Samsung Galaxy 551 is something that should have happened a long time ago. This is not to say that the form factor was in service 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 the Messenger was never meant to be the dominant species. Galaxy 551 is pragmatic to accept and live with it. Samsung himself knows better than expecting the market to embrace more QWERTY Messenger skill and size of the Motorola milestone or HTC desire Z.

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Galaxy 551 looks forward to make a big splash, It's part of a larger effort to provide some depth in the Galaxy lineup from the registry. With Froyo and enhanced connectivity sensible Samsung Galaxy 551 perfect in the segment of affordable smart messengers.

Slide-out full QWERTY keyboardQuad-band GSM and dual-band 3 G support, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA support3.2? 16 M-color TFT Capacitive touchscreen with WQVGA (320 x 400 pixels) resolutionGreat QWERTY keyboardAndroid OS v2.2 with TouchWiz launcher667MHz processor3.15 MP autofocus camera, QVGA video recording at 15fpsWi-Fi 802 .11b/g/nGPS with A-GPS connectivity160 MB of internal storage, microSD and proximity to the slotAccelerometer sensor Standard 3.5 mm audio jack Stereo FM radio with RDSSmart dialing access to Android market and Samsung Apps repositoryGlossy plastics is a smudge magnet and scratch proneNo dedicated camera keyNo Adobe Flash supportNo live wallpaper supportNo secondary video call cameraNo DivX/XviD video support of boxNo document viewer

Galaxy 551 well stay out in the way of heavyweight Droid messengers. But some of the omissions of its spec sheet is surprising. In view of the QWERTY keyboard, a document editor would've made sense but the phone actually does not have a document viewer to begin with, although Samsung's traditional fast codec support has been affected by cost savings. The bottom line is obviously to Froyo, Wi-Fi and a QWERTY keyboard is more than enough for the money you spend on Galaxy 551.

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But Samsung Galaxy 551 comes with a clear objective to increase messaging capabilities to your Android mid level. IT's an affordable smartphone for lax competition sounds that the things that makes the sale meter mark.

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