Samsung i550 article

Samsung’s Palm-based i550 has a sleek clamshell-design and will be offered by Sprint on its CDMA network. The top half of the clamshell remains to be smartphone’s main display, while the bottom half contains the standard backlit keypad and a headset jack. On the other side of the display screen is a smaller, OLED screen for basic information, such as time and date.

Unlike its earlier version, the i550 will run on Palm Os Grant, formally known as 5.2, rather than the out-of-date Palm OS 4.1. The i550’s memory is also doubled from 16Mb to 32MB, and has an SDIO slot for memory expansion and peripherals.

As for multimedia, the i550 sports a 1 megapixel camera with flash, and the user will also be able to record videos, play music, and watch MPEG4 videos. The i550’s battery is also swappable.

The i550 is rumored to have a 300MHz Intel processor, 32MB of ROM, and 324 x 352 resolution with a 16-bit (65,536 colors) display. Not much else is known about this new device yet, but we’ll report more information as it becomes available. According to Samsung, the i550 should be available sometime in the third or fourth quarter.