Sharp 550SH Mobile Phone Review

Sharp 550SH Details

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skater42 @ PAUL

dood your a funny man :P

You have no idea what you are talking about, over-exagerating facts and have probably never been able to use Vodafone in the first place.

Verizon Wireless is owned by 45% through Vodafone. The other 55% belong to Verizon Communications.


Pot calling the cattle black
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How many US companies draw their revenues from other countries? Thank you.

T-Mobile is owned by Deutsche Telekom, you are correct.


Vodafone & Sharp
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Vodafone is by far the largest Mobile Operator, sheer volume making China mobile #1. Vodafone is operating in 41 countries and it's fair pricing, great handsets and a good amount of services make it easily the most competetive.

Branding is no Scamming, you wouldn't call BMW a scammer only because they have their branding all over their own cars?
Subsidies make handsets so cheap, and you only have to be willing to carry the sponsors name. Like Formula One cars, very colorful...indeed.

Most SHARP handsets are owned by Vodafone, making Vodafone the "designer" and SHARP the manufacturer. Do I seem to repeat myself?

Nokia, SE & Co. just try to get more revenue by subsidising their handsets. Not everyone can afford a $999 handset.

I haven't had much trouble with Vodafone Customer Service and find that you have the best roaming agreements through Vodafone.

Skater42

Ciaran33 Love my phone, but last week it refused to respond to the keypad, I took out the battery to reset but then it refused to wake up at all. Dropped it into my local Vodafone shop for repair on Friday,it was back on Wednesday which is impressive, but they had found no fault and only done a firmwear update. Some of my saved data was gone but nothing major. I hope it stays fixed. Works fine with a data cable, MP3's are great, the little camera impresses me every time (and I have two digi SLR's.) Oh, just discovered it seems to charge via USB.

TheFlyingYellowPig You can find decent reviews done by prefessionals at http://www.mobile-review.com/index-en.shtml


I think this the best place.

<unknown> The look of mobile is great.Design is beautiful.

skater42 @Keita

grow up, you shouldn't be allowed to post such stuff on here.

Vodafone owns most V-SH Sharp models, this means that Vodafone is the owner, and SHARP is merely the manufacturer of the phone.
There are no other "versions" of it.

So if Vodafone is the owner, then it can also brand its phones like any other company would do.

Just keep in mind that Vodafone-branded models are 30% cheaper than original Sony Ericsson, Nokia etc. models. If you want to spend the extra money go and buy the original. But others just don't care as much...

Skater42

dar can people please answer the following questions i have: can you use mp3's as your ringtone on this phone?, what type of usb cable do you need to connect this phone to your p.c?, i would appreciate if someone reading this could post a comment with the answers to these questions! thank you!!!

<unknown> Hi. Can anyone tell me what kind of video files you can look at, like avi, mpeg? etc Thanks

Cian when i use headset manager it say make sure your headset bluetooth is on and the stand-by screen is displayed what is the stand-by screen? please help

ph81 Battery life: I have to recharge about every 3 days. I thought this was pretty poor after my very first cellphone could last a week - but I now figure, hey, what's so hard about charging it :) I guess I muck around with it a lot more too though.

Secret Data: You can set tasks, contacts etc as "Secret" - I think so someone else looking at your phone can't see them. "Show Secret Data" effectively unlocks it all, so you can see them again (not sure how many things you can hide though).