Nokia 5500

Nokia represented its first "sports" smartphone for people with active life style. Also the model got all the advantages of the S60 platform 3rd edition. It is produced in a protected body.

• Class: smartphone, sports
• Position in the line: starts
• Rivals: no in the segment
• At the release moment the price forms 300-330 Euros
• Test based description

• General features
  • Announced in April 2006, official announcement in May 2006
  • eGSM 900/1800/1900
  • Battery type 860 mAh Li-ion (BL-5B)
  • talk mode from 2 up to 4 hours
  • standby mode 150 up to 270 hours
  • Graphical display high-contrast, 262000 colours (TFT), the resolution of 208x208 pixels (31x31 mm)
  • 5D navi button
  • The phone is run by Symbian OS 9.1 (S60 third edition interface)
  • 2.0-MP (CMOS), the maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels, selection of light conditions, digital zoom
  • Video, available resolution of 176x144 and 128x96 pixels, 15 fps
  • Weight: 103 gramms
  • Dimensions: 107x45x18 mm

• Memory
  • Internal memory for applications forms 32 MB, Memory available to a user forms 10MB. All data can be stored on the memory card.
  • microSD memory slot
  • Photos can be assigned to numbers in the phonebook
  • For each name you can store Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile phone, Fax and E-mail address — totally 8 fields. You can add any number of fields.
  • Unlimited number of user groups, a name can refer to several groups at once
  • SIM entries are stored separately, you can't view them with phone entries at once
  • Call lists, no limits on the number of entries; date, duration and time of a call are kept. You can set a storage period for list entries (a month by default)

• Call management, ringing tones
  • Vibracall
  • Polyphonic call melody, True Tones, supported formats AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
  • 64-tones call signal, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
  • Voice dial doesn't depend on the pronunciation, no need in preliminary recording of tags
  • Speakerphone
  • Call duration
  • Musical composer, assign melodies to names in the phonebook

• SMS
  • Predictive text input Т9
  • Message templates (10 preset, you can change them or add own ones)
  • Graphical messages
  • Concatenated messages (up to 459 characters)

• Connectivity
  • WAP 2.0
  • Bluetooth 2.0 with support for EDR
  • GPRS class 10
  • EGPRS (Class B, Multislot class 11)
  • E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 - attachments
  • MMS
  • Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth or a cable
  • SyncML
  • SMIL
  • USB 2.0 via Pop-Port
  • PoC or PTT
  • Instant Messaging

• Organizer and extras
  • Sport mode using an integrated 3D-sensor (preset applications are Quick start, Training diary, and Tests). Also the sensor is used to manage some of the applications.
  • Text to Speech
  • Stereo FM-radio, Visual radio
  • User profiles, temporary profile
  • Time, date
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate values), countdown timer
  • Organizer with support for events of various kinds, reminders
  • To-do list
  • Dictaphone
  • 3GPP Video Streaming
  • RealOne Player: playing RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
  • Special player with support for the following formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, M4A/MP4, RealAudio, WAV, WMA.
  • Photoalbum - improved gallery
  • Viewer - application to view MS Word and MS PowerPoint files
  • MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
  • Download Java applications
  • Games

Michail Machnaev ([email protected])
Published — 23 June 2006

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