Samsung S3550 Shark 3: A Simple While Elegant Feature Phone

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Want a phone that comes with sleek slider design with modern up to date technology at an affordable price? There is one phone that can fit the bill, namely Samsung S3550, which is the third set declared by the company in Shark series. This stylish phone comes with huge lot of features, from music, internet access, video to enhanced camera features and expected to be the cheapest in Samsung Shark series mobiles. Further, you will be pleased with single touch access to social networking sites, distinctive feature of the Shark series. Therefore, you can call it as a best all-around slider phone in the market.

Samsung S3550 Shark 3 marks a return to the traditional styled Samsung mobile phone, coming in a chic slide style, which makes navigation more easier. The upper slide has been provided with call buttons and menu selection keys. The phone measures a relatively small 95.8mm x 45.8mm x 14.4mm and is very lightweight, weighing in at just 79 grams (including its battery), thus allowing you to easily carry it in pocket. The shark 3 has ...
... 2 inch TFT screen, which is offering a QVGA resolution of 240 X 320 pixels and supports up to 256K colors. Pictures and videos quality is reasonable good.

Entertainment-wise, it is equipped with a built in Music player which supports all popular audio formats such as MP3, WMA WAV, & eAAC+. The music quality is simply good and loud enough to hear properly. It also has FM radio and it facilitate multitasking, supports RDS feature so that you can view text while listening to radio. It also comes packed with Java powered colorful games, which offers good, and lively gaming experience and you can also download other interesting games from internet. Shark 3 comes with a 2 mega pixel camera with 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution. You can capture pictures and videos with it. But there is no picture editing functions, which is a little disappointing. It is also capable of video playback features which supports popular video formats like MPEG4, H264, H263 & WMV. There is a secondary camera too, but without autofocus feature. The mobile phone is capable of supporting complete messaging such as SMS, MMS, Email, and IM.

Samsung S3550 is a quad band phone, so you can always connected to the network wherever you are. The data transferring is supported with GPRS Class 10 and EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps. It also comes with Bluetooth 2.1 support with A2DP and USB 2.0. It is quite easy and convenient to connect to social networking such as Orkut, Facebook, twitter and etc. This phone also comes with built in Google maps, which helps you find direction in unknown cities. Sadly, it does not have Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity, so web browsing speed will be a little bit limited.

In terms of memory, Samsung S3550 does not show a strong backup with its 35 MB internal storage. But, fortunately this mobile phone support a microSD card which can be expandable up to 8GB. Its 800mAh battery is good for up to 7.5 hours of talk time and 430 hours of standby time.

This phone is available in three attractive colored casings: black, white, and pink, which is surely appealing to different ages of users. For a budget phone, it offers a variety of useful functions and still has a innovative design, which is undoubtedly the preference in modern mobile phone market.
Jerry Smith, the editor of http://www.mobilephoneonly.co.uk. An expert on mobile phone and an observer of UK telecommunication market. He writes reviews on latest mobile phones, and also suggests promotional deals and special offers from mobile phone retailers in UK.