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Nokia E72 Reviewed

July 20th, 2009
Nokia E72

Nokia E72

The Nokia E72 belongs to the line of E-series phones, of which the Nokia E63, the Nokia E90 and the Nokia E71 are members as well. The Nokia E72 is the successor to the E71, with some really sleek looks and some fancy rounded edges, and also sports a number of improvements with regard to the specifications. The QWERTY smartphone has a 5 megapixel snapper with some nice add-ons and a fancy 3.5 mm headset jack to the relief of all music lovers, along with the Symbian S60FP2 OS. Here’s the rest of the specifications sheet.

- Works on all 2G and 3G networks

- Weighs in at 128 grams and has a thin waistline of 10 mm

- TFT screen is 2.36 inches long, has a resolution of 320×240 pixels and is able to display upto 16M colours

- Full QWERTY keyboard

- Five-way scroll key, optical trackpad

- Polyphonic, monophonic and MP3 ringtones supported

- 3.5 mm headset jack

Nokia E72

Nokia E72

- Phonebook can store unlimited number of contacts and supports PhotoID

- Call records can be stored for upto 30 days

- Internal memory of 250 MB and 128 MB of RAM

- Internal memory can be expanded upto 16 GB via the hotswap microSD memory card slot

- Class 32 GPRS and EDGE connectivity allows you to surf the internet in areas where 3G or Wi-Fi connectivity is not supported

- 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA connectivity available for high speed internet access and downloads as well as for facilitating video calls

- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g connectivity available for high speed internet access in Wi-Fi hotspots

- Bluetooth v2.0 with support for A2DP profiles

- microUSB v2.0 port available for high speed data transfer between the phone and the PC

- 5 megapixel camera which can shoot pictures with a maximum resolution of 2592×1944 pixels. Camera also has autofocus and an LED flash

- Video recording is done with VGA@15fps

- Secondary VGA videocall camera

- Symbian OS 9.3 Series 60 v3.2 OS

- ARM 11 600 MHZ processor

- Messaging options include SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging and Email

- WAP 2.0 browser

- Stereo FM radio with support for RDS and visual radio

- Colour schemes include Zodium Black, Topaz Brown and Metal Grey

- GPS with A-GPS support and Nokia Maps 3.0 (digital compass also available)

- Video player supports WMB, RV, MP4 and 3GP video files

- Music player supports MP3, WAV, WMA, RA, M4A and AAC songs

- Flash Lite v3.0

- Push to talk, voice command, voice dial, printing, organizer

- Maximum standby time of upto 480 hours and maximum talk time of upto 12 hours and 30 minutes of a 2G network

- Maximum standby time of upto 576 hours and maximum talk time of upto 6 hours on a 3G network

The phone has a nice steel frame on its sides and the battery cover is made out of stainless steel, giving it an extremely posh look. There are a number of shortcut buttons on the phone, ensuring t hat you can access the necessary functions quickly. The full QWERTY keyboard and the screen take up most of the front panel of the phone.

All in all, a great slim business phone which will appeal to an extremely broad audience, so get your hands on it now.

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Nokia 6700. Class.

July 16th, 2009

The Nokia 6700 is going going to be big. Very big indeed. Not because it’s the best, or highest spec’ed or most fancy, just because it’s so damn cool. Nokia know how to do understated better than Katie Price knows how to do dumb tart. That is, they do it very, very well indeed.

With it’s metal keypad and casing (that’s real metal – not metal-effect, or metal-esque) this thing feels so right in your hand it’s untrue. It’s not light for its slim and trim size, at 112g, but that’s part of the point – this thing feels like the kind of phone a secret agent would use – discreet, sexy, but also very functional.

That’s not to say this the Nokia 6700 classic is lacking in any thing fancy. A fully fledged 3G with rocket-fast 10mbps HSDPA, it’s up there with some of the best smartphones, but it’s almost as though the features just come with a whisper. Nokia don’t want this to be a phone that comes with a troupe of singing and dancing announcers screaming about figures and numbers at stats. This is a phone you buy not to pull out at the pub and show of the 4.1-inch, carefully-hidden-WinMo interface or surround sound 3D HD G-sensor controlled games. This is a phone for someone who uses their phone as and when they need it, the kind of person who actually steps away from the table to use it. This is a phone for someone with a bit of class. It most definitely is not a phone for Katie Price. Check out Nokia’s official page for more specs, or have a little look at this Nokia 6700 review.

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Nokia E52. Business and beyond

July 6th, 2009

As with all of the E-Series of Nokia phones, the E52 is primarily a business phone. While not sporting the QWERTY-keyboard of many of the best known business phones, the E52 has a number of innovations amongst its many other features that make it a very viable option for business users. Chief amongst these are:

  • Mobile VPN (mobile virtual private network) – allows continuous access to network resources and information available on company intranets.
  • Call Connect support – lets you hook your E52 up to your work phone system, so you can be contactable through just one number and have one voicemail box
  • Ovi files – access through your phone to all the documents, photos and other files that are stored on your main computer’s hard drive (although there’s only a 60-day trial for this piece of magic)
  • Battery life – a whoppingly hugely massive 25 days standby, meaning if you’re travelling from one meeting to the next country to the next boardroom, you won’t need to pack your charger

And it’s this last point that makes us realise that not only business users could get a lot out of the Nokia E52. After all, who doesn’t want an amazing battery life? And with this thing weighing in at an astonishing less-than-100 grams, with its impressively featured camera and video recording, it’s digital compass, A-GPS and all the other smartphone shenanigans you’ve come to expect, maybe it’s not just the suited and booted who will appreciate this. There’s a Nokia E52 review here for a full specs and features rundown, or check out this truly, utterly awful video made by non other than Nokia themselves. When oh when will they learn that this is what they pay marketing agencies to do for them…

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Nokia 6730 Classic. Fuzzy cuddly smallness

July 6th, 2009

Hitting the shelves any day now is the Vodafone-exclusive 6730 Classic. There’s little to write home about here, but then that’s part of this things appeal – there’s so little here that this poor little chicken weighs a paltry (get it? get it?) 83 grams – just about the lightest 3G phone you can get your beaks into anywhere in the world.

So what do you get for your 83 grams with the 6730 Classic then? Well, not a lot, but not a little either. The camera’s a more than useless 3.2 megapizel with autofocus job. It comes with a not-too-shoddy 1GB of internal memory, that can as always be beefed up with microSD cards, meaning the competent music player can be taken full advantage of. There’s a lifetime membership to something called Ovi maps that gives you a nifty turn-by-turn global pedestrian navigation system to go with the A-GPS-driven maps functionality. There’s the usual raft of Symbian S60 apps onboard, and you can also download a huge number of other add-ons to your heart’s content. And, being Nokia, there’s the fuzzy warm feeling you’ll get from knowing that all the packaging is recycled and that there’s more power-saving and planet-cuddling features included than you can shake an organic, free-range stick at.

So the 6730 Classic’s not going to set the world alight with it’s high-end functionality (that would, after all, release carbon dixoide into the atmosphere…) but it is going to make people who want decent enough functionality in the smallest possible package feel quite satisfied indeed. Check out this more detailed Nokia 6730 review here, or there’s a basic video below:

nokia 6730 classic hands on 外型介紹 from ePrice on Vimeo.

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Nokia 5730 XpressMusic

July 1st, 2009

nokia-5730-xpressmusicIntroduced in early March is another addition to Nokia’s XpressMusic collection. This particular model is known as 5730 XpressMusic. It carries the Symbian operating system and Nokia’s S60 3rd Edition interface. The 5730 XpressMusic features a stylish QWERTY sliding keyboard that is very similar to Nokia’s E75 business phone.
The 5730 XpressMusic and E75 are quite alike in many ways such as the 2.4inch QVGA touch screen that displays 16m colors, the 3.2megapixel camera which has got autofocus and the 3.5mm headset jack. All your songs, photos and other data can be stored in internal memory capacity of 100MB and if needed, it comes equipped with a 8GB memory card for additional storage space.
Additionally the 5730 XpressMusic carries a Xpress Homescreen shortcuts bar for the convenience. It supports various N-Games and also popular social networking utilities such as Facebook, Flikr, MySpace and Youtube. The inbuilt A-GPS complements navigation including Nokia Maps while you also have easy access to Nokia Messaging & Mail. With Nokia 5730 XpressMusic it’s so easy to keep in touch with the rest of the world while you keep yourself entertained at the same time.
Network-wise you have access to quad-band GSM and EDGE while on UMTS/HSDPA/3G are supported by 900/1900/2100MHz. There’s also WiFi and A2DP Bluetooth. The 1000mAh battery can give you 5hrs talk time, 12 ½ days standby time and an impressive 25hrs music playback. In some markets where the service is enabled, your 5730 XpressMusic can give you access to Nokia’s Comes With Music feature. See Nokia’s official page for full specs.
Expected to release in the 3rd quarter of 2009, Nokia’s plans for 5730 XpressMusic is of high end. It will be launched at a price of 280EUR/US$355. If you think this is a too high price for you, there is no need for you to ignore this awesome phone just because the price is high. Nokia 5730 XpressMusic contracts arrange for you to pay in installments so that you don’t have to bear the entire value of the phone at once. Further the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic deals take a load of your head by providing low tariffs. So go online and check out some of the major 5730 XpressMusic deals available in the internet and choose the one that suites you the most.

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