Key features and review of the Philips 550

The Philips 550 is a trendy, good looking and compact handset with touch screen. The dimensions of the phone are 46 x 106 x 18 mm and weighs 89g. The phone is powered by a Li-ion 720 mAh battery that will work up to 250 hours in standby mode and 5 hours of talks. Philips 550 is equipped with a large 160 x 128 pixels TFT touch screen that displays 65,000 colors. There is a numeric keypad that has soft keys making the phone easier to dial. You can also find four-way navigation joystick button centered below the display.

Philips 550 offers 30 pre-loaded polyphonic ring tones that you can select as per your choice. And you can also download more ring tones from internet or friend's mobile phone. The phone also has a composer where you can create and edit new ring tones.

Philips 550 supports for Tri-band GSM 900/GSM 1800/GSM 1900 MHz for network connectivity. For high speed data transfer the phone supports Infrared and GPRS. Other features of the phone are Java, WAP browser, call records (30 dialed, 30 received, 30 missed calls), SMS, EMS, MMS, Vibration alert, Built-in hands free, Calendar, Games, Alarm, calculator, Organizer, photo call and phonebook where you can store up to 500 phone numbers. The unique feature of the phone is that it comes with 7 MB of internal memory.

Overall, the Philips 550 is a great phone at a reasonable price.