Nokia E72 launched in India
Nokia launched the Nokia E72 in India, on November 24, 2009, few days after the phone’s international launch.
Photo: Nokia E72 smartphone
The Nokia E72 follows in the footsteps of the popular Nokia E71 but does one better. It comes with many new features that were found wanting in the Nokia E71.
The Nokia E72 is a business and personal messaging-focused phone. Nokia has said that it has researched the phone usage habits of users who need to be perpetually connected.
The findings revealed that most users prefer e-mails to text messaging and calls to transmit and receive crucial information.
To meet these needs, the Nokia E72 is equipped with features like Push e-mail support with multiple e-mail accounts.
The phone also enables users to set up IMs directly from the homescreen to access Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, Ovi Chat and so on from the homescreen.
Photo: Nokia E72 smartphone back view
The Nokia E72 also comes with a host of SMS and messaging features including support for up to 10 concatenated SMS and storage of up to 999 messages.
The phone comes with a 2.36-inch TFT display screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, full QWERTY keypad, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and Carl Zeus optics.
In terms of performance, the Nokia comes with an ARM11 600 MHz processor (faster than that of the Nokia E71). The phone runs the Symbian Operating System 9.3 with Series 60 v3.2 user interface.
Other features include Users get 4GB built-in memory expandable to 16 GB via MicroSD card, 250 MB free user disk space, 3.5-mm jack, stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, integrated A-GPS with compass, Nokia Maps 3.0, music player and media player.
The Nokia E72 is available at price of Rs. 22,989 at par with the price of the Nokia E71, that was priced at Rs 22,949, at the time of its launch.