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Samsung S5560 Overview

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Key Features
WLAN Wi-Fi® Technology
3 Inch 262k Colour TFT Touch Screen (240 x 400 Pixels)
Screen Accelerometer Sensor
TouchWiz User Interface
Bluetooth® & Micro USB Connectivity
5 Megapixel Camera with Auto Focus & Image Stabiliser
Video Player (MPEG4, H263 & H264)
Quad Band (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900)
MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
Music Player (MP3, WAV & eAAC+)

Design

90%

Usability

86%

Features

85%

The above ratings are average figures, which have been generated from submitted mobile phone reviews.

Our Samsung S5560 Review

The Samsung S5560 is a touch screen mobile phone complete with a desirable & well designed casing. This phone comes in a black coloured casing & the front view of the handset is almost filled by its user friendly touch screen. Its screen is 3 inches in size when measured from corner to corner diagonally, & displays up to two hundred & sixty two thousand colours on its high resolution screen. The user can customise their home screen with their favourite features, widgets & background display. This touch screen supports an accelerometer sensor which will automatically turn the screen depending on whether the handset is in its horizontal or vertical mode for the users viewing needs. The user can enjoy a stylish TouchWiz user interface on their S5560 which makes it a fun handset to use. Below the screen there is a navigation control key & two call keys which allow the user to accept their calls & end their calls easily using these controls. There is a camera capture key & volume keys located on the side sections of the handset which are situated in these easy to access positions for ease of use. The Samsung S5560 is a truly sturdy handset which measures 10.75cm tall by 5.2cm wide by 1.32cm deep & its total weight including the fitted battery amounts to 95.3 grams.

This mobile phone supports a speaker phone feature which allows the user to hear their calls over the phones loud speakers. The user simply switches to speakers when the user wishes to hear their contact out loud, & the user responses will be picked up by the handsets built in microphone. It is possible for the user to gain access to calls the user has made, received & even missed, by the user simply accessing their call log feature & they user can even make a call if needing to respond to a missed call in their call log. The Samsung S5560 makes communicating easy for its user as the user can manage & control their phone book with their contacts details & make a call using simply touch screen controls. There is a built in Internet browser which supports XHTML & HTML Internet browsing & the user can access many online services & information via their mobile Web browsing experience. It comes with an integrated email service which allows the user to create, store & receive emails on the Samsung S5560. This integrated email service allows the user to communicate with their contacts via email directly from their mobile phone. The S5560 also supports a text message service & a multimedia messaging service allowing the user to create & share messages with ease. A multimedia message can contain a photo, image or a video clips complete with text & sound to enhance the message further. Known as a MMS message, the multimedia messaging services allows the user to share their photos instantly with other MMS compatible contacts.

Samsung S5560 touch screen phone front view

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This phone comes with a built in radio feature which supports FM tuning & has a RDS service which provides information on the touch screen which can be read by the user whilst listening to the radio, if the user requests this service. This radio feature can also be added to the user's widgets & even to the user home screen which makes it in an easily located position at all times. The Samsung S5560 has a music playing feature which supports high quality sound output & a selection of popular music playing formats including MP3 format & WAV format. Again the user can locate this music player via the phones menu or set a music player widget on their home screen if desired. There is a video playing facility which allows the user to playback their video creations or to playback video recordings which have been shared by their contacts. The video player supports video playback in MPEG4, H263 format & H264 video format. The S5560 comes with a 5 megapixel camera feature complete with a selection of imaging features including a built in image stabiliser, LED flash, smile detection feature & an automatic focus feature. This 5 megapixel camera also supports video recording capabilities allowing the user to capture moving footage as well as still images.

The S5560 supports Wi-Fi® connectivity allowing the user to connect their mobile phone to a nearby wireless LAN or hotspot to gain a connection to the Internet, without the use of wires or cables. When the user wishes to connect their mobile phone to other compatible devices then the user can use either micro USB connection or a Bluetooth® wireless connection to connect the two devices for data transfer purposes. A Bluetooth® wireless connection can be gained between the Samsung S5560 & another compatible Bluetooth® device including a printer, computer or another mobile phone which is up to ten metres away from the S5560 during the connectivity process. This phone comes with 78 megabytes of internal memory & has a memory card slot which allows the user to insert a memory card up to 16 gigabytes in memory size. The battery provided with the Samsung S5560 handset provides up to nine & a half hours talk time when fully charged or approximately six hundred & twenty hours of standby battery time. This mobile phone works over a quad band GSM network which covers 850, 900, 1800, 1900 networks & will automatically switch between networks as required.

Samsung S5560 Specifications & Features

Screen
3 Inch 262k Colour TFT Touch Screen (240 x 400 Pixels)

Imaging
5 Megapixel Camera
Auto Focus
LED Flash
Image Stabiliser
Smile Detection
Picture Album
Video Record
Video Player (MPEG4, H263 & H264)
Picture Wallpaper

Messaging
SMS (Text Messaging)
MMS (Multimedia Messaging)
Email

Sound
Music Player (MP3, WAV & eAAC+)
Music Storage
FM Radio RDS
Polyphonic Ringtones
MP3 & WAV Ringtones

Entertainment
Java Games
Downloadable Games

Organiser
Phonebook
Organiser
Calendar
Clock
Alarm Clock
Calculator
Speaker Phone
Call Log
TouchWiz User Interface
Screen Accelerometer Sensor

Connectivity
WLAN Wi-Fi®
Bluetooth® with A2DP
Micro USB
GPRS
EDGE

Network
Quad Band (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900)

Internet
WAP 2.0
XHTML
HTML

Memory & Talk Time
78 Mbytes Memory Plus MicroSD™ Memory Card Support up to 16 Gbytes
9.5 Hours Talk Time
620 Hours Standby

Weight & Size
95.3 g
107.5 x 52 x 13.2 mm

Your Samsung S5560 Reviews

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Reviewer: Kesavulu - Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 30th Sep 2010

I am using this Samsung S5560 model mobile phone for the past two months, nice phone with touch screen & other good features.

Design

95%

Usability

90%

Features

90%

Reviewer: David Piper - Worthing, UK
Date: 16th Jul 2010

Easy to use {Nice phone).

Design

90%

Usability

100%

Features

100%

Reviewer: Chris Brodie - UK
Date: 12th Jul 2010

I have had this phone for about 2 months now & I like it a lot. I has many good features like the camera, but has a few annoying habits too. I would like to be able to sort my bookmarks & if you have hundreds of images, the camera will make you scroll through them all to find one image, but the glitches are small & the for the most part the features work very well.

Compared to smart phones it isn't great, but then I don't pay anywhere near the same as smart phone users.

If you have chunky fingers, I recommend getting a stylus.

Design

85%

Usability

75%

Features

70%

Reviewer: RG - UK
Date: 30th Jun 2010

Can this model view pdf doc? Regards RG..

Design

90%

Usability

75%

Features

90%

Reviewer: George - Surrey, UK
Date: 31st May 2010

I got this phone 2 days ago now, & it's my first touch screen phone, at first I found it relatively easy to navigate which was a bonus, & everything is well presented, however there are some things which could improve, there aren't many games, there are only trials, & there aren't that many apps for it, apart from that perfect phone! :).

Design

100%

Usability

95%

Features

90%

Reviewer: Hiren - London, UK
Date: 5th May 2010

Fantastic handset, worth the money I paid for it!

Design

90%

Usability

90%

Features

90%

Reviewer: Arron - UK
Date: 1st May 2010

Easy 2 use phone, all good except unable to connect to my PC as it is not compatible with windows vista, sort it out Samsung, that's the only problem with this phone, & such a big one.

Design

90%

Usability

90%

Features

90%

Reviewer: Joe - UK
Date: 15th Mar 2010

This phone is absolutely excellent, what can I say, really easy to use, the design is great & highly recommend.

Design

95%

Usability

100%

Features

100%

Reviewer: Saintschick - UK
Date: 10th Mar 2010

I brought this phone as I wanted a mid range touch screen at a reasonable price. I have had it about 2 weeks now & I like it. Don't get me wrong there are better phones on the market but will cost you twice as much money. The touch screen is quite responsive & texting is very easy. This phone does have Wi-Fi & I find this better to use for Internet as the phone is not 3G & can be a little slow when using the 2G Internet speeds. I love the way the phone looks & there are widgets although not many that you can use for things like facebook, bebo & twitter etc. The phone has a 5MP camera & although not brilliant in the dark, does take a very good picture.

In all honesty I am a big believer in you get what you pay for. This phone is good for the money but you can't expect it to do everything the top phones do. For the money I paid for it I am more than happy.

Design

100%

Usability

75%

Features

60%

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