Motorola C550

This is a renewal of Motorola C350. It differs only in a possibility to load Java applications, higher capacity of the battery, presense of alarm clock, MMS and built-in camera. This is the cheapest phone with a built-in camera.

• Class: middle, youth
• Position in the line: above Motorola C450
• Rival phones: Sony Ericsson T330, Siemens MC60

• General
  • Announced in September 2003, in the market since February 2003
  • GSM 900/1800
  • Graphic high-contrast display with the resolution of 96x65 pixels shows up to 4096 colors (STN), up to 3 text lines with 16 characters in each + 2 service lines
  • Battery type Li-Ion 750 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • talk time up to 210 minutes
  • standby time up to 200 hours
  • J2ME MIDP 1.0
  • VGA camera, 2x digital zoom
  • Weight: 79 g
  • Dimensions: 98 x 42 x 20 mm

• Memory
  • Phone book for up to 100 numbers, several numbers for a name but the whole number of notes cannot exceed 100
  • Memory for 20 SMS
  • Organizer memory for 500 events
  • 900 KB of memory for Java applications, 300 KB for data, 2 MB in general (taking into consideration preset calls, pictures and etc.)

• Call management, ringing tones, voice management
  • 16 tones polyphony, up to 128 instruments
  • 35 ringing tones and melodies, a possibility to create up to 32 of own ones. All the melodies are polyphonic
  • Musical editor MotoMixer (a possibility to create polyphonic melodies)
  • A possibility to load melodies in iMelody or MIDI format
  • Vibrating alert
  • Different types of vibrating alerts, schemes
  • Voice dialing (up to 20)

• SMS
  • EMS (ver. 5.0)
  • Predictive text input iTap
  • SMS Chat
  • Peer-to-peer Chat

• Connectivity
  • GPRS (4+1)
  • WAP 2.0
  • MMS

• Organizer and extras
  • Themes (screen savers, wall paper and ringing tones, these all is united by the word theme), a possibility to load new themes
  • A possibility to create own tags in menu - MyMenu
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Alarm clock
  • Calendar, date, time, alarm clock (as a reminder in organizer)
  • Organizer, different types of events
  • 3 games (MotoGP,AstroSmash, Snood21) - a possibility to load new levels

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 27 December 2003

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