Nokia E72 – Phone impressions and other features

 

  A relaxing Sunday to all! As promised, I will do my  best to make an in-depth review of a day to day basis with the Nokia E72. I had a chance to play with the phone today and before anything else, I have to admit, I love the phone so much, it suits my needs, love the style but the price as I saw in the mall does not love me that much. Hahahaha!

  First Impressions with the E72

  Physical design:

•  Stunningly sleek and thin – the metal cover gives it a nice Ooomph to it! does not look tacky at all.
• QWERTY layout is very nice, not really that small even if you have big fingers. The feel of the qwerty is very durable.
• Doesn’t feel heavy at all.
• Looks very professional but not complicated which is a MAJOR plus for me.

     Features / Basic specs:

• Speakers are averagely good, not too loud or soft, just right.
• It has a flashlight – very bright
• 5MP LED with flash, front camera – YES front camera!
• Panoramic view – will check further
• 128MB RAM, 256MB phone, microSD up to 16GB
• 3.5mm audio jack, microUSB
• 2.36” screen, 320×240 pixels
• 1500mAh battery

        OS:

• Symbian OS v9.3 – on first hand it was really fairly easy to use, compared with the N900 which was confusing for me at first.

    Here’s how the main menu homepage looks like

                                                                  Simplified!

You can switch to Personal use or Business use (the one with the arrow black and white thumbnail.) I think if email is one of the things that is important for you, this phone will suit you well. My contact says, she uses this phone for her emailing business, I get what she means now.

  Other features:

  Basically, here’s how facebook will look like *images were taken via internet

                          If you prefer a full view HTML sorry, not in this phone :(

  My needs for a phone sure has changed, before I just wanted a basic phone with a good MP3 player, blue tooth and a decent camera. But now, i didn’t realize that I needed a phone to browse stuff online basically – ANYWHERE with a good wifi hot spot in malls or at work. And as a blogger, I need a good quality camera for my blog posts a decent 5MP sure is fine with me.

   Well anyway continuing with the phone features, here’s how the menu would look like

I was also able to try the email, and it works fine, I couldn’t figure out the email set up as seen in the main menu, so I opted to just search it in the internet thumbnail and it worked. I just saved it as bookmark so it would be easy for me next time I check.

This is the office menu, and my favorite here would be the Dictionary feature, just type in the word and you have a portable dictionary within your reach, very accessible if I may say.

  Chatting:

   I was hoping that this phone supports Skype like the N900 since most of my friends are on skype but then again at least it supports Yahoo Messenger, I had to download this via the OVI store which was pretty easy to install actually.

  BF and I chatted with our phones last night and it was sure convenient to chat in my room, love WIFI!

   Other things I downloaded through OVI store is the SIM CITY app, it works fine, though I have to get how the game works first, but what’s important that it runs smoothly. Another thing which I tried was the youtube feature, I searched for my favorite song, which is the Bang Bang by Knaan and I’m impressed, loading was sure fast, music was loud enough but I noticed that you can’t watch videos with it. Hmm?

  For my social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, email it works perfectly fine. I also tried if I can surf digg.com and was happy that it works with the E72. So it covers all my basic needs which is definitely great!

  I am enjoying the phone definitely and will try to see what else is new or interesting to feature with the E72.

Till then!

Meow..Meow..

Nokia E72 – my 2nd phone review

 

  Happy Weekend my readers! How did the week end for you? Mine has been great! I was granted another phone review and this time, it’s a kind of phone that’s close to what I’ll be buying soon. Huge thanks to WOM/World Nokia, Paul and Katie. So here’s the happy girl who got her package yesterday at BF’s office.

    I planned to have my identity to be a secret but then again! haha! Hello eye bags! XD This was at Jollibee Alphaland where we had dinner. For some reason, I was more excited now than my first N900 review (I don’t know why).

                                   BF took a picture of me unpacking the package

      I was like OMG! A different box? I was expecting a torn, used up box like with the N900. I thought all reviewers/ bloggers get that kind of box since it’s just for trial.

                                      Swwwweeeeeet! looks like a brand new box

         Okay, when I saw this, why did I fall in love with this phone instantly?

Closer look of the phone itself:

    Then I fell in love even more, it was so sleek, shiny and looks so professional ♥

Other surprises inside the box that I wasn’t expecting at all were these:

         It comes with a white pouch and white phone accessory. It also came with a 4GB Mini SD card with it, I didn’t have to use my sd card in my phone. I really felt pampered, giving me accessories like these and up to this point, I wonder why? They could just give me the same box like before. Because, I am loving the phone even more, why? look further how the phone looks like.

                                                                        Blue tooth 

  This is pretty okay, the feel when in your ear  is a bit wobbly. I tried listening to music with it and it’s very clear. I have yet to try calling someone with this device.

                                                   Other accessories in the box 

*the first clear photos were taken by BF with the Nokia N97 mini head on over to Proud2beGeek's blog here

More photos of the unit using my 5130 XpressMusic phone:

         Very slim, but honestly I would’ve preferred the black over the white one. 

               Back part, the case is steel very shiny and easy to remove

First few things I was able to try were taking pictures, it was rather slow but not bad since it  has a 5MP with LED, texting feature is different. I thought it was the same as with the N900 messaging feature but I didn’t mind. Third is music, the music player is far more better than the N900, but I still have to check out a few things about it. Fourth is surfing, well of course it’s only good for browsing, since my needs are mostly just browsing the net like Facebook, Twitter and email, the E72 serves well. You can’t chat though, unlike the N900, but it’s okay since I’m always in the office anyway. It’s just a matter of finding a good wifi spot and update your social networks.

I am still setting up the email, I can’t seem to browse it for now, would have to check the manual I guess or google it. I think this phone is good for when you need email on the go. And what’s good about a QWERTY phone? Texting is faster indeed. By the way, this phone has a flash light feature which is so bright, a good plus for me when I need to go to the bathroom at night, because light switch is too far. If you can notice the middle part (black button), it works as a sensor, which I find it weird, though you may need the sensor when taking pictures (zooming).

For a blogger this phone can be good for a phone and camera in 1 (more pictures coming up.)

So far for the calling feature BF’s end seems pretty clear, voice reduction maybe? Not so sure, will test it out more for 2 weeks. It seems that this phone, features and style fits my personality. Waaaaa! I don’t want to get too attached, I may be a DATE sufferer sooner or later, haha.

 

So that’s day 1! I will still test the email set up and post features for E72

Anyone owns this phone? how long  has it been with you? Care to share?

 

Till then!

Meow..Meow..