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…

Design
At the beginning of the movie RoboCop a regular policeman is covered in shiny metal and becomes a super policeman, a RoboCop, if you will. That’s a tremendously watered down version of the tragic start to this film, but in similarly simplistic terms we can see how Nokia has improved last year’s popular E65 smartphone: they’ve covered it in shiny stainless steel and made it sleeker and sexier.

Yet, physically speaking, there is still so much of the E65 in the E66. From the size of the handset, to the placement of the menu keys, to the tiny phone-shaped speaker above the screen. Just as you can recognise Officer Alex Murphy in the RoboCop outfit, so too can you easily see the E65 in the E66. This newer model is marginally longer to accommodate the larger 2.4-inch colour screen, and is ever-so-slightly thinner, measuring in at 13.5mm deep.

The build quality of the E66 is outstanding. The handset as a whole feels solid and has a pleasing weight, and similar to the E71, the battery cover is textured with an appealing dimpled grid. The sliding mechanism on the E66 is smooth and controlled, feeling similar to the slider on the AU$1,800 Nokia…