Samsung Mythic a897 Phone
- 3G-enabled messaging/social networking phone with 3.3-inch touchscreen and intuitive Samsung TouchWiz boundary
- Well-matched with AT&T Video Share, AT&T Mobile Music, and streaming video from Cellular Video service; AT&T Mobile TV capabilities
- 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth stereo music; MicroSD memory expansion to 16 GB; access to personal email
- Up to 3 hours of talk time, up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start handbook, user manual
Amazon.com Product Description
With one-touch access to features including AT&T Mobile TV and social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the Samsung Mythic for AT&T is a portable entertainment powerhouse. It features a 3.3-inch touchscreen with virtual keyboard and Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user boundary, which allows you to simply drag and drop widgets for your pet and most commonly used features and functions on the phone’s home screen.
The Samsung Mythic’s large 3.3-inch touch show makes it an ideal device for viewing AT&T Mobile TV. |
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This phone can quickly download video, music and more over AT&T’s lightning quick HSPDA 3G network. And the Mythic is the newest AT&T Mobile TV-competent device, which enables you to subscribe to around-the-clock access to full-length simulcast and time-shifted programming from FLO TV, including such channels as CBS Mobile, CNN Mobile, Comedy Central, FOX News and the movie channel Crackle. This GPS-enabled phone can access the AT&T Route-finder service for turn-by-turn directions as well as its Video Share service, which enables you to send video of yourself to another well-matched phone while making a voice call. See more details on optional AT&T services below.
Other features contain pre-loaded social networking applications, a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, digital audio player, Bluetooth connectivity for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, microSD memory expansion, multi-lingual text show, and up to 3 hours of talk time.
Key Features
- Quick 3G connectivity via AT&T’s HSDPA/UMTS network (850/1900 MHz bands; 3.6/7.2 Mbps speeds with network availability).
- GPS navigation capabilities via AT&T Route-finder service includes audible turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates and re-routing options.
- 3.3-inch touchscreen with 360 x 640-pixel resolution and 262K color depth. Vibrating response to touch.
- TouchWiz user boundary with specially designed widgets to customize and personalize your phone. The quick and simple drag-and-drop feature provides instant access to your pet functions, such as the clock, music player, instant messaging and photos.
- Virtual onscreen QWERTY keyboard lets you easily type messages and emails quick.
- 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera with 3x digital zoom and video capture capabilities
- Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity with stereo music streaming (A2DP) capabilities as well as hands-free headsets and car kits. You can connect your laptop (any via Bluetooth or wired USB) and delight in dial-up networking–surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server (additional charges or subscription applicable).
- Digital audio player enables you to start and manage playlists right on the phone; well-matched with MP3 and defenseless AAC/AAC+ formats.
- Memory expansion via microSD card slot with support for optional cards up to 16 GB.
- Full messaging capabilities including SMS text, MMS picture and IM instant messaging (via ordinary services including AOL, Yahoo!, and MSN).
- Access to personal email (AOL, Yahoo, Windows Live)
- Organizer tools including calendar, alarm clock and more
- Airplane mode allows you to listen to music while the cellular connectivity is turned off.
- Internal phonebook stores up to 2000 contacts
- 189 MB internal memory shared between MP3 player and camera
- Displays last 30 outgoing/incoming/missed calls
Vital Data
The Samsung Mythic weighs 3.8 ounces and measures 4.49 x 2.06 x 0.5 inches. Its 1150 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of talk time, and up to 360 hours (15 days) of standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies as well as AT&T’s dual-band 3G network (850/1900 MHz; HSDPA/UMTS).
What’s in the Box
Samsung Mythic handset, rechargeable battery, charger, USB cable, quick start handbook, user manual
AT&T Services
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High-speed data connectivity via AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband data network: The dual-band 850/1900 MHz 3G network provides up to 3.6/7.2 Mbps of download speed, making it possible to delight in a variety of feature-rich wireless multimedia services, and it gives you the advantage of offering simultaneous voice and data services. Additionally, this phone is also well-matched with 2100 MHz 3G networks found in international territories. (For use outside the United States, an AT&T international data plot is recommended.)
In areas where the 3G network is not available, you’ll continue to hear service on the AT&T EDGE network, which offers availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. Providing average data speeds between 75-135Kbps, it’s quick enough to support a wide range of advanced data services, including full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go. |
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The full-featured, premium AT&T Route-finder GPS navigation attention includes audible turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates and re-routing options, and 3D moving maps (additional charges applicable). AT&T Route-finder offers several other features to make your commute more enjoyable and reliable, including mobile access to Yellowpages.com. Additionally, AT&T Route-finder is the only mobile phone-based GPS service that provides integrated speech recognition for address entry and points of interest search. |
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AT&T’s Video Share service enables you to send a live, one-way video stream to another well-matched phone during a ordinary voice call. The service also allows you to switch the direction of the video stream during the same phone call. (Customers must be in an area served by the company’s 3G network and have a Video Share-enabled phone.) While using Video Share with family and friends is a fun way to communicate, it’s also very useful for business. For example, a majority of users in the architecture, engineering and construction industries rated the ability to share live video through Video Share highly, according to investigate commissioned by AT&T. Video Share lets you see progress on a job site or review the day’s work without having to handbook from an office or other site to do so. |
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AT&T Mobile Music enables you to buy tracks while on the go, access the Napster and eMusic subscription music services, stream music video, find out what’s playing with Music ID song-recognition software, and find out what’s hot with The Buzz music news portal. |
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AT&T Mobile TV allows you to mind mobile TV in broadcast quality. Tune-in to see full-length episodes of your pet soaps, sitcoms, sports, or news programs from the networks you like. With just one touch you can see what’s on now, scroll to find the next episode of your pet show or select a time slot to reveal an episode summary of your next new pet. Simple and simple to use the program handbook is fantastic for searching on the glide for Mobile TV to go. It provides access to 12 ordinary channels so you have everything you need to tune-in to your pet shows when you’re on the go. Channels contain: CBS Mobile, CNBC, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, FOX News, MSNBC, MTV, NBC2Go, Nickelodeon, CNN Mobile and Pix. AT&T provides several packages for accessing Mobile TV, and it offers parental controls that provide content filtering and buy blocking on your phone so that you can restrict access to content that may be inappropriate for younger viewers. |
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I place in the cd and it stated that “file to large AOL cant open. Went on line cant seem to find the manual anywhere.Cant say if I like the phone yet or not.Went shopping for a protective case -there are none out yet. Went shopping for a screen take in-there are none out yet.So with out a manual I will sit here and just keep on critical the screen and see what happens lol
Rating: 4 / 5
Sumsang sucks at their PC software for this phone. Their current PC software (called Samsung New PC Studio) CANNOT even sync outlook address book with the phone!!! What kind of smart phone is this stupid? I have got close to a hundred contacts on my ancient blackberry. I dumped them into outlook and plot to upload them into this phone I just bought, and their software does not even support the sync function!!!
Ok. Just in case you are like me, who got wedged with Samsung’s stupidity, here is the fix if you are fortunate enough to find the following links still exist:
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The second link provides the detailed instruction, which I re-state here:
How to sync the AT&T Samsung Mythic sync with Outlook tasks, contacts, and calendar via PC studio or other sync software? As this problem, some users are adage that the Samsung Mythic does not sync with Outlook by using PC studio.But other some users say there are able to sync their Mythic phone with outlook. Here’s how they do it.
Note: The version of New PC Studio for the Mythic does not have the phonebook sync feature, but the build Samsung_NPS_1.2.1.IH1 does have it.
1. first installed the PC studio for the Mythic Samsung_NPS_For_Mythic_Build_IH3
2. After seeing it did not have the phone book sync feature uninstalled it and installed IH1 version list above. 3. After hooking up the phone please get the phonebook window
you can’t see the option on the bottom of the program where you select the function you want. you only have Media Manager just like in the IH3 version .But the phonebook window is open with the x to close the window greyed out.
4, The sync worked perfectly so the software needed to get the job done is present on the Myth
Rating: 1 / 5
There is NO wired option to make phone calls with the Mythic. I have contacted Samsung and after many emails, their final response was:
“In summary, the 3.5 is designed to allow for both music and calls. But at this time there is not an accessory that can complete both functions. Your option for both functions would be to use a Stereo BT device.
Thanks,
Technical Support”
They will not admit they screwed up. They only will say that there are no accessories fake that will work with the 3.5mm jack even though every other phone with a 3.5mm jack works fine with any phone well-matched headphone. CLASSIC!! Please call Samsung and let them know that this is unacceptable.
Rating: 1 / 5
I chose this phone because 1, it has both 3.5mm headphone jack and micro USB port, so that I can use ordinary headset and charge/data cable. 2, it has a high resolution screen.
But, after one month of use, I found a lot of design flaws that I am quite miserable about. And in view of the fact that a lot of broadcast talked about its pros, I will only list cons here.
1, I said one of the major reasons I bought it was it has 3.5mm headphone jack. In view of the fact that the battery life on this phone is quite small so I dont want to use bluetooth a lot. So I bought an OEM samsung earphone with microphone, and it only works for music but phone calls. what the heck?? Initially I thought the earphone was terrible. but after switching to other earphones, and doing some investigate online, I found it was designed like this. I have to use a micro-usb headphone to make a phone call. I dont know what is incorrect with the designer, or samsung simply just wants to make extra money out of this by forcing broadcast to buy its $20 usb headphone?
2, It only has 4 signal profiles to choose from. Maybe not everyone cares about it, but at least it is not enough for me. It wont cost anything to add a couple of more signal profiles. why does’t it just make customers more pleased? And it seems more ridiculous when I fould there are 5 trembling patterns to choose from. I mean, is there anyone going to use it as a vibarator? Why they borther to design so many trembling patterns, but just 4 signal profiles?
3, The low battery alarm does not mute at all! Even if you set to “silent” mode, it will keeping going off, at the same volume. It made me quite embrassed during a meeting last time.
4, On call menu is very limited. You cannot record nor turn on the bluetooth during a call.
5, Slow response, many broadcast complained about that.
6, Looks pretty shiny, but it is just too slippery.
And many other negligible design flaws that I don’t bother to mention here.
Overall, it is fancy, excellent for the price (1 cent on amazon). I like it. But it is far from a excellent phone IMHO.
Rating: 2 / 5
Ive had this phone in view of the fact that 11/21/2009,or should I say, I’ve had three of them!! I’ve had to replace it again and again because of faulty software…first the screen letting you know what you’ve rec’d, ex; text, call…wont open until you’ve hit it at least 10 + times, then the texting was delayed and the screen would not tip sideways when turned on its side…now awaiting my third Mythic in a small over a month! That is hideous. I should have just gone with my first instinct to get the iphone, but thought the Mythic was perfect for me, not too much phone and not alot I didnt need, yet still have the fantastic touch screen features and internet. Boy was I incorrect….Beware the Mythic…Pleased for you if you got one of the few nondefective ones. Next time I’ll be more precise and take more time buying a phone fresh off the line!
Rating: 2 / 5