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.

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According to rumors from our American colleagues, the next Nokia smartphone of the Eseries line will be available for the network of T-Mobile USA in the coming month (June 16). The business collection will grow thanks to the Nokia E73 model (the commercial name is Nokia Mode).

Nokia E73 will develop the ideas of Nokia E72-the previous bar form factor with QWERTY-keyboard. The main focus is on e-mail and messaging. In the promotional material of E73 there is support for 3G and Wi-Fi. The smartphone is based on the Symbian version which has not been installed yet. The preference is apparently given to S60 3rd Edition.

Let’s remind that earlier Nokia has announced Nokia E5. The affordable business phone will go on sale in the third quarter of this year.

Nokia has released a new firmware update (version 31.023) for smartphone E72. Apart from correcting the most of existing errors, the new firmware includes several new applications, along with opportunities for updating the present applications.

The new firmware contains:
- New pre-installed applications: Ovi Sync, Advance Communication Manager (which provides additional features, such as the creation of black lists), Smart Connect and Internet radio.

- Ovi Maps (a free version of the navigation), Web (full support for Flash Lite 3.1), Ovi Store (v1.5.436), Share online (v4.3.10.02), My Nokia, Start up and Email wizards (v2. and v2.05, respectively) were updated.

At present , the new firmware will be available only through the Nokia Software Updater, which means that you will need to connect Nokia E72 to a PC to update it.

Business smartphone of the Finnish company Nokia may appear in new color option for those who prefer colorful schemes.

Nokia E72 is one of the most popular smartphones for business today. Unfortunately, until now options for color solutions of cases have been limited to only 3 choices: black, grey and brown. Those businessmen, who look for self-expression, would be glad to learn that soon Nokia E72 will be available in purple as well.

As it has recently been reported, the new version of Nokia E72 will not differ from the previous one in terms of technical capabilities. The only difference is that the color of the shell will acquire a soft purple hue, which will certainly interest beautiful business women who have long wanted to buy Nokia E72, but something stopped them all the time.

A page with photos and a brief description of Nokia E72i model has appeared on the Chinese site of TENAA organization, dealing with certification of telecommunication equipment. Apparently, it is a version of the smartphone Nokia E72 (the name differs only by one character), designed specifically for sale in the Chinese market. The peculiarity of the smartphone Nokia E72i is the support for WAPI – Chinese implementation of wireless technology Wi-Fi. By appearance devices are not different – both are bar form factor phones with the horizontal QVGA display and a QWERTY keyboard.

Presumably, there are no other differences between the characteristics of Nokia E72 and E72i, except WAPI. Most likely, the Chinese smartphone, as well as its international counterparts is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, accelerometer, GPS receiver, 250 MB of internal memory and support for third-generation cell networks and high-speed standard HSDPA. Nothing is yet known about the dates of release and the price of Nokia E72i.

Nokia added a client of its popular programs for the Symbian operating system on its online store.

Skype, a free application that allows you to make calls to other devices with installed on client program via WiFi or 3G, has long been popular among computer and mobile users.

Today Nokia has announced that henceforth mobile client Skype for Symbian-devices can be downloaded from the online store Ovi Store, which opens up access to the program for more than 200 million users worldwide.

Currently Skype for Symbian supports the following models of Nokia phones: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia 5530, Nokia E72, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E51, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8Gb, Nokia N85, Nokia N82, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8 Gb, Nokia N79, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia 5320.

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

We have already mention the mysterious phone from the Finnish manufacturer with an appropriate name Nokia Mystic several names. It was assumed that this is a new Nokia device of C-series. Also there was a possibility that it is a successor of popular business smartphones Nokia E71 and Nokia E72 – QWERTY-device Nokia E73. But we still do not know what will be the final name of this “mysterious” new smartphone.

Currently, there is information on the web that the smartphone Nokia E73 will appear on the U.S. market in June this year, where it will be sold through the mobile operator T-Mobile. No other details are available yet: neither the exact date of occurrence, nor the likely cost of the new device, nor any of its technical characteristics.

It is not clear if this information will be confirmed in the future. However, if this happens, the emergence of Nokia E73 in the portfolio of T-Mobile USA could attract the attention of many buyers, because for now the operator sells only an entry-level Nokia devices.