Samsung i550 - user opinions and reviews

I don't prefer samsung as business phone. but this one might be good. ofcourese the one with wifi only. do you know how much we can upgrade the memory on this phone.

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• bill
• 2008-05-15 14:52  2wIS

all the s60v3 softwares will work but you must change the date to 2006 or 2007 and then install softwares in it

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• 2008-05-15 12:10  mIfd

hi i have n73 s60v3, and lots off 3rd party app and games. Does enyboy knew if all off them will work on i550. THX

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• 2008-05-15 10:08  SXhT

I just bourght i550W after two hours use it is dead i dont know what happend today i will go to change it just I bourth it QR. 1050/- in Qatar.

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• NN
• 2008-05-14 13:58  pu7d

please help

any up-date softwaer for this mobile. how e can improve the wi fi
thank you

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• Nizar
• 2008-05-14 13:10  nCby

A word of warning: This may be good enough for most camera-phone shots, but it looks like the camera really warps the pictures.

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• 2008-05-14 05:36  kWDA

Does anyone know if there is a firmware update for this model? As it does show some signs os instability. Like sporadic restarting. Poor wifi connection.
Cheers.

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• oliver
• 2008-05-13 02:13  RNME

hello
do any body heared about this (Samsung SGH i760 ) is this god one cuz it seames good
is this avilable in egypt?
thanks

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• bedo
• 2008-05-08 17:33  fvME

Please Help!!
i bought this phone i550 after reading all the great feautures it had to offer by trading in my faithful old W660i SE and sadly enough I am beginning to regret for one main reason which surprised me. The phone just went out and I got late to office since I depended on it for my Alarm. The first thing I did was to charge the phone fully and did not download any software or anything like that. To start with I guess this is a really bad experience for anyone, I mean with all the big Ads about its feature(s).

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• Salis
• 2008-05-08 06:51  Sq6%

Here's an interesting tip - If you need a really long battery life and you have done all those things I suggested in my last post, then try switching from 3G UMTS mode to 2G GSM mode. I am told that you'll get 3x the talktime.

Oh and by the way, don't forget my tip about downloading the Opera Mobile (Not Opera Mini) browser. It will improve the trackball scrolling problems significantly.

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• BrendanT
• 2008-05-04 12:16  vuZc

i just got mine 2 days ago. it seems well but the battery life is really short. Other then that my phone just got hang out and auto shut off suddenly. Didn't quite know what's wrong.trackball is also abit hard to use if u wan to browse quickly.

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• isae
• 2008-05-04 12:05  PUmr

Guys - I am seeing heaps of people asking about the battery life on these phones.

They use a 1200mAh battery on a phone with a 2.6" screen. If you want a phone that will give you 3-4 days battery life, buy an old 2G GSM basic Nokia phone. But if you want the sophisticated features that this phone offers then here are some tips.

First, Samsung's default screen brightness is way more than is needed, so turn it right down.

Second, change your display settings to a 10 sec backlight and 5 second dim.

Third, make sure there are no apps running in background when you aren't using them.

Fourth, turn off your Bluetooth when you aren't using the phone.

Fifth, phone batteries have a memory so always fully charge and then fully discharge before recharging. This is called battery cycling. If your battery seems to have problems, try cycling your battery three to four times and see if the performance improves. High tech devices like these need their batteries replaced every 12 months, so if you use yours a lot, buy a another battery.

Sixth, when connecting to the internet, try to use a high speed WLAN connection in preference to the 3G HSDPA facilities - I was told the other day that surfing using the WLAN will drain half as much power as surfing using the 3G HSDPA connection - don't know if that's true.

Seventh, if you are listening to music then use the headphones provided in preference to the loudspeaker - big savings here.

Eighth, when downloading new apps to your phone, try to download them to your pc first and then Bluetooth or USB them to your phone - you’d be amazed how much power you’ll save here.

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• BrendanT
• 2008-05-04 10:40  vuZc

Mai - I've been thinking about your screensaver issue. The standard phone doesn't come with a screensaver preinstalled, so I can only assume that if you have one installed, either you or someone who had access to the phone has installed either a .jar or .sis or .sisx screensaver on the phone.

Have you carefully looked through the installed files in application manager to see if there is a file which is either labelled as a screensaver or labelled as something else which you don’t recognise?

Another way to approach this might be to delete all the apps in application manager and then reset the phone to factory defaults using the 00000000 pin. If you're worried about loosing your apps, then see if they are available on handango.com or nokia mosh before you delete them.

Let me know if this solves the problem. If it doesn’t, you may have to find a good file manager which can look into the data cabinets which are not viewable in the standard Symbian file manager.

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• BrendanT
• 2008-05-04 10:14  vuZc

first this mobile is great by all means ecsebt some draw back


one of them the trakball

if your annound like im un net browsing hear this your gona love me

when you open asite try pressing 8 it well gaive page overvewie g to the area that wna read and just press ok


the other draw back the gps is has low signal and loses it tottely some times when im in the car is every body having this prop

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• 7rame 3asfeer
• 2008-05-03 22:55  pu7c

- Batery ok(i charge for 8 hour before using at first time) but not ok when using GPS(Need car charger).
- NAVFone GPS software is crap then I install Garmin Mobile XT and Malsing v2.23 Gold (it Free GPS software and map.. tq), wow! it work so fine

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• ohsai79
• 2008-05-03 06:43  ibXf

The I550 have short battery life, I charge it twice a day !!!

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• Vivaldi
• 2008-05-02 17:54  iFXZ

brendanT & figure, guys how can i change my screensaver? pls help me..
thanks

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• mai
• 2008-05-01 22:36  pu7d

Ling, see below for network technologies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...ne_standards

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• BrendanT
• 2008-05-01 06:36  vuZc

who knw dis phone got umts...wat mean umts?

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• ling
• 2008-05-01 06:06  wHUr

brendan- i also both my unit here in qatar... just bought this unit for 1599QR. in 2 days time it became 999QR... but unlike figure_twister, samsung center told me that the price will not change until unit last... its really a dissapointment on my side...its not easy to earn money nowadays...

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• mai
• 2008-04-29 19:36  pu7d