The Nokia E55 is not new, but this review at nokiaLB tells you almost everything you need to know about the device. A much better smartphone than many people give it credit for.
“The E55′s keyboard is very similar to the one introduced by Research in Motion on some earlier BlackBerry devices. Even though it offers a QWERTY layout, most of the letters actually share the same key with their neighboring character. This layout seems annoying at first, but is pretty OK when you’re used to it, as one of the benefits is that the phone is much smaller than full QWERTY phones, like the E71 or E72. What’s very odd with this layout is that you have to press a key twice if you want to insert the second letter; however, using T9 makes it much easier and doesn’t require you to press the key twice, but we will discuss this in the software part. The major complaint we had about the E55′s keyboard is that its space bar was extremely small, making it sometimes annoying to type as you often miss it (until you get accustomed).
To finish, keeping in mind the E55 is a professional device, two shortcuts allow you to open your most useful applications to do business: your calendar and the messaging center; the only thing being that those keys are pretty small and generally lead you to press another key.”
