Small display fits the style

Nokia E72 features a 2.36″ 16M-color QVGA display. It’s the same size as the screens of E71 and E63. And size is hardly an issue here, even from an upgrader’s point of view. The resolution though is a different matter. A slightly more pixel-dense screen would’ve certainly made as big a difference as any of the otherwise valuable additions (better CPU, optical trackpad, 3.5 mm jack just to name a few). We’ve seen Nokia do it for S40 (6260 slide) and it’s high time perhaps they considered the competition of BlackBerry screens more seriously.
Eseries are stuck at QVGA giving BlackBerries a bit of an edge

The screen performance is still great, with excellent contrast and vivid image. Sunlight legibility is not an issue for Nokia E72 display ranking it among the best of its class.

Keyboard is key

The Nokia E72 QWERTY keyboard is an almost complete replica of what we had with the E63, some changes notable compared to the E71. Despite the few minor tweaks, the overall usability is intact. The space bar on the E72 is smaller, leaving room for two extra keys. One of them is particularly useful: the Symbol button will toggle Bluetooth on and off upon a long press.

As before, pressing and holding the space bar in standby powers up the LED so you can use your handset a flashlight. That’s a nice little perk and it even overrides the keyboard lock.

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Maybe you shouldn’t expect regular desktop typing speed and you’ll certainly have to look at the keypad but you can achieve pretty decent results with the E72. If you are into typing lots of messages you are sure to get used to it quickly and start speeding your way through texts.
The keyboard is really nice

The controls above the keypad have the more recent Eseries styling along the lines of the E52 and E55. The logic is the same though – two selection keys, Call and End buttons, the menu key and the three so-called one-touch keys. One-touch keys can be set as shortcuts to any application you like, never mind the icons on them might suggest otherwise. Furthermore, you can assign two applications per key, making use of the press and press-and-hold function on all of them.

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This time instead of the solid one-touch keys on the E71 sunk amid slightly raised call buttons and soft keys, we have the opposite layout. The call/softkey deck is flat, using one shared plate, while the four program keys are raised and U-shaped, which makes them very thumb-friendly and minimizes wrong presses.

The keyboard backlighting is impressive to make the phone no problem to handle in the dark. You can set the LED around the D-pad to notify of missed events like incoming messages or missed calls. There is also a breathing light option – slow blinks in standby when the screen is off.
The controls above the keypad are a joy to use

The big news is the trackpad functionality of the D-pad. In pure directional pad terms, the E72 is doing well – the D-pad is small but very tactile and allows very comfortable vertical and horizontal scrolling and selection. The optical trackpad in the middle is a bit let down by the size of the button. It works just fine, but the raised directional ridge does limit the available space for thumb sweeps. This seems to affect horizontal scrolling worse than vertical navigation. It’s easy to feel the difference on the BlackBerry Bold 9700 trackpad: it’s virtually the same size but does much better in terms of speed and response.

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The E72 trackpad, which Nokia call optical Navi key, has three sensitivity settings: low, medium and high. High is what nearly gave us the response we were looking for, though horizontal scrolling remained somewhat problematic. The lower sensitivity settings we found just about useless. The trackpad is haptic enabled too, gentle vibrations marking every thumb sweep.

The trackpad however is amazingly useful in camera mode. Mind you, we’re talking a phone without an actual shutter key. Placing your finger on the trackpad activates the autofocus and locks it, and then a full press down captures the image.

It works like a charm, and gives the user a lot more control over the shot than say, virtual shutter keys on touch phones. And this is incomparably better than the ridiculous two-key focus/capture routine on the E71.

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User interface: S60 3rd edition does not surprise

Nokia E72 runs on Symbian 9.3 OS with the Series60 3rd Edition user interface. It has Feature Pack 2 like the E52, E55 and the E75 side-slider.

More importantly though, the Nokia E72 is powered by the same 600 MHz CPU as the E55. In Symbian terms, that’s a lot, not even Nokia’s current flagship – the N97 – can match it.
Nokia E72 runs on Symbian S60 3.2

The phone’s main menu has two view modes: a 4 x 3 grid of icons and a list. The E72 comes with the new S60 icons for a pinch of 5th edition (touch) styling. However, with the E72 you cannot opt for having animated icons like on some other Nokia phones. This is probably just another way of reiterating the business focus of the phone. At least the font size is widely configurable depending on your preferences.

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The optical trackpad is a nice addition and can make navigating the menus even smoother. Unfortunately, the imposing frame of the square D-pad doesn’t favor thumb sweeping.
The main menu has two view modes

The active stand-by mode goes without saying on the Nokia E72. This is a convenient way to add shortcuts to all your favorite applications on the homescreen. You can even assign shortcuts to websites of your choice for quicker access.

In addition you can bring up to fourteen different kinds of notifications on the homescreen: email boxes and voice mail, through calendar and to-dos, to the currently running track in the Music player and FM radio. Choosing how many of those fourteen items to use is completely up to you.
Basic homescreen, active stand-by or talking theme

Each of the one-touch keys (messaging and calendar) below the display can be customized to access any feature (actually two per key) of choice. The two soft keys functions are user-configurable too.

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Another handy feature of recent Eseries handsets allows you to toggle between two different phone setups – the so-called Mode Switcher. Each of them can be customized with its own theme and homescreen applications for maximum usability. This way you can have both a leisure and a business profile and switch between them with a single click.

The built-in memory is 250MB, which is a decent amount. The included 4GB microSD memory card comes in very handy for extending it, but higher capacity cards up to 16GB are supported as well.

As we managed to confirm, Nokia E72 has no problem handling a 16GB microSD card. Accessing applications or any other files on the memory card is quick and you probably won’t notice any difference compared to accessing data in the phone memory.

As with any Symbian phone, there is a built-in voice recognition system. It is launched by the dedicated key on the right side of the E72 and does a good job. It’s fully speaker-independent and recognizes a very high percentage of the user commands.

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And finally, there’s a nice security feature known as Remote Lock. If your Nokia E72 gets stolen or lost, you simply send a coded SMS message to remotely lock the phone. After three unsuccessful attempts to unlock it, it wipes itself clean of all personal or sensitive info. You might not get your Nokia E72 back, but at least nobody will get your personal data either.

Great Symbian phonebook

The phonebook of the Nokia E72 does a tremendous job, offering storage space for a virtually unlimited number of contacts and fields with all the available memory potentially usable for that purpose. You are also treated to as many fields for each contact as you like and some other nice extras, so there’s no reason to complain.
Welcome to the phonebook

Contacts can be freely ordered by first or last name, and can naturally be searched by gradual typing of any name. You can pick whether you want the SIM contacts, the service numbers or the phone memory contacts to be displayed or alternatively show them all at the same time.

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Some of the available settings

Predictive search, contact list back-up, as well as grouping, are also available.

Editing a contact offers an enormous variety of preset fields and you can replicate each of them as many times as you like. You can also create new fields if you are able to think of any.

Personal ringtones and video can also be assigned. If you prefer, you may group your contacts and give each group a specific ringtone.

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Good luck trying to find a field that Nokia missed • you can even rename labels

The Call log application can hold up to 20 call records in each of the tabs for outgoing, received and missed calls. These are all accessed by pressing the Call key in standby.
Detailed info of your past communications is to be found in the call log

If you access the Log application from the main menu, you’ll see a detailed list of all your network communications for the past 30 days. These include messages, calls and data transfers. You can even filter the entries (by contact or by type), a useful feature if you’re looking for a specific call.

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Telephony: calls good, loudspeaker quiet

With Nokia E72 you are unlikely to experience any reception issues. Sound during calls is very clear and free of any interferences. It’s not too loud at the loudest setting but it will do great unless you’re in a very noise setting. Like quite a number of Nokia handsets, the E72 features advanced noise cancelling, which usually works quite nice to filter background noise.

Nokia E72 also has a Smart dialing feature, which helps you quickly find a contact straight on the standby screen.
Smart dial

Nokia E72 didn’t come with the Advanced Communication Manager application out of the box and the free version available in the Ovi Store is just a trial worth 20 calls. Shame this top-of-the-line business model lacks such a helpful app for filtering calls based on black and whitelists.

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The Nokia E72 also has support for VoIP calls – you just contact your VoIP service provider and get the internet call connection settings, then you are all set.

We conducted our traditional speakerphone test with Nokia E72 and it performed rather poorly, scoring Below Average. Here is how it compares to same of the other handsets we have tested. You can find information on the actual testing process, along with the full list of tested devices here.

The business of messaging

Eseries devices are mostly about messaging and connectivity and who would know that better than the supreme Nokia E72. The first time you start your phone you’re prompted to set up your email account, leaving no doubt that the E72 is equal parts a phone and a messenger.

Text entry is a make-or-break feature of devices meant for heavy messaging. Besides the relatively comfy keyboard, you can also use prediction, auto-completion, set the level of spelling correction and a couple of more tweaks.

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We suggest trying out the different settings – for example the High setting for spelling correction might be too intrusive and you can set how the suggested word is displayed, either in place or above the currently typed word. If you spend five minutes on this, you’ll maximize your typing productivity, while minimizing the number of spelling errors.
The Input settings menu

On the whole, the E72 great email client and the ability to view and edit office documents will really help keep you up to date while you’re away from the office. Just like E52 and E55, E72 also comes with the Nokia Messaging software preloaded along with a lifetime service subscription.

There are three message editors aboard: SMS and MMS share the first one, audio and e-mail have their own. The SMS editor is the familiar application for all Symbian S60 smartphones.
An SMS automatically turns into an MMS when you insert some multimedia content

The email client has great looks and messaging organization. Each of the folders of your mailbox can now be sorted by whatever filters you might like and can then be searched if necessary.
Composing an email on the E72 is as easy as it gets

You can also define what the folders preview should look like, i.e. how many lines per entry, whether title dividers should be applied etc.
You can sort your email much like on a desktop computer email client

The email client supports a wide range of personal and corporate email standards such as Ovi Mail (obviously), IBM Lotus Notes Traveller, Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail etc.

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Encryption is also enabled, as well as mobile VPN support for connecting to secure corporate Intranets.
The Message reader can read your messages while you’re driving

Quite naturally, the Nokia E72 supports the ultra easy email setup of all recent Nokia handsets. The email setup has been slightly redesigned – you get a list of the six most popular email providers and an “Other” option for the rest. From then on it’s the same as before – enter your email address and password and E72 will take care of the rest.

That works only if you are using any public email service among the over 1000 supported providers, otherwise you’d have to enter the settings manually. Just make sure the phone is not in Offline mode, because ours wouldn’t add new mailboxes unless we put in a SIM card.

The one gripe we have with the email client on the Nokia E72 is the lack of threads. We know it’s a Gmail thing, but it’s a great feature. Maybe when other email service providers catch up, threads will get better support outside the Android world.

Image gallery: Eseries spelled with an N

The image gallery is the same as the one found in Nseries phones and looks great. Thumbnails of images and videos are arranged in a horseshoe shape, with the currently selected image top center.

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You can scroll left or right and the speed of photo browsing increases if you press and hold the direction buttons on the D-pad. This makes a sort of circular scroller appear along with the month and year the picture was taken. This is great for quick skipping of tons of files if you’re not in the habit of sorting out your memory card regularly.

Scrolling in the gallery is also one of the places where the optical trackpad is put to good use. Getting to the next image with a sweep is effortless and makes for a true Nseries experience.
Browsing the image gallery

Zooming is very speedy, thanks to the zippy 600MHz processor. It does slow down a bit when you get over 100% but it will go up to 400% zoom. Zooming is done in small increments (about 10%) and panning is quite fast too.

The gallery offers a nice slide show with customizable effects and delay between slides. You can also choose the direction of the slideshow – forward or backward from the currently selected photo and the track to go with it. Music can also be switched off if you prefer.

The gallery also has a very good picture tagging system. In addition to geotagging, which is automatically handled by the camera, you can add as many tags as you like to each photo and then use them as filters.

There’s also the option to organize photos in Albums.
Zooming in • you can add tags to photos

Music player: Symbian regular

Full-featured music ability is not the main focus of a business device but the music player of the Nokia E72 is still pretty decent and we set our hopes for good audio quality high, knowing how recent Eseries devices performed.

The lack of dedicated music keys is easily overcome by the smooth D-pad control. There is a huge number of audio formats supported including MP3, AAC, eAAC+ and WMA. M3U playlists are also managed seamlessly and transferred files are added to the music library trouble-free by choosing the refresh option.
The music player is pretty straightforward

Filtering tracks by artist, album, genre and composer is automatic and searching tracks by gradual typing is also available.

The player comes with five equalizer presets, bass booster and stereo widening effect. You can also create new equalizer presets if the preloaded ones won’t do.
The available equalizer presets • creating a new one

Finally, being one of Nokia’s best equipped phones, the Nokia E72 naturally also includes support for the A2DP Bluetooth profile, which allows listening to music on a stereo Bluetooth headset.

Video player is decent

The Nokia E72 features Real player for playing your video clips. The video player works in landscape mode only and that’s hardly a surprise. Fullscreen mode is available of course. The softkey functions are hidden in full screen so they don’t get in the way, and they only pop up when you touch the trackpad.
The E72 Video center • the video player has very few controls

The relatively big landscape screen and the MP4 video clips support add up to a passable video watching experience but you will probably resort to another player anyway. The reason for this is quite simple – the E72 lacks DivX and XviD support out of the box. Luckily, finding applications for the S60 3.2 that support those codecs is a fairly easy task (though they can be paid).

FM radio with RDS

The Nokia E72 sports stereo FM radio with RDS, controlled by the well known radio app. Upon starting, the app asks about your location in order to set up the proper frequencies for your area.

The FM radio can automatically scan and save the available stations in your area. Scanning for alternative frequencies when traveling can also be set to automatic. You can save up to 50 radio stations and the option to play music through the loudspeaker is available.
The FM radio app

Top-notch audio quality

Here comes another musically-gifted member of the Eseries family. The Nokia E72 has great all-round perfomance that can make some dedicated music handsets jelous, let alone its business collegues.

We told you that the E52 and E55 were the best performers in Nokia’s business team as far as audio quality is concerned, but they didn’t hold on to that title for long. Differences are not major as you can see from the table but the improvement in E72 is still visible.

Comparing the Nokia E72 to one of its market rivals – the BlackBerry Bold 9700 we notice striking resemblance between their results on most readings. If it wasn’t for the BlackBerry’s cut-off bass we would suspect that it is the same hardware inside those two. But in the end the better frequency response makes the E72 the winner in this contest.

Cutting to the point – here go the results so you can see for yourselves.

Nokia E72 vs BlackBerry Bold 9700 frequency response graphs

You can find more info about the testing process here.

Camera: very good 5 megapixel snapper

The Nokia E72 means business even in the imaging department. While 5 megapixels are no longer high-end, it’s more than enough for casual use, even for prints. The camera captures photos up to 2592 x 1944 pixels resolution and sports autofocus and an LED flash, which can be used as a video light too.

The camera uses a nice tabbed interface and offers extensive settings: from manual white balance and ISO sensitivity to exposure compensation, sharpness and contrast settings, as well as various effects, which are labeled color tones.

There are some changes to accommodate the optical trackpad and lack of a dedicated shutter key – touching the trackpad serves as a half-press, while pressing it all the way down actually takes the photo.

The tabs on the right can be displayed and hidden by pressing left or right on the D-pad. But while the tabs are visible you can’t take a photo because pressing the center key activates the selected item in the tabbed menu. You get used to it, but it’s annoying nonetheless.
The camera user interface is pretty familiar

A gridline can also be applied to the viewfinder to assist you in framing you photos using the photographic rule of thirds. Using it to align your subjects and place points of interest on or near the lines and their intersecting points makes your photos more professional and aesthetic.

The sequence mode and self-timer are nothing new. The flash can be set to four positions: automatic, always on, red-eye reduction and always off.

Small font tooltips are displayed to help you understand what the phone is doing at each specific moment (processing image, for example). You can also customize the toolbar deciding on shortcuts to display for which settings and in what order.

Strangely, the option to activate geotagging is missing. It could be a Nokia 5800 type of deal, where geotagging was enabled through a firmware update.

Image quality

The image quality of the Nokia E72 is among the best 5MP snappers we’ve seen. The noise reduction is dialed back, which makes images a little noisy but the amount of captured detail is uncompromised. Contrast and color rendering are good, though images show a somewhat yellowish tint. This generally makes the colors warmer and more appealing though. The dynamic range is often not wide enough, which leads to loss of detail in the highlights and shadows.

Here are some image samples so you can judge for yourself:

Synthetic resolution

We also snapped our resolution chart with the Nokia E72. You can check out what that test is all about here.
Nokia E72 resolution chart photo • 100% crops
Nokia 6700 classic resolution chart photo • 100% crops

Video recording

Video recording on the E72 is not very impressive. The business-minded handset manages VGA videos at 15 fps, which is far from stellar but is certainly better than what E71 and E66 offered.

The quality of the recorded video is not very good and even if 15 fps is acceptable to you, the E72 is not a camcorder. The image quality is inadequate, mainly due to the heavy compression. Other than that, it renders some nice colors.

Here is a sample video for you to check out.

Connectivity: A-list stuff

The E72 is truly on fire where data transfer is in question – it just has it all: from Bluetooth v2.0 and USB v2.0 to Wi-Fi and 3G. Furthermore, the 3G comes with HSPA support for the fastest network data transfers – up to 10.2Mbps downlink and 2Mbps uplink. That’s the most recent Nokia radio module, which allows the E72 to as much as triple the data speeds of the E71.

VoIP is a great addition to the call functionality of the E72, it even lets you make emergency calls if there’s a Wi-Fi connection available and the cell network is down.

A microSD card slot is also on board, and easily accessible at the side of the phone. Because it’s hot swappable, it might just be the quickest and most convenient way of transferring data.

The standard 3.5mm audio jack is also there and the only thing missing that we can think of is TV-out functionality.

Web browser agrees with YouTube

Browsing the internet on a Nokia smartphone is definitely a positive experience. The E72 is no exception with its excellent page rendering – most web pages look like they do on a desktop computer. The landscape orientation of the screen makes it much better at viewing pages not specifically designed for mobile devices.

The virtual mouse cursor is easy to control and generally works well. The D-pad control here is enhanced by the optical trackpad, though it’s not as good as we would have liked. Using the optical trackpad, the cursor jumps just as it does if you were using the D-pad, instead of moving smoothly. The jumps are equal in length too, so it’s not very useful for scrolling either.
Browsing GSMArena.com on the E72

A mini-map can be activated and it even appears automatically when you scroll longer, which helps you navigate complex websites without excessive scrolling. The zoom level is also easily adjustable at the expense of only a few key presses. The web browser also offers fullscreen view mode.

Along with the usual key shortcuts, the browser in E72 offers a toolbar, which can be launched by pressing 1 or pressing and holding the center key on an empty area of the page. You can customize which shortcuts are on the toolbar – up to seven shortcuts like “Subscribe to feeds” or “Bookmark manager”.
The toolbar is quite helpful

The Nokia E72 browser features full Flash support. It handled many of the Flash sites we threw at it, but chocked on others (games most often).
Flash video handled seamlessly

Flash video is mostly not a problem for the E72 web browser – you can watch video on the full-featured version of YouTube, which worked without a hitch. With other video hosting sites though it’s a hit or miss affair – for example, some of the videos on DailyMotion worked, but not all. Of the ones that worked, some lagged. Anyway, YouTube is guaranteed to work.

The browser is very zippy – panning is very fast, it easily loads pages over 1MB. One thing though – only the numeric keys are used as hardware shortcuts, but they are only a third of the whole keyboard. An option for assigning shortcuts to some of the letter keys would have sped things up a bit.

Top-notch PIM and Office 2007 support

As they say time is money, so time-management is another business phone virtue. There’s no wonder then that the Nokia E72 has one of the most elaborate organizer packages we’ve seen. There are a lot of nice applications, all very user-friendly and functional.

The calendar has four different types of view – to-do, weekly, daily and agenda as well as five types of events available for setting up – Meeting, Meeting request, Memo, Anniversary and To-do. The only change from previous handsets is that things were rearranged slightly to work better with the landscape orientation of the screen.
Setting up an event

The agenda view mode is really nice – it allows the dates of the month and the events for the selected day to appear simultaneously on the screen.
Day, week and agenda views

Mobile office is also duly covered, with seamless handling of Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. Furthermore, unlike most other Nokia handsets out there, editing documents is supported right out of the box.

With the Nokia E72 you won’t need to pay extra for editing your office documents. And there’s another thing you get for free – support for Office 2007 documents (.docx, etc.)
The E72 supports document editing out of the box

A PDF reader is also part of the Nokia E72 preinstalled content and a ZIP manager allows extracting archived files straight on your phone.
A PDF reader is also available • ZIP manager

The other pre-bundled organizing and time-management applications are: a great unit converter, calculator and voice recorder, as well as the Notes application. We are not going to get into detail with them, as their functionality and performance are familiar enough.

The ActiveNotes application is also on board allowing multimedia content to be added to your notes.
Some of the other organizer apps: unit converter, calculator and ActiveNotes

The Nokia E72 alarm clock application allows a huge number of alarms to be set, each with its own name and start time. You can also customize the snooze time from the settings menu.
The E72 allows dozens of alarms to be set simultanelously

The useful “Search” application is also at hand on the Nokia E72. Its reserved space in the active standby menu no longer comes as a surprise. After all, an application this useful really deserves to be conveniently placed.

The application itself finds almost every item in your Nokia based on a given keyword. From messages to settings, every bit of data is checked and results are then listed.
If it’s on the phone the Search app will find it

Finally, the Nokia E72 features a dictionary. English comes preinstalled but you can also download dozens of other languages for free from the Nokia website.
The dictionary has a rich database

The World Traveler app helps you when visiting a new city – it’ll offer weather forecast, a world clock, info on foreign currency, flights and even a 3D globe that marks your home and current location.
The traveler app can be quite helpful when travelling abroad

Thanks to the wireless presenter you can handle presentations straight from your phone.
WiPresenter is also here

The Multiscanner is a helpful looking app, which allows you to scan either business cards or text. It can’t scan much text in one go though and the accuracy of the OCR is disappointing.
The Multiscanner is not very accurate

But wait, there’s more – all the free stuff you can get from the Ovi Store. One of the more interesting apps is the Facebook app made specifically for Nokia E71 and E72. It’s great overall though it has a few kinks – it doesn’t show any newly shared photos or videos in the News Feed or in fact posts with shared photos or videos.

Still, you can view all the shared media from your friends’ profile pages and aside from that hitch the application works very well indeed. It’s a clever move from Nokia not to underestimate the importance of social networking in the business world – Nokia, Microsoft, even the US president all have a Facebook page.
There’s a free Facebook app for Nokia E71/E72 at the Ovi Store

GPS will lead the way

The Nokia E72 comes complete with a built-in GPS receiver, A-GPS and Ovi Maps preinstalled. Voice-guided navigation comes at a price, however, you get 10 1-day drive licenses that come with the phone (must be used within 3 months after purchasing the handset) and walk navigation is completely free for the owners of E72.

The preinstalled version of the Ovi Maps is 3.0 and as usual it’s pretty nice to work with. It has really detailed map coverage of a huge number of countries and a lot of extras such as traffic information, city guides and so on. Sadly, the extra features need to be purchased separately, as must the voice-guidance after the trial period has expired.
Nokia maps has four different view modes

The app also has very decent looks and easily customizable route planning algorithms. Our favorite feature is the 3D view mode, which unfortunately has to be turned on every time you restart Maps – that’s an odd one, no doubt about that.

Ovi Maps is also usable for pedestrian navigation or you can switch the GPS receiver off and simply use the phone as an electronic map. The nice thing about it is that you can actually preload the map content, so you don’t need to access the wireless network to download that on the go.
Overview of the route • Navigating • The Nokia E72 features a digital compass

Nokia E72 also features a digital compass. In order for it to work, you need the map zoomed on your current GPS position. The compass (a magnetometer sensor) is turned on by default, but it doesn’t work while turn-by-turn navigation is engaged. It’s quite useful while making your way around on foot though, as it rotates the map to match even your slightest change of direction.
Ovi Maps features extensive settings for the route planning algorithm

If you don’t fancy using Nokia Maps, you can opt for any of the numerous third-party applications available on the market, there’s no shortage of those.

The overall impression of the Nokia E72 GPS functionality is very positive, with the chip sensitivity being very good. It takes about a minute to get a lock form cold start and about 10 seconds on AGPS. The whole experience out of the box is good enough for most users’ needs and won’t make too many people look for alternatives.

Two classic timewasters

The Nokia E72 comes with two games preinstalled, both pastime classics.

The first one, called Block Cascade Fusion is a variety of Tetris, in which color also comes into play – instead of just making lines, you have to line up 5 or more blocks of the same color horizontally or vertically. The changes in the rules take some time getting used to – the lines of 5 or more same-color blocks disappear only during the fusion… blocks are dropping frantically, while you’re trying to figure out what the point is. It is part of the fun, so we won’t spoil it.
Block Cascade Fusion

The other option is Top Hit Solitaires bringing 15 types of solitaire, with classics such as Klondike and Freecell (if you ever owned a PC you’ve played them).
Top Hits Solitaires

Final words

There was a time when phones had cords and mail was delivered by hand. In comparison, the Nokia E72 seems like a space craft communicator. It handles just about every means of communication available today – from voice calls, through video calls, VoIP to texting, email and IM.

So do a lot of other phones but there’s a key difference. Most phones can handle email, but it’s not necessarily an enjoyable experience. For the E72 email is second nature, as easy to use as making calls. It’s not just the software or just the hardware, it’s how they work together that makes for the excellent experience.

Speaking of hardware, the “cheap plastic syndrome” is the curse of some of the most capable smartphones. Blazing fast wireless connectivity won’t make up for the cheapish looking plastic. But the Nokia E72 has the cure – metal – and it looks as good as it performs.

So, the Nokia E72 is king of the Eseries but whether it’s the best choice for you is another matter. The Nokia E71 is still something to be reckoned with, though E72 brings a few important improvements, the chief of which is the upgraded camera (and probably the 600MHz CPU).

The Nokia E55 offers just about the same software and the half-QWERTY doesn’t lag too far behind the full keyboard of the E72 once you get used to it. But while the two phones are a match at build quality and centimeter-thin bodies, the E55 is compact and – more importantly – cheaper.
Nokia E71 • Nokia E55

Those who don’t like Symbian will perhaps want to check out the WinMo alternatives by Samsung B7320 OmniaPRO and B7330 OmniaPRO duo. The B7330 especially is trying to come across as a Nokia E72 equal, so it will probably boil down to whether your current phone is running Symbian or Windows Mobile.

We’re talking QWERTY messengers and there’s always a BlackBerry Bold to try and spoil the day for Nokia. The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is sure hoping to be the E72 nemesis, just like the Bold 9000 was dogging the E71. Despite their recent dabbling in the popular phone market, BlackBerry phones are still the epitome of a business phone. And that sets them on a collision course with the Eseries.
Samsung B7320 OmniaPRO • Samsung B7330 OmniaPRO • BlackBerry Bold 9700

So, the Eseries have done it again. You can help yourself to another messenger of steel. The Nokia E72 won’t be just the next in line though; it’s keen to take the lead. It will be a while perhaps before Nokia decide to retire the E71, but they are making sure there won’t be an empty space after it.

For the time being the E71 takes one step down the rank and continues to do its job. The E72 sees to it that the lineup is up to date. Nokia is betting on two horses in the QWERTY messenger race and everyone is happy. That includes us – users. Business as usual in the Eseries.

Despite the recession, it’s been a good year for Samsung, with increasing sales and market share, and it’s been a good year for their touch phone division. Today Samsung announced that they’ve sold a total of 50 million touch phones – most of which sold this year.

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Here’s the breakdown. 10 million of those touch handsets are Samsung S5230 Star, which has only been out since May. This is quite as much as Samsung predicted when the Star reached the 5 million sales mark in August. It is still the fastest selling Samsung handset to date.

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The number two spot is held by the Samsung F480 aka Tocco with 9 million units sold. This one got re-released a few times, for example the Rockstar and La Fleur editions, and even has a Hugo Boss edition. It’s updated version is called F480i and it packs pretty much the latest Samsung TouchWiz interface.

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The Samsung S3650 Corby despite being released only a couple of months ago has already scored 3 million phones sold.

The total comes up to 50 million touch phones sold, 40 million of which were sold this year alone (till the end of November). Compared with the 10 million last year, that’s a quadruple increase. The percentage that touch phones make up of all Samsung phones sold also increased four times – from 5% to 20%.

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Geographically, the breakdown goes like this – 19 million units in Europe, 6.3 million in the US, 3.4 million in China and 3 million in South Korea.

Samsung has set a goal of 200 million phones for 2009 and they are on track to overshoot that target. For now, their proprietary OS and TouchWiz combo enjoy a lot of popularity, but Samsung are getting ready to release a brand new OS, Bada OS, which promises a “next generation UI”. Not many details about it are available, but the SDK should be released on the 8th December and then we’ll know more.

إنه أحد جوالات تش سكرين المنتظرة من سوني إريكسون. هو سوني إريكسون كورارا Kurara بمواصفات متميزة أهمها كاميرا فيديو عالية التحديد HD بوضوح يصل إلى 720 بيكسل. اليوم يظهر كورارا في فيديو خجول و غير واضح. لكنه أول فيديو على الإنترنت يظهر الجوال.

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لكن قبل ذلك، دعونا نتذكر أهم مواصفات كورارا:

- دعم نطاقات GSM و EDGE و GPRS
- معالج سريع جداً Cortex A8 هذا يعني أن السرعة ستتراوح بين 600 ميجا هيرتز و 1 جيجا هيرتز. نتمنى أن تكون الثانية
- معالج رسوم جرافيكس PowerVR
- شاشة تش سكرين 3.2 إنش
- نظام تشغيل سيمبيان S60 الإصدار الخامس.
- واجهة مستخدم سيمبيان معدلة سريعة الإستجابة
- ذاكرة عشوائية رام 256 ميجا هيرتز
- بطارية طويلة العمر
- واي فاي
- ثري جي
- نظام تحديد المواقع الجغرافية GPS
- قارئ ذاكرة microSD
- مخرج صوتي قياسي 3.5 ميليمتر
- وصلة سوني إريكسون الحصرية فستبرت

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هل تملك جوال نوكيا بنظام مايمو أو سيمبيان S60 الإصدار الخامس أو S60 الإصدار الثالث ED FP2؟ إذا كان الجواب على سؤالنا نعم، ربما آن الأوان لتجارب التحديث الجديد التي أعلنت عنه مختبرات نوكيا. تحديث تطبيق جهات إتصال أوفي الذي يمكن تنزيله مباشرة على جوالك. اليوم قمت بتنزيله على جوالي نوكيا 5800, و قد أعجبني فعلاً!