Samsung SCH-U550

Has anyone figured out how to disable the EVDO feature on this phone? Don't need VCAST and just want to prolong battery life as much as possible. Thanks!

Will I be able to pick pick up the speaker phone while the phone is closed? Thank you?

Hello,

I'm considering buying this phone but want to know more about the voice memo feature.

How much memory/time is alotted to this feature?
I'm especially interested in knowing if it's possible to then pass the recordings to a mac or pc.

Does anyone know?
Thanks,
Aaron

Does anyone know if you can load mp3 ringtones onto this phone with bitpim and a data cable?

😁 hello everyone I am looking at this phone and am thinking about getting it for my son. Is it really girly like the colors I can see some light blue I need some help with deciding, like what are the reall colors of the phone. Also how is the phone overal

what are the chances of alltel grabbing this phone? they had its older brother and i think they discontinued it.

but who know they did just get those three new phones so they probably think they're set for a while.

i love alltel but their phone selection lacks .. well, selection

Every VZW phone with the standard UI has user-selectible shortcut functions for the DPad buttons. This phone branches off a little bit in a good way. Up, Left, and Down are still user assignable shortcut keys, but when you push the right button, instead of launching an application like the other three dpad buttons, it opens a new shortcut menu, which the user can assign three (maybe four, posting from home, can't remember off the top of my head) more shortcuts. Example: Set up to calculator, down to calendar, and left to My Pictures, then when you hit the right button you have three more shortcuts that pop up in a submenu dialog box. These three shortcuts are user assignable just like the other three DPad shortcuts are, and the box pops up q...
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I got to test the U550 out for about 20 minutes. The new user interface is exceptional giving you a choice of Grid, Tab, List menu styles. The flash animation is very clean and well designed. The phone looks and feels a sturdier than the U540. It's definitely not a WOW phone but it's a good size, seems to offer some good features and it looks very user friendly. This new user interface is also on the upcoming Motorola W755. Hopefully this trend of opening up the interfaces continues.