May 05

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…