in my opinion, the shortcut keys, (calender, sms, home , contact button) is a bit screwy. I have the prototype e52 and its kinda annoying that i m fumbling on those keys (since they are a bit elevated) while pressing menu key or call buttons.. damn. but ..i m a e72 believer too! ehehe

i m also waiting for the e72. but i saw the N900.....Nokia....go check it

i got my hands on one today (e72) will have it next week. maybe i can do a review for you chaps

This post has been edited by jacc: Sep 5 2009, 12:38 AM

chill guys, will get it tomorrow and let you guys know. put your queries here and i shall TRY TO answer it for ya .

the phone is in my hands, what do you guys want to know?

IMHO the optical keypad is kinda useless if not annoying, you make a lot of mistakes while using the Dpads with optical keypad activated. I heard it's being sold for RM1900.

post me your questions i ll answer here guys, my service for ya all..

PS where is Hero-X?

This post has been edited by jacc: Sep 11 2009, 06:10 PM

please dont ask where i got the phone from. for the price, just ask around in Sg Wang, someone quoted me Rm1900 for original.

No issues with that, if you can see from the backview of the phone, the camera part is actually elevated a little and if you put it on a hard surface, there's gap for the sound to leak out (and amplified). However when i put in on a soft surface, eg bed, couch then it seems to be a problem. But i prefer it this way because for the old E71, i had to becareful to not jab the speaker mesh part when taking out the phone from my pocket becuase it gets deformed and tarnished easily.

erm, yes not so good, even when surfing using the browser, it doesnt really help. would be nice if they implemented something like "double tap" to enter (equal to Dpad enter key) or clockwise circle to enlarge and anticlockwise circle to zoomout (like N900 thing)

Ok even though the Navi key doesnt seem that good, it has a good point for camera usage. Ie. to focus, all you have to do is place your finger on the opti key (no need to press) and it will trigger autofocus just like pressing T button on E71. To complete the picture, just press the Dpad enter key and picture's taken.

Now if you have navi key disabled, you still can autofocus by pressing the Dpad enter key and holding it. Once it's focused, releasing the key will trigger to camera to take the shot. However if you press the dpad enter key and let go right away, it will take a shot without focusing...

Camera no longer has purplish or greenish tint on its display and image taken. It's perfect! Hoorah, good job to nokia!








Night shot! Total darkness outside, light source = flash from E72!

Pictures are shrunken 4 times to fit in LYN (25%), cant post the original untouched jpegs....Honestly it looks better than what is posted here.

This post has been edited by jacc: Sep 12 2009, 01:20 AM

I suppose it is the same as E71, but let me try it out a few more days. Will update

Yes there's 3 levels of setting, default is on "Medium". However, there's NO setting on the "acceleration" of the mouse pointer which should be the case when using browser. In the browser, moving is very "steppy", ie just like pressing the Dpad arrow keys. you ll find yourself thumbing the direction that you want to go madly & repeatedly to move to one direction.

This post has been edited by jacc: Sep 12 2009, 11:18 AM

Yes, it can be disabled.


Looks like you're right adrive. It has exactly the same keypad as the E63. When I compared to the E71, it does look ever slightly larger, but i m sure the fat thumbers will still have issues. I never had any!

This post has been edited by jacc: Sep 13 2009, 02:02 AM

no idea mate, honest.

hmm no more questions?

erm i m always on 3g so i cant test how long it can actually go. but overall the phone is very snappy as predicted. Just pickup the E52 and you can roughly guess how an e72 will handle. it's the same exactly just that the E72 has some "graphical transitions" between menus (no way to disable). The graphics from this phone is just like any other symbian phone, nothing special and to me it's very "rough". Iphone graphics is like heaven, so dont compare. Unless you want a very nice graphic enhanced phone (iphone or N900), this phone is a damn good function packed device. no more "lousy camera but it is a E series" excuses! Btw, did i mention it has "Flip to silent" and "Flip to snooze" function too??

E72 comes with accelerometer. Thats one thing missing from the E71. Hence it supports flip to silent and flip to snooze.

The browser seems very fast, new and improved. it doesnt lag as much, but if you have heavy flash objects on the page, dont lah expect so much . Overall better experience.