Here what you can do with the data cable:

Charge the battery – It’s nice upgrade from the E71, the data cable also charges the battery.

Once the cable connected following option menu appears:

PC Suite – When selecting this option from the phone menu, you can use the new OVI software to backup the phone contacts, SMS, pictures, install new maps and application. if you didn’t install the application you can download it from here. Although bluetooth supported as well, physical cable always works better. Additionally most if not all firmware updates supported only when connecting using a cable.

Media Transfer – When selecting this option you can use the windows media player to sync pictures, music and videos. I tried it but didn’t like it.

Picture Transfer - When selecting this option you will be able to transfer pictures from the E72 like it was a camera. you an use your favorite picture mangment software, picasa for instance to import the pictures.

Media Storage- forgot your USB stick? no worries select this option and the E72 will act as a disk on key.

Connect PC to the Web – If you have 3G data plane you can use this option to connect you laptop or PC to the internet. you will need the “Nokia PC Internet Access” to use it. But no worries if the software is not installed on the laptop/PC you can install it when connecting the cable for the first time.

The default behavior can be changed to suite your needs, go to Menu-> Ctrl. Panel-> Settings-> Connectivity-> USB. USB mode –  Default behavior when connecting the cable. Ask on connection – if changed to NO the option menu will not appear when connecting the cable.

It’s a small cable with many options, why not to carry it in your case?

Streaming video from mobile phone sounds like a complex task. you need to record the video, upload it to the internet and then share it. Qik is one of my favorite application, click on one button and the E72 streaming live video to the internet!

Navigate from your Nokia E72 to  http://m.qik.com and download the application. It also can be found in OVI store.

When running the application for the first time there is a need to create new account if you don’t have one or login to an existing account. for now on your are ready to stream live video include audio or to record videos offline and upload them later.

Click on the middle navigation key to start recording/streaming video, the video can be found at http://qik.com/<your username>

Public (Click on #5)-  anyone can see it on the above location

Private (Click on #0) – Only confirmed users can watch your videos.

The option menu provide additional features:

Geolocation – geolocation tagging, from a city level through street level and the maximum accuracy level of track live level which allows automatic updates of you location while streaming. When this features enabled a map of the location video was taken displayed on the Qik site.

Audio – Mute audio /un-mute

Share – Sharing the video using SMS to send hyperlink, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, using qik site and additional applications.

Go Offline - Record videos in offline mode.

Settings Following settings supported:

Camera – Select front or back camera

Optimize for – Choose Minimum delay or higher video quality

Quality – Choose Low/Normal/High depends on your internet connection

Access point – Internet connection settings,

Share location – geo tagging off or other options I mention before,

Record in background - By default when applicaion on background it stops recording/streaming here you can change this behavior.

Connection – Choose whether Qik connects to internet by default, stays offline  or ask your permission to go online.

Ovi Store offers also premium version for 5 euros. I didn’t purchase it, I don’t like to pay for application I can’t test before purchase.

More information about fring

Download the application from http://m.fring.com

The E72 provides very little information about the battery status. I use the iON BatteryTimer to have proper display of the battery status.

The application needs to run several days in order to provide proper information about the battery status.

The application support 3 ways to display battery status:

• Using the main application
• Plug-in – Display battery status on the Standby screen. To enable this option. Main application-> Options->Standby plug-in->On.
• Power saver. Nice display of the battery status as a screen saver.  To enable this option – Ctrl. panel-> Settings-> General-> Personalize-> Themes-> Power saver-> Select iON Power saver.

When opening the main application following information displayed:

• Operating time remaining to complete discharge
• Estimated future date&time of the battery being  completely discharged
• How long the battery holds its charge on average
• Number of full and partial charge/discharge cycles recorded by the application.
• Accuracy

The application can be downloaded from here. It can also be purchased there for only $3.95 instead of $6.95 until February 28th. (Please check the price before purchase, I can’t guarantee the price)

Following video is for N95 but it shows the supported features when using on Nokia E72

Most of the times I’m using barcode reader to navigate to web site that has long address. Other uses for the barcode is to get contacts details, some people print barcode on their business card, scan and you got their details whithout the need to type their details or sophisticate scanners that try to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
I tried several applications and I found i-nigma the most conveint for me. you can download using your phones browser: www.i-nigma.mobi

The site also provides the ability to generate the barcodes
In addition to URL and contact details the site and reader supports also message and SMS.

I keep a bookmark to the barcode generation so each time that I need to send a link to my browser instead of sending it by SMS or email I create barcode and scan it.

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It seems that Fring is the best solution for having all messenger and VoIP applications on the Nokia E72. So you might wonder what if there is a reason to install Skype’s application for Symbian S60 on the phone.  The short answer: if you are using Skype for more then just chatting and calling friends you defiantly should consider installing the application.

And now for the long answer….. The Skype application for Symbian provides almost all features that Skype desktop application provides:

• Register to Skype if you don’t have user.
• Calling other Skype Users
• Chatting with other Skype Users
• Calling any phone using Skype Out (Charge Applies)
• Sending SMS Messages using Skype Network (Charge Applies, Not supported by Fring)
• Sending and Receiving files from other Skype users
• Adding users to contacts (Not supported by Fring)
• For users who are subscribed to  additional Skype services, the application provides information about the subscription status, Voice mails  and Call credit. (Not supported by Fring)

Unfortunately like Fring,even this application doesn’t support video calls on Nokia E72. Other then that it’s a great application.

The application can be downloaded from Skype’s mobile site http://skype.com/m

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If you looked at my previous post about Nokia E72 internal browser you saw that some people comment that the best browser for Nokia E72 is Skyfire. And of course they are right, Skyfire is really good internet browser which provides almost like PC surfing experience.

Download the application using the Nokia E72 web browser  http://m.skyfire.com

The first thing you will notice is the ability to quickly type the address of the site you want to navigate to. Start typing the address and the skyfire will suggest matching web site. it is also possible to search google straight from the address bar.

if you’ll wait few more seconds you will be able to use the home page features:

• Recent Searches.
• Popular sites.
• Direct updates from Facebook and twitter.
• History
• Bookmarks
• Ability to register so all your bookmarks will be saved in your account.

The Skyfire also supports video stream include audio!!, just surf to youtube site and click on the video and watch the video, it’s that easy.

Navigating a page is done using the navigation key and 3 to zoom in and 1 to zoom out. when moving around the navigation key you will notice a grey square, if you would like to zoom in this area click on 3, you can repeat this action to zoom more. On click is to click on buttons and links and 2 clicks are used for quick zoom in/ zoom out.

I used this browser with quite complicate websites including web sites that contains flash and it works without any problem.

Complete keyboard shortcuts:
* -Address Bar
0 – Mute
1- Zoom In
2- Scroll Up
3- Zoom Out
4- Add to Bookmarks
5-Refresh
7-Backward
8- Scroll Down
9-Forward
Middle Navigation key to select
It’s also possible to save or share pictures by pressing the middle navigation key for a few seconds and then selecting the desired action

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