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The Samsung S3550 Shark 3 ,mobile samsung
The Korean mobile phone leader Samsung recently unveiled its latest offerings for the wider budget-minded mobile phone markets. Aimed at the youthful social networking crowd with more priorities than indulge in GPS SatNav phones, camera phones or widescreen touchscreens, the new Samsung Shark line revives the high value and sleek trendiness of conventional candybars and sliders that have catapulted the Samsung brand among the big five players in the industry. The new line consisting of the candybar S3550 Shark and the sliders S5550 Shark 2 and S5350 Shark 3 succeeds the popular Corby line of touchscreens.The Samsung S3550 Shark 3 ,mobile samsung The third in the series, the Samsung S3550 Shark 3 epitomizes the Samsung philosophy behind affordable entry mobile phones with elegant simplicity and a no-nonsense features for the social networking crowd. It is midway in the series in terms of price and features despite being the last in numeric designation. At first glance, this and the other slider in the series may look no different from the previous Samsung sliders, but just like any mobile phone for the 21st century, the Shark 3 sports an updated feature pack to compete with mobiles phones in its class. Offered only in black, expect this and the rest of the Shark handsets to be available soon within the first quarter of the year. No pricing is yet available at this time.
Competitive Entry Level Features
The Shark 3 is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G. Its slim slider body measures 95.8mm x 45.8mm x 14.4mm and weights a pocket-friendly 79g - one of the lightest in the market. As a budget mobile phone, don't expect WiFi, GPS or high speed 3G internet access. But you still get Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0 for wireless and wired data transfers, respectively.
Like nearly competing budget phones in the slider or candybar form factor, the Samsung S3550 Shark 3 offers a smallish 2-inch TFT LCD display with QVGA resolution and 256k color depth. This is as basic as it can get for a display.
Its Imaging feature is also basic with a 2-megapixel fixed focus camera that supports QVGA video recording.
There's a very modest 35 MB internal memory which can be expanded with a microSD slot for up to 8GB, though we figure the more common 16 GB microSD card can be used as well.
Its slim 800 mAh lithium-ion battery delivers up to 7.5 hours of talk time and 19 days of standby time when fully charged.
Multimedia features are supported with the usual audio and video players that play the popular media file formats. You also get stereo FM with RDS. There's sound enhancement with Samsung's proprietary DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine) for stereo widening, surround and bass boost. Its Bluetooth has A2DP support for using wireless stereo earphones.
Its non-smartphone User Interface gets a more responsive updated feel. The Samsung S5350 Shark 3 gets bundled with Google Maps support but no GPS. You also get basic HTML and WAP-enabled web browsers but without Flash video. As a social networking phone, it has a capable SNS communities software that allows instant and easy access to your favorite Facebook, Bebo and MySpace accounts.