The Brand New, Unlocked Sony Ericsson Z550i is a clamshell opening camera phone. The phone has a brushed aluminium finish & oozes sophistication. The phone measures 87.5 x 45.4 x 20.5 mm with the battery fitted & weighs 92.5 gram which provides a good feel & weight to the handset. The Z550i provides the user with 320 hours of standby battery time & 5 & a half hours worth of talk time. The elegant Z550i comes from the Z range of phones designed by Sony Ericsson which include the Sony Ericsson Z520i.

The phone has dual screens & the external screen provides the user with a useful external monochrome display. The external screen displays the time & date along with calendar reminders. The internal display provides 262k colours on a TFT screen which measures 1.9 Inches. The phone comes with wallpaper animations, screensavers & themed colourful displays which allow the user to create a personal feel to their phones displays. The Z550i camera phone comes with a 1.3 megapixel digital camera feature complete with 4 x digital zoom. The user will find the camera feature fun & extremely user friendly with some very useable editing features. The user can use the video record feature if they need to capture the moment in motion. The user can stream video onto their Sony Ericsson Z550i & the phone comes with a Video DJ feature which allows the user to create a video sequence by simply combining different video clips together & incorporating sound for a perfect finish.

The FM radio features comes with easy to use search function & the RDS feature allows the user to see digital text information on the song that is playing, news headlines, breaking news & sports results. The Z550i comes with a media player which can play video & music & the phone can play MP3 & ACC ringing tones. The user can be very creative with MusicDJ feature which is a sampler music tool that comes with drum, guitar, keyboard & bass sounds which allows the user to create their own distinctive polyphonic ringtone. The user can download music in three simple clicks from the phones desktop with the PlayNow feature.

The Sony Ericsson Z550i comes with 20 Mbytes of memory & the user can extend the phones memory by using a easily changeable Memory Stick Micro M2 card. The user can connect to compatible Bluetooth® devices & enjoy a wireless connection to download & transfer data. The built in Bluetooth® technology provides the user with a wireless connection for convenience. The user can connect to their handsfree car equipment & Bluetooth® headset for a wireless connection to devices. The phone work on a tri band network which covers GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900 which allows the user to operate their phone over most of Europe & the US depending on the network service operator. The phone comes with RSS feeds & a Access NetFront Internet browser which provides a HTML browsing solution.