If you are a Blackberry user, your secret desire would be to look cool and hep (atleast sometimes) and Nokia E72 does the fine act of keeping the focus on communication tools as well as a few cool features that makes E72 a good phone for business professionals.
First things first, E72 Specifications & Price
- 2.36′ display
- 250 MB free user disk space, 4 GB MicroSD memory card (with hot swap), support for up to 16 GB
- Push Email Support (be it MS Exchange or Lotus Notes)
- Integrated QWERTY keyboard, optical navi key and QVGA display
- 5 MP camera
Nokia E72 Review
Priced at Rs. 23,000, E72 is positioned as an email & chat phone (communication/messaging) and is the result of a research conducted by Nokia (on people responsiveness towards email).
E72 Review
E72 is super lightweight phone (128g only) and if you were to ask me the USP of the device, it’s the QWERTY keyboard which makes the phone stand out.
Nokia E72 is mainly about messaging/communication and handles POP/IMAP as well as Lotus notes and Exchange accounts (though setting up google apps account is not handled well) and one can define corporate vs. personal email accounts (which can be set for different priorities and email alerts).
What takes the cake is E72’s battery life (ready my earlier review of N97 and the crib about battery life). Compared to N97, E72’s battery life stands at apart and the overall performance makes it a good bet to buy.
Navigation in E72 is a breeze (thanks to optical navi keys), though one needs to adjust themselves to the sensitivity of the trackpad (you can disable it, if you want).
E72 is packed with certain confusions/chaos as well – for instance,
- Managing WiFi network is not handled in the most usable manner (too many places to set that up/keeps prompting)
- Overall picture/camera feature doesn’t live upto Nokia’s promise and even the controls can easily freak out an amateur.
- IM apps – hangs most of the times. Period.
When it comes to the buying decision, E72 will be compared with Blackberry and iPhone and our fear is that it might lose out on several factors.
If you are an E72 owner, do share your opinion.
[Disclosure: Review done using a demo handset provided by Nokia.]
I’m one of those people who was desperately waiting for E72 and suddenly, by a quirk of fate/ employment shift, had to move to BlackBerry. And now…only now, I realize how terrible Symbian is
It doesn’t support Blackberry connect. Useless without it. Period.
This is one phone that I waited for since I heard it was to be launched and managed to get my hands on one. I am a die-hard fan of Nokia and yet again after my E-61i the E-72 has astonished me.
There is nothing and I mean nothing at all I can pin-point as a drawback in this phone. I am terribly happy with it. This one will last for a while with me.
It does not support Blackberry connect, true. For those that need it, dont get it…simple…the rest can blindly purchase this piece of machinery and be more than content.
Cheers!!
Can anyone tell me if Nokia E72 supports push e-mail for GMail accounts?
And I mean “true” push e-mail, not actively look for new e-mails every 10 minutes or so…
@Rui, E72 supports “true” push email…
Hi Marshal,
Thanks.
I’m having trouble configuring my E72 push e-mail with a GMail account for a couple of reasons:
. sometimes I receive the e-mail on my phone just a few minutes after it was sent and sometimes not until one hour or more!…
. also, when new e-mail arrives E72 marks my old inbox messages as unread!…
Can you help me in any of these issues?
Thanks in advance,
Have a Happy new Year
i suggest to visit nokia priortiy dealer you have customer executive who can configure this for you..When i purchased phone, they did it as part of initial settings and configuration…
secondly it depends up GPRS speed..try on WIFI.. it should work as expected.
@rui
You can try configuring gmail thru Mail for Exchange, which works fairly faster, but there are known issues.
Try
Email: your outgoing mail address
User: xxx
Password: xxxxxxx
Server: m.google.com
Port: default
Security: Yes
Domain: leave blank
is e72 availabble in delhi grey market???????
n at what price?????????
help me out plz!!!!!!!1
hi
Don’t buy this phone …I bought this phone form dubai…
Really this phone space button some times is not working ….
This problem not only me but also Avery one facing this problem
U can check in internet just tipe in google nokia e72 space button problemU can see lots Discussions
I am looking for a mobile with email faility ( say like balckberry ). what i need push mail service. ( I am using Novell Groupwise mail service )
I have two options now with me what i selected,
one is Blackberry 8520 & second is Nokia E72
Can somebody help me for making a decision?
Groupwise push mail accounts can be configured easily on the Blackberry 8250. On my E72 however, I have not been able to configure GroupWise push yet. You can set a pull mail without too much of a problem. So if push email is your priority, I’d suggest going in for the BB8250.