Nokia 5500 Sport

Small and cute, but not hugely feature-filled the Nokia 5500 Sport is certainly interesting. Nokia are pushing this as the ideal phone for the active lifestyle, but perhaps it also fills the niche of a "low-end" device for weekends, handbags, or kids.

Nokia - Press release Forum Nokia - detailed 5500 specifications All About Symbian - 5500 Sport overview Steve Litchfield - 5500 tips Mobilsiden.dk - fascinating series of video interviews with the 5500 designers - in English (despite the original site being Danish)

Reviews

Mobile Review - 5500 (p)review S60.com - Bjoern's Mini review All About Symbian - 5500 review All About Symbian - 5500 video review - hey, it's waterproof! GSM Arena - 5500 - first look and photos infoSync World - 5500 review MobileBurn - 5500 review About-Nokia - 5500 crash test!

One of the fun things the 5500 does is use the accelerometer for a tap based interface, e.g. to skip to the next song tap it twice on the right side. To listen the previous song, tap it twice on the left side. Nice spot by the Mobiface guys. There is also a 5500 Sport Music edition with a revised colour scheme and with a bundled 512MB MicroSD card, bicycle mounting, fitness carrying strap and sporting headphones (more on MobileBurn).

Specification summary:

Instant Swap key for easy one-key switching between phone, music, and sports modes Text to speech capabilities - 5500 reads out your SMS messages Stainless steel body for shock resistance, and tolerance of water and dust Integrated MP3 player with FM radio with Visual Radio Integrated 2.0-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom 3D Accelerometer to monitors sports performance S60 third edition Tri-band EGSM/GSM (EGSM 900/GSM 1800/GSM 1900) EDGE/GPRS 208 x 208 pixel screen dimensions 107 x 45 x 17 mm weight 103g Available Q3 2006

As ever there are many other Specific Phones in the S60 range.

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