Here comes a month of standby time, with the Nokia E55. Put alongside an incredibly thin profile and Nokia's new compact keyboard, placing two letters on each physical key, the E55 is aiming for those travellers with “a business state of mind.” More details to follow here on All About Symbian.
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Come March 2009, My Nokia E51 completes 1 year...I am all the more ready to move over to the E55. But, I run Blackberry Connect on my E51. Does E55 run BB Connect?
As much as I love Nokia, I hate them for officially discontinuing support for E51. If this is the way forward for Nokia, I might have to stop myself from upgrading to a E55 or E90 (i'd never spend as much on a smartphone) and instead move over to Blackberry proper.
This is something new for Nokia. I'm looking forward to this one.
I would have been happier if Nokia would have announced a touch based 5th edition eseries phone. 3rd edition seems old now.
Ooh I like that - superslim, quality materials, 1500mAh battery, 3.5mm headset jack. Nice!
From the full tech specs page: "Micro-USB connector support charging".
Hallelujah! Finally Nokia has seen the light!
The E75 too!
The most interesting thing here (for me at least) is the battery - how did they get a 1500mAh battery into a device with that volume? Looks like a significant jump in battery technology to me (although many more can be expected over the next few years I think). How much more capacity can we have in slightly bigger devices?
If they did a version without the QWERTY keyboard, i'd be sold. I can't live without T9!
The best thing on this phone for emailing has got to be the enter key. I really struggle to email without it on a T9 phone. I'm sure the new software will help too!
nice spec too though, I'm interested.
I see from your site that the E75 has TV-Out, does the E55 have it too??
"Full Email, Calendar and Contacts experience."? The current Messages and Calendar are crap.
Did I hear that it has hardware acceleration Support ?
I wonder how nokia could leave the Nseries and provide the Eseries with these facility!
could you please inform us more on the hardware acceleration ?
Unregistered wrote:From the full tech specs page: "Micro-USB connector support charging".The light was seen already before the E55, as the N85 had that last summer, and I think a couple of S40 models before that.
Hallelujah! Finally Nokia has seen the light!
Well just can't WAIT to buy mine!! Been waiting for this ever since the Routemap was leaked last Nov to upgrade my E51. Just sad it's not available in all black!
This phone is absolutely gorgeous 😊
Wouldn't mind to trade some of the thickness for a 5mp camera with xenon, though. If a device came like that I would be in phone heaven!
Triple 0=carriage return
Once I learnt that I haven't missed Enter key so much.
The hardware acceleration is for data encryption/decryption not the usual 3D Acceleration.
Does full calendar mean categories support?
I like to use GTD and as much as I love my n95 over my Palm Centro, the Palm wins hands down for organising my life.
Will we ever see such things built in and synchronising with Notes/Outlook etc?
I really like the E55 but would like it a whole lot more if it did such things.
It's hardly rocket-science from a programming point of view either
Bobagent
Categories? Almost certainly no ('full calendar' is marketing puff). People have been moaning about categories (and the S60 PIM in general) for years. Nokia doesn't seem to care and the third party offerings are weak.
No one seems to have figured out that this device is not a "brand new" keybaord or predictive texting syetm. It merely rehases the keybaord and predictive text seen years ago on the Sony Ericsson M600i and then P1i.
In my epxerience the M600i I had was the best keybaord experrience ever on a phone, making a sideways querty irrelevant. So this is no experiment or bold step by Nokia - actually every phone on earth should have ahd this keybaord for ages - the old phone keybaord is outdated.
Moreover, Nokia could easily have stuck this keybaord on the E75 and then they wou�ldnt need the slid-out keybaord at all. This one produces very high typing rates after your first week with the phone.
Unless I missed it in the article, this E55 omits the GPS unit though, which is a gas face. With GPS it would make the E75 redundant at birth!!
This is sort of a thin, fast, good looking N78. 3.2 MP camera, GPS, S60 3rd FP2, Wi-Fi, N-Gage, candybar and so on, and neither of them have TV-out, 3D acceleration or xenon flash.
Really like the device, and will probably buy it, but I can't help to wonder how long it will take until we see a thin N82 in the E-series? :tongue: That would be my ultimate device for many years to come 😎
To skagen: It has AGPS 😊 and a motion sensor, something that pull me back in E71.
I would really like to see how you type a number on the standby screen, as it does not have a Contacts key anymore I suppose it has some Standby search or something like T9nav. Can someone enlighten me? 😃
djplus wrote:The best thing on this phone for emailing has got to be the enter key. I really struggle to email without it on a T9 phone. I'm sure the new software will help too!nice spec too though, I'm interested.
Enter has been available under the character map for quite a long time now. Sure its two key presses but it's there all the same
Guys are the photos on top of this article exact real size?
If you need category support try SBSH Calendar (previously known as Papyrus).
The interface is less streamlined than Handy Calendar or the built in Calendar but it does allow categories on appointments and todo's.
The other unfortunate issue is that PC Suite doesn't sync the categories so you will end up with duplicates if you sync with your PC. The best way to get round that is to use MailForExchange to sync with an Exchange server or the built in Sync client with a syncml server in the cloud.
Many thanks for the tip Dr.blind. triple 0 will be imprinted on my thumb forever.
dj
Unregistered wrote:To skagen: It has AGPS 😊 and a motion sensor, something that pull me back in E71.
I would really like to see how you type a number on the standby screen, as it does not have a Contacts key anymore I suppose it has some Standby search or something like T9nav. Can someone enlighten me? 😃
So this device would be doing that.
xerxes wrote:If you need category support try SBSH Calendar (previously known as Papyrus).The interface is less streamlined than Handy Calendar or the built in Calendar but it does allow categories on appointments and todo's.
The other unfortunate issue is that PC Suite doesn't sync the categories so you will end up with duplicates if you sync with your PC. The best way to get round that is to use MailForExchange to sync with an Exchange server or the built in Sync client with a syncml server in the cloud.
Unregistered wrote:The most interesting thing here (for me at least) is the battery - how did they get a 1500mAh battery into a device with that volume? Looks like a significant jump in battery technology to me (although many more can be expected over the next few years I think). How much more capacity can we have in slightly bigger devices?I am just hoping it is same format as the battery in E75, in which case I will get one of these and shoehorn it into the E75!!
I am not sure how many of you realize the impact of this device, but so far this has just bought out every cent out of my cell phone budget. The built in VPN part especially is killer - since no s60 device has ever been able to do that before. Bravo, nokia.
Unregistered wrote:I am not sure how many of you realize the impact of this device, but so far this has just bought out every cent out of my cell phone budget. The built in VPN part especially is killer - since no s60 device has ever been able to do that before. Bravo, nokia.
@unregistered
All S60 phones already had VPN and can network access!?
SymVPN and also there is SymSMB for network sharing, for S603rd.
http://www.symvpn.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductId=17
Although Nokia aquired them, so I guess this is their release included in the build.
Regards,
Darren.
BlackN91 wrote:Is this a fact that could be proven with any official statement from Nokia, or is it just an attempt to spread a new rumour?
@BlackN91
"just an attempt to spread a new rumour?"...
All rumour's are rumour's if you think they are...
Nokia might not do official statements on this, but their recipients do:
Quote:
"Please be notified that Telexy Networks, Inc. discontinues further development, support and distribution of SymSMB product line.
Two of Telexy Networks programmers worked full-time for Nokia during SymSMB development. Nokia's employment agreement contains a paragraph stating that "All Proprietary Property which Employee may develop in the course of employment with Company, whether alone or jointly with others, shall be the exclusive property of company...''. Based on this agreement Nokia has demanded all rights for SymSMB.
We offer our sincere apologies to all SymSMB users and those simply interested in the product for any inconvenience. On the other hand, this can be an opportunity for SymSMB technology to be incorporated into all Nokia smartphones and become a differentiating feature of S60 platform. Telexy team is ready to provide any support Nokia may need.
If you like this idea you can share your opinion on our forum: forum.telexy.com
Telexy Networks is currently considering opportunities for new products and business ideas. We are open for discussion ([email protected]).
Sincerely yours,
Telexy Networks, Inc. "
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There will always be doubters.
Fact or fiction, Go figure:
- http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2008/11/symsmb-now-owned-by-nokia.html
- http://www.nokiausers.net/General/SymSMB-Now-under-Nokia-Licence-but-at-what-cost.html
- http://my-symbian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38275&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Best regards,
Darren.
Belfast.