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GSMArena team, 23 January 2015

A-ddictive


Samsung Galaxy A3 and A3 Duos review: A-ddictive

  • Comments (93)
  • Galaxy A3
  • Galaxy A3 Duos

6. Telephony and messaging
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony and messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy A3 specification
  13. Samsung Galaxy A3 Duos specification
  14. Review comments (93)

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Telephony and phonebook

The Samsung Galaxy A3 held onto signal well and we liked its sound quality and volume during calls. The active noise reduction during calls kept background noise under control and voice is heard clearly.

The dialer is the familiar TouchWiz app and features all the basics - smart dial, quick dial and even a video call button.

The list of contacts is displayed alphabetically and there's an alphabet scroll and a search field. Your contacts automatically get synced with your Google account and your social networks.

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Contacts

The dialer is part of a tabbed app that also houses the Logs. Those are very detailed and show not only calls, but messages too and you can filter by various types of events (missed call, received message, etc.). There's even a search feature if you need to look up calls from just one number or contact.

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Dialer

We performed our loudspeaker test on the Samsung Galaxy A3 and it managed an Average score. The Moto G and HTC One Mini 2 are considerably louder, though.

Speakerphone testVoice, dB Pink noise/ Music, dB Ringing phone, dB Overall score
Sony Xperia Z1 Compact 60.9 66.6 58.7 Below Average
HTC Desire 510 63.9 61.7 66.6 Below Average
Samsung Galaxy A3 65.2 66.3 76 Average
HTC One mini 2 69.3 66.6 75.9 Good
Motorola Moto G 4G 77.1 76 83.3 Excellent


You can find out more about our loudspeaker test here.

Messaging, email and text input

The Messages app has a row of shortcuts for the contacts you message most often and below that is the list of all conversation threads. Threads feels like a standard IM app and you can customize font size, the shape of the bubbles and the background. This app handles both SMS and MMS and features a wide variety of smilies.

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Messages

The Messages app has some cool features too - you can delay dispatch by 3 seconds (or up to 30), so you can cancel a message before it goes out. You can also schedule messages to be sent automatically (say, congratulations for a birthday).

ChatON doesn't come preinstalled on the Samsung Galaxy A3.

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Messages customization

The app also features spam protection - messages from specific numbers or containing specific phrases can be blocked. Safe mode will disable the feature that automatically makes links clickable and will scan them for potential threats.

The Galaxy A3 comes with two familiar email applications out of the box - one for your Gmail and a generic app to use with any POP3/IMAP account.

The generic app handles multiple accounts from any email server and features a combined inbox. It has a spam filter and Delayed send options similar to those in the text message app. It has a Primary Senders inbox just like Gmail too.

Gmail is smart about categorizing messages and grouping them - e.g. all promotions go in a folder, all social network messages in another and so on, keeping the Primary folder clean and containing only the important stuff. The Gmail app can handle multiple Gmail accounts, but doesn't offer a combined inbox.

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Gmail

The Samsung keyboard offers a dedicated row of numbers, which is very handy. You can enter text by swipe-typing (like Swype and others), move the cursor or view all alternative symbols for a key (depending on whether you use non-dictionary words or special symbols a lot).

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Samsung keyboard

Next Page » 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
6. Telephony and messaging
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display, battery life, connectivity
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Telephony and messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy A3 specification
  13. Samsung Galaxy A3 Duos specification
  14. Review comments (93)

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  • Galaxy A3 Duos

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