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Nokia E72 Review

If you walk around Raffles Place during lunch time often enough, I reckon you’ll see more than your fair share of the Nokia E71, the smartphone favoured by many corporate types.

It’s shiny, it’s lithe and it boasts the ease of use you’ve come to expect from a Nokia phone, with the added bonus of a Qwerty keyboard and a smartphone-grade operating system.

Well, its successor, the E72, will reach our shelves in the third quarter of the year.

Nokia hasn’t messed much with the form factor, but it has added an optical navigation key so you can zip through menus, emails and images that much faster.

The camera’s been upgraded to 5 megapixels and there’s also a rockin’ 3.5mm audio jack so you can plug in your own earphones. Other niceties include built-in GPS, with a digital compass to boot.

On the software side, the 3.5G E72 includes Nokia Messaging that will let you chat on instant messaging platforms like Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger.

The phone is equally capable when it comes to handling corporate email accounts based on Mail for Exchange and Lotus Notes.

The E72 was launched on Monday at the Nokia Connection 2009 event in Singapore, alongside the touchscreen-based 5530 XpressMusic phone and the 3719 clamshell phone.

reference channelnewsasia