SAMSUNG: Samsung A711

Friday 6 July 2012

Samsung A711

The A711 features the standard raft of pure mobile features -- telephony, SMS, MMS, ringtones and so forth, along with a 2-megapixel camera -- alongside Next G specific features such as mobile Foxtel and access to Telstra's mobile-specific Internet services. One minor change from the A701 is that the A711 doesn't come with 32MB of onboard memory; instead you've got 48MB to play with. In practical terms, most users will need to pony up for amicroSD card to make full use of the A711.As a basic phone, the A711 works much like the older A701. The inbuilt camera is solid but not terribly exciting, and the display screen has good light and contrast for video playback. Samsung rates the A711 as being capable of up to 220 hours standby time and 170 minutes of talk time, which jibes with our test results. We managed seven and a half days of moderate usage between recharges, although it was predictably much less if we did a lot of streaming video watching.