If you like the E71, you are sure to love its second generation Nokia E72. Announced by the Finish world leader in mobile phones Nokia, the new handset has reached its intended markets this October.  Nokia’s point blank answer to the Blackberrys, the full QWERTY candy bar E72 is as serious as it looks.

If there’s any smartphone that can wrest the Blackberry dominance in the corporate jungles, it has to be this. It even comes in three body colors: Topaz brown, Zodium black and Metal grey.

Shared Features

First off, the E72 shares the same quad band GSM on 2G and UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA on 3G as its preceding E71.  They both have the same glass-covered 2.36 inch TFT LCD screen with 16 million colors.  You get Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, WiFi 802.11 b/g, microUSB 2.0, secondary video call camera and stereo FM receiver with RDS.

Faster than the E71

At first glance the E72 looks just like its predecessor, but on closer look, it actually bears more affinity with the less pricey E63 as far as the QWERTY keyboard goes.  It’s as if Nokia engineers have been directed not to change a successful product, just improve on the E71 as those QWERTY Blackberry wanabees are starting to look alike anyway.

Many could be fooled with an impression their difference is cosmetic with just a difference in their QWERTY keyboards.  But you just have to own the older E71 and read their technical data sheet to really get to see the difference.  A comparative allows a deeper look.

It reveals that Nokia engineers did manage a thorough job to upgrade most of the main features of the E71 with just one act – putting in a more powerful engine with nearly twice the clock speed of the ARM 11 used in both handsets.

While the E72 inherits all the features of the E71, it takes them 30% faster which you notice right away as transitions between screens are instant and smoother.  It’s possible the Feature pack 2 of the 3^rd Ed Symbian OS version may have something to do with this as well.

The E71 has the same OS but with Feature Pack 1.  The faster engine might also account for the fact that the E72 has a better battery life though both use the same BP-4L 1500mH lithium-polymer battery.  It delivers 12 hours of talk time on 2G (6 hours on 3G) and 480 hours on standby.

Updated Features

Next engineering item is the imaging features.  The Nokia E72 ups the 3.2 megapixel of the E71 to 5 megapixels, putting it at the high end league of imaging smartphones not even a flagship Blackberry can touch as they can only do 3.2 at the most. There’s geo-tagging that can be disable and even has manual focus capability using its optical joystick.  VGA video recording is at 15 frames per second.

There’s a slightly higher internal memory at 250Mb but that’s not really much with today’s storage hunger media content.  You still get microSD expansion support for up to 32 GB.  The E72 package comes with a 4GB microSD free.   Nokia puts in the industry standard 3.5mm headphone jack instead of the non-standard 2mm in the E71.

Most of the application bundled is as expected from a version higher like its QuickOffice suite that allows you to edit popular office files, GPS now with digital compass and its email client that has HTML support this time, just to mention the major ones.

Nokia E72 Links:

• Nokia E72 Videos

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