The Samsung Impression (a.k.a. Samsung SGH-A877, SGH-A877, A877) is a slider-style
mobile phone
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manufactured by
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, a ...
. First announced on March 30, 2009, it was released on April 7, 2009. It was the first phone manufactured for the United States to have an
AMOLED
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touch-screen.
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Design
The Samsung Impression SGH-A877 takes on a slider form; featuring a 3.2-inch AMOLED touch screen (240x400 pixels) capable of 256k (256,000) colors. The front of the phone contains the brilliant touch screen, and three bottom buttons; an incoming call accept button, an incoming call reject/hang up button (which doubles as the power button), and a back button. The sides of the phone hold the volume control rocker, the lock button, the quick navigation menu, and the camera button. The top contains the proprietary headset, charger, and USB jack. For text input, the Impression features a backlit full QWERTY slide-out keyboard, a full QWERTY on-screen keyboard, a more common number pad mode, and a handwriting mode designed to use with a stylus. This is one of the quick messaging models available through AT&T.
Features
* AMOLED touch-screen display
* WQVGA
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display resolution
* 3 megapixel
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digital zoom camera
* Camcorder
* Proprietary headset, charger, and USB jack
* Up to 16 GB microSD memory card slot
* Full HTML Browsing
* Full slide-out QWERTY keyboard
* MP3 Player
* YouTube Capable
* TouchWiz
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Widget Bar
* Bluetooth 2.0
* Accelerometer
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* Quad-band World phone
Contents
Samsung Impression
*SIM Card
*Wall Charger
*USB connector
*CD Manual
*Start Guide
See also
* Samsung Solstice
References
External links
Samsung Impression AT&T Product Page
Samsung Impression Updates, UnOfficial Forum and user group Website
Samsung mobile phones
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Slider phones
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