Samsung Galaxy 551 Disadvantages

Samsung Galaxy 551 review: Value line

Introduction

The Samsung Galaxy 551 is something that should have happened a long time ago. This is not to say that the form factor was out of favor with Samsung. But it took a slew of CDMA messengers to finally see a QWERTY side-slider to land in Europe.

Android debuted on a full QWERTY phone, but messengers were never meant to be the dominant species. The Galaxy 551 is pragmatic enough to accept the fact and live with it. Samsung itself knows better than expect the market to embrace more QWERTY messengers the skill and size of the Motorola Milestone or the HTC Desire Z.

Key features

·                 Slide-out full QWERTY keyboard

·                 Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA support

·                 3.2" 16M-color TFT capacitive touchscreen of WQVGA (240 x 400 pixel) resolution

·                 Great QWERTY keyboard

·                 Android OS v2.2 with TouchWiz launcher

·                 667MHz processor

·                 3.15 MP autofocus camera, QVGA video recording at 15fps

·                 Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n

·                 GPS with A-GPS connectivity

·                 160 MB internal storage, microSD slot

·                 Accelerometer and proximity sensor

·                 Standard 3.5 mm audio jack

·                 Stereo FM radio with RDS

·                 Smart dialing

·                 Access to Android Market and Samsung Apps repository

Main disadvantages

·                 Glossy plastic is a smudge magnet and scratch-prone

·                 No dedicated camera key

·                 No Adobe Flash support

·                 No live wallpaper support

·                 No secondary video-call camera

·                 No DivX/XviD video support out of the box

·                 No document viewer