| General | 2G Network | GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 | |
| 3G Network | UMTS 2100 | ||
| Announced | 2008, July | ||
| Status | Available. Released 2008, July | ||
| Size | Dimensions | 94 x 48 x 19 mm | |
| Weight | 95 g | ||
| Display | Type | TFT, 256K colors | |
| Size | 176 x 220 pixels, 2.0 inches | ||
| - Wallpapers | |||
| - Second external 1-inch 65K CSTN display, 96 x 64 pixels | |||
| Sound | Alert types | Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones | |
| Speakerphone | Yes | ||
| Memory | Phonebook | Yes | |
| Call records | Yes | ||
| Internal | 45 MB | ||
| Card slot | microSD (TransFlash), up to 2 GB, buy memory | ||
| Data | GPRS | Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps | |
| HSCSD | No | ||
| EDGE | No | ||
| 3G | Yes, 384 kbps | ||
| WLAN | No | ||
| Bluetooth | Yes v1.2 with A2DP | ||
| Infrared port | No | ||
| USB | Yes, v1.2 | ||
| Camera | Primary | 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels | |
| Video | Yes | ||
| Secondary | VGA videocall camera | ||
| Features | Messaging | SMS, EMS, MMS, Email | |
| Browser | WAP 2.0/xHTML | ||
| Radio | No | ||
| Games | Yes | ||
| Colors | Red, Brown | ||
| GPS | No | ||
| Java | Yes, MIDP 2.0 | ||
| - MP3/MP4 player | |||
| - Organizer | |||
| - Voice memo | |||
| Battery | Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh | ||
| Stand-by | Up to 180 h | ||
| Talk time | Up to 2 h 40 min |
Users Opinions and Reviews
BenQ’s E55 mobile phone is of a clamshell design, a pretty stylish design probably styled to attract those users who love the feel of a stylish flip phone.
Although not much is known about the E55 among the known features of this new BenQ mobile handset there is tri-band GSM connectivity EDGE and GPS, 2100MHz WCDMA/ 3Gfor faster data transfer speeds, its hands-free, and has Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, and that really is about all the details known.
BenQ is based in Taiwan and generally concentrates its activity on manufacturing LCD displays, consumer electronics and notebooks, and only having the mobile phone division as a secondary department. Although way back in 2006 BenQ purchased the mobile handset division of giant German conglomerate, Siemens. Though manufacturing mobile phones may not be BenQ’s major concern it has still managed to bring up to now several interesting mobile phones into play such as the highly fashionable S7 and T60 models and the M7 roughed candy-bar, and also the wonderfully weird shaped SL98 slider mobile