Nokia E50 - Scaled down compact business phone - flawless :)

I just bought the Black Edition for around 9k in Delhi and the phone’s ergonomics are mind blowing - its the sexiest little thing you can hold in your hand. I had actually bought it as a standby for my O2 Atom which is in for Service - and I must say that their service sucks totally!!!

Its an amazing phone - i need to check out the battery backup but m sure as a legacy of Nokia - its gonna be outstanding. Ten arms straight - its not a multimedia phone - but its a business phone. Amazing to see that there are no preloaded games. Loaded with office applications - Flash player, browser, mail client etc.

Pros:

- Excellent Ergonomics

- High Resolution Screen

- Very Simple to Use

- Powerful Business Features

- Seamless integration with PC (Bluetooth/IrDa/USB)

- Very useful options which are absent on N-Series

- Excellent Batter Life (Upto 6hrs of talk time & 3-4 Days of standby)

- Multimedia Player (Series 60)

- Symbian OS 9 series 60 (So you can install new softwares) - remember you can’t do this with series 40 phones like 6300

- Good Navigation (Single handed operation)

- 70MB on Internal Memory

- Ability to integrate with GPS features using an external GPS module

- Phone Book is virtually limitless (No limit on number of entries)

- No Limit to number of SMS you can save (Hats off)

- I could go on and on...in short 70% of my O2 Atoms features for 1/3 the price - Way to go NOKIA E50

Cons

- 1.3 Megapixel Camera

- Poor Inbuilt Speaker (Ringtones sound crappy)

- No FM (This would have made this phone an all rounder)

- No 16M Colour TFT - (similar to 6300 - although a 256k is decent enough considering most N Series come with a similar screen)

- Option to increase Font Size (Although I enjoy the small fonts)

- A stereo headset along with the phone (They pack in the mono ones to bring down price) Personally I wouldn’t mind paying another 300rs for it.

- Pop-Port connectivity for PC. They should have stuck to the mini USB cable port being used by 5200/5300 music phones

- Birthdays added to phone book do not get added as reminders :(

Over all for the price I paid for it, I totally recommend this phone but it’s meant for business classes or executives.

I recommend it for sure.

Purchase Price : 9200/- (Price in New Delhi)

Talk time (minutes) : 400