Philips 550

• General features
  • Announced in February 2004, official announcement in February 2004 3GSM Congress, in the market since summer 2004
  • GSM 900/1800/1900
  • Battery type Li-Ion 720mAh
  • Battery life:
  • talk time up to 4.5 hours
  • standby time up to 250 hours
  • TFT display shows up to 65000 colors, 7 text lines and 2 service lines, has the resolution of 128x160 pixels, touchscreen
  • Java MIDP 2.0
  • Colors - Brown Suede, Silver Silk
  • Dimensions: 98x44x18 mm
  • Weight: 85 g

• Memory
  • Phone book memory for 300 names, allows to set up to 5 numbers and one e-mail address for a name
  • Users' groups in the phone book, a possibility to assign own melody to different users' groups. A possibility to assign a photo to a group, it will be displayed during incoming call (Fotocall). Up to 20 groups
  • Orgainzer memory for 300 events, memory is shared with the phone book, that means if a number of notes in organizer is 100 then a number of names in the phone book cannot be more than 200.
  • Call register of 30 dialed, 30 received, and 30 missed calls
  • 7 MB of memory for dictaphone records and files are also shared dynamically, 450 KB are used at the beginning

 

• Call management, ringing tones

• Vibrating alert
• 32 tones polyphony
• 30 melodies and ringing tones, a possibility to create own melody
• A new voice code AMR in addition to three ones(HR, FR,EFR).
• A possibility to use 40 voice tags for voice dialing or accessing menu items

• SMS
  • Predictive text input T9
  • SMS, EMS
  • 10 templates

   

• Connectivity
• WAP 2.0
• GPRS(4+2)
• e-mail(POP/SMTP) - up to 2 accounts
• MMS

• Organizer and extras
  • Graphic image or clock like headband
  • BeDJ
  • Orgainzer for up to 300 events. Calendar - week or month view, recurrent events
  • Date, time, alarm-clock
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Dictaphone, number and length of notes are limited only by free space
  • Game - Bricks

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 5 April 2004