Nokia E72 unboxing

Today at Symbian-Life Blog it gives me greatpleasure to tell you that we have an E72 for review purposes. Over the next few weeks we shall be putting the E72 through it’s paces and give you the complete low down on the new QWERTY phone from Nokia. So for now sit back and enjoy the video.

E72 with a usable secondary camera option

This just in! We have just learned that the E72 will have secondary camera option available and a ‘Panorama’ mode will also be available.

As you all know the E66 and the E71 had a front facing camera, but one could not use it at all. It was only usable when you wanted to make video calls.

This time around, Nokia Eseries people have heard the customers of these phones and provided the prospective customers of the E72 with the option of using the secondary camera (front facing camera).

Kudos guys, for listening to your customers.

(Source: http://s60blog.com/2009/06/nokia-e72-comes-with-secondary-camera-option/ )

Upgrade your QuickOffice to v6 for free

QuickOffice, the very popular office application that almost all phones (S60) have on their phones is up for an upgrade. The people at QuickOffice made an announcement that QuickOffice was being upgraded for free to v6. This free upgrade however is only for Eseries users, specifically E51, E52, E55, E63, E66, E71,E72, E75 and the E90 device owners only. So if you have QuickOffice installed on any of these phones, start the application and go to QuickManager and then select upgrades.

This upgrade which costs about US $35 is being offered free of cost to all users of the above models. The best feature of QuickOffice v6 is that it fully supports viewing, creating and editing Microsoft Office 2007 documents like Excel, MS Word or PowerPoint. So get your free upgrade today!

Introducing the E72, 5530 XpressMusic and the 3710 fold

Yesterday it was raining phones from Nokia’s end. I had recently made a post of how I thought Nokia was losing it. I still stand by it, but yesterday seemed to have dampened that a bit. Finally we’re seeing some ‘new’ phones.

Nokia did something that that came as a pleasant surprise to many of us, even though we knew that it was going to happen sooner than later. Hot on the heels of the N86 and N97 release, came the launch of the Nokia E72, Nokia 5530 XpressMusic and the 3710 fold.

Each of the handsets belong to a different category and serve different customer segments. First up is the Nokia E72.

The E72 is a successor to the wildly popular and successful device, the E71. The design of the E72 is very much similar to the E71’s original body, there are changes however, the bottom row of buttons are now different, notice how the characters and space key are different.

The E72 features a 5MP camera sensor and an optical Navi-pad. As you can see, the E72’s front design is similar to the E52 and the E53, this is the new design that the Eseries has gone for. Further improvements include a 3.5mm audio jack, S60 3rd edition with FP2 and an updated email client. All of this in almost the same dimensions as the E71.

The E72 is expected to begin shipping late in the third quarter of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 350 ( US $484 i.e. INR 23,000 ) before taxes and subsidies.

Fone Arena’s Varun has a complete spec sheet of the E72 for you to check out.

Next up is the 5530 Xpressmusic, this device was photographed in the wild about a few weeks back, I first got scent of it through Varun of Fone Arena fame. He had written about it and even stated that it may be the successor to the 5800, I knew it wasn’t so. Yesterday I was proved right. The 5530 is the 3rd S60 5th edition device to hit the markets. The 5530 XpressMusic comes with a 3.2 Megapixel camera, 2.9? Touchscreen with tactile feedback, 3.5mm Audio Jack and  a 4Gb microSD card. The 5530 is  a cheaper alternative to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, and thus does not have GPS and 3G.

The 5530 Xpressmusic follows the legacy of the 5800 and has almost similar specs, so you can expect to find a 3.2MP camera and WVGA video recording et al. The device is also expected to hit the markets late in the third quarter and is expected to be priced at an estimated retail price of EUR 199 ( US $275 i.e. INR 13,000 ) before taxes and subsidies. Looks like the Samsung Star and LG Cookie have competition now!

Last but not the least is the 3710 fold. The 3710 fold follows in the design footsteps of the popular CDMA handset, the Nokia 2505. This device however is a GSM phone. The 3710 fold  comes in at the  INR 10,000 i.e. US $200 segment. It is a 3G enabled device sporting a new design with artistic patterns.

One can clearly see that it is equipped with a 3.2MP camera sensor with flash along with that there is also a photo gallery application that lets you browse your pictures easily. A secondary  camera is also present on the inside if you have video calling available in your country. The phone operates on the S40 platform and has a 2.2″ QVGA display, presence of A-GPS is an added bonus. A stereo music player and radio completes the specs. For detailed specs, click here.

Expect this device also to hit the markets around the same time as the above two devices.

Nokia E75 and E72,A more realistic rumor

I don’t usually go after rumors,but now they are much more promising than the official announcements,this is very clear if we can remember how the E71 and E66 came out.Product leaks are obviously a problem for whatever company,but we have to admit that it is far from the reality, to keep things perfectly covered from this world,unless they stop prototype testings.This is a point where they have no option other than going for it,cos to cater what the society want first the products must be distributed to a sample of consumers and feedback should be assessed to improve the final product before it goes to mass production.But the problem is it is hard to keep all the mouths shut,we cannot put aside the fact that these testers are just humans like us and it is a natural thing to hear them blabber on what they test.

But leaking of promotional videos cannot be accounted as one of these unstoppable scenarios,take a look at this video of rumored E72 and E75 posted on Symbian-Freak does this too seems like a leaked promotional video or a “one made to be leaked Intentionally”.Are we getting new clues on Nokias next generation of Marketing campaigns?

Anyway the two devices are exact replicas of E71 and E66 physically,only difference is one of them is molded in to a side-sliding form factor is what Nokia lovers were desperately waiting for ages,So glad finally they picked it.

E72 is a Candybar very much like the E71,but the E75 is the real successor of E66 with the new form factor.