The Bleu 555x is one new entrant in the cellphone market from the popular computer peripheral brand. Let’s take a look at what it offers.
The 555x is a candy bar phone with a shiny front that is coated with transparent plastic which adds its own reflectivity to the phone’s body. The keypad layout is simple and quite comfortable to use. There are the usual number keys, with a 5-way navigation pad and two soft keys on the side. Additionally there are volume control buttons on the right edge of the phone with a media key right under it. This media key launches the media player in standby mode and works as the shutter button in the camera application- Under these buttons is a port flap that reveals a connectivity port for the headset, and usb cable. The left edge of the phone has a micro SD slot that is covered with a rubber flap, and a slider to unlock the rear panel of the phone.
The 555x has dual-band support with 900 and 1800 MHz networks. The rear of the phone features a 1.3 MP camera that has a portrait mirror and takes decent pictures. The camera application has controls for White balance, Exposure compensation, and supports burst mode.
The phone has a simple grid-based menu layout which supports the use of number keys as shortcuts to select options. The connectivity menu allows the user to switch Bluetooth on and off — we’d like to mention here that the phone supports A2DP and thus can use stereo Bluetooth headsets for conversations or listening to music. Further in the ‘Extras’ menu there is a Planner App, a Perpetual Calendar, a voice recorder, photo editor, drawing board, calorie counter, world clock, currency and unit converter, and a stopwatch. There are the usual alarm features and a WAP browser that works well with EDGE support. The phone supports Java with the JWTI specification and the applications appear in the Java submenu in extras.
The phone features 60 MB of internal storage and the multimedia menu displays files stored in the phone and card memory; this also shows the amount of space used. However these files can not be opened from inside the media player, and have to be accessed from the multimedia file browser. The multimedia features of the phone also include the FM radio which can be scheduled to record transmissionsdirectly into the internal or external sttMJ in .Amr format.
Battery life is a decent 2 hours of talktime and 50 hours of standby time intermittent use of multimedia feature i The package also includes an extra bad that can be used to double the usscf I of the phone.