About the Nokia E55 Quad-band / 3G Mobile Phone
The E55 is the latest and smallest of Nokia's E-series, business-focussed handsets. It measures a mere 9.9mm at its thickest point, so it really is incredibly slim for a fully-featured smartphone. But despite it's thinness, it shares the same impressive build quality as the other phones in the E-series range and certainly feels like it could stand up
to a few knocks and scrapes.
The front face of the E55 is dominated by its large 2.4in display.The screen's resolution at 320 x 240 pixels is pretty good for its size and certainly provides enough room to comfortably view web pages or read longer emails. It looks pin sharp, too, and is relatively bright.
Nokia has added two shortcut buttons for the calendar and email client, which let's face it, are the
two features you're most likely to use on a daily basis. For navigation there's a chunky and responsive D-pad,
plus two soft keys mounted on either side of the screen. However, it's the main keypad that's perhaps the E55's most distinguishing feature. It's a 20-key, half-QWERTY affair, with two characters per key.
It also includes a decent line-up of applications as standard including the QuickOffice software, PDF viewer and Windows Live Messenger. We also like the way you can set up and easily switch between work and personal profiles via a simple icon on the home screen. The phone's browser is impressive too. While it can't compete with the likes of Safari on the iPhone or Google's
browser on Android, it's definitely one of the better browsers we've seen on a candybar style phone, as it generally does a good job on page formatting and pops up a nice thumbnail view of previously visited pages when you hit the back button. The browser also supports Flash Lite, so some - but by no means all - Flash content can be displayed.
The Nokia E55's compact keyboard fits comfortably in your hand yet provides a QWERTY keyboard for messaging. The innovative hybrid keyboard combines a phone keypad with a QWERTY keys for easy messaging or dialling. Smart predictive text corrects and completes your typing automatically.
Take advantage of fast internet connections with high speed 3G (HSDPA/HSUPA) and Wi-Fi connectivity. Connect to colleagues and business rapidly, high speed connections even allow you to access files on your PC remotely.
Network and socialise with email and instant messaging, browse the web and share content with your friends on popular social networking sites.
Discuss your business at length, the large battery in the Nokia E55 provides 8 hours of talk time and 31 days of standby. Active noise reduction removed background noise when you call from noisy environments. |
