The Nokia E72 is a smartphone from the E Series range, made by leading mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia. It is the successor to the Nokia E71, and takes much from its predecessor’s design and form. Although the device has standard features equipped, such as mobile email, organisational tools, and instant messaging, it also brings with it a whole host of brand new innovative features, and the phone has definitely established itself as a true rival to the Blackberry Bold. The keypad is very different to previous Nokia smartphones’, for the E72 features a new Optical Navi Key feature, as opposed to the standard D-pad. The Optical Navi-Key improves scrolling through menus, and also makes browsing the Internet much more satisfying. The faster processor (the E72 comes loaded with an impressive 600 MHz ARM) makes everything that little bit quicker and less laggy, and with an on-board 5 megapixel camera, the device can only be considered alongside the very top end smartphones currently available on the market. Other improvements on the original E71 are mainly software based, including a tweaked user interface and built-in messaging application. The reaction to the E72’s release was mainly positive, and it earned extremely positive reviews from technology and smartphone experts. Its predecessor was one of the best selling business-based handsets to date, so the new and improved model had much to live up to. The key features that reviewers seem to be most impressed with are, firstly, the excellent audio quality (featuring 2.5mm jack headphone input, in contrast to the 2.5mm jack used in the previous model), as well as the 12 hours of talktime, instead of the previous 10 hours. Other such topics of discussion have been the added HSUPA at 2.0 Mbps, the real-time push email HTML, and the improved CPU clock speed to 600 MHz.
