The Nokia E72 is a smartphone from the Nokia Eseries range. It is the successor to the Nokia E71 and is based on a similar design and form factor, and offers a similar feature set. The Nokia E72 is an enterprise-based smartphone (as it is a Nokia Eseries device) and has standard features including mobile email, calendar and instant messaging amongst many others.
The Nokia E72 has a new Optical Navi Key feature as opposed 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 rather than 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 600MHz ARM processor) and also includes a 5 Megapixel AF camera. Other changes and improvements are software-based including changes to the user interface and built-in messaging application amongst others.
The Nokia E72 was announced on June 15, 2009 at the Nokia Connections 2009 event in Singapore
Features and enhancements from E71
New features
Symbian OS 9.3, Series 60 v3.2 UI, Feature Pack 2.
Optical navi key, instead of the conventional D-Pad
3.5 mm jack instead of 2.5 mm
USB charging
Active noise cancellation
Accelerometer sensor
Magnetometer sensor
Digital compass
RDS support
PictBridge
Upgrades
12 hours of talktime(2G) instead of the E71's 10hrs (2G).
Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA instead of Dual-band
HSDPA support of up to 10.2 Mbps instead of 3.6
Added HSUPA at 2.0 Mbps
Improved CPU clock speed to 600MHz
Real time Push e-mail HTML
5 Megapixel camera (up from 3.2)
