Nokia 6550 for T-Mobile runs S60 3rd Edition

At CeBIT on Monday, besides the 6124, Nokia announced another carrier-branded phone, the 6550 for T-Mobile (that is T-Mobile international, not US). However, strangely, the press release has absolutely no mention of S60, so naturally I didn't think it was an S60 smartphone, and thus didn't write about it then.

But in the mean time Engadget Mobile have got their hands on it, and in the picture above you can clearly see the typical S60-style standby menu for the external display.

So there you have it, T-Mobile customers: a cheap (on contract, obviously) S60 3rd Edition (whether Feature Pack 1 or 2 is an even bigger mistery) flip phone with a 2MP camera, aGPS, HSDPA, no WiFi...and that's about it. Good if you're into Nokia flips (but is anyone really?), but at 21 mm, it's not at all slim. Which shouldn't be an issue if it was packing N95-like hardware, but for such lowly specs it's rather ridiculously large in my opinion.

Full Press Release here.

Full specs here.