Nokia E72: A Review

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Nokia E72

If you’re planning to buy a smartphone or are looking for the best one there is in the market? The new Nokia E72 phone is your answer. Priced at around $489-$499, this is the perfect device with a perfect combination of efficiency, fun and value. The newest member of the E-series business handsets, the E72 was launched sometime in late August or around the second week of September. E72’s predecessor, E71 was a favorite with all the QWERTY lovers. It seemed a fan favorite due its perfectly positioned QWERTY keypad and solid built so much so that was listed as best of its class in Wired Magazine. In fact, E71 was the most successful PDA phone that Nokia’s produced. The E72 is just that if nothing more. It’s all the best from E71 plus serious upgradations.

The Nokia E72 is beautifully shaped, only 128 grams in size, 10 mm thickness and is the perfect smartphone or PDA for any business person constantly on the go. One of the differences with its predecessor is that its four corners are a bit rounded and the key positions are slightly higher. Despite being in the family of E-series, the E72 while being business oriented in nature is also pretty user friendly. It has a one touch auto focus 5 megapixel camera with a flash that makes it perfect for any kind of multimedia photography. It has features that help you adjust when clicking moving objects thus eliminating the problem of getting blurred images. Being compatible with Microsoft Exchange Email Systems and Lotus Notes

Traveler, The E72 is a powerful device for managing all your email accounts and their respective attachments central from E72 PDA device. In general, E72’s email clients support all POP3 and IMAP based email along with HTML mail, multiple email accounts, integrations, forwards etc. The E72 is great in terms of battery life and power savings lasting up to 6 and a half hours with constant GPRS turned on and 5 hours if you’re surfing the web. It can also last for 8 hours of video playback, 12 hours of talktime, 32 hours of music playback and over 100 hours with WIFI on standby mode.

Its 3.5G HSDPA device gives you up to 10.6 mbps of connectivity speed at a given time. It also offers HSUPA, WLAN, EDGE, GPRS and WAP connectivity. Among other features, it supports high speed A2DP EDR connectivity for its Bluetooth device connections and also supports high speed high speed USB and speed 3.5mm audio jacks for easy music inputs. The powerful Series 60 Internet browser of E72 symbian OS can support nearly all types of websites and blogs meaning no “small screen” viewing. It can also display flash based images and webpages without requiring any additional plugins or software.

The Optical Navi Keys of the E72 is super luxurious and the left and right navi keys are quite smart yet unusual. You can find it easily with your fingers and control anything on the keypad without even looking. The 320X240 QVGA TFT screen is bright and complements well the dimensions of the phone. The navigational structure is quite user friendly allowing one touch access to Home, Calendar, USB, e-mail, Volume etc. This PDA smartphone comes with Bluetooth connectivity and you can transfer files to any paired or authorized Bluetooth device and it also supports accelerometer based mobile applications and games with or without Bluetooth.

The phone comes with a built in memory of 4GB and about 2500 MB of internal memory for running all your games and applications with ease and without exceeding the memory limit. It also comes with a horde of new features like bulk SMS deletion, undo deletion, text to speech reader, long messages support etc to make it as efficient as you can desire. It comes with built in Nokia applications such as Windows Live Instant Messenger, OVI contacts, instant e-mail notifications, a built in radio that you can operate with the Push to Talk technology etc. All in all, it’s a sleek, efficient phone and yet built to last.

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