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The Samsung S5550 Shark 2, The Best Camera Phone?

Samsung recently unveiled a new line of low-to-mid range full-featured handsets that should further cement its hold on the budget-conscious mobile phone markets everywhere.  This is the Shark line that starts out with three models with decent to near-upscale functionalities housed in the conventional slim candybar and slider form bodies that have earlier established Samsung’s hold among the younger and trendier mobile markets.

Never to forget its roots, the Korean leader in mobile phones is positioning the Shark line as an affordable versatile mobile phone that it hopes will appeal to a market that has little interest in touchscreens or full QWERTY handsets, smart or otherwise.

One of them, the Samsung S5550 Shark 2 which carries the best feature set of the three, is sure to capture the social networking crowd with a no-nonsense handset that is both friendly to the pocket as it is to the wallet.

The new Shark phone is no SatNav gadget with GPS.  There’s no WiFi; no QWERTY keyboard and no humongous capacitive touchscreen that can triple its price tag.  It’s your basic communications tool whose charms lie in its elegantly styled slider body made of a blend of Kevlar and real metal to give its sculpted body a nice feel to the hands.

But that doesn’t mean it won’t be indulging its users.  It has a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, image stabilization, face and smile recognition and a very capable QVGA video recording at a smooth 30fps frame rate.  This feature is often reserved to upscale smartphones and is wanting in some, making the Shark 2 one of the best full featured camera phone in its price point.

Features at a Budget Price

The Shark 2 is a 3G phone on the dual band UMTS and a 2G phone on the quad band GSM/SPRS/EDGE radio.  It has HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps for fast social networking access and downloading.  There’s the usual Bluetooth 2.1 and USBO 2.0 for wireless and wired data connectivity, respectively.

You get a smallish 2.2 inch QVGA display with 256k colors typical of entry level candybars and sliders.  But it’s an AMOLED display that is fast getting widely used in mobile gadgets.  While brilliant indoors, AMOLEDs are not as good under the bright sun. It advantage comes with no backlighting common in LCD displays.  This conserves power consumption. Talking about power, its 960 mAh lithium ion battery delivers one of the longest talk times in the market: 11 hours.  You also get 26 hours on standby when fully charged.

The Samsung S5550 Shark 2’s multimedia is served with media players that support the popular image, audio and video file formats.  There’s the familiar DNSe 2.0 sound enhancer for widening and getting surround effects.  It also has an FM stereo receiver with broadcast recording facility and its Bluetooth has A2DP support allowing you to use wireless stereo earphones.

Your multimedia files won’t fit in its modest 110 MB of internal memory but you get microSD expandability for up to 8 GB according to its technical specs.  But we’re almost sure that you can use 16 GB microSD cards as well.

From a software standpoint, Samsung has refined its non-smartphone user interface to be more responsive and flexible.  You get instant access to your favorite social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace right from widgets on its homescreen.  It comes with a communities software that allows fast and easy updates to popular media sharing sites like Flickr, YouTube, Picasso and Photobucket.

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