Nokia 5500 Music Edition

This is a musical edition of a sport smartphone 5500 Sport. The hardware component of the phone changed in no way. However the package changed - now it includes a 512 MB microSD card, a special wrist and waist fastening while going in for sports, aslso a bicycle fastening and a sports headset. And after all, the Nokia 5500 Sport Music Edition provides Nokia Music Manager software, which makes exchanging musical compositions with PCs easier.

• Class: smartphone, sports, multimedia
• Position in the line: above Nokia 5500
• Rivals: no in its segment
• Price for the release moment forms about 330-350 Euros
• Description based on official information

• General features
  • Announced in 2006, official announcement in October 2006
  • eGSM 900/1800/1900
  • Battery type 860 mAh Li-ion (BL-5B)
  • Battery life:
  • • talk mode from 2 up to 4 hours
    • standby mode from 150 up to 270 hours
  • Graphical screen high-contrast, 262000 colours (TFT), the resolution of 208x208 pixels (31x31 mm)
  • 5 dimensional navigation button
  • Run by Symbian OS version 9.1 (S60 3 edition interface)
  • Weight: 103 gramms
  • Dimensions: 107x45x18 mm

• Memory
  • Memory for applications forms about 32 MB, about 10 MB of internal memory are available to a user. Use memory cards for storing data.
  • 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.
  • No limit on the number of user groups, a capability to assign a name to several groups at the same time
  • 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
  • Polyphony, True Tones, supported formats include AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
  • 64-tones call melody, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
  • Voice dial doesn't depend on the pronounciation, no need in recording tags preliminarily
  • Speakerphone
  • Call duration is displayed during a conversation
  • Melody composer,assign melodies to names in the phonebook

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

• Camera
  • Integrated 2-MP camera (CMOS)
  • The maximum resolution of 1600x1200 pixels
  • Anti-red eye effect, scene setting, lighting tune up
  • Digital zoom x20
  • Video can be recorded with sound - QCIF (176x144) or subQCIF (128x96), 15 fps

• Multimedia
  • Stereo FM-radio, Visual Radio
  • 3GPP Video Streaming
  • RealOne Player: playback of RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
  • Special player with support for formats: eAAC+, AAC+, M4A, MPEG-4 ACC LC, LTP, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, MIDI, WMA
  • Remote controller compatible with stereo-earphones
  • Musical profile - the smartphone as an mp3 player
  • Java (MIDP 2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
  • Themes

• 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 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
  • 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
  • Photoalbum - advanced gallery
  • Viewer - application to view MS Word and MS PowerPoint files
  • Games

Michail Machnaev ([email protected])
Published — 6 November 2006

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