BenQ will soon release the E55 mobile phone, a new device that recently surfaced on the Web, together with a low-res image and some of its technical details. The E55 comes in a clamshell form factor and has a pretty nice design, most probably being a handset created to attract users who want and need stylish devices.

Among the known features of the new BenQ phone, we have tri-band GSM connectivity with GPRS and EDGE, 3G / WCDMA (2100 MHz) for high data transfer speeds, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, handsfree and that's about it.

Although there aren't any details about the phone's internal display, this seems a pretty big one for a clamshell and it probably measures around 2.4 or even 2.6 inches, supporting a QVGA (240 x 320) resolution. In the available image with the handset we can also spot an external screen (small, as most of the screens of this kind), plus a photo camera, but its performances are a mystery for now. Of course, since we know so little about the new E55 clamshell, its price is also a mystery, as well as its availability.

Based in Taiwan, BenQ concentrates its activity on producing LCD display, notebooks and consumer electronics, keeping the mobile business as a secondary concern - although back in 2006, the company bought the handset division of Siemens, the giant German conglomerate. However, even if making mobile phones is not the main activity of BenQ, the company managed to bring, up to now, several interesting handsets: the fashionable S7 and T60 models (the latter being only 8.9 millimeters thick), the M7 roughed candybar and the weird-shaped SL98 slider.

The new E55 might also be a device worthy of consideration, but we will be sure of this only when BenQ will officially present it. Hopefully, this will happen in the next weeks / moths.