The Samsung

Samsung

The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...

 SCH-u540 is a flip phone offered by Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless

Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest mobile network operators in the United States. The network has 107.7 million subscribers as of 2011, making it the largest wireless service provider in America....

 and Telus

TELUS

Telus is a national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services including internet access, voice, entertainment, video, and satellite television. The company is based in Burnaby, British Columbia, part of Greater Vancouver...

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While the design is similar to that of other phones offered in the past for Verizon, the phone differs from many VGA-only capable phones in that it offers the VCast music download service.

The phone comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera with a camera interface designed by Samsung. The camera controls are entirely customizable .

The phone features a flat design commonly found on other Samsung Cell phones of that era. The phone features bright lighting both in the display and in the keypad (with full configurable options for timeout) and even carries an onboard "hold" switch for the outside touch controls.

The User interface is an updated "2007" flavor. The phone is completely devoid of the red bars that were once common on Verizon phones .

Features

• The phone operates in 1x
  1x
  1x or 1x.com is an online photo gallery and a community website for photographers. Anyone can register an account and upload photos, but only images selected by the site screeners/editors will be visible in the gallery which makes it different from most other photo communities where any uploaded...
  
   and EVDO modes.
• a 1.3 megapixel camera without flash
• an external display (65K colors with selectable wallpaper that can display animated GIFs).
• a 176x220 internal screen (256K colors with regular or animated wallpaper).
• MicroSD card slot
• Phone can play MP3
  MP3
  MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
  
   and WMA
  Windows Media Audio
  Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs...
  
   music files
• Mobile Web 2.0 on a browser developed specifically for Samsung handsets
• Speakerphone
• Alarm Clock, Tip Calculator, Regular Calculator, Notepad, World Clock, Stopwatch, Calendar with recurring-appointment functionality
• Outside touch controls that activate the MP3 player when in standby mode. Also features a "HOLD" button to keep the touchpad from accidentally becoming activated.
• GPS with e911; supports VZ Navigator
  VZ Navigator
  VZ Navigator is a GPS navigation software for Verizon Wireless phones that turns the phone into a GPS navigation device. It is a white label product based on Networks in Motion's AtlasBook mobile navigation platform. It is compatible with many recent Verizon GPS Phones, and available through Get It...
  
  and Telus' GPS service.