Samsung S5560

Samsung S5560 review

Release Date:  Q4 2009
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Recently, there was news on the internet that Samsung is going to bring a new mobile phone called S5560. The website that featured the information claims that the handset is going to arrive in the market on the fourth quarter 2009 and the price would be around £350. According to the information that we have about this new mobile phone, it seems that S5560 is quite similar to Samsung Star S5230, but the new one definitely excels as it is going to be made available with a 5 mega pixel snapper along with features such as Wi Fi support, FM radio, Bluetooth, microSD™ memory slot, etc.

Samsung S5560 - the body

The look of Samsung S5560 is very attractive as the casing is designed pretty well. The entire body of the mobile phone is black in colour and most of the frontal portion is covered by the big touch screen. Right at the bottom of the screen, you will find the logo of Samsung and below that the major functional keys (Call Key, End Key and Menu button) are placed. The design is not complicated and that makes it more attractive and pleasing to the eyes. You can customize the home screen with different applications and widgets and make it look more beautiful. On the side of the mobile phone, you will find the volume control keys and the camera capture button. The positioning of the keys is perfect which makes it very easy to handle them.

Now, let's check the display aspect of the phone. As mentioned earlier that Samsung S5560 is a touch screen mobile phone, let's get to the point what type of touch screen it boasts. With S5560 you have a 3 inches TFT resistive touch screen that can display 256,000 colours with the resolution of 240 x 400 pixels. Moreover, TouchWiz UI and Accelerometer sensor boasts the capacity of the screen and its usability. The overall dimension of the phone is 107.5 x 52 x 13.2 mm and it weighs 65.3 grams.

Samsung S5560 Review – the messaging

Samsung S5560 is loaded with built in email service and by the help of that you can compose, send, receive and store email messages on the phone. So, there is no need to login to your PC all the time to check your vital messages, especially when you are on-the-go. When you can access emails effortlessly, it is obvious that the internet browser needs to be good also. With Samsung S5560, you can expect good support to XHTML & HTML Internet browsing and hence you can avail various information and services over the internet with your mobile phone. Apart from emails and internet, Samsung S5560 can also perform the general messaging such as text messaging and multimedia messaging as well. So, Samsung S5560 serves the basic purpose of a mobile phone, which is ‘communication’, very well.

When we are discussing about communication, the calling features are also needed to be discussed. It is easy to make and receive calls with this mobile phone and the clarity of voice from the other side is also quite good. Like any other handset, Samsung S5560 also comes with facilities such as speaker phone and headphone. You can connect headphone with the phone and enjoy hands free experience while calling or listening music. Speaker phone can be activated when you desire to listen loud. The phonebook of S5560 is simple and easy to manage. You can easily trace the call log and the contact details to enhance the efficiency of communication.

Samsung S5560 – entertainment

The majority of mobile phone buyers are the young section of the customers. These customers mainly crave for entertainment features in a mobile phone and that is the reason why nowadays it is so very important for a mobile phone to include good music, videos and camera quality. Let’s find out what the Samsung S5560 has to offer in this regard. The handset is loaded with 5 mega pixels camera and it is capable of clicking good snaps with the resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels. The camera can take excellent pictures in normal light conditions, but can it perform when the lights are not that good? Yes, it can! Samsung S5560 features LED flash and auto focus and these functionalities enable the snapper to click great quality images anytime anywhere. Moreover, the camera is loaded with other highlights such as image stabilization and smile and blink detection.

The camera is quite impressive, what about the music? The mobile phone includes a music player that provides high quality sound output. You can listen to the music by just playing it on or via wireless Bluetooth® headset. In both ways, the quality of sound is good. The music player is capable of playing diverse music file formats such as MP3, WAV and eAAC. Apart from the music player Samsung S5560 also comes with FM radio with RDS. This feature enables you to read information on the screen while playing the radio.

Video playback is also enabled in the Samsung S5560. When you have spare time you can watch your favourite videos on this phone. The video player of S5560 also supports different formats such as H.263, H.264 and MP4.

Samsung S5560 Review – the memory

Overall, Samsung S5560 seems quite impressive phone. From the wide range of features that the handset comes with, it is for sure that good memory backup is essential to enjoy its features and applications. The mobile phone features built in memory of 78 mega bytes that can effortlessly maintain call records, 2000 phonebook entries and several other aspects. There is a microSD™ (TransFlash) card slot where you can input external memory chip and enjoy the expansion up to 16 gigabytes. With 16 GB, you can enjoy huge collections of videos, music files and games on your mobile phone.