The Nokia E50 Business Device is a bar-style monoblock quad-band smartphone from Nokia announced May 18, 2006 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 but it cannot be used for editing these. Device to device synchronisation is possible with Data transfer application. Features include EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, a 1280 × 960 pixels (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.
Nokia model E50-2 / RM-171 (without camera)
Nokia model E50 Metal Black, available in selected markets.
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
PG.R.S. support Yes
Camera (optional) 1280 × 960 pixels (1.3 megapixel), 4x digital zoom
Video recording Yes 176 × 144 or 128 × 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/TransFlash max. 2 GB
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
Email Yes
Music player Yes, stereo
Radio FM No
Video Player Yes
Stereo Speakers No
Ringtones Yes, Polyphonic, Monophonic, MP3, True Tones
Vibrate Yes
HandsFree (HF) speakerphone Yes
Offline/Flight mode Yes
Talk time 6.8 / 8 hours
Standby time 9 days / 10 days
Weight 104 grams
Dimensions 113 × 43.5 × 15.5 millimeters
Availability Q3 2006
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