Samsung S5350 Shark

Samsung S5350 Shark review

Release Date:  Q3 2010
Expert Rating:

• 3G
• Slim Design
• 3 MP camera

• No WLAN

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Three new candy bar mobile phones have been launched in “Shark” family by Samsung and Samsung S5350 Shark is one of them. The biggest highlight of these Shark phones is high end multimedia features and one touch accessibility to the social networks. The importance of social networking can be felt in every sector and people are hooked to these networking sites either for business, making friends or just fun. Therefore, Samsung S5350 is useful for various categories of users autoimmune disorders it integrates the applications of the best of social networks such as MySpace, Facebook™ and Bebo.

The candy bar form factor of this Shark makes it more pocketable and easy to handle. When other mobile phone companies are busy into churning out high end touch screen phones such as HTC Google Nexus One and LG GT540, the introduction of the candy bar Shark mobile phones looks refreshing and handy. Though it is a light weight cute looking handset, it is loaded with some mind blowing features such as 3 mega pixel camera with auto focus, 2.2 inches display screen with TFT, up to 16 GB expandable memory and a lot more. Details on these specifications are mentioned further in this review.

Samsung S5350 Shark - display feature

The first impression always plays the key role. No matter what excellent features a mobile phone comes loaded with; the buyers mostly judge the look of the phone at the initial stage and then check out its other characteristics. Samsung S5350 falls in the candy bar range of the mobile phones and its looks are quite attractive within this range. It's immaculately slim and black body is sure to grab the eyeballs of the users. It looks like a real phone in every aspect with main functional keys, call and end buttons and the alpha- numeric keypad. Right between the screen and the functional keys, the logo of Samsung is encrypted and right under it, the diamond shaped navigation key adds to the glamour quotient of the mobile phone. The mobile phone measures 115.2 x 46.7 x 11.9 mm and it weighs 99.2 grams, which proves the above mentioned point that Samsung S5350 is a sleek and pocketable device that can easily fit into the pockets of a tight jeans. Now, let's get into the display features of the handset. The display bears a 2.2 inch TFT screen that sheds resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 256,000 colours. Overall, the look of the Samsung S5350 is very appealing.

Samsung S5350 Shark Review - network and connectivity

Mobile phones are mainly used for making and receiving calls and this basic feature is handled by the supportive networks. The new Samsung S5350 Shark supports both 2G and 3G networks. In terms of 2G, it supports the quad band GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and dual band HSDPA 900 / 2100 is supported for the 3G network. Data accessibility is speedy as this new Shark is loaded with Class 10 GPRS and EDGE along with 3.6 Mbps HSDPA 3G. Browsing requirements are done in a much faster manner because of the 3G presence in the mobile phone. However, the missing factor of Wi Fi is a bit let down from Samsung. In today’s environment of mobile telephony, exchange of data plays an integral part. Therefore, the mobile phone can be connected with other compatible devices for sending and receiving various files such as images, videos, music, gaming applications, etc. Bluetooth® and USB v2.0 are the major players to establish these connectivity features.

Samsung S5350 - memory

The mobile phone users are running behind more features and more applications. That is the reason why the requirement of storage capacity is also asking for bigger size and hence larger memory support is essential for the mobile phones in the present environment. One user might be an avid lover of mobile phone games and therefore, he wants to store more of them. Another user might have a fetish to storing a huge number of videos while the other user loves to store huge collection of music files. All these requirements have one solution, which is handsome memory storage capacity. Samsung S5350 Shark is integrated with 100 MB memory that is good enough to load 1000 phone book entries and 30 call records data of missed calls, received calls and dialed calls. Definitely, just 100MB of memory is not enough and therefore, the phone offers 16 GB of expandable memory with microSD™ card slot.

Samsung S5350 Shartl - Camera

There are certain common features that every buyer tends to find out while purchasing a mobile phone. After the looks, the biggest pool is probably the camera of the mobile phone. The users always check out what the snapper is capable of. The mobile phone of Samsung S5350 is loaded with a 3 mega pixel camera that comes with the auto focus feature. With a handset of this category, a 3 mega pixel camera is not bad at all. The snapper provides a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels and it also brings in the smile detection functionality. Video recording is done at QVGA@15fps and there is a secondary camera as well.

The music and video features of the S5350 Shark

Mobile phone has become the best companion of people these days. Whenever we get a spare time, many among us get busy with our mobile phones. Most of the time, people use mobile phones for listening to music, watching videos or surfing net. In short, they use for entertainment. The S5350 Shark features a full on stereo FM radio with RDS and a music player that can play diverse music files such as MP3, WAV, eAAC+ and WMA. The media player of the mobile phone is capable of playing different format of videos such as MP4, H.264, H.263 and WMV.

Overall, this handset looks quite promising and expected to make good impact in the market.