For the more geeky people, here is a summarized specifications of the Samsung SGH-i550.

Network
- HSDPA (3.6Mbps download and 384kbps upload)
- Quad-band (900, 1800, 1900, 2100 MHz)
- EDGE
- GPRS Class 10

Operating System
- Symbian Series 60

Dimnesion
- 115 x 53 x 13.8 mm
- 109 g

Battery
- Lithium Ion at 1200 mAh
- Standby time up to 450 hours
- Talk time up to 8 hours

Memory
- 150MB internal memory
- Expandable up to 4GB Micro SD

Connectivity
- Bluetooth technology Version 2.0 with EDR, A2DP and AVRCP
- USB 2.0 high speed
- WiFi enabled

Display
- 2.6″ screen
- 262144 color TFT (240 * 320)

Camera
- 3.2 mega pixel
- 9x digital zoom
- Auto Focus
- Flash LED

Video
- Recording time up to 3 hours
- Playback time up to 4.5 hours
- MPEG4, H.263 and Real One format.

Music
- MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC, WMA format supportable
- Background music play

Features
- Organizer
- Quick Office
- Adobe Reader

- Java MIDP 2.0
- EMS / MMS support
- SyncML DS 1.1.2
- OMA DRM v2.0
- FM Radio
- e-Mail (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, SSL and TLS)
- Instant Messaging
- PC STudio v7.1
- Offline mode
- Hands-free speaker phone
- Voice Memo
- Voice Mail
- Call Logs (10 missed calls, 10 received calls and 20 dialed numbers)
- Speed dial
- Themes

And that is the official specification released by Samsung Mobile.

Looking at the specifications, I would say they are pretty standard and what one would expect from a high end mobile phone these days. With a price tag of RM1499, if the phone doesn’t have these much of features, then it doesn’t fit the price tag. In my opinion, the ones that make them stand out would be the WiFi, 3.2 mega pixel camera, 2.6″ TFT LCD display and last but not least, Symbian Series 60 as its operating system.

Symbian Series 60 is currently the operating system used in most high end (which also spells expensive) mobile phone. The pioneer would be Nokia’s N-series, the earliest series of mobile phones to adopt and implement S60 as their operating system. Although the open source software is owned by all the mobile phone manufacturer, it is Nokia that is holding the biggest stake in the company.

The advantage of using S60 as the operating system is that end users are able to install as many third party applications as they want, making their mobile phone as fun, as efficient, and as powerful as the end users want it to be. Being an open source program, developers around the world are constantly creating SIS applications for Symbian phones with different objectives, functions and purposes.

However, nothing is perfect, so is the S60 operating system. Coming from an end user who used N70 that runs on S60 for the past two years, I can safely say that after a long period of usage and with many applications installed, the system will be slowed down at a significant speed. It is somewhat similar to a normal computer trying to run Windows XP with insufficient memory. In Layman’s term, lag.

Yet, it has been two years and there were many newer versions and patches that have been released to fix this aging problem, I can only hope that the problem is partially solved as I believed there’s no solution to this problem. Why? It’s like saying Microsoft Windows will never have blue screen of death, which you and I know that its impossible.

I always have doubt with Samsung’s mobile phones because of its really lousy operating system. When I found out that Samsung Mobile has finally decided to jump onto the wagon to use S60 as its operating system, I was nothing but pleased and glad. Not only S60 is a powerful operating system, the user friendliness that Nokia’s phone is famous for can also be found on Samsung’s phone now. It pushes Samsung’s phone to be right on par with Nokia’s N-series and it boils down who has the better specifications.

Yes, with the S60, its going to open up many possibilities for the upcoming models and even perhaps, change the future of Samsung mobile. That pretty much summarized the specification of the Samsung SGH-i550 as I shall leave the rest for another post.

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