I've had my Samsung A800 phone for about 9months & my screen is starting to play up. The external display goes all funny and also sometimes when I open the phone the colours are the wrong way round. so what should be black is white and what is usually white is black! It's really annoying and also the lines of text go all funny! But only when it feels like it.
I took it back to the shop and they basically said it's wear and tear and there's nothing that can be done!
If any one can help me please get in touch.

Thanks

If you are looking for more business and less pleasure, then the Samsung A800 is the mobile phone for you. It has a massive address book which is really well organised and has a capacity of a booming 2000 entries! Lots of space available for messages. Can store upto 200. Really cool 16 preset ringtones and messages alert tones.Organiser, calculator, etc..very useful.But for those looking for more fun, this phone lacks good games(3 preset), has no ird port, no digital camera, and is not all that great for sharing pictures or ringtones.But all in all, it is a trendy phone!

I got this Samsung SGH A800 phone as a replacement for a stolen sony j70e. There is no major fault I would complain about, but having had the phone for 3 months I will be selling it and finding something better.

Compared to the sony, predictive texting is not so good - i especially miss the jog wheel on the sony allowed me to scroll through alternative spellings, both backwards and forwards. Also, to add to an existing phonebook entry, you have to first select the entry, then "edit", and then type the new number in. So if someone already in the book calls you from a different number, you can't just paste that in.

These are just niggly things, and if I'd only had a Nokia rather than a Sony before, I probably wouldn't even notice them. But the main problem are the select keys, which are placed right next to the navigation keys and are just too small and awkward for me to use - I'm forever hitting the wrong button.

I love the style of this Samsung A800 mobile phone .....i just wish it was easier to navigate.

overall, the Samsung A800 is really tiny and fits almost anywhere. you'll find the opening and closing of the phone quite fascinating in the beginning, like me. (i was using N8250 before) as the novelty wears off, you begin to feel that the design is rather troublesome. This phone does not come with mms and radio. Which makes a teenager like me super frustrated. However, the samsung A800's flashing light at the front is unique and pretty. It catches attention everywhere i go. if you are looking for something which is small, and you do not need mms and radio etc, this is the phone for you. i recently upgraded to a N6610. it is really value for money and although the ringtones doesn't sound as great, the sound quality of the radio is fantastic. the color screen is sharp and full of life as well.

This phone looks like something out of StarTrek. It's a bit kitsch and retro. The silver/chrome look makes it more of a ladies phone, as does the service light which has a range of gentle, pastel colours to display. There's no denying it's gadget value. It's tiny when folded, and the blue glow that emerges from the screen and keypad is eyecatching to say the least, but it eats the battery like nobody's business. If you turn the backlight off, you can't read the screen. There are plenty of polyphonic ringtones, but to me they all sound corny and showy. I wanted a normal ringtone of which there is only one and that isn't very good. It is a very easy to use phone with good memory capacity, which does all you need a phone to do, but it plays a tune like a gameboy sound effect whenever you enter/delete something like a phonebook entry or textmessage. Not only does this waste battery life further, but it's highly annoying and can't be switched off. The battery lasted short of two full days (though switched off over night) which is not enough in my view. I also had reception problems with this phone which in areas where my previous two phones were fine. There is no ramped ring setting, so if you have the melody switched on it it rings at one volume. Vibrate then ring mode should overcome this, but I got six vibrates, then only one and a half rings before my answerphone kicked in causing me to miss many calls as the vibrate isn't too noticeable. Overall, if you want a phone to show off with, this is your thing. It's tiny, showy and individualistic, it really stands out. If however you want a functional phone that has good battery life, good reception and is more discrete (i.e. doesn't play a tune whenever you do anything) then this isn't the phone for you. It's more of a fashion statement.