Nokia E72 has been announced

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#35828 16-Jun-2009 07:27

The replacement for the best phone ever, the E71, has now been announced.

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I would like a black one please - at least it gives me a few months to choose between Vodafone and Telecom (I doubt it will support both 850MHz and 900MHz 3G but you never know!)

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#225473 16-Jun-2009 08:30

It won't support both those bands within the same handset.

Certainly a VERY sexy device.

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#225484 16-Jun-2009 08:58

Nice specs! Including a 3.5mm headphone jack and 5MP camera just for starters. I better start saving up.

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#225503 16-Jun-2009 09:29

Nice update, very nice handset (providing you can stand its terrible screen resolution).

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#225517 16-Jun-2009 10:08

This would have been my choice earlier the year if E71 had 2.5mm, instead I ended up with Palm Treo Pro - which is still great.

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#225658 16-Jun-2009 17:53

Can anybody guestimate when it'll touchdown on our shores?

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#225669 16-Jun-2009 18:28

Not shipping anywhere until August / September so based on history maybe by Xmas - hopefully the fact VF has competition now will speed that up.

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#226523 19-Jun-2009 04:24

Specs up on the Nokia Europe site here.

More detailed specs on the Nokia Developers site here.

Points to note compared to the E71 are:
micro-USB charging - finally (still has 2.0mm DC socket too)
3.5mm headphone socket - again finally
250MB free user disk space (plus microSD)
HSDPA 10.2Mbps down
HSUPA 2Mbps up
Compass
5MP camera
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2
Firmware update over the air
Accelerometer
600MHz CPU up from 369MHz
640x480 video
Nokia VOIP 3.0
Longer battery life from the same battery

Overall, quite a few nice improvements over the E71 (which is already a brilliant phone)

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#227061 20-Jun-2009 22:39

Why did they have to do that to the k/b, they should've just used the Fn key with the existing keys for more punctuation like the good ol e61. fp2 will be smoking with that speed processor.

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#227067 21-Jun-2009 00:06

hasole: Why did they have to do that to the k/b, they should've just used the Fn key with the existing keys for more punctuation like the good ol e61.

I assume you are referring to the short space bar? Meh, no biggie for me, I quite like it.

I also quite like the "torch" function (it will be better than using the screen which I use now sometimes) and the bluetooth key will be great too . . .

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#227093 21-Jun-2009 09:34

They keyboard changes are a little different. Certainly like the torch function.

Scottpalmer: You've always been able to turn BT on/off on the E71 by holding down the * key ;)

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#227109 21-Jun-2009 11:33

BrentR: You've always been able to turn BT on/off on the E71 by holding down the * key ;)

You learn something every day. It will be nice to have an icon on the keyboard to remind me of that fact :-)

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#227124 21-Jun-2009 12:23

All recent E Series devices allow the following long key presses

* - BT On/Off
# - Switch between Silent and General Profile (this is true on all Nokia Handsets)
0 - Launch the Internet Browser/Bookmarks

These keypresses work on the likes of the E71 which don't have the dedicated numberpad keys also.