The Samsung SPH-i550

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is the

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-based successor to the clamshell style SPH-i500. The SPH-i550 has a 320 x 320 internal screen and an external

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display. The camera takes 1 MP stills and can record video. A built-in MP3 player is controlled by external buttons without having to open the phone.

Features

* Palm OS Garnet (5.4) * MX1 CPU with 64 MB ROM / 32 MB

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1x * Clamshell form factor with dual displays, supports handwriting recognition * 320 x 320 pixel, 2.3 inch, 65,536 color display (internal) * OLED 128 x 96 pixel display (external) * 3.15-megapixel digital camera with an LED flash * Supports streaming media (VOD) *

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount ...

MPEG4 MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. It was originally introduced in late 1998 as a group of audio and video coding formats and related te ...

player, controlled by external buttons without having to open the phone * Web browser *

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remote transmit *

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(SD) memory expansion slot A unique feature of the i550 is that all programs and data are stored in non-volatile flash memory so that a hard reset of the Palm device will not cause information loss. As of April 2005,

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ha
cancelled plans
for the SPH-i550. The i550 is offered by any carrier in the United States. Just weeks after Sprint canceled the phone, it was announced that the SCH-i539, a

-based

by Samsung that is very similar to the i550, was available in China. The i539 is nearly identical to the i550, except that it uses a

br>Removable User Identity Module (R-UIM)
which is similar in function to a

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SIM card. Evidence on th
Samsung Website
indicates that a carrier in Mexico is in trials with the i550. The devices being tested all have the Sprint logo.
petition asking Sprint to release the i550
was created, but there has been no response from Sprint yet.

References

External links

Samsung SPH-i550
phonescoop.com

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