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Nokia E series emerged as a solution to business orientated clients. Nowadays our lives are more hectic than four years ago, when Nokia released E series. I guess Nokia knew that the business orientated phones will be mandatory in order to survive. The day seems much shorter, than before, but with the help of our small gadgets, we just might be able to actually sleep. I am sure that over half of Nokia E series customers are not business executives, but they need a fast and solid way to receive and send emails, check accounts, edit documents and so many other activities that would involve sitting in front of a computer.

But this is not the case anymore. Since 2006 you can actually do your job and works on your E series phone on the go in order to save time and improve the quality of your work. Nokia E55 is the improved version of the old E52. One of the best features found on the E55 is the half - QWERTY keyboard. Even so, the keyboard is easy to use, and the keys are excellent in term of feedback providing. Once you will get the whole typing process, the actual use of the half - QWERTY keyboard found on the E55 will be a great experience. An even greater experience you might get when you will discover the full connectivity package offered by the E55, and the excellent to almost flawless business features. The main advantages list can fill up this whole article, so I am only going to point out some disadvantages before presenting the feature keys.

The E55 includes a not so great digital camera (however remember that the E55 is business oriented), bad video recording, no TV out function, and no DivX or XviD support (take in notice, that the E55 runs Symbian S60, this means you can find 3^rd party software that will enable DivX and XviD support). The overall design of E55 makes a great first impression (and not only). The E55 sports a metal accents body, which not only provides great looks but also improves the E55 case durability. You can choose from three different colors (red, black aluminum, and white aluminum), but you should probably stick to the black aluminum design. On the front of the E55 you get a semi glossy plastic surrounded by a silver frame. On the other side you get a metallic (aluminum) black cover that fits excellent in the design (no moves, no nothing).

Above the display, the E55 sports beside the obvious earpiece, the second camera for video calls and a light sensor. Below the display you get the four navigational keys with the ok / function key. In the right and left of the navigational keys you can find a total of eight keys. Yes you read correctly, eight keys. On the left side, you get from top to bottom, a customizable soft key, home screen button, one touch short key, and the call button. On the other side, you get, from top to bottom, one customizable soft key, an edit button, another one touch shortcut key, and end call button. Under all these keys you get the actual half QWERTY keyboard. If you still don't understand how a half QWERTY keyboard looks like, imagine that two letters sit on the same key, and on the same key sits a number two. Therefore, almost every key form the E55 keyboard has a triangle on it (the leading angle is the number, and the rest of the angles are two letters). Even so, once you will learn the E55 typing process, you are going to be pleased of how it works and how good is the keyboard in terms of build. On the top of the E55 you get the power on and off button, and the 3.5 mm audio jack. On the left of the E55 you get the micro USB port, while on the right side you will find the volume controls and the dedicated camera key. the bottom of the E55 lack any kind of port, while on the back the E55 sports the non auto focus 3 megapixel camera with a LED flash. Don't worry, you get the micro SD card slot, but under the back cover. Overall the build quality is flawless. You are not going to find anything to object on, from the materials used to the last "triangle" function key. Nokia E55 runs in both 2G network (GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) and 3G networks (HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100, and HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100).

Nokia included in the E55 a 2.4 inches TFT LCD display, with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The display sports up to 16 million colors, and offers great contrast, vibrant colors, and excellent photo rendition. Because of the light sensor, the E55's display works quite impressive even in the broad daylight. Nokia also included an accelerometer sensor for auto rotate. Nokia E55 comes with Symbian operating system, S60 version 3.2. This means the E55 has Feature Pack 2 on board. The operating system is not the greatest software out there, but on E55 it runs smoothly, mostly because the E55 sports the ARM 11 600 MHz processor with 128 MB of random access memory. This software is fully customizable. It also brings an excellent organizer and great Document editor, for every important file, such as Word documents, Excel documents, PDF, and Power Point presentations. You even get (as a free update) the Microsoft Office 2007 support. Basically from the business features perspective, it can't get any better than this. If you also enjoy fun, and not only work, than you will be happy to know that the E55 includes a great music player (MP3 / WMA / M4A / AAC / WAV / RA) and a pretty decent video player (3GP / RV / MP4 / WMV). You also get a stereo FM radio with RDS, for more fun. Back to the business features.

The connectivity is ensured by the Class 32 GPRS, Class 32 EDGE (from 178.8 Kbits to 296 Kbits), HSCSD, HSDPA up to 10.2 MB per second and HSUPA up to 2 MB per second, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g featuring UPnP technology, micro USB version 2.0 connection, second generation Bluetooth with A2DP. The E55 features only 60MB internal memory, expandable using the micro SD memory card (Trans Flash memory card) up to 16 GB. However, if you go for a known memory card manufacturer you can buy even a 32 GB memory card. Nokia included in the E55 a 3.2 megapixel digital camera with a resolution up to 2048 x 1536 pixels, fixed focus and a LED flash. The camera can also record videos in VGA resolutions with 15 frames per second. Nokia E55 is shipped with a 2 GB memory card, lifetime Nokia Maps City Explorer, micro USB cable, charger, user manual, software CD, and a one piece hands free. Basically, with a height of 116 mm, wide of 46 mm, deep of 9.9 mm, and a weight of 98 g, the Nokia E55 is a great business performer with solid performances, which will fit in any pocket.