The Nokia E50 Business Device is a bar-style monoblock quad-band smartphone from Nokia announced May 18 2006[1] as part of the Eseries, intended primarily for the corporate business market. It includes sophisticated e-mail support for Nokia’s Intellisync Wireless Email, BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, Activesync Mail for Exchange, and Altexia, along with the ability to view Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel attachments, and PDF documents. Device to device synchronisation is possible with Data transfer application. Features include EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a MicroSD memory-card slot, and digital music player functionality. This unit does not support UMTS, Wi-Fi, or FM radio.
It uses the third edition of the Series 60 user-interface (S60v3) and the Symbian operating system version 9.1. It is not binary compatible with software compiled for earlier versions of the Symbian operating system.
Versions
Nokia model E50-1 / RM-170 (with camera)
Nokia model E50-2 / RM-171 (without camera)
Nokia model E50 Metal Black, available in selected markets
Specifications
Feature
Specification
Form factor
Candybar / Monoblock
Operating System
Symbian OS (9.1) + Series 60 v3
GSM frequencies
850/900/1800/1900 MHz
GPRS
Yes, class 10
EDGE (EGPRS)
Yes, class 10
3G
No
UMTS/WCDMA
No
WLAN/WiFi
No
Main screen
Active Matrix, 262 144 colours, 240 x 320 pixels, adjustable brightness
Camera (optional)
1.3 megapixel, 4x digital zoom
Video recording
Yes 176 x 144 or 128 x 96, 15 frames per second, up to one hour
Voice recording
Yes
Multimedia Messaging
Yes
Video calls
No
Push to talk
Yes (Push to Talk over Cellular - PoC)
Java support
Yes, MIDP 2.0
Built-in memory
70 MB
Memory card slot
Yes, MicroSD
Hot Swappable Memory card slot
Yes
Bluetooth
Yes v2.0 + EDR
Infrared
Yes
USB Mass Storage
Yes, via Pop-Port™
Data cable support
Yes
Browser
WAP 2.0 XHTML / HTML. Comes standard with a full Nokia Mini Map Browser