The Samsung SPH-i550

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is the

Palm OS Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provi ...

-based planned 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) *

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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

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as ...

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.

External links

* http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=522

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