Nokia E72 Unlocked Phone with GPS with Free Voice Navigation — U.S. Version with Full Warranty
March 9, 2010- Unlocked quad-band GSM cell phone compatible with 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies and US/International 3G compatibility via 850/1900/2100 UMTS/HSDPA plus GPRS/EDGE capabilities
- Push e-mail and calendars via Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes Traveler; full QWERTY keyboard with Optical Navi key for more intuitive navigation
- GPS with free Ovi Maps navigation application; 5-megapixel camera/camcorder; stereo Bluetooth; Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11b/g)
- Up to 12.5 hours of GSM talk time (5.9 on 3G networks), up to 576 hours (24 days) of standby time
- What’s in the Box: handset, rechargeable battery (BP-4L), charger (AC-5U), 4 GB microSD card, connectivity cable (CA-101), headset (HS-47), lanyard, pouch, printed documentation
Product Description
The latest full-QWERTY keyboard Eseries tunes into the needs of busy working people. The Nokia E72, fast, full of resources, sports a slim profile. Many of its biggest strengths are around the richness of the out-of-the-box email and instant messaging experience. The E72 develops on the huge success and popularity its predecessor, the E71, by adding great new features and improvements. It now provides the desktop-like interface so popular in the E75, as well as c…
iPhone 3gs is far better than this phone. Although Apple has only been in the smart phone market for about 3 years but I think they are doing a far better job designing the user interface and etc for the iPhone. I wanted to try this phone out and see if Nokia is still as user friendly as it was. Sadly it is not at all, compared to the iPhone. I think there’s too much junks and there’s probably a huge learning curve for using the phone. As for the iPhone, I feel like most people even infants would know how to play and navigate around it, the interface is fairly simple. If you have a chance to get the iPhone 3gs at a discounted price, it is a much better phone than this. Even android OS beats the OS they have on the E72. If I am not mistaken Nokia discontinue the Symbian OS after this phone and focus on their Maemo or something like that.
Rating: 3 / 5
Nokia’s E72 is an amazing phone. I’m sure a lot of people will find this handset to be worth every cent. Compared with other full-qwerty phones, this E72 rates very highly.
However, the Nokia E71 was a major selling phone globally, but got very little media coverage.
Nokia, the dominant player in the global mobile market, gained mind share in the late 90s the old fashion way…delivering good phones to customers. There was relatively very little talk about Nokia in the press, but a lot of viral word of mouth.
I’m very skeptical of the large media coverage of Apple iPhone, RIM Blackberry and Google Android. I can partly understand RIM’s success in that they consistently targeted business users with push email. I’ve seen people use the iPhone in such a way to make sure that people around notice they’re using something that’s the current media talking point. I know of a few guys who buy iPhones only to give it to their wife, who use the iPhone for a while and then change to a more robust Nokia phone.
I find that Nokia have a wide range of handset designs that are suited to a larger spectrum of users (teens, moms, young adults, professionals, seniors).
However, some of the good phones seem to lack just “one thing” to attract full blown media blitz…not enough RAM, or lower res camera or keypad size or screen size.
Nokia need to come up with a “cool and complete” phone every once in a while and commit more towards promoting that “cool and complete” model in the media.
Nokia seem to be content to let the sales volumes speak up for some of their popular models (eg N95, E71), but supporting the sales volume with some marketing campaign may help to capture back some of the mindshare and the media space.
Nokia’s marketing certainly need to get their act together and put across a conherent message for each phone or range of phones.
Rating: 4 / 5
I bought this phone based on reviews on E71 and my old confidence on Nokia. But Nokia did an excellent job to mess up this phone. I couldn’t believe they released this phone with so many software bugs. I was frustrated to set up the email, it was ok at the begining, but after my yahoo email is up and running, I was trying to set up the gmail, and found that all yahoo email configuration got into the gmail account. Then the nightmare started, oh.. my…
Nokia should be a cell phone manufacture, they shouldn’t get into smart phone unless they are sure they got some smart people.
Rating: 1 / 5
Aside from the new exterior design of the E72, the problem I’ve been having is with the Mail for Exchange feature. I purposely bought this for work, but there seems to be a widespread firmware issue. See here:[...]
Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve bought a E71 in the past and was happy about it. Great battery life, reasonable price, good keyboard and good quality.
Now with E72 we have the same good features and some improved ones (like the resolution of the camera and screen size).
I’d recommend for anyone that is looking for a reasonable priced, yet powerful smartphone.
Rating: 4 / 5