Nokia 5500 Sport

Advantages: sports facilities, 4 hours talk time, 270 hours worth of standby time.
Disadvantages: Keypad drops off! Slow access to features, keeps features running in the background.

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...Call (up to 5 Person) Nokia Push To Talk SIND (Speaker Independent Number Dialing) Connectivity Bluetooth® Pop-Port™ USB Infra Red EDGE GPRS Network Tri Band (GSM 900, GSM 1800 & GSM 1900) Internet XHTML WAP RSS Feeds Memory & Talk Time 64 Mbytes Memory plus 64 Mbytes MicroSD™ Memory Card 4 Hours Talk Time 270 Hours Standby Weight & Size 103 g 107 x 45 x 18 mm ... Read review

Advantages: Durable, packed with features
Disadvantages: mmmmm none that I can see

Nokia 5500 Sport In a nut shell : Candybar type phone, lightweight, durable, packed to the brim with user freindly features, Good camera, good sounds. Features : Well to start with its got a groovy wee torch, that you can turn on from a single button press ( no fumbling around in menus etc ). Its got Bluetooh, infrared, and a microSD memory card slot, which can take up to 1gb, although I have heard rumours that a 2gb can be used ( not tried it ...
...you are used to a nokia symbian phone then you will find your way round this phone quick smart. Yes the keys can be a bit fiddly but, what can you expect its a small phone and those little keys keep it small. In short, the Nokia 5500 is the first truly durable and portable smartphone, but that durability inevitably brings certain restrictions with it. If the E61 is a Merc and the N93 is a BMW, the 5500 is a Ford Focus. ... Read review

Advantages: A torch... quite a rugged build
Disadvantages: KEYPAD DROPS OFF. Slow, buggy firmware, unpleasant keypad, missing essential features, poor battery life

A very durable phone - until it sheds its keypad. Then it's totally unusable. I had mine fixed under warranty. The rubber flap covering the connectors at the bottom also broke. Now the phone is 16 months old, more issues have emerged. The text messaging application is so buggy that it crashes-to-standby at least twice a day. Sometimes it doesn't crash, it just hangs, and I have no choice but to reboot the phone. And turning it on takes about two ...
...ambulance (yes, it once delayed me calling an ambulance). The key placement also means I frequently hit cancel by accident when texting, so I have to find my half-written message in Drafts. This usually involves the Messaging app hanging again, me swearing, and rebooting the phone again. The Sports application can not be exited. It runs in the background draining power as long as the phone's on. The Sports feature is a gimmick anyway - if you're ... Read review

Advantages: Loads of features, good camera, good sound.
Disadvantages: Too many features, design and number of features rather than usability

...that this phone definetly puts Nokia in the lead when it comes to sturdy phones. But with that said I have to say I got quite disappointed when the paint on the navigation-key started peeling of. Though that is in no way fatal to the phone's usability it leaves the impression that there has been some cutbacks on the quality. No doubt the designers at Nokia had a great day, when they made this design. The phone looks outlandish and like nothing else, ...
...for usability. With this phone Nokia has leaped ahead from the former Nokia 5140i. The software is broader, the storage is better, the implementation of Bluetooth is great. But the fact that the phone is less of a phone and more of a handheld device annoys me. For example turning on the phone will take up to a whole minute, menues are in so many levels, that you really have to use the phone a lot to get a hold on which feature is found in which ... Read review

Advantages: Great phone with lots of freatures and good battery life
Disadvantages: Can be slow sometimes when working from the memory card

...phone for anyone. The Nokia 5500 is packed with features that you would expect in the very high end phones. It is bluetooth 2.0 compliant , a feature i use regularly, and it supports all the usual features that most mobile phones have nowadays such as GPRS and a camera(see specs for full feature list). The phones camera is very useful and produces quite good quality images. The only problem is at night the images aren't always great as the 5500 ...
...as good as the old Nokia 3220 i used to have. The internet browser is good and displays most web pages fine, if a little slowly. The only problem with the internet browser is you have to specify exit in the menus to leave it not just press the red button to get back to the main screen otherwise it leaves the browser connected and drains the battery faster than usual and the only indication of this is a small icon in the top corner that is very similar ... Read review