Nokia E50 Reviewed

Nico of the About-Nokia blog has posted his in depth review of Nokia's smallest business phone.

The Nokia E50 is the newest addition to the Nokia´s Eseries business device range. It´s a small sized traditional candybar-style quad-band smartphone with features like Infrared, Bluetooth, USB, EDGE and sophisticated e-mail support. You can have this affordable handset with or without the 1.3 megapixel camera.

Comments

[Erik]

On the Nokia E50 there are a couple of things that I was wondering if anyone has learned how to tackle. First, when switching to Speaker Phone, is there any way to keep it from making the beep when you press Speaker Phone. This is problematic for me for two reasons: First, when you dial voice mail, you have to wait until the mobile system answers to switch to voice mail...but when you do, that beep causes my phone provider's voice mail system, Cingular, to go back to the "main menu" instead of just going into the first recorded voice mail message. Second, people can hear the audible beep when you switch to Speaker Phone. I would love to be able to make that noise go away.

The other thing that gets me is that when I get one voice mail, the phone displays, "New Message." When I get a second message, the phone displays "3 messages." Three messages, it displays "6 messages." When it gets to nine actual messages on Cingular's voice mail system, my phone displays "72 messages." Any ideas on what is going on?

Thanks.

[Steve Parrock]

The Nokia E50 business phone is unnecessarilly complicated to use; your fingers slip off the keys when trying to do anything at all with it, but most ridiculous of all the is the size of the font. It is positively microscopic with no appropriate software and so way of enlarging it!
Most businessmen are 30 going on 60 something and would natually be wearing glasses, the very people who might want to use this phone. I can advise them that after a nearly a year of struggling with it, either carry a hand held spyglass to compliment their spectacles or find a very strong light. Alternatively find a kid under 10 years of age with perfect eyesight to dail it for you!
I so much wanted to aim it; so it was somewhat of a relief when the centre joystick finally gave out and I could get a new & different replacement under the terms of my contract. What were Nokia thinking of?

[Andrew Fergusson]

Uhh, Erik, the beeping is there to let people know they're on speaker so they don't say stupid things and stuff like that, there have been lawsuits on the matter. Personally I'm extremely happy I can't be put on the speaker without me knowing, I hate it when some teens decide it's a good idea to call me with the speaker on and laugh at how I am, apparently, hilarious.