From Nokia’s live web cast, the Nokia E55 was officially revealed. It comes in a form factor similar to the Nokia E50, but it has a BlackBerry Suretype-like keypad (two characters on one number). Nokia says this is the world’s slimmest smartphone ever, and achieves up to a month of battery life. It will be available this summer for 265 Euros or about $340 USD. More info as it comes. See another photo of the Nokia E55 after the break.

Nokia E73 and E85
The gentleman from Russia has done it again. Eldar Murtazin of Mobile-Review has just dropped word, through his Nokia E75 review, that Nokia has been working on at least three devices that have a side-sliding QWERTY keyboards. These are the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia E73, and Nokia E85. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, I suspect, will be announced on Nokia’s upcoming online music event. And I believe the Nokia E73 is the same QWERTY keyboard-equipped candybar that we saw last year as the Nokia E72 in a leaked Nokia promo vid. However, the last one, the Nokia E85, is a phone that I’ve never heard of until now.

According to Eldar, the Nokia E85, like the E73 and 5730 XpressMusic, will have a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard. His exact words:

Other than that, Eldar revealed nothing else about this mysterious new handset. Perhaps if we take another look at Nokia’s leaked smartphone roadmap which enumerates some upcoming devices, we’ll have a better idea of what the Nokia E85 is (or what it could be).

Could it be the Nokia Madeleine, which is described in Nokia’s leaked smartphone roadmap as having a Side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM Radio, VoIP, GPS, 3.2MP camera,…

At the annual Mobile World Congress show Nokia announced the up and coming Nokia E55 mobile phone, another addition to the E series range. Apparently the worlds smallest smart-phone. Nokia also announced the release of the Nokia E75 smartphone. The Nokia E55 smartphone will come available in a range of aluminium and white coloured casings. In terms of size the E55 handset measures 116.5mm x 49mm x 9.9mm and weighs a very reasonable and respectable 98 grams. With a display screen measuring 2.4 inches using up to 16 million colours with screen resolutions of 320 x 240 pixels the user can really enjoy very clear, bright and colourful displayed images as well as the automatic display rotation feature. However, the compact QWERTY keyboard merged with the numeric keypad may take some getting used to. It remains to be seen whether this change from the conventional ABC keypad will make life any easier when using the handset. There are one-touch keys and side volume keys that are user friendly and are great short cut keys to access the features and functions. The voice command keys control virtually all of the phones applications, services and settings which is a fantastic element to…