The Nokia E72 for business users

The Nokia E72 is basically a straight upgrade of the Nokia E71 including a faster processor and a better camera. The E71 has been out in the UK since  June 2008 and is one of the best selling mobile phones for business users in the UK and overseas, so how does it size up to it’s older brother?

Nokia E72 business mobile Phone

It looks very similar to a typical Blackberry in terms of size, shape and the QWERTY keyboard but how does it really measure up to the other Smartphones on the market.

It is a very pretty phone as you will see from the video below, mind you, it’s not as nice as the new HTC Desire or for that matter the i-phone but i guess that is a matter of opinion; if you are a fan of the front facing QWERTY keyboard then you will probably find it quite a geeky turn on. It looks pretty business like with the silver rim running around the edge and simple style.

As with all of the Nokia E range there are the four short cut buttons under the screen for the home, calendar, contacts and email. Under these four are the call and end call buttons.

Between the short-cut buttons is a nice optical track pad for general navigation around the menu which is relatively responsive and nice to use.

The QWERTY keyboard keys are slightly tougher and more pronounced than on the Nokia E71 which makes for more accurate and quicker typing so a good improvement on its predecessor, the keys are softer than on the BlackBerry Bold 9700 as they are made of plastic but are not quite as pronounced so although an improvement on the E71 they are not as easy to use as the latest Blackberry QWERTY keys.

The Nokia E72 runs on the Symbian Series S60 third addition operating system and business mobile phone users will find the the office section within the menu is excellent as you can create notes, view AND create excel and word files with the Quickoffice, view PDFs, use a dictionary and calculator.
The home screen on the device gives quick access to a lot of features.

The media tab within the main menu takes you through to a further ten functions including a radio, media player, music store, recorder, gallery, camera, share online, realplayer, video centre and music search.

The media player can be used for listening to music and the new 3.5 mm headphone socket means that a larger number of standard headphones can be used with this mobile phone than with the Nokia E71. The sound quality is good and the supplied headphones are absolutely fine, but obviously not as good as specialist headphones – the sound goes up to a good volume, at least enough to drown out the goings on on the train to the office in the morning.

The video formats are a little limited but you can download a divx player to give you more choice.

The browser is fair; pages loaded quickly enough apart from a couple of the larger sites that i visited which took a good 5 to 10 seconds which, if you are on the phone to a client is not ideal and a little disappointing after having my hands on the HTC Desire.However, you can scroll down the page nice and easily.

The phone comes with both 3G and Wi-Fi so download speeds are pretty good. The main downer is the 2.4 inch screen which means that you cannot see the full web page on most screens so have to keep scrolling from right to left – this is my pet hate with web browsing on mobile phones so a big cross mark on this one.

Messaging and emailing is nice and easy with the QWERTY keyboard, when you first go into the email function you will be prompted to connect your accounts.It is not really comparable to many of the other Smartphones out there but is pretty good none the less.

One function that i really liked was that you could have 2 profiles running on the phone; one for business mobile use and one for when you leave the office.

You can have your email with Microsoft exchange at work and then on hotmail or whatever you use in the evening. you can also have a diary for business and one for your social life. It’s always good to have a clear definition between the two sides to your life so a great feature – nice one!

The cameras on Nokia phones are usually pretty good and they have done so again with the nokia E72 as it is a 5 mega pixel camera so pretty good quality – the LED flash was basic but had OK results – as with most mobile phones it performs best outside in good light.

The Nokia E72 can be had for free on a £20-per-month, 24-month contract, or for around £300 SIM-free so pretty cheap as business mobile phones go for small numbers of users.

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