in the smartphone installed four MALI-T830 graphics processor
For its price and niche, the phone demonstrates good performance and stable operation in single kernel tests show low results The joint test of the nuclei will have a completely different picture - the result at the level "above average"
Despite the fact that the smartphone is significantly inferior to the company's leading flagships, its performance absolutely enough for the fulfillment of most everyday difficulties in work is caused by heavy and resource 3D games if you buy a smartphone for work and everyday tasks, and not for games and entertainment, The device will not cause complaints

Here android version 6.0.1 Marshmallow with Grace UX shell, which was used among the Samsung model range only in Note7. It has a non-standard notification panel and settings menu, and also provides the phone to the owner of the additional screen, which displays current news. In addition, Grace UX allows you to change the type of standard icons and theme (of them, however, you will have to buy), it may be responding in the view of the owner (activation of the display, when you look at it), offers to properly optimize the phone power consists. In general, a lot of useful missions at the Grace UX car and a small trolley. Despite their abundance, the shell works smartly, and noticeable slowchairing is observed only when the news is loaded into the panel.

It is worth noting that the Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 has the ability to upgrade to fresh Android 7.0 Nougat.

Photo Gallery: Operating System Features

The phone is equipped with a RAM equal to 2 GB

Almost half of the phone's memory will be occupied by system files and folders, it is not possible to get rid of which. Fortunately, the developers thought about their buyers and placed a slot for a FASH card here, the maximum volume of which can reach 256 GB. If you consider that A3 is the youngest model of the average price segment of Samsung, a gift from the creators seems impressive. Although do not forget that the additional memory slot will be simply not available if the gadget owner uses two SIM cards. We will have to sacrifice either by contacts or documents.

From the available 16 GB of the integrated memory, about half will be available

Battery

Battery on Galaxy A3 ionnolytea and unknown. Its capacity is only 2350 mAh, but the screen with low resource consumption and the built-in processor, which wisely distributes the load on the battery, with more than compensate for the low capacity.

The battery in Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 does not differ much capacity, but the results and duration of work are pleasantly surprised.

Continuous work on the Internet reaches 12-17 hours, play the video phone can up to 17 hours in a row, play audio to 41 hours at a periodically enabled screen and up to 55 hours when off. At the same time, the conversation time without interruptions is about 17 hours. In general, with an average level of load, the smartphone calmly will endure almost two days of work.

Fast or wireless charging in Galaxy A3 2017 No. However, without them, the device is fully charged pretty quickly - for 1.5 - 2 hours the battery replenishes its stock to the maximum level.

The battery is undoubtedly the strong side of the smartphone even at low numbers of its capacitance.

Other friendship

In addition to good technical specifications in Samsung Galaxy A3, 2017 adds a few special functions that will pleasantly surprise the owners of the gadget.

IP68.

The IP68 standard guarantees your smartphone with reliable protection against dust and moisture in the phone body. Now you can not be afraid that the gadget after meeting with water or sandstone suddenly will stop working. It can be safely placed on a depth of 1.5 meters for a whole 30 minutes. If during this time even water can not get inside what to say from dust.

Despite the fact that the smartphone takes the most younger place in the line, it is also equipped with dust and moisture protection properties since 2017

Samsung Pay.

One of the undoubted advantages of the updated version of A3 is the possibility of payment without a physical card. In the 2017 version of the year, NFC and MST technology support appeared, which allows you to bring a map to the phone, and then calmly pay with it, even without having this card in your pocket. The data is reliably protected and worried about their loss is not necessary - each transaction of funds is confirmed by your fingerprint.

In the smartphone did not forget to place and samsung pay

ALWAYS-ON-DISPLAY

This feature, which has previously exceptionally models of the luxury class, appeared at the Samsung Galaxy smartphone smartphones a just this year. Moreover, as you can see, not only the older representatives, but also at the youngest A3. The function itself is as follows: the screen of your phone even in inactive mode displays all current notifications, event, calendar, clock and other important and useful information.

Like his older counterparts, Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 is not deprived of a constantly active screen

Blue filter

This mode changes the current color gamut of the phone to a softer, warm and autumn. Such a change is very beneficial affects the eyes of the device owner, removes the tension from them, allows you to relax the eye muscles. As a result, the time of working with the phone increases, and discomfort and fatigue decrease.

USB Type C (1.0)

Among other things, the phone acquired a new USB connector. Now this is USB Type C version 1.0. What is the difference between a new connector from the old? Yes, what is symmetrical, which means that it does not matter which side you are trying to insert it into the phone. It will suit any.

The fingerprint scanner

The print scanner is embedded in the "Home" mechanical button on the front panel of the phone. Regarding his work, users respond very ambiguously. Some devices are satisfied, mark a quick response (less than 1.5 seconds on unlocking), smoothness of the triggering. Others categorically declare that the scanner is mediocre and triggers each time. If we consider that we are talking about the younger phone of the budget line, then such flaws seem to be excreted.

Fingerprint scanner in Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 Although weak, but still present

Camera

The smartphone is equipped with a camera with the resolution of the main chamber in 13 MP. The focal power of the lens is equal to F / 1.9. Like more older models, Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 is available both built-in standard modes and Pro Mode, which suggests the manual setting of most parameters. So, in this mode you can easily configure ISO, i.e., the light sensitivity of the lens, select the level of white, assign the exposure and much more. The camera interface is also very standard and is unlikely to bring bewilderment for those who have had to use Samsung smartphones of the last years.

In addition to the standard, the camera is equipped with a HDR mode. If some time ago, this mode is quite justified by many users, it seemed useless and inactive, now HDR often "pulls out" many pictures. SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017 This mode works very gently. Dark failures after the use of HDR do not acquire unnatural shades, and litters are not gray.

Left - snapshot without HDR, right - with HDR mode

Daily shooting

Day The camera is very accurate and quickly focusing the image. Frames are obtained by detailed, bright, saturated and pleasant. The color range of pictures is close to natural, the shades range are high and diverse. As for the white balance, the camera determines it close enough to the original, i.e. the real, picture.

However, the fact that the smartphone is the youngest version of the lineup is noticeable. In Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 there is no optical stabilization, due to which even the day of the pictures sometimes may be not leaving enough and lubricated places. In this situation, the quality of the photo directly depends on the durability and reliability of the hand, which holds it. Given the small weight of the product, as well as its size, an attempt to make a good clear picture becomes a serious task. And in the conditions of night shooting or shooting in the room, it is even more complicated.

Photo Gallery: Daytime Removal

The front camera of the phone has a resolution of 8 megapixels and lights, equal to the main chamber, in f / 1.9

SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017 was transferred to the same eases in handling the front, which was also from her senior fellow S-series. It can be switched from the camera to the chamber with a simple swipe on the display, take pictures by quick touch screen, remove using a voice or gesture.

With an updated front camera, you can not worry about the quality of the pictures - they will be beautiful

Video

SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 2017 videos takes off as FullHD, while the frame rate is 30 k / s. Panorama mode is available, as well as Pro mode with the same settings as the camera.

Video: SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 Camera Overview 2017

Price

The price range of Galaxy A3 2017 is very large - from 14,700 to 22 990 rubles. The cost of the model in the official store Samsung for July 2017 is 19,990 rubles.

Video: Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Overview A3 2017

We are quite often faced with a problem when inexperienced android-smartphone owners cannot enter the Internet. Someone is the first experience of using the system, someone simply does not know exactly where it turns on. Actually, today we will tell you how to include mobile Internet on Samsung Galaxy A3, if you first keep this gadget in your hands. In 99.9% of cases, the device "picks up" settings in automatic mode - and only sometimes you have to call your operator and recognize manual settings.

We will consider only the first option. Because the second describes it does not make sense - all operators settings differ depending on your country of residence and region. Therefore, to solve this issue it is better to directly apply to them.

As for the incomplete automatic settings, everything is much easier here. Most likely, access to the Internet is simply disabled. To activate it, you must pull down the status bar string - the curtain will come out after it. From above there are such icons: GPS, Wi-Fi, screen rotation, mobile data and others. Look, whether mobile data is activated. If not - just tap the icon and the Internet over one minute will be active for one minute.

Slow Internet, what to do?

So, you have included the mobile Internet on the Samsung Galaxy A3, but it works too slowly. What to do? Here options are somewhat - the signal is unstable. For example, you are in the basement or in the subway. In this case, it is enough to go out into the street and everything will return to the circles.

Option second. Activated mode " GSM only". To fix the position go to the menu " Settings”, "Other networks"And we are looking for there" Network mode". Single taping on it and change the value to "GSM / WCDMA".

To install the SIM card in Samsung Galaxy A3, you do not need to possess specific skills and skills. Therefore, each will cope with this task. The only thing you need to know is the cards of which format are suitable for the specified phone model and how the card holder opens. Consider how to independently insert Sims in Samsung Galaxy A3.

What connectors are the Galaxy A3?

To date, Samsung has released three modifications of Galaxy A5. They differ from each other not only by stuffing and screen sizes, but also accommodation and parameters of slots under SIM:

In Samsung Galaxy A3 connectors open with a special key (ejector), which comes with a phone. However, if it is not with you, you can resort to a sewing needle or simple paper clips.

SIMS TECHNOLOGY FOR SAMSUNG GALAXY A3

If you decide to change your outdated smartphone on a new Galaxy A3, most likely you have a MINI or Micro SIM card. Therefore, before inserting an old sample sim card, it will need to cut to the Nano standard.

To give a card of the required size, you can go to the purchase of phones and execute the specified procedure there by paying a certain amount of money. However, pruning is quite real and at home. This is done as follows:

After finishing preparatory work Simka can be inserted into the phone.

Installing a SIM card in Samsung Galaxy A3

Installing the SIM-Card on Galaxy A3 is performed in this order:

1. Turn off the gadget and disconnect the power supply if it charged at this time. IN otherwise May fail the power amplifier or microcontroller responsible for the power distribution.
2. Take a key-bracket, insert it into a round hole placed on the lid of the card holder, and slightly press.
   
3. When the tray comes out, completely get it out of the phone. Do the same operation and with the second slot (of course, if there is a need for this).
4. Insert the Nano-SIM, as well as the need for the second card or the outer memory of MicroSD.
5. Install the connector in your place, rushing to it.

After completing the task, turn on the smartphone and check its performance. If sim card and memory card are determined, it means that everything is done correctly. If in the future you will need to install Nano-SIM into a MINI or Micro type card holder, you can use special adapters sold in cellular salons.

If you have managed to read our reviews of the updated Galaxy A5 and A7 for 2016, then in the design of the Samsung Galaxy A3 model (2016) you will not find anything new. If you do not take into account the difference in size, then the appearance is completely identical. What in this case can only be rejected.

And you can rejoice with the metal, about the absence of which in Galaxy S3, S4 and S5 many sorry, and the Gorilla Glass 4 glass, closing and the front, and the rear panel of the smartphone. What such an approach is good: the phone looks expensive, stylish, original and so on by the list of recumbent epithets. What is noteworthy - this is true. Galaxy A3 (2016) got us Gold in Golden color looks very and very good if you say subjectively, then great. Galaxy A3 (2016) Black - Black, Galaxy A3 (2016) Pink - Pink and Galaxy A3 (2016) White is also released. And the hand is pleased with the real metal.

What is the bad approach then? And in the fact that in the overwhelming majority cases, the housing of such a smartphone will be unsolved. As a result, you will not replace the battery on the go, and for repairs in case you pay more: the specialist is harder to get to the filling. So in this case, the words "image - nothing" are somewhat not correspond to reality.

In addition, in the testing process, some lack of metal ends were revealed. In this case, they were so smooth that during the conversation the phone gently slipped out of his hand. As a result, I had to maintain it from the bottom with a little finger, and this is not very convenient. When trying to squeeze the apparatus, he slipped even faster. In the case of Galaxy A5 and A7, there were no such problems. Perhaps their wider buildings are better suitable for male hands.

This is perhaps the only negative point. If we talk about the pros, then it is impossible not to remember the devices from Sony from Xperia Z and Xperia M. Sony Lines also decided to experiment with glass and metal, but, as it turned out, not always successfully. For example, at the Sony Z5 Premium, the smartphone with a 4K screen, the rear panel is metallic, with a mirror surface. And the Xperia Z3 and the recent new M5 is closed with glass. In both cases, the panels collect all fingerprints, an excellent appearance "killed" literally in a couple of minutes. The only salvation is a case that it will arrange far from every buyer of an expensive smartphone.

It is possible that Samsung's specialists knew about this problem of Sony devices, as neither with old models from the Galaxy A lineup, nor with one of the updated models, such an abortion did not repeat. In our case, with the design of fingerprints on the back of the rear panels are not visible from the word. A oleophobic coating on the front glass makes it easy to eliminate all traces of use.

In general, the design and assembly of Galaxy A3 (2016) should have to award the highest score, we apply such an assessment system. Unbeatable case - fee for the image, and we will consider the problems with girth.

Connectors and controls

Again no surprises for those who read previous reviews. However, the only note: in Galaxy A3 (2016) there is no fingerprint scanner. All, now you can flip further.

We are completely describing each connector and the control. And since the conversation went, start with the element traditional for all Samsung smartphones - from the mechanical button "Home".

When double clicking, the camera application is started, including when the display is turned off. With long holding the Google application starts. It is possible that on the open spaces of Google Play you can find a number of applications that allow you to modify the behavior of the button. Although for this, most likely, you will have to get the right "superuser".

On the sides of the mechanical button there are sensory "Menu" and "Back". They are visible only during the backlight operation. The degree of brightness is acceptable, the eyes do not blind in the dark.

Above the display is the front chamber's eyes, a conversational speaker, sensors of approximation and lighting. There is no LED indicator - there is some kind of strange fluctuation in all new Samsung smartphones.

On the right end at the top there is a power button, under it - a tray for SIM cards and a memory card. Recall that Galaxy A3 (2016) supports Nanosim format.

In the tray you can insert either two SIM cards or one SIM card and a microSD memory card with a volume of up to 128 GB. Our short video will tell us more about the installation:

Metal split volume buttons are made on the right end.

The top end is almost empty: there is only a microphone for noise reduction and antenna conclusions.

The jack for connecting headphones and headset is located on the bottom. For lovers listening to music, this is a more convenient option. Next to the 3.5 mm audio connector is the port of MicroUSB, the main speaker, a conversational microphone and a pair of antenna conclusions.

On the rear panel of the device, except for the logo, you can see the eyes of the main chamber, the lens of which slightly protrudes, and the LED flash. The perimeter lens is protected by metal edging.

In a word, standard and convenient set of controls. The only remark can be made of an unbearable corpus, but as we have already said, such is the feature of many smartphones in the metal case.

Case for Galaxy A3 (2016)

Buy case or cover for Galaxy A3 (2016) at the beginning of 2016 is not so simple - the tube is very new. But in any case, they will be released both various specialized companies and Samsung herself.

For example, here's such a book for Galaxy A3 (2016) will be available from February 2016.

Screen

Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016) is equipped with a diagonal display of 4.7 inches diagonally. The resolution is 1280x720 pixels, density points - 312 PPI. In our opinion, if the PPI density is at the level of 320 and higher, then any pixelization can not be worried about, the naked look to notice the "ladder" will be difficult.

By the way, the old Galaxy A3 model is equipped with a 4.5-inch screen diagonally with a QHD resolution, i.e. 960x540 pixels. The density in this case was 244 PPI. Also a good value, although, of course, 312 is noticeably better.

The matrix is \u200b\u200bperformed using Super AMOLED technology. By the way, Samsung practically does not recognize IPS, smartphones with such a matrix can be counted on the fingers of one hand. So or TFT for budget models, or amoled for all others.

But since we are dealing with the image line, you can safely hope for an excellent screen. If subjectively, then by the level of brightness and color rendition, Galaxy A3 (2016) laid all smartphones with IPS screens, which are near during the test. The latter seemed dull, colors - muted. Now we give the measurement results.

White brightness is 387.83 kD / m 2. Exactly the same value we received during the brightness measurements for the new model Galaxy A7 (2016), and almost the same - for A5. The value is not a record, but keeps at a good average. It is also worth considering a great black color - due to the characteristics of the matrix of this type, its brightness is zero.

As with A5 and A7 models, you can select one of the four color profiles in the settings. We measured the color coverage for adaptive and main. In the first case, the coverage significantly exceeds the SRGB space, the colors become more saturated. Some users of such an image may seem too "screaming", for them there is a more "calm" profile of the main, which almost exactly repeats SRGB and is approaching so favorite many "soft" IPS colors.

White balance with the selected main profile is close to the optimal: The color temperature ranges within 6800-7000K with the 6500K reference value. If you switch to an adaptive profile, the colors become more "cold", as which says the color temperature at about 8000K.

The deviations of the obtained gamma curves from the reference are very small. This means that the picture is displayed with the desired brightness.

The screen supports five simultaneous presses. Frankly, we are already accustomed to ten, although if it is quite honest, then in practice we use no more than two or three.

Recall again about the possibility of selecting color ranges in the screen settings section "Screen Mode". In addition to adaptive and main, there are also profiles "Film AMOLED" and "AMOLED". Their name speaks for itself.

To protect the display, the tempered glass Gorilla Glass 4 is used - both in front and rear. At least the front glass is supplemented with oleophobic coating. In general, there is no complaints about the model of the model Galaxy A3 (2016). On the contrary, compared to the old tube, I would like to mention the increased resolution, since QHD was not enough for a 4.5-inch screen.

Camera

The resolution of the main and frontal chambers does not differ from the senior models - 13 MP and 5 MP, respectively. Light lenses are also the same - F / 1.9. The only one with the difference is noticeable among the characteristics of the difference - there is no optical stabilization system of the image.

The camera application is typical for Samsung smartphones of the latest models. A graphic interface is easy almost to asceticism, but at the same time a set of settings allows you to work well on shooting modes.

Additional settings for working with focus, white balance, photosensitivity and exploration are available in pro, exactly as for updated A5 and A7 models.

The maximum resolution for photographs made using both cameras is achieved with the aspect ratio of 4: 3. The maximum prerogative at a ratio of 16: 9 is still available to flagship devices.

Video resolution is installed in the settings for each camera.

In the conditions of gray winter days and in the absence of a system for stabilizing the photo, the photographs are nevertheless, it is obtained quite clear and detailed. The automation almost always selects the correct white balance, slightly fastening except when the abundance of snow. In the room and in the dark to obtain relatively quality photos it is desirable not to move in order not to get a folding picture.

An example of shooting video with full HD resolution You can evaluate by viewing attached roller. In our opinion, despite the best weather conditions, the video quality can be estimated as a good average, on the verge of "above average."

The front camera has a resolution of 5 megapixel. The quality of photos for the front camera is also very good, we propose to make sure that specific examples.

Maximum video resolution for the front camera - Full HD. The quality of the image is more than enough to communicate through video cells and is quite enough for other self-associated tasks.

In general, the quality of both photographs and video obtained from both cameras, we personally have been satisfied. With good lighting, the picture is excellent, under the gloomy sky the quality is lost a bit, but also remains at a rather high level. In more complex conditions, if compared with the considered models of Galaxy A5 and A7 considered, the absence of an image stabilizer becomes noticeable.

Characteristics Galaxy A3 (2016)

Considering the list of characteristics, it can be said that Galaxy A3 (2016) with a model designation SM-A310F is a modern "working" horse with a small power supply. But before we deepen in the details, we suggest familiarizing yourself with the exact list of smartphone parameters.

As a rival, we chose a little more old, but similar to the characteristics model. It is equipped with a rather popular mid-level processor Snapdragon 410. According to the original samsung plans, the same processor was supposed to get Galaxy A3 (2016), but at the last moment the solution changed. Also, both smartphones are equipped with approximately the same graphic accelerators, screens with HD-resolution and 1.5 GB of RAM on brother.

As can be seen in the screenshots from the CPU-Z application, the processor model is defined as exynos 7580. In fact, this is not entirely so, we have a smartphone with an Exynos 7 Quad processor (exynos 7578). It includes four Cortex-A53 cores operating on a clock frequency of 1.5 GHz. Obviously, as a result of some of his "attractive" games in Samsung, chose Snapdragon 410 to its model, however, a little more powerful.

Also, the processor includes the MALI-T720 MP2 graphics accelerator. Samsung does not explain whether there are differences between accelerators on Exynos 7578 and EXYNOS 7580 processors (applied in senior Galaxy A5 and A7), therefore it is easier to evaluate the result of work in practice.

The amount of RAM is 1.5 GB. It is more than the old Samsung Galaxy A3 model and enough for the younger model. Approximately 850-870 MB will be "eaten by" the operating system and the TouchWiz shell, the rest will go to the user. In principle, this is not so little.

The volume of the built-in memory is 16 GB, of which about 11 GB is available. The memory cards of up to 128 GB are supported. Of the additional "chips" it is worth noting the support of LTE category 4, the NFC module.

Testing productivity

Recall that the opponent became Samsung Galaxy J5 with the Snapdragon 410 processor, which in Samsung decided to replace to their exynos 7578. What did it lead to?

In the system-wide tests, it led to a draw. Loge in each case is small.

A similar picture is observed in graphic test. Both smartphones showed excellent and almost the same result.

But subsequently, Galaxy J5 no longer managed to exceed the novelty. In verification of gaming performance, a modern test showed that A3 (2016) scored more than one and a half times more points.

The fact that the result of the past Benchmarck was not accidental, confirms SmartBench 2012, where Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016) came out the winner and in the game, and in the system-wide part of the testing. However, the test is quite old, so for the most confidence, you will spend one more.

The browser test confirmed the advantages of the new SAMSUNG processor. Recall that in this test result the less, the better, as we are talking about time costs.

A comparison of battery life has led to a draw, although J5 has a slightly more capacious battery: 2600 mA * h against 2300 mA * h. Probably the reason lies in the fact that Galaxy A3 (2016) is less and more modern processor.

A more accurate cause of the victory of Galaxy A3 (2016) allows you to set a picture of a detailed battery charge flow. Traditionally, 3D games are significantly torn forward, which is logical. However, the remaining indicators demonstrate a little less consumption than we used to see, especially 2D games and surfing on the Internet through a cellular network (3G / 4G).

As for A5 and A7 models, several options for energy saving are available in the settings. One of them is to optimize applications that allow you to configure their operation and receiving notifications. The second is to reduce the performance of the processor, the brightness of the screen, etc. And there is an extreme energy saving mode, which for the sake of savings translates the entire image into black and white gamut. Thanks to the amoled screen, this makes it decent to limit energy consumption.

Thus, Galaxy A3 (2016) has not lost anything, and somewhere and overtook the Galaxy J5 model, at the same time showing the superiority of the "native" processor over competitive. However, J5 refers to a budget one, whether the average segment (to its very beginning), so the victory over it is not superchard for a modern image smartphone, albeit the younger in the line.

Galaxy A3 games (2013)

With games on this smartphone, things are as follows. As you could make sure when viewing our video reciprocor, Galaxy A3 (2016) can "pull" even a heavy shooter N.O.V.A. 3, however, with some "brakes". Which is not surprising, since this game "flies" only on devices more high level With a good graphics accelerator.

The same applies to some other "top" games. You can play, but in some cases it is necessary to reduce the quality of graphics, or be prepared for a slowing down in particularly intense moments.

However, it should be understood that Galaxy A3 (2016) is not the smartphone that is intended for such games. But he perfectly copes with all the average games, not to mention the "birds" or "zombies".

The results of our testing are as follows:

• RIPTIDE GP2.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Asphalt 7.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• ASPHALT 8.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Modern Combat 5.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• N.O.V.A. 3.: some delays are visible;

• Dead Trigger.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Dead Trigger 2.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Real Racing 3.: some delays are visible;

• NEED FOR SPEED: NO LIMITS: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Shadowgun: Dead Zone: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Frontline Commando: Normandy: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Frontline Commando 2.: some delays are visible;

• Eternity Warriors 2.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Eternity Warriors 3.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Eternity Warriors 4.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Trial Xtreme 3.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Trial Xtreme 4.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Dead Effect.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Dead Effect 2.: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Plants VS Zombies 2: Excellent, the game does not slow down;

• Iron Man 3: some delays are visible;
• Dead Target.: Excellent, the game does not slow down.

As you can see, most of the games work fine, the delays are found only in the most difficult applications.

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Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016), like his colleagues on an updated line, running Android 5.1. Upgrade to Android 6.0 is not directly promised, but most likely will be. At the same time, we believe that the systems of each of the three models will be updated.

Differences from A5 and A7 in terms of practically no, if not to take into account the lack of setting the fingerprint scanner. Among the applications, we only noticed the absence of s Health, but we do not see the reasons that would prevent it on themselves.

On top of the system installed a branded shell TouchWiz. Among other things, it allows you to set up shortcuts in the drop-down storm notifications, set your orders in the application menu and change quick access to the basic settings. It would seem - little things, but they are doing work with a smartphone much more convenient and easier.

From "Chips" you can climb the smart disconnection of the display and smart notifications. The correctness of the operation of functions does not reach 100%, but as the additional options of the smartphone - why not.

From pre-installed applications, we note the Microsoft set as a whole, and the OneDrive application in particular. When registering the user to free 15 GB cloud storage Gets an additional 100 GB for two years.

If the smartphone is equipped with the NFC module, then it can be used to pay. This is designed to contribute to the mobile wallet Ubank. And the security of the smartphone will follow Kasperrsky Internet Security.

Call log, dialer, work with contacts is quite traditional for Android. If you had a smartphone from any manufacturer running this OS of any version, then with calls, as with the addition and editing contacts you will easily.

From branded applications, you can mark the Galaxy Apps - the store from Samsung, the Smart Manager aggregator to monitor the battery or memory charge, as well as to protect the system, s Voice - control device by voting, shop - access to the Samsung store detailed description Each product.

The rest of the settings and applications is described an infinite number of times and does not contain any surprises.

Output

Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016) is the younger in the updated image line of smartphones. Externally and on the materials used, it does not differ at all from the senior models, which in this case we consider only a plus. The buyer can choose one of the phones, focusing on its preferences and financial opportunities, while not refusing to yourself the pleasure to buy a beautiful thing.

By performance A3 (2016) is relatively good. With everyday applications (browser, social networks and chat rooms, calls, navigation, etc.) there will be no problems. The only thing that is not for the power of the smartphone is top games, but the smartphone is not designed for them. The games are simpler with which Google Play is littered, without exaggerations go "Hurray."

The only substantial minus in our opinion is a slippery case. The phone is too beautiful in order to be sharpened in the case, but also keep it uncomfortable. Let's hope that it is subjective, although for the sake of interest we compared the convenience of using the old and new A3 models. It turned out that keeping the first A3 in the hands is more convenient. But he has a screen with QHD-resolution and other characteristics worse.

Price Galaxy A3 (2016)

Buy Galaxy A3 (2016) At the time of preparation, it was possible for 19 thousand rubles. In our opinion, the price for such a device is more than adequate. Brand, beautiful metal and glass housing, excellent screen, performance - all deserves 19 thousand.

But without competitors it did not cost. At first among the opponents, you can put one of the following smartphones from Sony: Xperia C4, C4 Dual, M4 Aqua. Each of them more or less fits into our price range and has representative external species. For example, Sony Xperia. C4 Black for 21 thousand rubles. It is equipped with a 5.5-inch IPS-screen with Full HD resolution, an 8-core MT6752 processor from MediaTek, an accelerator MALI-T760, 2 GB of RAM, 13 MP Main Camera supports LTE and GLONASS. The case is made of plastic.

If you take the phone not for the image, but for myself, at the same time somehow a little and order it with our oriental friends, you can take a look at Xiaomi Redmi Note 3. Its price is just lower than that of A3 (2016), but there are 5.5- Inch IPS Screen with Full HD Resolution, 8-nuclear Helio X10 with a clock frequency of 2 GHz, 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal memory, fingerprint scanner, battery with a capacity of 4000 ma * h and metal case.

But if you are imagine to be, then we are simply obliged to remember the smartphones from Apple. If we talk about the price, then the closest competitor to the South Korean handsome is the 5s model for 24 thousand. However, it is equipped with a 4-inch screen, so we decided to stop at the younger iPhone 6. The size of the screens is the same, the resolution is also practically different. In this case, the iPhone 6 is equipped with a dual-core processor and a gigabyte of RAM, it does not have a slot for memory cards and less battery container. The main chamber takes pictures with a resolution of 8 MP, frontal - 1.2 megapixel. But the cost of iPhone 6 is more than twice as two times the cost of Galaxy A3 (2016)!

It is unlikely that Huawei P8 Lite can be confidently called an image device. Still, the smartphone attracts attention to its appearance. At the moment it costs a couple of thousand rubles less than Galaxy A3 (2016), it differs little in size and characteristics. So, Huawei P8 Lite received a 5-inch IPS screen with HD-resolution, 8-core Hisilicon KIRIN 620 processor with a clock frequency of 1.2 GHz, an accelerator MALI-450, 2 GB of operational and 16 GB of built-in memory, 13 MP Main chamber and Battery with a capacity of 2200 mA * h. Of the minuses - plastic case, modest autonomy, inexpensive screen.

The fact that the image is worth the money understand everything. If at the same time the image is packed in the waterproof case, then you will have to pay even more. About 26 thousand, if we are talking about Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. Externally, modern Sony models are decorated in one way - that flagships, which is relatively inexpensive models, so you can not worry about the type of smartphone. Characteristics are also good: 4.6-inch IPS-screen with HD-resolution, 4-nuclear Snapdragon 801 with a clock frequency of 2.5 GHz, 2 GB of operational and 16 GB of built-in memory, camera 20 megapixel with video recording 2160r, battery capacity 2800 mA * h. In short, overpayment is quite substantiated.

Pros:

• acceptable price;
• interesting design;
• glass and metal housing;
• thin frame around the display;
• excellent assembly;
• excellent SUPER AMOLED screen;
• conveniently located outside audio connector.

Minuses:

• unintellular housing;
• slippery metal;
• the camera has no image stabilizer.

Many criticized plastic sAMSUNG phones and waited when finally korean company Let's get completely metallic smartphones. And after the release of SAMSUNG Galaxy Alpha and Galaxy Note 4 models with metal frames, the company presented fully metallic Samsung Galaxy A3 and Galaxy A5. We bought for tests younger version, Samsung A3 - Manufacturers do not often indulge consumers with unusual smartphones with an already small diagonal of 4.5 inches.

What did consumers eventually get together with the SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 metal case? For a start, such "advantages" as an unintended body with a fixed battery and a high price. The housing itself is designed in such a way that the inexperienced user (if he has never seen an advertisement of a smartphone) may not know about the use of metal. The fact is that only the frame looks like a metal, and the cover is covered with a certain composition, due to which the material for sensations is reminders, rather, plastic than metal.

Then why were all these changes and the use of premium materials - remains a mystery. In order to raise the price of Samsung Galaxy A3? Or the Korean giant is afraid to rush and implement fundamental changes?

The appearance of the Samsung Galaxy A3 (SM-A300F) reminds the designer Galaxy Alpha, but the body is less "faded", without bends of the frame and white strips near the corners of the housing, with a monotonous back. Unusually look the dynamics of the square shape on the back of the device and the frame around the display - in our opinion, they could already be already given the price. Also note the trend that has already become a tendency of the camera lens. In general, the smartphone looks stylish and especially by the girls, especially in many stores it is sold together with the Pandora bracelet.

A 4.5-inch diagonal smartphone perfectly lies in one hand and weighs only 110 grams. By the way, even a 4-inch turned out to be 2 grams harder. The thickness of the housing comes to 7.2 mm (excluding the reciprocating camera lens), which is comparable to 7 mm iPhone 6. Height and width 130 and 65.5 mm respectively: by the width of Samsung Galaxy A3 w.little Lenovo A2010, and in height - a little less Samsung Galaxy J1 (2016) (with a 0.2 inches diagonal more). The quality of the assembly turned out to be at a good level, the body of the phone does not creak at pressure, and the material is resistant to scratches.

Perhaps someone expected from the telephone protection from the water, but it is not certified as a moisture-proof.

SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 smartphone can be bought in white, silver, black and gold colors.

Screen - 3.1.

The diagonal of the device screen is 4.5 inches. The screen is the so-called QHD resolution in 960 × 540 pixels - typical, rather, for budget models or mini flagships of 2013. Image clarity is low - 245 pixels per inch, but the display is clearer, for example, the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime display with the same resolution, but larger diagonal. Low permission is perhaps the only one that the display can be punched - after all, this is a super amoled with its high brightness and the widest possible viewing angles.

Colors on the display of smartphone bright, even too juicy and contrasting. As with most of the company devices with such a type of display, you can select one of several screen modes in the settings. The maximum measured brightness is quite high for the amoled matrix - up to 370 kD / m 2, and the minimum brightness of the white field is only 5 kD / m 2, which will be very convenient for reading in the dark. The display has worked well in the sun, all information remained readable. The display is protected by the latest generation glass Gorilla Glass 4 from Corning.

Following the tests, the display left you contradictory impressions. On the one hand, it is impossible to say that it is bad, and on the other - such a low resolution looks like a mockery for such a rather big value of the smartphone.

Cameras - 3.5

The smartphone Galaxy A3 is equipped with two cameras: the main on 8 megapixel and frontal "pumping" camera for selfie by 5 megapixel. The latter, rather, tribute to fashion and simple, inexpensive way to raise the characteristics of the device in the eyes of consumers than using many manufacturers, especially in the medium-valued segment. The main camera has a flash, autofocus, but for some reason there was no HDR mode, which can be found today at each second state employee (if more often). Both cameras remove Full HD video at a speed of 30 frames per second and stereo sound. At the same time, the tracking autofocus we found only at the main chamber, which is not surprising.

Maximum resolution of photos - 3264 × 2448 pixels, if there is little pixels, you can remove panorama. The front camera of the phone has several features for selfie lovers - shooting on a gesture or voice, shooting an animated GIF-ki from 20 frames and a wide-angle self-aged mode for panoramic frames. You will be able to combine three frames in one so that all your friends fall into the pictures, well, or almost everything. It seems to us that the camera is good by the standards of the smartphone, the photos are quite clear, but sometimes there are not enough contrast in the pictures and some kind of white paddle is present.

Photo from SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 camera - 3.5

Working with text - 3.0

The pre-installed branded keyboard on the Samsung Galaxy A3 is good for working with the text, but the small size of the diagonal does not contribute to a convenient set of words. It has the ability to go to the keyboard 3 × 4, as on old phones (apparently, for T9 lovers or those who only go to more modern smartphones). Continuous input with gestures (swype) is supported, switching between languages \u200b\u200bby closing a space and pulling it to any side. On the top row of the keys there is a markup for a quick dialing of numbers, there are no additional characters markup. In general, this is a typical good keyboard from Samsung.

Internet - 5.0

The Samsung Galaxy A3 Duos smartphone is pre-installed two browser - "browser" and Google Chrome. This is a typical set, but with some unusual functions. Google Chrome has a single-type text box under the selected size and synchronization of tabs with the desktop version of the browser, the search on the page, the compression mode and a number of other typical features. In the "browser" there is a "normal" text of the text, the reading mode is very important functions, according to the reviews of many users of Samsung A3. The most interesting is the "quick control" functions. If you turn on them and spend your finger from the edge of the display, the control panel icons pop up with a semicircle - you can only lease with your finger, choosing the necessary actions. Galaxy A3 fillings turned out to be enough for vigorous browing with multiple open pages.

Communication - 3.8.

According to this criterion to the level of flagships smartphone Samsung. Galaxy A3 Duos lacks only MHL, OTG or SlimPort support for USB connector and two-band Wi-Fi. However, the device has something to boast and without it: A-GPS, the ability to work with domestic GLONASS and Chinese Beidou, LTE (Cat 4, speed up to 150 Mbps) with support for Russian LTE frequencies. Separately, you can mention the presence of the NFC chip. Galaxy A3 can work with two Nano-SIM cards, but there is a small focus - one of the slots can be used or under the memory card, or under the SIM card. It turns out you will have to choose: either two SIM cards, or one, but also with a memory card. In our opinion, this is a very strange decision. In addition, due to the unintended body, open slots will have to be a special key or any clip. On the case, you can also find standard headphone and micro-usb connectors connector.

Multimedia - 3.4.

Multimedia the possibility of a smartphone, according to the tests, turned out to be average. In the tests, the phone did not lose 4K video (in principle, he and nothing), he coped well from the FLAC audio format and WAV, but did not lose the AVI video and part of the MKV format rollers. You can say Samsung has provided a device with support for rare audio formats, which you can not say about the video containers. But in the video player you can choose external subtitles.

Battery - 3.3.

SAMSUNG GALAXY A3 SM-A300F DUOS smartphone is equipped with a fixed lithium-ion battery with a capacity of only 1900 mAh, like a thin "designer" Samsung Galaxy Alpha. This container is not impressive at all, but in practice it is enough for the day of work. And in tests, especially in the video panel, the device has shown very good results, thanks to the amoled display and low resolution. So, the smartphone lost the HD video of almost 9 hours at the maximum brightness, which is less than that of Samsung Galaxy Alpha (10 hours), but it is longer than most tested smartphones. In the audio player mode, the phone was pleasantly surprised, however, in comparison, the results are average on tested devices - about 51 hours. It is almost a third longer than Lumia 550. As for daily use - we were enough for it on the day of work at average loading. In this case, the device is charged relatively quickly - in 2.5 hours using standard charging.

Productivity - 2.2.

In Galaxy A3, an updated 64-bit middle-level Qualcomm MSM8916 chipset SNAPDRAGON 410 is used. Four processor cores operate at a frequency up to 1.2 GHz, the graphics processor ADRENO 306 answers the graphics processor. Using a 64-bit processor is not just tribute to fashion trends - the smartphone is worth " On the queue "in the list of devices that will receive an update to Android 5.0, it is unknown only when it is. The amount of RAM - 1 GB. In general, the phone performance can be estimated as the middle: the device's capacity is enough for enough smooth operation of the interface, playing Full HD video and most games.

The performance of the smartphone is partly a mystery. SAMSUNG GALAXY CORE PRIME for 9 000 rubles announced similar chipset as Samsung Galaxy A3 for 20,000 rubles, but, as tests showed, the latter works significantly faster, both in simple applications and games. For example, the Minion Rush on Metallic Samsung goes simply perfectly smoothly, while on Core Prime with the same TTX loads noticeably longer and can sometimes slow down. With daily use, the smartphone works quickly. The company is clearly successfully working on its interface, facilitates it and removes too much. And although this is not the first phone with "lightweight" Touchwiz without large number "Extra" applications and strong braces, Samsung still has something to work on.

Wanted to play games? At Galaxy A3, not only the average for the requirements of the game are launched (for example, Minion Rush), but also more "heavy", even if not all. So, in Dead Trigger 2, it is quite possible to play even on the maximum settings, and Real Racing 3 did not want to run at all. As a gaming platform, it will not fit, the games are cold will slow down, but for most games, the smartphone fillings are enough. In various benchmarks, the smartphone is quite capable of competing with the mini-versions of the 2014 sample flagship. The AnTutu smartphone received an average of 21324 points, in the test Ice Storm Unlimited from 3DMark - 4558 points. We have seen similar estimates from Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, and HTC One Mini 2.

Memory - 4.0.

Unlike Galaxy Alpha, Galaxy A3 has a memory card slot, but the volume of the built-in memory is less than 16 GB, from which the user is about 12 GB. It also supports hot card replacement, it is enough to just remove the lid. The memory cards of up to 64 GB are supported.

Features

The smartphone works under the Android 4.4.4 OS (over time it is promised to update to Android Lollipop) and running the branded shell from Samsung - Touchwiz with its own set of applications, settings, etc. It can be noted that the smartphone is not so clogged with a large number of built-in branded applications, as it would be possible to expect from Samsung.

The main feature of the phone is the metal case. In this case, it seems that he resembles plastic due to a special coating. Another feature arising from the metal case is an unintended body: you will not be able to remove the cover, and the battery is simply so not changed. The features include a thin case and a small weight model, the presence of NFC, LTE support, as well as a high price.