Samsung SGH-A237 Phone (AT&T)

The good: The Samsung SGH-A237 has a simple, easy-to-use design and a decent low-end feature set that includes Bluetooth and voice dialing.

Though it offers a couple of extra features such as a VGA camera and Bluetooth, the SGH-A237 is designed mainly for communication.

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The screen shows the date, time, signal strength, battery life, and numeric caller ID, but it won’t work as a viewfinder for the camera or show photo caller ID because of its low resolution.

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The bad: The Samsung SGH-A237 has disappointing voice quality, and its external display can’t serve as a viewfinder for self-portraits.

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The bottom line: The Samsung SGH-A237 offers a bit of style, but ultimately there’s not much to distinguish it from the cell phone crowd.

It’s also compact , but its 2.9 ounces gives it a bit solid feel for its size.

Normally, we’d complain about the lack of a color display, but it’s perfectly fine on a simple handset like the SGH-A237.

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You’ll also find an audio recorder , instant messaging, Bluetooth, an airplane mode, and browser-based POP3 e-mail.

Unfortunately, call quality rather disappointing when we tested the quad-band phone in San Francisco using AT&T service.

The volume was loud, but the voice quality on our end had a distorted vibrating effect that sounded rather harsh.

The SGH-A237’s navigation array consist of a four-way toggle with a central OK button, two soft keys, Talk and End/power keys, and back/clear control.

Editing options include a night mode, four color effects brightness and white balance settings, exposure metering, a digital zoom, three shutter sounds, and metering exposure.