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Samsung S5550 Shark 2 ,mobile samsung
The new Samsung line of full-featured mobile phones gets the Shark branding with the launch of three affordable handsets carrying the Shark name - the candybar S5350 Shark and the sliders S5550 Shark2 and S3550 Shark 3. Samsung is positioning the brand to overcome its highly successful line of touchscreen handsets under the Corby brand. The new Shark handsets offer decent low to mid-range functionality and ergonomic styling that is a notch above anything out there.Samsung S5550 Shark 2 ,mobile samsung Targeted on the youthful social networking crowd who prefers not to indulge in touchscreens or full-QWERTY sliders and want good no-nonsense communication devices without the frills, the new Shark handsets won't disappoint. In particular, theSamsung S5550 Shark 2 is a great value offering top dog features that combine elegant simplicity and a capable feature set that can be indulgent on the side.
With a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, face/smile detection and image stabilization with QVGA video recording at 30fps - features you find only in the finest mobile phones costing more, the Shark 2 indulges the user as a camera phone with no parallel in its promised budget price point.
At A Glance
The Shark 2 gets an updated non-smartphone user interface and bundled apps that should appeal to the social networking crowd. It allows instant access to SNS like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo right from the homescreen. Updating and unloading to your favorite online media-sharing sites like Picasa, Photobucket, YouTube and Flickr are easy with its bundled communities software. But as a budget entry level phone, it has no WiFi and no GPS which are often harnessed for some social networking functions.
The Samsung S5550 Shark 2 is a 3G phone with HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps data connectivity for all the fast downloading activities you need online. It's a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G and a dual band UMTS on 3G. You get the usual Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0 for wireless and wired data synching, respectively.
There's the usual multimedia players that supports all the popular media file formats and comes with Samsung's proprietary DNSe 2.0 sound enhancement processing software for stereo widening and surround effects. You also get stereo FM with broadcast recording. Internal memory is a mere 110 MB but you get microSD expandability for up to 8 GB according to the spec sheet but we wouldn't be surprised if you can use 16 GB microSD cards as well.
Samsung's Shark sliders are a cut above anything on the market and from its own past efforts. The Shark 2 gets a stylish 102 x 49 x 15mm body that's a well-crafted blend of plastic, metal and Kevlar to give it a lightweight 99g and an ergonomically chiseled back design for a unique feel in your hands.
Then there's a modest 2.2 inch QVGA screen with 256k colors. Nothing to brag about except that it's an AMOLED display. Without the power hungry LCD backlighting, it consumes less power which, among other things, accounts for its 960 mAh battery delivering one of the longest talk times of 11 hours and a standby time of 26 hours when fully charged.