Samsung ST550 (Digital Compact Cameras)

A forward facing screen? Oh my!

Good image quality, front-facing LCD screen more than just a gimmick, wide-angle lens

The ST500 is a great camera producing excellent results with a useful wide-angle zoom lens. Add to that the front LCD screen and it's got just about everything you might need. We admit that the initial novelty of the screen on the front does wear off,...

The ST500 is a great camera producing excellent results with a useful wide-angle zoom lens. Add to that the front LCD screen and it's got just about everything you might need. We admit that the initial novelty of the screen on the front does wear off,...

How vain are you?

Teenagers are the trendsetters when it comes to using technology. Last time we checked, they're still using Facebook, but their profiles contain photos of themselves as much as other people. Samsung has spotted this trend and responded with the ST550 –...

A massive touchscreen, a second screen for self-portraits and HD video make this the ideal camera for parties and posing for Facebook profile shots.

The Samsung ST550 is extremely clever in some respects, but pretty ordinary in terms of picture quality. As an exercise in interface design and an electronic plaything, it's just fantastic. It's the number of ideas and the way they've been integrated...

Front-mounted LCD display has many uses ; Excellent 'haptic' interface ; High-resolution display ; High-definition movie mode

Mediocre lens quality ; Pictures suffer from too much smoothing of fine details

Conclusion The Samsung ST550's twin displays are what most people will pick up on, but it's the haptic touchscreen interface that's the real star. The camera's motion-detection capability is also very impressive. Its pictures are pretty ordinary, but...

The Samsung ST550 is the first compact digital camera on the market to feature two LCD screens - you may have seen it advertised on TV. Here's our review of the Samsung ST550, which has a 12.2-megapixel sensor and a 4.6x zoom lens.

Despite its reasonably good image quality, the Samsung ST550 could still use some refinement. The menu system needs to be more user-friendly and the battery life and charging options need vast improvement. We're also not convinced that the majority of...

Samsung's latest 12.2MP is the first to pack two displays. But are two LCDs really better than one?

A reasonably decent pocket-sized snapper made more appealing by its two clever screens

The dual display camera from Samsung is a stylish and fun to use camera that performs well in various shooting situations.

Front LCD ; Big touchscreen ; Good image quality

Inadequate battery life ; Unimpressive image quality above ISO400 ; No audio recording while zooming in video mode

The Samsung ST550 is a stylish camera that offers many fun and exciting features, and good performance across different lighting situations. However, its high price tag lands you in a place where you can get much more capable camera from Sony or Canon.

The Korean chaebol's latest point-and-shoot has dual LCDs whose functions may sound gimmicky but are actually well-implemented.

Front LCD well-implemented for self-portraits and more; classy-looking; fast performance

Battery life could be better; front LCD unresponsive at times; picture quality deteriorates at ISO 400

From our experience with it, the ST550 is a ladies-oriented camera. Every time we whipped it out, our female friends loved the front LCD and how convenient it was for them to take self-portraits--all they had to do was tap and smile. In this sense,...

This is a small solid and good quality digital camera that can also take excellent quality video. It has good optical zoom at 7x and can take 14MP still images, perhaps best of all it is almost totally touchscreen for ease of use.

Doing my Internet searches found the Samsung ST5500 at a best price of £239.80 from the link below

The Samsung ST550 has one extra feature all other compacts lack: a second screen. Yep, the Samsung ST550 has an additional 1.5-inch LCD next to the lens, which means you can frame group shots without needing to set a timer and leave the camera resting...

The front-facing camera is the Samsung ST550’s calling card and it makes Facebook-friendly portraits a breeze to set up. The shots we took looked sharp and it was great to take pics of ourselves and our mates without spinning the camera round and...

The colours offered by the Samsung ST550 could be a tad more vivid, but then this is a feature-heavy compact, not a DSLR or Bridge camera for pros and enthusiasts

This is a very novel take on the compact camera. If you love using your camera to record nights out and trips with your mates, before sharing the results on Facebook and Flickr, then this is the camera you have to buy.