Nokia today announced the E50, the latest addition to the Eseries family of business devices. With classic Nokia design, the stylish Nokia E50 is for people who want a single phone for both business and leisure use.
Built on S60 3rd edition smartphone platform and Symbian OS for enhanced security features and device control, the Nokia E50 supports popular corporate mobile email solutions, including Intellisync Wireless Email by Nokia, BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, Altexia, and Microsoft ActiveSync. The thinnest Nokia Eseries quad-band phone (EGSM 850/900/1800/1900), the Nokia E50 supports GSM networks worldwide, offering clear phone calls and rich voice and calling functionalities. With up to six hours of talk time, the Nokia E50 offers significantly high battery performance for such a small phone.
The E50 offers exceptional voice and calling functionality, and the ability to have two phone numbers in one phone. Lifestyle features include an MP3 player and optionally a 1.3-megapixel camera, all packaged in a discreet glossy metallic case with a touch of color.
The Nokia Team Suite, part of the Nokia Office Tools offering, helps to facilitate conference calls and to initiate push-to-talk sessions with selected team members easily and fast, through a built-in speakerphone. The E50 also includes a search function enabling fast queries into critical data such as, contacts, emails and messages. Important business attachments received via email, such as documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, can be swiftly accessed via the Quickoffice viewer.
The Intellisync Device Management offered by Nokia enables remote enterprise grade device management, without additional client software installation, on OMA DM capable devices such as the Nokia Eseries. For IT administrators, an easy-to-use administrative web-interface allows remote management of OMA DM compliant business devices, with access to a device management server located either within a company's own premises or at a service provider's facilities.
Good features, but it doesn't do it for me on the design. Looks like every other generic Nokia phone on the market. Cmon Nokia... consumers want style as much as function!
I'd like Nokia phones more if they didn't look like bricks.
2. Posted by Bjoern
Sun May 21, 2006 5:02 pm
It's a business phone... no need for style. But again they put in a camera...
3. Posted by krypton
Mon May 22, 2006 7:02 am
i agree business users want conservative, but theres conservative style and then there's just plain... this phone is just plain. most people won't be able to tell the difference between the e50 and the 6230.
4. Posted by Cadd
Mon May 22, 2006 7:40 am
The design may be plain but the features are kickin! This phone can do it all.
5. Posted by PunkRock
Mon May 22, 2006 11:24 am
Who says plain is boring? Classic Nokia design... great lines, without being flashy.
6. Posted by neilem
Sun May 28, 2006 12:34 pm
How much is it likely to be? and the availablity saying Q2... isn't that now?
7. Posted by Bjoern
Sun May 28, 2006 2:48 pm
Q2 is April, May and June.
Most of the time the phones will be released at the end of the quarter.
The price isn't announced yet but I've read something about 400 Euro which would be 509 US Dollar.
8. Posted by mobimobi
Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:22 am
I just got a new Nokia E50 and it is a great business phone. It has a small form factor, easily fits in a pocket, the voice dialing is excellent, and it easily syncs with Outlook.
However, I need help with changing the default font which is extremely tiny and unreadable. I've read through the entire manual, and there is nothing about making the default font bigger. It has to be possible, since I bought an application that uses much larger readable fonts.
Please help.
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