Nokia has unveiled a new smartphone for business users that also integrates music and video players as well as GPS-based personal navigation aids, such as an integrated compass, on-screen maps and turn-by-turn instructions.
Called the Nokia E72, the new smartphone sports a higher-resolution five-megapixel camera/camcorder; desktop-style e-mail delivery; and instant-messaging connections to Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi.
“We included the desktop-like e-mail experience from the Nokia E75 and gave it a new optical navigation key for more intuitive scrolling through menus, e-mails and fast panning of images,” said Ilari Nurmi, Nokia vice president.
Bristling With New Features
The Nokia E72 is equipped with a sleek and stylish Qwerty keyboard, a 2.36-inch color TFT display with 320×240-pixel resolution, a high-speed USB 2.0 port and a microSD memory card slot featuring a hot-swap capability. Under the hood, the device integrates Wi-Fi (802.11b,g) and Bluetooth 2.0 radios, 250MB free user disk space, a still-image camera with flash and digital zoom, and a camcorder that supports video-calling capabilities.
Featuring an integrated hands-free speakerphone and active noise-cancellation technology, the quad-band smartphone bristles with wireless capabilities on both the voice and data sides. Beyond supporting GSM and GPRS calling, the E72 integrates the latest HSUPA and HSDPA technologies, which support data uploads and downloads at maximum speeds of up to 2Mbps and 10.2Mbps, respectively. A 4GB microSD memory card ships with the device, which offers support for a maximum 16GB of storage.
The new smartphone, which can double as a wireless modem, even supports VoIP calls over Wi-Fi connections. Moreover, additional technology is on tap to enable the device to become integrated into enterprise private branch exchange infrastructures and home wireless networks.
On the software side, the Nokia E72 ships with music and multimedia players, a Web browser, two dedicated e-mail clients, and other applications that provide integrated…