Don’t buy a Nokia E71! The E72 is on its way and it is even better

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Don’t buy a Nokia E71! The E72 is on its way and it is even better

June 17th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

You’ve heard about the amazing Nokia E71 and you may be thinking about getting one for yourself. It is a terrific phone, for sure, but it has just been superseded by the new Nokia E72 which is even better (all existing E71 owners … I feel your pain).

The E72 boasts a number of improvements over its year old cousin including a 5 megapixel camera, support for download speeds of up to 10.2 MBps over HSDPA and a new optical navigation key which seems to bring the scrolling experience that much closer to the Blackberry’s trackball. It gets better. The audio jack is the standard 3.5mm jack and the phone runs s60 3rd edition (feature pack 2 – the same version the E75 runs). It also comes with Nokia Messaging for a better email experience.

There is some pretty exciting instant messaging integration built into the device too. According to the Nokia press release:

On top of these developments, for the first time, owners will be able to set up instant messaging (IM) accounts provided by Nokia Messaging direct from the homescreen. In just a few steps, device owners will be able to connect to their favorite IM accounts such as Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi, amongst many others.

These new IM features are complimented by Nokia’s range of email solutions with a lifetime license for Nokia’s mobile email and IM service, Nokia Messaging, as well as onboard clients for Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. Accessing popular accounts such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Ovi Mail and thousands of other email service providers is simple through improved on-device email setup, with the same easy to use UI integrating all of the owner’s corporate email accounts as well.

It feels like just yesterday that I got the E71 and as fantastic as the device is, the E72 looks even better. This slim device is an even better business tool and the only gripe I have right now is that the space bar is so small. I have been trying out the E75 and will post a review soon but if the E72 performs the way I think it will, it will beat the pants off both the E71 and the E75.

Update: I received the E72 datasheet from Nokia yesterday:

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Devin Lester

When will the network providers be offering this on contract? Come on already!

jookie

Ovi email and sync is free and available for E71 users now. It's been a great free addition to my E71 so that I can view HTML email and one I'm sure Apple would not have given if they were the manufacturers of these phones. Maps are free as well I think?

I read somewhere that the E72 does have USB charging? There's a lot of talk in the EU about making common chargers for all mobile phones when all they really need to do is make all phones USB chargeable. There's a computer to charge from almost everywhere.

pauljacobson

@sergi No, I don't believe it is. Pity though.

sergi

Is the camera technology, CArl Zeiss?

some2

Why aren't E71 users entitled for the new software licensing that comes with the E72 such as unlimited nokia messaging and maps? is that a fair practice?

Maelly

This will be, to me, the Nokia E71i and pretty much worth an upgrade. This addresses most E71 issues, except for the cable charging. We all know that this is Nokia, just being Nokia. Great gadget for the gadget phreak in me!