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Symbian stuff is generally big. This is also correct for the Smartphones, but since I’ve seen the Neonode N2 in my hands (60 grams), I believe in reducing the weight. The i550 got that brick-shape that is unusual from this manufacturer, the numeric buttons are like they’ve been stolen from Sony Ericsson, so for the first time it might seem to be something else than a Samsung phone.
The black-colored cover is surprisingly thin (not a razor though), but too stuffed. The buttons under the large display may seem to be startling for the first time and annoying while using, and among them there is a trackball in a very trendy style. This is more like a disadvantage, too. There are nine function buttons between the numeric buttons and the display, the calling-buttons and the clear in one line, which is not a problem, but the two softkeys and the dedicated keys are above them that get the user into the menu, navigation, multimedia, and the internet. I often ended up on the internet because this and the navigation’s button are emerged over the others. Thanks!
The trackball itself should be a useful thing. We have already seen things like this on mobiles, e.g. the HTC Artemis when the little ball drove us to the lands of ecstasy (pedophile priests can tell the same about themselves), but the Samsung’s operation ball is a big pile of smelly bullshit compared to it. This has only one cause: it is not a real trackball. Well, it is a sphere, and rolls into every direction, but you can only navigate up-down-right-left with it, and every roll makes the cursor jump towards the desired direction only one. So if you are in the address book and you want to roll through ten names, it is not enough to roll it once, but you have ‘scratch’ it ten times down. Fortunately, the ball is very sensible, so if you’ve chosen in the menu what you want to open, the ball has a good chance to move away the cursor in the last moment getting you into the next part in the menu.
The volume controls and the microSD socket is on the left side, the hotkey of the camera and the usual Samsung system-connector is on the right. The bottom of the phone is empty, on the top there is the power button and the 3.5 jack-plug socket covered by a round-shaped plastic cover – good mark for it. The back of the phone has a pattern on the lover half, the camera, a mirror and the flash in at the top.
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