Following Nokia’s official press release for the E72
Espoo, Finland – Swift, slim and resourceful are three words that accurately describe the new Nokia E72, which was unveiled at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today. Nokia’s latest full QWERTY smartphone brings a rich mobile email and instant messaging experience right out of the box, making it the ideal device for people that want to be productive in both their personal and professional lives.
Building on the formula from the hugely successful Nokia E71, Nokia’s best selling QWERTY device to date, this latest arrival in Nokia’s Eseries family maintains essential elements of its predecessor, whilst still improving its capabilities in a number of areas. “Despite the outstanding market performance of the Nokia E71, we still continually look for ways to enhance the device,” said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President at Nokia. “So we included the desktop like email experience from the Nokia E75 and gave it a new optical navigation key for more intuitive scrolling through menus, emails and fast panning of images. We also upgraded the camera to 5 megapixels and added a standard 3.5 mm audio jack.”
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.
Performance improvements are evident throughout the user experience including faster Internet up- and downlink speeds. Other notable features which should make the Nokia E72 as popular as recent Nokia Eseries introductions include A-GPS and compass with integrated Maps, including lifetime walk and 10 days of turn-by-turn navigation if activated within the first three months. Conversations are also clearer with active noise cancellation, and a torch can be activated with a single press of the spacebar key. The office capabilities have been updated with a new version of Quickoffice, which delivers Microsoft Office 2007 compatibility as well as free version upgrades when new features become available.
The Nokia E72 is expected to begin shipping late in the third quarter of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 350 before taxes and subsidies.
#1 by Richard on October 16, 2009 - 1:11 pm
Hi, does anyone know if this devise will seamlessly syn with Outllook 2007 over the network. As an example, if I send an email from the mobile I want it to appear in the sent box within Outlook 2007 on my desk top.
Again, if I read a series of emails on the mobile I would still like to receive them when I next open Outlook but received as read and not new mails. If I delete a mail from the mobile I don’t want to receive it again when I next open Outlook.
Maybe this is basic stuff but I’ve read a lot around this subject and it appears to be a concern of many?
Appreciate if you can help
Thanks, Richard
#2 by Aymen on February 14, 2010 - 1:18 am
I am not sure everyone knows this, but the E72 supports full push service same as the BB. Simply make sure that the TIMED SYNCHRONIZATION is OFF, and then you won’t have to set 10m or 20m, you will get full push mail, …. you need a good data plan for that though, in my country I subscribed to 100MB per month for 3 Euros only, and this makes it cheaper than BB. Also I downloaded OVI maps, and I got my country’s map for free for life, WALK AND DRIVE. If everyone knew this, why are people using BB anymore, I think NOKIA had everything written down but since I found out by myself, it means you either read all the manuals step by step, or read this post.
#3 by SA on April 26, 2010 - 5:02 am
Richard, It will do what you want. All of it!!!
#4 by Rich2 on May 7, 2010 - 4:27 am
I’m not impressed by the E72. Call quality is poor compared to my 6230i and I am already on my second phone (the Radio kept cutting out on my first one).
The GPS is useless. It just sits there saying “Waiting for GPS”, yet when you select options/Satellite Status the phone shows 10 satellites with decent signal levels. How many satellites does it need to triangulate my position?
When it eventually figures out where you are, OVI maps seems quite good, but this feature is so unreliable.