Weight: 104g (with Nokia Battery BL-5C)
Dimensions: 113 mm x 43.5 mm x 15.5 mm, 70 cc
Form: monoblock
Display: Active matrix display
Supports up to 262,144 colors within 240 x 320 pixels
Adjustable display brightness control
Price: $249.95 to $399.00
The Nokia E50 Smartphone is the business users perfect partner as it comes with S60 software on a Symbian operating system. The handset is very attractive & comes in a silver coloured casing with black sections to add style & class to this business mobile phone. The handset weighs 104 grams & measures 113 x 43.5 x 15.5 mm which provides the user with a neat & easy to handle mobile phone. The E50 comes from the E range designed beautifully by Nokia which includes the Nokia E60, Nokia E61 & the Nokia E70.
The phone comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera complete with a 4 x digital zoom. The camera feature provides the user with a fun element to this highly equipped business phone. The large TFT screen works as a viewfinder & provides a 262k colour display & a screen resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The user can store their pictures on the very capable memory, share the pictures with others via multimedia messaging or email. The Nokia E50 comes with 70 Mbytes of dynamic memory which is a large amount & can be expanded even further by using the MicroSD™ cards. The memory cards are hot swappable cards that can be inserted & removed easily. The user can record video for up to one hour & store it on the phones memory & play it back on the video player. The Nokia E50 has a built in music player which plays music in either MP3 format or AAC music format. The RealPlayer feature allows the user to play streaming sound & video footage.
The design of E50 is rather conservative. It is mostly silver and black which merge in some areas and create a pretty ergonomic impression. The phone is not flat and the keypad part is positioned lower than the rest of the body. This leads to a significant ease when writing. The joystick bulks in front of everything and smashes to pieces the nice impression of the otherwise perfect design of the phone.
The phone’s size can be very well understood when compared to other phones. We have made such comparisons for our readers with N93 and E70. You can see that E50 is smaller, narrower and thinner than both phones. All three smartphones run on the same Symbian OS with Series 60 user interface.
One of the major highlights of the E50, distinguishing it from other Eseries-branded offerings, as well as Nokia’s smartphones, is the revamped active standby mode, packing even more functionality and ease-of-use. The modifications are as follows: now the standby mode settings contain a list featuring those functions, whose notifications may be taken to the display. At a glance, there is nothing very special about it, but still it does make some difference. You are also at liberty to leave only shortcuts on the desk, without any notes.
Another novelty, which is quite handy among all other things, is “Search application” – the way it works can be seen on the screenshots. As long as you have the search line unfilled, the app will return you information on amount of messages, contacts, calendar events, notes, tasks and other files. With the release of the E50 this applications made it to the mass market meaning that it is now available for other S60 3rd edition powered smartphones for no fee.
Key Features:
High-quality handsfree speakerphone allows conference calls and multitasking (combining voice calls with calendar viewing, SMS, and email)
Quadband GSM works on 5 continents (where GSM networks supported)
Easy speaker activation and mute when call is active
Nokia Office Tools allow more effective communication with work teams:
Create and edit work-related or personal teams
Initiate conference calls or Push-to-talk sessions with your team
Use a team-specific conference number for conference calls
Send SMS, MMS, and voice messages and emails to your team
Other features:
Music Player (MP3/AAC)
Calendar
Customizable profiles
Alarm clock
RealPlayer: play streaming sound and video clips or downloaded content
Notepad for writing short memos
Calculator
Navigation:
Two soft keys with five-way scroll; power key can be used as profile key
Configurable right and left soft keys give shortcut access to features like calendar, camera, or Bluetooth wireless connection
Input method: Phone keypad
Menu items displayed as list or grid
Active standby feature gives quick access to up to 6 phone applications from the standby screen
Symbian operating system OS 9.1
S60 platform, 3rd edition
Imaging:
1.3 megapixel camera*
Resolution up to 1280 x 960 pixels
4x digital zoom
Video capture up to one hour
Video resolution: 176 x 144, 128 x 96, 15 frames per second
Email and messaging:
Email client for connecting to personal and business email
Supports POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP protocols
Settings via OMA Client Provisioning 1.1, OMA Device Management 1.1.2.
Support for Nokia’s Intellisync Wireless Email , BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, Activesync Mail for Exchange, and Altexia
Email data roaming (where available) provides automatic switching between various networks without requiring the user to reconfigure settings
View Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel attachments (Microsoft Office, 2000, XP and 2003). Compatible with Zip Manager and Adobe Reader
Instant Messaging and Presence Services IMPS 1.2: exchange text messages and multimedia clips practically in real time. Presence allows you to see the status of other users
