The Nokia e72 is the company's successor to its e71 model smartphone, improving on it in a great many ways. Most notably, there is an optical navigation key, centrally located on the device and functionally comparable to Blackberry's famous trackball. It functions like a very small touchpad, only you don't actually need to make physical contact with the surface. This addition really makes scrolling through lists and panning across galleries so much easier. Other improvements are small but very welcome all the same, like finally implementing a standard 3.5mm audio jack, possibly just about the most requested "upgrade."
The 5-megapixel camera is one of the most serious of enhancements to the e72's hardware profile. It is equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens and a LED flash. Of course, it also features autofocus and doubles as a camcorder. Video calls, however, are made using a dedicated secondary camera, though at VGA resolutions. Other notable hardware additions include the digital compass that is integrated with on-board maps, allowing for geotagging of photos taken with the e72. This also makes the smartphone's GPS feature even more handy and useful. Charging via micro USB is supported. But certainly the main hardware upgrade is with the CPU, and at 600MHz, the brains of the Nokia e72 are almost twice as fast at those for the e71.
Backing up such smarts is the e72's 250MB of internal memory, which is expandable by another 16GB via separately purchased MicroSD cards - perhaps for all those Java games you download. There is also a built-in stereo FM radio tuner. And Nokia has provided an infrared port along with Bluetooth (2.0, with A2DP for wireless high-fidelity audio) and WiFi. But the single stand-out smartphone capability of the Nokia e72 is its data transfer rate of up to 10.2Mbps over HSDPA (that's "3.5G" speeds, in effect); HSUPA uplink is at up to 2Mbps. And the Nokia e72 is especially big on push e-mail and instant messaging, with pre-installed software for such capabilities. Full support is also offered for Microsoft Office 2007 documents, including editing. And, since this is supposed to be a phone, after all: sound quality is much improved with active noise cancellation.
To nit-pick, however: the 2.4-inch screen is a little too small, and the 320 x 240 resolution seems rather dated when considering the rest of what this smartphone has to offer. And for some reason, it debuted with S60 3rd Edition, unlike the 5530 XpressMusic, which was officially introduced right along with it, running on the 5th Edition.
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Article written by Paul Wise. Paul has done extensive research on Nokia Cell Phones and Blackberry Cell Phones, which can be found on Cellular2Buy.com at great prices.
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