Hey Cingular subscribers, get ready to get your thin AT&T on. Samsung just announced the prices and availability of their
SGH-A717 and SFH-A727 slimsters. Sure, those model numbers aren't overly appealing until you remember that these are members of Samsung's 3G Ultra lineup for Stateside consumption: the 12.9-mm thin A717 clamshell and 9.9-mm A727 candybar. So we're talking quad-band GSM, dual-band 850MHz/1900MHz HSDPA data, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD, and MobiTV and MobiRadio. Sure we've run those specs before but it just feels so good we can't help but repeat. Expect the A717 to hit on June 4th for $150 with the A727 to follow in the "coming weeks" (June 16th judging by the date in those pictures) for $100 -- after 2 year contract and $50 mail-in rebate of course, which you'll probably forget to send in. Anybody else feeling a touch nostalgic at seeing the AT&T logo on an all black phone?
posted Jun 1st 2007 8:00AM
....this is just my luck. I've been waiting on this a717 for a while, then, as luck would have it, I finally used my upgrade on a Cingular 3125, disliked it and exchanged it for a Cingular 8125 (idk, this was my old phone before getting the 8525 and I liked it so much I got it again). So now I will just oogle over this phone from afar and hope that is sucks!
I've been waiting since CES to replace my razr but finally gave up and got tired of cingular's service in my area so I switched to tmobile and got one of the other samsung phones free. I'm probably going to end up trying to track down an A717 unsubsidized and unlocking it then using that on tmobile.
Slim, I had the same thoughts. My wife has the 707 "sync" and I cannot see a difference tech wise. I'm personally waiting on the 727 to hit the ATT site as an addition to my BB.
Is this model an update of the a707 or is it something totally different?
i hope youre right about a727 hsdpa
i keep hearing mixed info about umts/hsdpa