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Nokia E50-2
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.8/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Siperia
⏱ Life timer: 273h | 📦 Boxed: YES
📅 Release Year: 2006 | 💰 Release Price: ~200 £
📊 Units Sold: ~200k
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia E50 Business Device is a bar-style monoblock quad-band smartphone from Nokia announced 18 May 2006 as part of the Eseries, intended primarily for the corporate business market. It includes sophisticated e-mail support for Nokia’s Intellisync Wireless Email, BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, Activesync Mail for Exchange, Altexia as well as IMAP4. It also has the ability to view Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel attachments, and PDF documents but it cannot be used for editing these without additional apps. An application manager downloads, removes and installs both Nokia and third-party applications. Device to device synchronization is possible with Data transfer application. Features include EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, a 1,280 x 960 pixels (1.3-megapixel) camera, a MicroSD memory-card slot, and digital music and video player functionality through RealPlayer and Flash Player. This unit does not support UMTS, Wi-Fi, or FM radio.It uses the third edition of the Series 60 user-interface (S60v3) and the Symbian operating system version 9.1. It is not binary compatible with software compiled for earlier versions of the Symbian operating system.
📝 Reviews when released: CNET 🔗
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Nokia E61 Prototype B3.0 : The “Smailer” | Unreleased Rare Black and Silver colour
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.8/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Smailer
⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2006 | 💰 Release Price: ~250 €
📊 Units Sold: ~1M (final units)
📰 Why this phone matters: This unit is a remarkable historic artefact: a prototype Smailer RM-89 hardware build of the Nokia E61, finished in an unreleased two-tone silver and black housing that never reached consumer production. The color layout is unlike any retail E61, combining a silver frame with a black upper section and a unique keypad palette that does not exist on final units. The keypad itself uses a mixed color scheme reminiscent of the later E62 look, but with a configuration that was never approved for market release.Inside the casing you find the clearest testimony to its origin: model field XXXX, prototype build B3, product code 0523307, internal R&D IMEI beginning with 004400, and full Property Of Nokia, Not For Sale, Made In Finland labeling. This confirms the phone as an authentic preproduction engineering unit created during early development cycles before cosmetic design and final materials were locked down.
Externally the device presents the full QWERTY keyboard layout, 5-way joystick and wide landscape display that defined the E61 family. Yet this prototype stands apart because of its unreleased finish: a rare two-tone silver and black shell matched with a hybrid keypad coloring that blurs the line between E61 and E62 aesthetics. The magnesium-alloy structure and rugged business-class construction already appear in place, but the cosmetics clearly represent a transitional stage in Nokia’s decision process.
Although this prototype may never have carried final firmware or passed network certification, its hardware is essentially complete. It captures a frozen moment when Nokia was experimenting with materials, colors and layouts for what would become one of the defining smartphones of the business-centric Eseries. For collectors and historians, this unit is far more than a phone: it is a one-off window into Nokia’s internal design evolution, a rare glimpse of what the E61 might have looked like had this striking silver-and-black, E62-influenced combination reached the market.
📝 Reviews when released: All About Symbian 🔗