Verizon Wireless intros the Samsung SCH-u550
Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) today announced the availability of the SCH-u550 from Samsung. This fashionable clamshell sports a trend-setting brown finish and lets customers download and listen to music, check out short video clips and take pictures and videos while on-the-go.The SCH-u550 features a 1.3 megapixel camera with Night Shot to enhance the camera’s capabilities in dark environments and digital zoom, a camcorder, and Bluetooth wireless capabilities for headsets, hands-free, serial port, certain dial-up networking profiles, and object push for vCard to further enhance customers’ wireless experience. Verizon Wireless customers can also access V CAST Video, Verizon Wireless’ multimedia service with news, sports and entertainment video clips, 3D games, and more; and V CAST Music, which offers access to over 2.7 million full-length songs from well-known and independent artists that can be purchased and downloaded over-the-air, directly to the SCH-u550. Additional features of the SCH-u550 by Samsung include:
* Get It Now-capable — download games, ringtones, wallpapers, location based services, and more
* VZ NavigatorSM — visual and audible directions to a destination, locate businesses and other places in an area, get a map of a location, bookmark favorites and recent searches, and even share locations with others
* Mobile Web 2.0SM — customizable, enhanced wireless access to the latest in news, sports, weather, and more
* Text, picture and video messaging
* Instant Messaging using AIM, MSN, Yahoo!
* Expandable memory with microSD memory card slot
* Dimensions: 3.77″ x 1.93″ x .64″; 3.35 ounces with standard battery
* Advanced Speech Recognition
* Speakerphone
* Personal organizer with Calendar, Calculator, Notepad, Alarm Clock, World Time, and Stop Watch
* Bilingual user interface: English and Spanish
* TTY/TTD-capable
* Hearing Aid Compatibility rating: M4/T4
The SCH-u550 is available today for $69.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. For more information about Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or visit www.verizonwireless.com.
Posted on 20th February 2008
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Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) today announced the availability of the Verizon Wireless Gleam by Samsung in purple. A shiny thin clamshell with a new living wallpaper user interface, the purple Verizon Wireless Gleam by Samsung will be available tomorrow at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com.The purple Gleam’s living wallpaper capability allows Verizon Wireless customers to easily see the phone’s status with either a city or country view that changes with the time of day. The phone also features the same popular multimedia and messaging capabilities as the original metallic bronze Gleam, such as Get It Now, Mobile Web 2.0SM, V CAST Music and Video, Instant Messaging using AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, and text, picture and video messaging. Other features include: