Samsung Galaxy 551 Review 2011

Latest Mobile Samsung Galaxy 551

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.

The Galaxy 551 does not look forward to making a big splash, It’s part of a broader effort of giving the Galaxy lineup some depth in the midrange. With Froyo and all-round connectivity the Samsung Galaxy 551 makes perfect sense in the segment of affordable smart messengers.
Status  

Available. Released 2010, Q4
Size Dimensions 111 x 55 x 15.2 mm
Weight 117 g
Display
Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 240 x 400 pixels, 3.2 inches
- QWERTY keyboard
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- TouchWiz 3.0 UI
Sound
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 160 MB
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, 1 GB included, buy memory
- DNSe sound enhancement
Data
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 12
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, v2.0 microUSB
Camera
Primary 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, check quality
Video Yes, QVGA@15fps
Secondary No
Features
OS Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU 667 MHz processor
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Downloadable
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Social networking integration
- MP4/WMV/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- Organizer
- Document viewer
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text input
Battery

• Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh
• Stand-by Up to 520 h (2G) / Up to 370 h (3G)
• Talk time Up to 9 h (2G) / Up to 5 h (3G)
• Misc SAR US 0.18 W/kg (head) 0.90 W/kg (body)
• SAR EU 0.38 W/kg (head)

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