The 5500 is excellent for browsing the world wide web with, if used correctly. There's two things you must know in order to get a good web experience out of the phone:
[SIZE="4"]1. Use the right browser![/SIZE]
There are actually two browsers on the 5500, the Services browser (which is absolutely terrible, don't use it) and the S60 browser (also called NGBrowser or Web). S60 is the browser you should use, it's been developed by Nokia specially for smartphones like the 5500 and displays web pages very much like a PC. It can cope with all kinds of things like frames, Javascript, fullscreen page sizes, secure connections etc. The S60 browser is much faster and better in virtually every way.
Unfortunately the Services browser is the one that appears on the menu screen and standby screen by default, so a lot of people will think this is the only browser.
To get the S60 browser you must insert the microSD memory card that comes with the phone when you first switch it on, and it'll automatically install the S60 browser along with several games and applications. (The S60 browser appears on the installed applications menu as NGBrowser)
Once you have the S60 browser installed, you can access it by going to the own applications folder on the main menu screen and selecting the "Web" icon (which looks almost identical to the Services icon unfortunately).
If this is inconvenient to do all the time, you can move it to the main menu folder by selecting the icon and selecting "move to folder" from the options menu.
You can also add it to the row of icons on the standby screen by going to Tools, then Settings, then Phone, then Standby Mode, then Active Standby Apps, then replace the "services" shortcut with "web".
[SIZE="4"]2. Use the right settings[/SIZE]
The S60 browser by default displays web pages as they appear on a PC screen, but because the 5500 has a lower resolution than a PC it only shows a small section of the website at a time.
To solve this problem you should go to the options menu of the browser when a page is displayed and select "Zooming Options", then keep selecting "decrease font size" several times until the option disappears, then keep selecting "zoom images out" several times until the option disappears.
If you follow these instructions you should be able to view about 50% or more of the width of most websites on a single screen, so horizontal scrolling will be kept to a minimum.