Nokia E50 review

E50 Nokia picture There's no shortage of handsets that seek to entice the corporate buyer and the business user. In fact, if you take away a few models finished in pink plastic, then practically every phone in the market could end up being used by company executives. But some are definitely more fit for the purpose than others. We have to be honest - Nokia's E50 is not much to look at. Judging from afar, few would guess that this is a very sophisticated little handset indeed. Styled in silver and black, the E50 lacks the jaunty colouring of many of today's mobile phones. The colour scheme means it looks like a phone with the emphasis on the professional rather than the frivolous, which is entirely the point. Nokia E50 Themes Free Nokia Themes download Nokia E50 Software Free Nokia Software download Nokia E50 Games Free Nokia Games download The E50's somewhat tall and thin proportions make it a comfortable phone to hold, though if your hands are small, you may find it a fraction too tall to sit easily in the palm. This phone is far from dull, and those that have doggedly been holding on to their 6230i may find it rather radical. Most significantly, this is a smartphone, using Nokia's favourite Symbian S60 platform. This allows the E50 to be customised to the needs of the office environment like no other handset in its class has been before. Disappointingly, the Nokia E50 isn’t 3G-enabled like the rest of the Eseries. Instead it supports EDGE (2.75) for its fastish connectivity and download speeds. Full internet surfing is made easy on a small-screen footprint with Nokia’s mini-map browser, a semi-transparent, zoomed-out view of the page area you are reading, shadowed by a complete view of the whole page as it was originally designed. Of course, the absence of Wi-Fi and 3G means full web page loading relies on the slower GPRS/EDGE combination but it’s still relatively brisk. The E50 caters for the worldwide business traveller with quad-band. Globetrotters will also welcome its impressive battery life of 6.8 hours’ talktime and a marathon 216 hours’ standby juice. The E50 comes in two versions - one with a 1.3- megapixel camera, and an otherwise identical version that does without. Buy SIM-free and you can expect the difference in price to be as little as a fiver.

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