Appearance and ergonomics
Indeed, the design of the new Galaxy A3 differs sharply from that of the older brother. In place of the metal housing with a fairly sharp-edged body came from glass, metal rim was only along the edges. Galaxy A3 new spill a smooth, rounded, and in some ways more advanced when compared, for example, Galaxy S6, with which the smartphone is very much in common.
In general, the device of middle segment looks and feels just as or worse champions and follows the trends they set.
However, for a beautiful wrap hidden surprises: first you need to make an effort and monitor every move hands and fingers, only to the machine is not dropped out of his hands. Such impressions occur exactly at the transition from the old version to the new A3. However, very quickly the problem disappears by itself.
Compared with the A3 (2015), a new model is slightly put on weight (110 g versus 132), with this increase and the diagonal of the screen, which now stands at 4, 7 inches. Frames on the sides of the screen become twice already, now they really are practically invisible. The top and bottom is not changed in length, but they have lost dot pattern. In addition, the front panel can be seen has become larger and more rounded main button, and move to the left by the dynamics of the light sensors.
The changes affected more other parties smartphone. The speaker is moved from the main chamber to the lower bound and gained a view similar to that meter at Galaxy S6: five trim dots arranged in two rows. In this connection, headset jack had to move to the left side of the lower face. MicroUSB connector remained intact. The right side had a common connector for memory cards and sim-cards, replacing two of the previous model. On the left side swing designers decided to split into two independent volume keys. The main camera, by the way, has become much less extend beyond the body, but still slightly rises above the rear panel.
Display
New Galaxy A3 has already received Traditional display Super AMOLED. Along with the increase in diagonal screen size has increased and resolution of the display. The previous model had only 960×540 pixels (qHD), current – 1280×720 (HD). Also significantly increased the number of pixels per inch: from 245 points to 312.
It is noticeable that Samsung has done a good job over the screen. The new version of the color look more lush and rich. In addition, the increased speed of response of the screen to touch, while comparing the Galaxy A3 (2016), well ahead of its predecessor.
Features “iron” and performance
Changes to better affected all indicators. The only thing that remains unchanged is the 16GB of internal memory, which all also expanding card and front camera with the same 5 megapixel.
In the new A3 Samsung refused quad Snapdragon 410 in favor of their own quad Exynos 7580. The frequency increased from 1.2 to 1.5 GHz. These changes have allowed significantly speed up the new version of the device – as in just surfing the Internet, and in demanding toys. The Asphalt 8 Galaxy A3 (2015) has difficulty even on the menu: a new version of the device shows a very acceptable picture quality, and the absence of noticeable “lag».
With all this memory Galaxy A3 (2016) rose not so much – 1.5 GB 1 GB against the old. Interestingly, even last year’s model, the A5 and A7 equipped with 2 GB; why Samsung has decided to stay in the longitudinal extent of “RAM” – is not entirely clear.
The benchmark AnTuTu difference results of the two versions is not striking: A3 (2015) scored a little more than 23 thousand. points, A3 ( 2016) – 30 thousand. The most significant changes were made graphs 3D, the new version has 4,000 points against 460 in the previous on this indicator.
The battery have the updated version was 2300 mAh, whereas the previous version was a 1900 mAh. A notable difference in the duration of the work, however, is not observed.
The new device is running Android 5.1.1, the previous model in the beginning of the sales are completed with Android 4.4, has updated later to 5.0.2.
Camera
The main camera has undergone a slight change. Now she received 13 megapixels instead of 8 MP. Nevertheless, the quality of shooting it is not much improved. The two pictures from different devices difficult to distinguish with the naked eye (especially on the small display), only when it is increasing significantly, that Galaxy A3 (2016) are more precise outlines of distant objects.
Front camera, despite the same megapixel camera takes still a little more efficiently. Even in low light smartphone manages to make good pictures.
Compared to the previous model, the new A3 produces more natural colors, significant changes in terms of detail of the image is not observed.
Summary
The new Galaxy A3 got a really beautiful design, although we can not say that it is original. Nevertheless, the device has some questions. For example, do not really understand why, of all updated line only A3 did not get a fingerprint scanner, or support on-off Wi-Fi, or improved stabilization of the image, or even 2 GB of memory.
If you compare it with the Galaxy A5 (2015) that in many respects they are similar, the new A3 even loses in terms of memory. It turns out that the devices from one line (A3, A5, A7) if developed indirectly from each other, A3 (2016) Only close to the A5 (2015).
Of course, compared with the A3 (2015) I received a powerful new device and the main asset has become more soft, smooth and rounded design device. But if we take into account Samsung devices from other lines, the positioning of A3 (2016) remains highly uncertain. The expected price – 20 thousand. Rub., A little less now stands, for example, Galaxy A5 (2015).
No comments:
Post a Comment