If Nokia 5500 Sport doesn’t manage to win you with its combination of a modern Symbian and a resistant body, you will surely give in to its touchpad control, its numerous functions that help you enhance your physical condition, or to its incoming SMS reader.

Official pictures of Nokia 5500 Sport

Key Features:

• Outstanding construction for improved resistance
• Symbian OS
• Special functions for sportsmen
• Automatic reading of incoming messages
• Built-in radio
• Touchpad control of music and sport applications, and messages
• Application for work with Bluetooth GPS Module

Main Disadvantages:

• Stiff keys
• Connector cap is loose
• Battery cover is difficult to remove
• Voice record duration limited to one minute
• Basic alarm clock

When Nokia presented its resistant sports smartphone 5500 in May, I could not believe my eyes. A Symbian built in an “off-road” mobile? Why? Today I seem to have found the answer: thanks to the possibilities hidden behind the Symbian OS Nokia managed to preinstall in this phone plenty of applications to meet the requirements of sports fans that are at the same time the main customer group Nokia 5500 Sport has been targeted at.

Nokia 5500 Sport live

Nokia 5500’s design resembles the design of Nokia 3220. The phone has a resistant body covered with rubber elements (in the style of Nokia 5140i), an operational system of a modern smartphone, a number of unique functions, and a bit of sport spirit – all this wrapped up in a single handset – Nokia 5500 Sport. The phone looks rather common at first sight, but its software equipment beats a great part of the competition.

If you don’t like the black design you can to pick the model in more provocative colors

The smallest S60

A lot of people express a high degree of dissatisfaction with the narrower middle part of Nokia 5500. I myself like it quite a lot though. What’s more, it is exactly the curves of the phone body that facilitate the press of all side buttons on the rubber surface. With its 107 x 45 x 18 mm Nokia 5500 is one of the smallest and lightest smartphones ever together with Nokia E50 and Sony Ericsson W950.

The telephone held in hand • size comparison with a credit card

In the following table pay attention to the fact that Nokia 5500 Sport smartphone is smaller and lighter than the current best heavy duty mobile phone Siemens M75.