Comments on: Nokia E72 Review – Should you Buy it?

By: Porcelain

Porcelain — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:38:00 +0000

I love my E72 as well.
Pros: Very Long battery life, Elegant appearance and color (topaz brown), WiFi, Torch function, Great camera resolution, nice headset, boots up faster than previous models, silent key pad and quick switching between applications.

Cons: 1. It pissed me off royally when the space bar would not work. This is a very basic function and such a hassle when you are typing e-mails and texts which is what this phone is designed to do. This apparently is a common problem requiring firmware update. Solved by rebooting but still it is disconcerting knowing it will happen again.
2. It keeps hounding you to log on to the internet.
3. Trackpad is too sensitive even when turned off.

By: Jaya

Jaya — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:07:50 +0000

I love my E72. I have E71 and E75 also. E72 is the best. Lot of memory space(250MB internal/4GB addon which is with the unit). Good quality camera(5MP), lot of one touch buttons added like torch on the space bar button, bluetooth on/off on keypad etc.
Many of the comments/complaints seen in the post are biased as I am the owner and serious user of these phones.
I have experience with Blackberry and windows mobile. It was night mare, the battery life of blackberry was horrible. It got drained very fast as I have a lot of long time calls.Charge in the morning and its drained by afternoon. Windows mobile hanging after every 4 or 5calls. I was mentally tortured by these devices.

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By: Siya

Siya — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:40:06 +0000

Buy the Blackberry 9700. I regret this phone e72.

- No SMS thread
- Phone log is not centralized, broken into received, dialed & missed
- Can’t tell what # the person called, whether it’s home, work or cell
- When you miss call, you don’t have the option to call the person back by either work, home or cell. Have to go back to Contacts.
- There’s no option for touch tones. ex. when calling your voice mails you always have to type in your code
- Can’t filter your contacts by category
- Can’t disable audio call from the menu
- Camera doesn’t store settings. If it’s night time, every time you use the camera you have to change the settings
- Yahoo email updates every 5 minutes
- Monthly calender is squeezed on the screen
- Fonts are smaller than the Blackberry
- Don’t have the option of different vibrate tones for the different types of messages

By: Omer

Omer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:22:49 +0000

I got my E72 back in Dec 09, and absolutely love it! This is a real contender for the Blackberrys! It comes with free nokia messaging lifetime subscription which is the Nokia version of push email. This phone is great! I have both the E71 and E72 and am happy with both. Dust doesnt really get under the screen, you just need to keep it in a case, also clean screen with lint free cloth.

I recommend you buy it.

By: himanshu

himanshu — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:16:34 +0000

i have nokia e-72 and i useit for last 1 month and i think the worst phone i ever use the problem with this set is the space ket didnt work after 7 to 8 hrs than i have to restart my set and nokia technicals have take this set for 5 times for repair but they cant and they replace it with another than this set also ahving same problem so i recomed not to buy this phone…

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:26:48 +0000

Hi, I bought a E72 about 2 weeks back and here’s my take,
I quite agree with one of the comment on the build quality.. there is a visible gap between the screen and the keypad the battery cover seems a little loose too.
The speaker leave a lot to be desired
The data cable is only about 5 cms long … very inconvenient!
The hands free that comes along with the phone seems cheap and is of poor quality.
One touch mail does not work as a one touch mail on gmail when on WAP/GPRS
Other than for these I’m quite happy with the performance of the phone.

By: Syed

Syed — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:21:50 +0000

Hey I had a question. I have the E71 and had the same problem with the dust getting under the screen. Is there any way to solve that problem? Perhaps a screen protector. I really like the e72 but if the dust problem is there then I am not interested.

By: nicky

nicky — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:58:09 +0000

hi,
well i purchased this phone before christmas and have now sent it back for the following reasons:

the casing was loose on it. clicking an i cud fit my nail under the keypad an lift it out.
after a few days the dust gets under the small space between the keypad an under the screen which is impossible to get out… take a look at the e71 model in stores.. i noticed it in the 02 shop where they have a handset that works.
i cud visibily see the lighting under the keys.. not even at all
i did not like the way the camera sticks out as its going to be very easily damaged.

an basically i think for the price of this phone it is very poorly made
ive always been a lover of nokia handsets and had been waiting for a while for this i pre ordered it aswell it is a very disappointing phone
maybe they will fix these problems as i obviously got the first batch but quite frankly im taking my money elsewhere.

By: Khalil

Khalil — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:51:12 +0000

I’m looking to buy an E72 myself and it would be nice if people could list the problems they’ve had with theirs instead of just complaining about it.

It’s always good to know what issues people have had as you can then keep an eye out for it if you buy the phone. Sometimes the issues people have are the kind of little issues that other people might be able to live with until the firmware update rolls out.

Thanks for writing the article as it’s very informative but would be nice if the reviewer could write about his/her own experiences with the phone in day-to-day use as well since this reads more like a fact sheet than a review.