Nokia E50 - new S60 Eseries device
Published by Rafe Blandford at 9:37 UTC, May 18th 2006
Nokia today announced a new S60 3rd Edition Eseries smartphone - the E50, a small (70cc) quad-band phone with (optionally) a 1.3 megapixel camera, a music player, up to 6 hours of talk time, business applications, support for remote device management and integration into existing enterprise PBXs and all major push email solutions.
The preinstalled business applications include the Nokia Team Suite which helps facilitate conference calls, and initiate push to talk sessions (through the built in speaker phone), a search function for fast queries on important data (contacts, emails and messaging). The Quickoffice viewer is also included for accessing attachment receieved by email and enabling the viewing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Key Technical Specifications:
- Weight: 104g (with Nokia Battery BL-5C)
- Dimensions: 113 mm x 43.5 mm x 15.5 mm, 70 cc
- Screen: 240 x 320, 262,144 colour screen.
- Memory: 70MB internal memory and microSD slot
- OS: S60 3rd Edition running on Symbian OS 9.1
- Email: SMTP, POP and IMAP and support for Nokia’s Intellisync Wireless Email, BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, Activesync Mail for Exchange, and Altexia
- Connectivity: IrDA, USB (via Pop-Port) and Bluetooth 2.0
The full specifications are available
here.
The E50 is the fourth Eseries device following on from the E60, E61 and E70.
The full Nokia press release is available here.
Categories: Hardware
Platforms: Series 60
News Discussion
jukkaeklund
So 5500 wasn't the smallest for long :) And this packs a QVGA screen!
Rafe
Looks like a nice device, the size is impressive. Looks like Nokia are starting to nail down the software package too. Would be good to a consumer targeted equivalent.
stuclark
They're finally starting to produce some devices capable of prizing all those execs off their 6310i's :)
krisse
I notice that it has Pro Tour Golf built into it, which was one of the Next Gen N-Gage games announced at E3. It seems that they might be planning to sell games to businesspeople too... :tongue:
(EDIT: My mistake, the game at E3 was Pro Series Golf. Are they related etc.)
langdona
I suspect that this may be the most important S60 device yet even though it seems a bit boring and probably wont appeal much to people here or on other smartphone based forums. What people forget that Nokia already are big in the corporate market for phones (as opposed to PDA based smartphones where the industry keeps saying that Microsoft will win) and I can see this fitting the bill as direct replacement unit for the ones they currently offer. This could get the S60 in behing the IT managers back without them even noticing.
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