Last month, Nokia announced three phones for modern communications – Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5. Each of them offers QWERTY-keyboard. The producer called the E5 the follower of E63, E71, E72 and announced that its sales will start in the third quarter of 2010. But apparently, the Chinese users have received the smartphone earlier.

According to Chinese media, Nokia E5-00 has been noticed in one of the electronic stores. The features correspond to  the announcements, and therefore the likelihood that the photos represent an ordinary model of it is low. Let us remind that E5 is equipped with a 2.4 inch display, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB RAM, a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, microSD, 600 MHz processor.

The first Chinese devices of E5 will cost 2,999 yuan ($ 441).

It was reported that the Nokia Application Ovi Store of the Finnish manufacturer, which has recently been optimized and redesigned get a load of more than 1.6 million programs downloaded on a daily basis.

Ovi Store offers content offered in over 80 countries. The most successful publisher has become the developer companyof Digital Chocolate games  – its products have shown interest in the amount of 4.5 million downloads.

It is alleged that at the moment more than 100 models of Nokia phones are compatible with the Ovi Store, while more than 60 devices are Symbian-based smartphones.

The most popular among the visitors of Nokia Ovi Store are the following models: Nokia X6, N97, N97 Mini, 5800 XpressMusic, 5530 XpressMusic, E66, E71 and E72.

There are more that 66 operators offering the integration of billing with shopping through Ovi Store in 19 countries in the world.

Models with QWERTY-keyboard, made in a bar form factor stand out among Nokia phones. Nokia E71 is one of the most popular smartphones of the manufacturer. Last year it received a successor in the face of Nokia E72. So let us consider seven pros and cons of E72.

Pros:
1. Camera
One of the most obvious superiority of E72 over the E71 is the camera. The resolution is 5 MP instead of 3.2 MP camera of E71. In addition to quality pictures of the phone is capable of recording more or less good videos (320 x 240 pixels at E71 and 640 x 480 pixels at E72).

2. Internal memory
Usually Nokia E71 has about 110 MB of memory available. Nokia E72, in turn, offers 250 MB of memory. The difference is 140 MB, which is a big plus.

3. Flashlight
It is impossible to overestimate the function of a flashlight – it may be useful both in the dark on the street and at home, when suddenly the electricity is turned off. You can turn of the flashlight of E72 by simply pressing the space key.

4. A 3.5-mm jack, microUSB for charging
Unlike the E71, which has 2.5-mm jack, E72 offers a 3.5-mm audio jack, compatible with most of  the headphones offered by various companies. We are pleased that Nokia said “no” to adapters.
Nokia E72 can be charged via a standard connector, similar to E71, and through the microUSB connector. If there is a PC and an appropriate cable, the phone can be easily charged as well.
The phones have identical batteries – BP-4L (1500 mAh), but the devices operate at different times. The new model has longer talk time.

5. Music search
A lot of users want voicecontrol phone, but the E72 offers a convenient feature. By pressing asterisk (*) on your keyboard from the Home screen and saying the song title or artist, a music player finds the desired track. No need to manually scroll through the whole huge library. Of course, the accuracy depends on the voice and pronunciation, but the effort is worthwhile.

6. Position sensor
The accelerometer of the Nokia E72 can be useful to turn off the alarm, games, or for counting steps and calories with the program Nokia Step Counter.

7. Free Lifetime navigation
With the release of navigation software Ovi Maps 3.03 owners of a number of recent Nokia phones have a lifetime subscription to the automotive and pedestrian navigation. E71 IS not a new model in contrast to E72, so only owners of Nokia E72 can evaluate all the charm of satellite navigation.

Cons
1. Battery compartment
One of the main advantages of the Nokia E71 is the assembly. Nokia E71 in this respect is a reliable device. We can’t say the same thing about E72, because if you drop the device the battery compartment lid is constantly going up. It can open up during everyday usage as well.

2. RAM
Both phones have 128 MB of RAM. However, E72 consumes an average of 25-30 MB more. As a result, E71 can be comfortable to work with 6-7 programs, while the E72 has difficulty digesting 3 – 4 simultaneously running applications.

3. Space Problem
The space key of Nokia E72 stops working from time to time. Restart helps to solve the problem, so the issue is of the software nature and should be treated with a firmware.

4. No podcasts
The new Eseries phones have no Podcasting and Internet Radio. For some owners, these can be important functions to lose.

5. Optical trackpad
Not all the new features are useful and optical trackpad may be one of them. Theoretically, it should be easy, but those who, for many years enjoyed the usual five-way button, can have some problems with addiction. Perhaps it makes sense to use an optical joystick only for the browser.

6. Keymap
Nokia has decided to dilute the lower number of extra keys, reducing the gap. Now it seems that the keyboard is too overloaded with buttons. Inconvenient to switch layouts are also worth noting.

7. Speaker
The speaker of Nokia E72 is not loud enough. It’s location (on the reverse side) does not make sound louder as well.

Nokia E71 Specs:
Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), WCDMA / HSDPA (900/2100 MHz),
Platform: Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
Display: 2.36 inch, 320 x 240 pixels, 16 million colors
Camera: 3.2 megapixel, autofocus, flash, QVGA video recording
Additional camera: 0,3 Mp
Processor: ARM 11 369 MHz
RAM: 128 MB
ROM: 256 MB
Internal Memory: 110 MB
Expansion slot: microSDHC (up to 8 GB)
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
Wi-Fi (802.11b / g)
A-GPS
microUSB 2.0
2,5 mm jack
Audio: AAC, AAC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, eAAC, M4A, MIDI Tones (poly 64), Mobile XMF, MP3, MP4, RealAudio 7, 8, 10, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV
Video: 3GPP formats (H.263), Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9 / 10
Images: BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, WBMP
Battery: BP-4L, 1500 mAh
Hours of talk time: up to 10,5 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 4,5 hours in WCDMA
Hours of standby time: up to 408 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 480 hours in WCDMA
Hours in music mode playback: up to 18 hours
Dimensions: 114 x 57 x 10 mm
Weight: 126 grams
Form factor: bar with QWERTY
Type: Smartphone
Date of announcement: June 2008
Release Date: 2008

Nokia E72 Specs:
Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), WCDMA / HSPA (850/1900/2100 MHz),
Platform: Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
Display: 2.4 inch, 320 x 240 pixels, 16 million colors
Camera: 5 megapixel, flash, autofocus, video recording VGA
Additional camera: 0,3 Mp
Processor: ARM 11 600 MHz
RAM: 128 MB
ROM: 512 MB
Internal Memory: 250 MB
Memory Card: microSDHC (up to 16 GB)
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
microUSB
3.5-mm connector
FM-radio
A-GPS
Wi-Fi (802.11b / g)
Optical joystick, position sensors, compass
Audio: AAC, AAC, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AU, eAAC, M4A, MIDI Tones (poly 64), MP3, MP4, RealAudio 7, 8, 10, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV, WMA
Video: 3GPP, Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9 / 10, WMV
Images: BMP, EXIF, GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, JPEG 2000, OTA, PNG, WBMP
Battery: BP-4L, 1500 mAh
Hours of talk time: up to 12,5 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 6 hours in WCDMA
Hours Standby time: up to 384 hours in the networks of GSM, up to 528 hours in WCDMA
Time running conversation on VoIP: up to 13,6 hours
Hours during playback of audio: up to 37,5 hours
Hours during playback of video: up to 13 hours
Hours in video mode: up to 6,4 hours
Dimensions: 114 x 58,3 x 10,1 mm
Weight: 128 grams
Form factor: bar with QWERTY
Type: Smartphone
Date of announcement: June 15, 2009
Release Date: November 2009

Traditionally, business-smart phones of Nokia, belonging to the E-series, have QuickOffice, which allows you to work with office documents. Owners of these devices can freely upgrade it to the sixth version of QuickOffice.

That version of QuickOffice, which is included in the standard software of E51, E52, E55, E63, E71, E72, E75 and E90 smartphone cannot edit Office 2007 software package documents. Quickoffice 6 has this option, along with support for ZIP-archives, the opportunity to work with password-protected files, diagrams, and a number of other improvements.
Quickoffice 6 upgrade for the owners of the abovementioned smartphones is absolutely free. Use the Quickmanager application in order to update the software. At the moment, Quickoffice 6 is available only in English, but in the near future it will have localized versions.