Nokia E50

The manufacturer positions this model as the smallest slim E-series model. The E50 has classical design and will serve you both at work and at leisure time. The features I should stress include 70 MB of internal memory, microSD expansion connector, TFT-display with QVGA resolution and 262K and many preinstalled business applications.

• Class: smartphone, 3G, business
• Position in the line: under Nokia E60
• Rivals: no data
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2006, official announcement on the 18 May 2006
  • eGSM 850/900/1800/1900
  • Battery type 970 mAh Li-Ion (BL-5C)
  • talk mode from 3.2 up to 6.4 hours
  • standby mode from 6.8 up to 8.3 days
  • Full recharging takes 2 hours
  • Graphical display high-contrast, 262000 colours (TFT), the resolution of 240x320 pixels
  • 5D navi button
  • The phone is run by Symbian OS 9.1 (Platform 60 ver 3.0 interface)
  • Weight: 104 gramms
  • Dimensions: 115 x 49 x 16.9 mm

• Memory
  • 70 MB shared dynamically by the phonebook, the calendar, messages, images and applications
  • Expansion connector for miniSD cards
  • Photos can be assigned to numbers in the phonebook
  • For each name you can store Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile phone, Fax and E-mail address — totally 8 fields. You can add any number of fields.
  • Unlimited number of user groups, a name can refer to several groups at once
  • SIM entries are stored separately, you can't view them with phone entries at once
  • Call lists, no limits on the number of entries, all records can contain not only time and date, but a call type as well. You can set store period for list entries (a month by default)

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melody, True Tones, supported formats AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
  • Support for mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
  • Voice dial doesn't depend on the pronunciation, no need in preliminary recording of tags
  • Speakerphone
  • Call duration
  • Musical composer, assign melodies to names in the phonebook

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • Message templates (you can change them or add own ones)
  • Graphical messages
  • Concatenated messages

• Connectivity
  • WAP 2.0
  • Bluetooth v.2.0
  • IrDA
  • GPRS class 10
  • EDGE (Class B, Multislot class 10)
  • Support for HTML, xHTML, cHTML
  • E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4
  • E-mail services: Intellisync Wireless Email from Nokia, BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, Altexia and Microsoft ActiveSync.
  • MMS
  • Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth
  • SyncML
  • SMIL
  • USB 2.0 via Pop-Port
  • Instant Messaging

• Organizer and extras
  • User profiles (5), temporary profile
  • Time, date
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate values), countdown timer
  • Organizer with support for events of various kinds, reminders
  • To-do list
  • Dictaphone (works in the talk mode)
  • 3GPP Video Streaming
  • RealOne Player: playing RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
  • Photoalbum - improved gallery
  • Viewer - works with the following files MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Exel
  • Support for PDF
  • MP3 player
  • MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
  • Download Java applications
  • Games

Michail Machnaev (michail.machnaev@mobile-review.com)
Published — 23 June 2006

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