For those looking to buy an affordable touch and type device, the latest offering form T-Series play range is good option. The play 555X which has been positioned as a gaming and multimedia device, is a dual SIM(GSM+GSM) phone that features a separate play button for gaming, accessing images and videos. FM Radio, sound recorder, etc. T-Series play multimedia range series already has devices like play 100, play200, play300, play400, play 500 and play330

The play 555X has a sleek plastic body with a metallic finish and it comes in dual colors of red and black. The device has a 2.4 inch resistive touch screen that features six icons for accessing play zone, messages, camera, multimedia, organizer and Snaptu. However, these icons do not work with touch and one needs to use the hard buttons on the keypad. The overall touch experience of the phone is just about OK and it would have been great if the phone came with a stylus. Below the screen lies the alpha numeric keypad, which is as big as the screen.

The T-SERIES 555X has 2.0 mega pixel of camera that comes with various setting and offers decent picture quality. The camera doesn’t have flash and this erodes the picture quality in low light conditions.

The video player of the phone supports 3GP, MP4 and AVI formats. The play 555X comes with all social networking needs with some preloaded applications such as Snaptu, Nixbuzz, Facebook And twitter.

The phone has mini Opera browser gives advent browsing experience but it is limited by a small screen. The FM Radio sound was very good and stores 20 stations. These phone supports Bluetooth and it has internal memory is insignificant but it comes with a 2GB of external through micro SD card. The memory extends up to 8 GB.

The device has 1200 mAh Li-ion battery with 8 hours of talk time and 300 hours of standby time, 116 x 51.5 x 13.2 mm dimension and 90grams of weight.

The T-SERIES 555X price in the market at Rs 2900/-

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