Samsung Z550 (SGH-Z550)

Available now
13th March 2006

Another addition to the expanding range of Z-series 3G phones from Samsung, the SGH-Z550 slider comes with an SVGA 240x320 pixel TFT display in 262,000 colours, a 2 megapixel digital camera, Bluetooth, a multimedia player, 138Mb of internal memory with microSD expansion and stereo speakers. In addtion to UMTS 2100 3G, the Samsung Z550 supports EDGE.

It's a lightweight 3G phone at 95 grams, but there's really nothing much to distinguish this from other similar handsets in the Samsung range. However, it's a bland looking phone that's almost indistinguishable from many other recently announced Samsung handsets. During 2005, Samsung came out with some beautiful handsets such as the SGH-E530, but many of the handsets announced so far in 2006 have been very dull to look at, even though the technical specifications are quite good.

There's not much else to say - you can expect the Z550 to come with all the other standard 3G features such as a web browser, email client, video calling etc etc, but basically this is a run-of-the-mill 3G phone that is competently done, but utterly unexciting.

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