Nokia's E50 business class quad-band cellphone

by Thomas Ricker, posted May 18th 2006 at 7:25AM

Nokia just dropped their new E50 candybar for business users on a tight budget, i.e., anyone not employed by Google. Billed as the thinnest (which isn't saying much) of the E-series quad-band phones, the E50 goes S60 3rd edition and features the usual support for mobile corporate email solutions like BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, and the like as well as featuring a 1.3 megapixel camera good for a little corporate espionage work and an MP3 player which doubles as that "can't talk now, on a call" boss impresser. And since it's business focused, it's corporate PBX-ready if the infrastructure is in place and supoprts two numbers linked to personal or bidness use. And yeah, they use the word "phone" more than a dozen times in the press release which means there's a run on cod liver oil in Espoo right about now.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, GPRS

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chilko @ May 18th 2006 7:41AM

the camera is optional and nokia will ship version without it.

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Donald @ May 18th 2006 8:13AM

If they're doing an mp3 player, then there's gotta be a memory card in there somewhere - so which format are we looking at?

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chilko @ May 18th 2006 8:45AM

internal 70 MB and microSD slot.

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Jacob @ May 18th 2006 11:09AM

Nokia... whatever happened to you?

It's like your head designer died years ago, and you plugged whatever was left of his brain into a robot.

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chilko @ May 18th 2006 12:35PM

reminds me of one of the bestselling phones of nokia - 6310...

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Frank @ May 30th 2006 4:24PM

Looking like the 6310i is no bad thing. How many 'phones are our there with the camera full of fluff, the owner only vaguely aware it has one because they occassionally press 'the wrong button' (you think that could be my wife?). Good 'phones are essential with or without a camera. (Anyone got a microwave 'with grill', would you notice if it didn't have one? Seemed like a good idea though didn't it?) Uncluttered progress, thats what we need.

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Tony @ Sep 12th 2006 2:37PM

I own this phone for two weeks now.`m a professional phone tester.
I would say this model is one of the best(and smallest among smartphones).I liked it`s design(it made me to take this phone),features and size.Tis phone is the only option for people,who wants to have everything in the pocket(except 3G,but it`s unnecessary),and forthose,who want to change their old nokia 6800,6600,6630 to something better,smaller, newer and not to loose productivity.
Actualy,i see no alternaty now for E50 - it`s the Leader!Of course, you may claim,and tell how about E70,but E70 is ANOTHER TYPE phone,situated for those,who wants QWERTY keyboard(don`t forget,E70 is HUGE and really uncomfortable to use,besides,it`s impossible to put your wallpapers in full screen - wallpapers will be just in the middle of it.).
My oppinion: PROS-design,features,reliability,size,ease of use
CONS- battery life looks badly (only 3 full days,charging on night,when battery iscompletely discharged) after I used SE w810;for someone the keyboard may look uncomfortable(try it);no radio

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