14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that its highly-anticipated business-oriented handset Nokia E72 is now available for purchase. The new mobile phone comes to the market with a QWERTY keyboard, which can be seen as a great option both by business users and by messaging enthusiasts, the company stated.
The new phone builds on the success of Nokia E71 and sports desktop-like email capabilities, instant messaging support, A-GPS navigation and compass, the latest version of Ovi Maps, and a 5-megapixel photo snapper. Along with the launch of the new phone, Nokia has also revealed the results of a recently conducted research, showing that more and more users rely on email for communication, rather than phone calls or text messaging.
“The research shows that people are spending an average of five full days per year - equivalent to a full work week - responding to emails. Half of us (46 percent) choose email over voice or text to send and receive important information. The Nokia E72 was designed exactly with this kind of person in mind - it allows the owner to be more responsive and communicate how they want, whenever they want and wherever they are,” Nokia Vice President Ukko Lappalainen commented on the research.
The features list of the new handset also shows Nokia's push consumer email service, Nokia Messaging, with support for popular emails like Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, and Ovi Chat, offering users the possibility to mobilize a number of up to ten personal emails. Support for Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler are included with the new handset as well, along with great messaging characteristics.
In addition, the Nokia E72 comes with Micro-USB connector, 3.5 mm headphone jack, MicroSD memory card slot with support for up to 16GB of additional storage space, Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0, PC synchronisation, GPRS class A, EGSM class A, WCDMA 850/1900/2100, support for HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS, FM radio with RDS, voice recorder, voice dialing, support for Nokia Music Store, and more. All these are included inside a device measuring 114 x 58.3 x 10.1 mm and weighing 128 g. The handset comes with a 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery that can deliver up to 12 h 30 min of talk time or up to 492 h of standby time on GSM.