A First Look Inside the Nokia E50
As most of us are, I am a creature of habit. Over the past month I have gotten used to the big nice screen of the Nokia E61. Switching to the Nokia E50 means giving up some of that screen size for a smaller and handier device - a trade off I am willing to make on a Sturday or Sunday.
However, it does take some time to get adjusted to the new dimensions.
The Nokia E50 comes with some features and applications I wish was present in the Nokia E61. One of those features is the predictive text input method. Of course, it is more or less an imperative to have predictive text input on a non QWERTY device but I still think it would have been great to have it on the Nokia E61. Anyway - I'm glad that it is a part of the Nokia E50.
Another neat feature is the Text To Speech function which is used by the Message Reader application. Yay, no more reading your messages - let the device read them for you ;-)
A great enhancement is the Notification Light. The notification light of the Nokia E50 is the area around the joystick. Instead of only using the notification light as a new mail notifier as on the Nokia E61, the Nokia E50 has the capability to use it to notify the user of a number of events.
More tomorrow about my favourite new application bundled on the Nokia E50 - Team Suite.
October 17th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Team Suite is a wicked application.
I love sending group SMSes on it. Works great.
Message reader is awesome as well with all the included accents and languages that come on the CD.
Wish it would read more than just messages such as a Word document or an E-book so i can just listen instead of look at the screen.
October 18th, 2006 at 12:07 am
UGH!!!! i want that last feature SOOO BADLY! where the light blinks for other indications besides just new e-mail!!! sooooo AWESOME!
October 18th, 2006 at 12:24 am
Love the notifed events options. Would love to see that on my E61 in the future. Any new themes on the device BTW?
October 18th, 2006 at 12:40 am
Hi Josh & Trat
Yes - that is a very clever feature that I use a lot. I bought my device unlocked and it only came with the standard Nokia Theme.
Elisha,
Couldn’t agree with you more. Team Suite is such a great application. I don’t understand why it is not available for ALL Eseries devices.
October 18th, 2006 at 2:28 am
Love the design of E50. It resembles me 6310i that I owned awile ago. I would buy it the moment it hit the store shelves, but it don’t have 2 features I want: Wi-Fi and A2DP. Maybe E51 next year, heh?
October 18th, 2006 at 2:32 am
Maybe because the “E-Fiddy” as Boston_Errol in HoFo calls is it the latest and greatest E-series minus 3G, QWERTY and WiFi.
But it definitely is the sexiest and toughest.
October 18th, 2006 at 6:27 am
Hello!
I would like to talk about the reading sms´s feature. Acording to the manual, you have to press green key when you receive a text message, and the application will launch and read your message, but in mine´s doesn´t works.
How does it work?
cheers
October 18th, 2006 at 7:41 am
is there some place we can get these softwares for the E61
October 18th, 2006 at 7:56 am
the E50 theme is very nice
how can i download it?
please help me
October 18th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
ed. you should stop now. how many eseries phones do you intend to own!??!?!
congrats on your new phone
October 19th, 2006 at 2:08 am
October 20th, 2006 at 6:33 am
So that’s what that app does!
I have a chance to play with the E50 in September, and besides the 1 megapixel camera, I would still rather stick with the E61. I was also given the chance to buy it at a discount which I reject. I would die without my WIFI.
The N95 is the trueblue E61 replacement, E50 would be nice as a supplement if you need camera.
October 20th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Hi!
Have you tried he E50 as a mp3 player?mine´s is slow as hell! I´m using a 256 sandisk microsd, so I think that is for the card.
Ther is a firmware update to this model? because I have a little bugs with it.
Cheers!
October 28th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Can anyone comment on the ’slowness’ of the E50 (or even E60)? I have an E62– and it takes a long time to open or switch apps. Surprisingly long. Are other E-series phones the same?
October 28th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Hi Sriram,
I think speed and the perception of how long time it takes to load apps is it’s quite relative. Opening a java app takes longer time than a regular app (because of the JVM that needs to load). I personally don’t think it is painfully slow but I guess that is relative.
November 1st, 2006 at 3:44 am
Hi!.
I’m thinking about dropping TracFone and going with T-Mobile. I’m
looking at a Nokia 6101 for my Grandpa. My only problem is that my
Grandpa is a little hard of hearing and can’t hear some of the ring
tones that are on some cell phones. He had a Nokia 5180ip and couldn’t
hear it half the time.
I got him a Nokia 1100, it was a little better but not much. I then
got him a Nokia 2600 and there was one ringtone on it that was pretty
good for him and he could hear it pretty well. Forget the vibrate
function. They all suck equally in all cell phones.
Does anybody know if the Nokia 6101 is as loud as the Nokia 2600? Or
can the ring tone be put through the speakerphone on the Nokia 6101 to
be really loud like the Nextel junk?
I need something really loud for him. The 6101 has all the bells and
whistles he wants. He’s not really old, just can’t hear crap.
He’s pretty well set on the 6101
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
November 5th, 2006 at 7:36 am
my E-50 is good and i like very much this hendset b’coz it’s a very slick phone with good fancasions
November 6th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I just got my e50 and I’m so very happy with it. I’ve read a lot about people saying it’s slow, but I honestly haven’t experienced anything slow about it. Maybe it is, compared to other s60 phones, but I don’t have any experience with any others. So far, 2 thumbs way up!!
November 6th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
oh, and if anyone knows of a good place to get e50 themes I’d love to know…
November 7th, 2006 at 11:03 am
[...] Although I have written about the Nokia E50 before I feel that it wasn’t a “review” of the device. Like so many of my posts it was more a photo exposé than anything else. To make things right I asked Asri from the excellent site i-symbian to write a more in depth review of the Nokia E50. Here’s Asri’s report: [...]
November 12th, 2006 at 10:36 am
hi
i have my e50 for one week its a nice phone i have only one problem i don’t have the french writing language.have only english and chinese :-((.
is there someone who can help me plz
December 2nd, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Hi everyone…
I currently own an E50, after going through 6600 (3 yrs. ago I guess) and E61 (yep, that’s right. Bought it 3 months ago and replaced it nearly 1 month ago)… I discarded the E61 as soon as I figured out that I didn’t use the keyboard much to make me carry it along…
I still miss the WLAN though, but only for web browsing. And the landscape screen of course… As the resolutions are same (except one is portrait), I don’t get frustrated by it’s screen, but the speed of downloads sometimes bores me (as I bought it with a 1gig Micro-SD).
I use EGPRS with the Avaya Corporate VoIP plan I had it configured. I use Avaya for nearly every call, routing me through the corporate call-center. Only I drop to GSM when there are no free lines with the corp. system.
It’s sleek, it’s lighter, it’s tougher and looks better (IMHO). So, I don’t usually miss the E61 when I have my little mob-office with me. And, it’s battery lasts more than E61’s…
So, I can easily say “Go buy the E50, if you don’t use Wifi and the full QWERTY keyboard much. Otherwise, go ahead and stick with the E61/E62. These are the best choices Nokia offer currently.”
Final words: Cheers Ed, nice work here.
January 19th, 2007 at 9:15 am
i have e50 for a few days, it use to work great and fast until i updated it with a nokia update soft from nokia site…now its tooooo slow. please tell me how to restore my earlier firmware on e50?
please tell me what to do..
regards
kiril
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:11 am
Can the Msg reader read new SMS? I mean instead of opening the reader and then reading sms can’t it read automatically when a new sms comes?
February 16th, 2007 at 11:21 am
i find on my e50 it takes forever to send a sms, my phone blocks whilst it is sending the sms and it can take up to 60secs to clear. is this a common problem? is there a way to fix it?!!
thanks
narinder
February 26th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
[...] But my absolute favourite "carry over feature" from the Nokia E50 to the Nokia E61i is "Notification". A blinking light that can be set to according to user preference. [...]
April 6th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Please let me know the solution about E50 have only 8 Digits Calculator…..
Any Solution about it??
I need atleast 10 digits calculator….
Please help and reply,
Regards,
Arif
May 8th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Is it possible to change the font size on E50 and how?
May 9th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
HI Dejan,
Only through using certain application (3rd party) that supports scalable font size can you change it.
One example is this application:
http://www.e-series.org/archives/241
May 17th, 2007 at 1:00 am
I have a question on the E50. How is it possible to delete a mistaken input when creating an SMS message? If I enter say the letter A instead of B, I cannot seem to figure out how to delete the letter A.
Thanks in advance for help.
June 11th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Hi,
I also like E50 b’coz of it’s slikness and nice functionalities like zip manager
it’s a quadband phone. It looks nice. the most important thimg is it’s extended battery talk time which is hardly seen in a multimedia phone. nice NOKIA , keep it up. We are with you.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:49 am
não da para o nokia n80?
August 21st, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I’ve been Nokia phone user since 1999, of all the models I’ve used for the past years, the E50 is the one for me. The best I’ve had from Nokia. I guess it’ll take time before I replace this baby
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
When will the firmware for E50 with A2DP support added to it be released?? Anyone @ nokia please consider this…. Many fones from other brands have A2DP on their entry level fones…then why not on the E50??? Please Please release a firware with A2DP !!!
September 7th, 2007 at 12:27 am
It will be highly good if nokia can release a new firmware for Nokia E50 with A2DP Blue tooth profile.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:35 am
I have nokia E50 and its a amazing, but i have only one problem, MP4 video files dont work properly on my mobile…
what should i do?