Nokia E52/E55

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Nokia E52 and Nokia E55 [1]
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The Nokia E52 (top) and Nokia E55 (below). The E55, despite being a higher number, was announced before the E52.
Manufacturer Nokia
Series Nokia Eseries
Compatible networks Quad band (GSM / GPRS / EDGE):

Dual band (UMTS / HSDPA):

Availability by regionSecond half of 2009 [2]
Predecessor Nokia E51
Successor Nokia E5-00
Related Nokia E72
Nokia 6720 classic
Form factor Candybar phone
Dimensions116 × 49 × 9.9 millimeters
Mass98  g
Operating system S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 on Symbian OS 9.3
CPU ARM11; 600  MHz
Memory60  MB (built-in)
Removable storage MicroSDHC (up to 32  GB); Hot-swappable
BatteryBP-4L, 3.7V 1500 mAh lithium-polymer
Display240 × 320 pixels, 2.4 inches, 16.7 million colors
Media MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB and audio streaming
Rear cameraBack-mounted; 3.2 megapixels (2048 × 1536 pixels) with fixed focus (Extended Depth of field) and flash. It supports VGA video recording up to 15fps [3] [4]
Front camera Front-mounted; 0.0768 megapixels (240 × 320 pixels) [3]
Connectivity
Data inputsNumeric keyboard and five-way joystick
Other

The Nokia E52 and Nokia E55 are mobile phones from Nokia's business-oriented Eseries range. They run Symbian OS v9.3 (S60 3rd Edition FP1). The E55 was announced on 16 February 2009, whilst the E52 was announced later on 6 May 2009. They are both physically and functionally identical, except that the E55 has a 'half-QWERTY' keyboard, similar to the SureType keyboard on BlackBerry Pearl, whereas the E52 revision has a traditional T9 keypad. [5]

Contents

They are available in Black, Black Aluminum, Metal Grey aluminium, White Aluminium and Gold. They came with a 1GB MicroSD memory card, [6] but it supports MicroSD cards with up to 32GB memory. It also has 60 MB free user memory. The E52 is the successor to Nokia's successful E51 model. [7] Latest firmware version is v091.004 released on June 2, 2012.

The E52 and E55 were, at 9.9 mm thickness, very slim for its time, and feature mostly metallic bodies. [8] [9] Nokia called the E55 the world's thinnest smartphone (it was just 0.1 mm thinner than Nokia E71). [10] The E55 model has a unique 'compact' QWERTY keyboard featuring two letters in the QWERTY order on a single key.

Features

Battery life

It has been observed that the 5.5 Watt-Hour, 1500 mAh, 3.7 V battery can easily last 27 days of practical use. This is considerably higher than other phones in its class made by Nokia and other manufacturers. If WiFi, Bluetooth are used and built-in VOIP client is active, the battery will last about 24 hours.

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