The Nokia E72 is a smartphone from the

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range manufactured in

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. The Nokia E72 was announced on June 15, 2009 at the Nokia Connections 2009 event in

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.. It is the successor to the

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and is based on a similar design and form factor, and offers a similar feature set. The Nokia E72 is a business-oriented phone (as all Eseries devices) and has standard features including mobile email, calendar and instant messaging among many others with its

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-based S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 operating system. The Nokia E72 has a new Optical Navi Key feature in addition to the standard D-pad used on many other Nokia devices including the Nokia E71 – this is said to improve the ease of scrolling through menus, emails, Internet browser, and images as it is an optical sensor in addition to a series of closely spaced buttons. In comparison to its predecessor, the Nokia E72 is said to have a higher level of performance (likely due to the faster 600 MHz

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processor) and also includes a 5-megapixel auto focusing camera. Other changes and improvements are software-based including changes to the

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and built-in messaging application among others. The Nokia E73 Mode is a USA feature phone for T-Mobile USA, with support for

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service and Band IV support for 3G. It is a different piece of hardware internally from the E72. The current firmware of this device is 91.004 published on 2 June 2012 (to check the current firmware, one may dial *#0000#). The

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Constellation Quest from 2010 is based on the E72 design.

Features and enhancements from E71

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New features

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9.3, Series 60 v3.2 UI, Feature Pack 2. * Optical navi key, along with the conventional

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* 3.5 mm audio jack * Ovi Maps with free lifetime drive and walk voice assisted navigation * Lifetime free Nokia Messaging service (discontinued) * Use of front-facing camera (video call, VGA snapshots and QCIF videos for 15 seconds) * USB charging *

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sensor and digital compass * RDS support *

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media streaming support (not present on E73) *

(E73)

Upgrades

* Modified design and look compared to E71. * 3.5 mm jack in contrast to the 2.5 mm jack used in the E71. * 12 hours of talktime (2G) instead of the E71's 10 hours (2G). *

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instead of dual-band *

support of up to 10.2 Mbit/s instead of 3.6 * Added

at 2.0 Mbit/s * Improved CPU clock speed from 369 MHz to 600 MHz * Real time

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HTML * Improved reception from the E71's fluctuating signal reception * 5-megapixel camera (up from 3.2) * VGA at 15 frame/s (E72) rather than QVGA at 15 frame/s (E71) * New flashlight feature (it can be activated by holding down the space bar)

References

External links

Nokia E72 Full Phone SpecificationDevice details — Nokia E72
{{Nokia phones Mobile phones introduced in 2009 Mobile phones with an integrated hardware keyboard Nokia ESeries Mobile_phones_with_user-replaceable_battery de:Nokia Eseries#Nokia E72

Features and enhancements from E71

New features

Upgrades

See also

References

Further reading

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