Samsung S5550 Shark 2 - A Very Reliable Midrange Phone

24
Feb/10
  • Samsung though a late bloomer in the mobile handset manufacturing business, has made a mark for itself in this industry too. it has been introducing models which are well accepted in the market and the company has a good knowledge of the pulse of the various segment of the market. In the recent past mobile manufacturers have been flooding the market with a lot of touch phones. Some of these touch phones have been very costly while other are for the middle range buyers but there are a segment of people who don’t like to use touch phones instead want the standard button phones with high end features and without a premium price tag. This is the segment of customers that this mobile S5550 shark 2 from Samsung would satisfy. There is nothing revolutionary about this mobile, one cannot also not find any kind of weakness with this mobile too. From the front end looks the phone appears to be an outdated one but fro the back end looks it certainly looks cool with its chrome back.

    The mobile’s design has been inspired from that of an aero plane , and the mobile is of compact dimensions and is easy to carry and use. The slide in the mobile works pretty well and the small 2.2’ screen works for this phone. The mobile weighs only about 100gms and is therefore light and easy to carry. Tough it is light is gives a solid feel in the hand and just as any other phone of the modern era the mobile is rounded in the edges and leaves the standard straight line designs of the past. The mobile is made of decent quality plastic but the chrome at the back makes you forget about the quality of plastic. The mobile has a good camera t the back and above the screen there is another camera which can be used for taking photos of oneself. The pad has a good diamond shaped button which provides for easy navigation in all directions. The number pad in the mobile is easy to use and message typing won’t be a problem with this mobile. The mobile has a volume controller at its left side and is a useful feature too.

    The right side of the mobile has the USB port where one could either connect the charger or connect the USB cable for data transfer. The port has a lid which adds to the overall design of the mobile. The mobile is fitted with a good resolution 5mp camera and the clarity of the images is good too. The c=mobile has a LED flash that is useful in low light places. The speaker of the mobile is an effective one and provides god sound music. The mobile offers a whopping talk time of about 1 2hours and this is possible due to the 960mAh Li- Ion battery. The mobile could accommodate could storage space of about 32 GB. The user interface used in the mobile is a flash based one that is very common in Samsung mobiles and it appears different too. The mobile has good connectivity through Bluetooth , Wi-Fi and allows interment access through GPRS. The connectivity is quick and browsing the pages isn’t difficult too.


    by Rushikesh Kamreja
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Camera

  • 5.00 Mega Pixel
  • Video Recording

Dimension

  •  Size 101.8 x 48.7 x 14.8 mm
  •  Weight 99 g

Connectivity

  • BlueTooth
  • USB

Battery

  • Type Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh
  • Standby Up to 623 h (2G) / Up to 412 h (3G)
  • Talk Time Up to 11h 40 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 25 min (3G)
  • Music Play 

Multi Media

  • Colour Screen
  • MP3
  • FM

Misc.


Others

  • Slide Design
  • 3G Phone
  • QuadBand

Memory

  • Internal 110 MB storage
  •  Card Type microSD (TransFlash) up to 16GB (verified)

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