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Samsung i550/i550w review: Low-key all-in-one

09 April 2008 | Read the review | Post your comment

Fascinating as they are, ultra high-end handsets are not everybody's cup of tea. In fact, the good old mid-range is the bread and butter for every successful mobile phone company, for that's what gets those sales numbers right. As we see it, Samsung i550...

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For some stupid reason. Built in gps is not working for me.
i am returning the phone. Looks like built in gps is just for name sake. Sad i really liked the phone. but i need gps.

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2008-05-05 13:13 MGIT

Do anyone know how many sms it can store?

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2008-04-23 16:08 ubaK

Hi everyone,
I bought this phone 2 weeks ago. It is an excellent combination of a Nokia performance and Samsung elegance. I agree to Mr. Muhammed Oli about high-end / mid-end matter. The only "mid-end thing" about this phone is its PRICE :)).
The difference from the N95/N82 is the camera pixel, but Samsung i550w is much elegant and easier to handle & use. Another big plus with this phone is that it charges off the USB, which does not seem to happen in Nokia N8x or N9x series.
In conclusion, I can say that if you want a Wi-fi phone, then this is the only and the definite purchase..

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Guclu
2008-04-15 14:01 SYgh

I agree with a lot of the comments made - It is basically a carbon-copy of a SE Design with a carbon copy of a Nokia GUI.
Whats going on Samsung? Have you Mobile phone design team just given up?

I have a nokia N73 [still] and it does me fine - I would even think about upgrading to this [Well,...Only for WiFi ;-)]

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Phaze
2008-04-15 13:51 SuJB

It looks more like a Sony Ericsson

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2008-04-12 02:09 PEaT

I find it surprising that GSMArena's first paragraph of the review suggests this is mid-end. Do you judge a phone by what kind of camera it has? Thats just stupid. This is without a doubt pretty high-end. I mean, it has WiFi, GPS, HSDPA, a 3 mega pixel auto focus cam, A2DP bluetooth and a pretty decent sized screen... Its bordering on the specs of the N95 apart from the camera! And thats high-end to me.

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Muhammad-Oli
2008-04-10 13:11 TSBu

E51 with a bigger screen and samsung design?

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2008-04-10 11:29 mqqH

haha SE exterior and nokia interfaces. lol

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koolkid
2008-04-10 07:03 jQY7

menu features are looking like nokia phones.....

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2008-04-10 05:12 w4p5

dudes and dudets looks at the first page of GSMarena, theres like 8 samsung reviews and a samsung in the news? you guys seeing it

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2008-04-10 00:31 0BS9

looks like a phone sony would make

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spoon fed
2008-04-09 23:33 QuDE

GSMARENA; You can leave out the no wifi part. The 550 and 550i are identical, you should read at symbianfreak, there's a wifi chip in the phone, but you must activate it with drivers.

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2008-04-09 23:13 mnfs

Hey its hard to be 100% original when making new phones these days.. but this phone is way too much SE looks... the buttons are practically 1:1 copy.