E75 and E55, two very similar looking Eseries handsets with a big emphasis on messaging. One has a half-keyboard (Blackberry style I suppose), while the other has a four-row slide-out QWERTY.
The E75 is the latter, and basically it’s a longer, thicker E66. That is, an E66 with a horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard. The good news is, at 14.4 mm, it’s still pretty thin even with the keyboard.
Other than the QWERTY, there isn’t a whole lot that makes the E75 unique. It has the standard Eseries feature set (S60, quad-band, 3G, 3.2 megapixel camera, email, A2DP, WLAN, A-GPS, etc), and the few deviations that I can see are the 3.5 mm stereo jack, microUSB 2.0 (allows USB charging), and lower battery life (5.4 hours on GSM, 4.2 on WCDMA). Also, the E75 is a heavy beast: it weighs 139 grams.
At 98 grams, the E55 weighs 30% less than the E75. It’s also ridiculously thin: 9.9 mm thin, to be exact. This is because the E55 is your standard candy bar - no slide-out keyboard here! Instead, Nokia has opted to put a half-QWERTY on the keypad, Blackberry-style. Same features as the E75, with a much better battery (BP-4L, 1500 mAh) that provides up to 8 hours of talk time on GSM. Nice.
One improvement coming to both phones is a better predictive text “engine.” Or maybe I should say, there actually is a predictive text engine now. T9 definitely needs an update.
The Nokia E75 is coming sometime this quarter, while the E55 is slated for release in Q2. No prices yet
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