Nokia E72 User Reviews

This phone is flawed and not fit for purpose. It has a very slow and poor email client. HTML email takes several steps and long delays to open. Notification of new emails is very patchy and often non-existent for days on end...but then somebody at Nokia reboots whatever it is that wasn't working and all is well for a few hours or a day if you are lucky.

The camera is very slow and most of the time crashes the phone. Who says it's a good camera?

The handset cannot auto negotiate connections. You have to lock the email client to 3G/GPRS to force it to connect. If you leave it set to auto it just sits there asking you which connection to use every few minutes.

Likewise the browser has to be told which connection to use every single time no matter what priority options you have set WiFi first etc. It may only be a few button pushes but everyone elses smartphones can work out that if there's a known good WiFi connection available then just get on with it an connect!

Don't be fooled by the free Sat Nav. There's a major flaw in the way the audio works on this phone that makes the GPS useless in most cars with blue-tooth. Nokia decided that all audio should stream over blue-tooth when a headset (or car kit) is connected.
Most car kits only support blue-tooth for voice calls. What you have is a mute SatNav device. Even if you decide to run the gauntlet and switch off blue-tooth the audio level is so low that it's almost impossible to hear the directions even in a quiet car.

In all honesty there's so much more to dislike about this phone but I've just listed the main reasons to avoid it.

It's not all bad news. The E72 has a nice built in flashlight feature.

The Nokia E72 is great in terms of its features and the applications available to you. The phone is simple to use, its great for using the internet and emailing. What I like about the handset is that it looks like a Blackberry but if you want to be original then this is the phone to go for.

Doesn't hold charge, keypad unresponsive, email doesn't work...shall I go on?

I've used Palm phones, Windows phones, Blackberries etc. The Nokia E61 was the first phone that worked the way I wanted it to. The E71 improved on this...but the E72 has ruined it all.

I'm now onto my second faulty unit. Charge only lasts 3 or 4 hours - that's with notification light off, WLAN scanning off - only thing active is Mail for Exchange. Although MFE doesn't work anyway, so I suppose I could disable that as well to see if that helps battery life.

Keypad becomes unresponsive during incoming call - so I can't answer. Intermittently there is no ring tone for incoming call or text message - leading to lots of missed calls that I was unaware of.

Very disappointing phone!

I needed a phone with web and email access with an easy to use navigation system. I looked at Blackberry but they appeared to technical, E71 was first choice but then they released the E72, the decision was easy.

Only problem I have found was with AOL mail, not fully supported so changed to MSN live. No problems since, but time will tell. The keys are a bit close to the edge but bought a case to go round phone which has solved that issue.

Overall fantastic social and business phone that exceeds my needs. Nokia do it right with common sense access to programmes. I am going to upgrade memory card to 32GB so I can put a wider selection of music on it.

I bought a new packed set a week ago with the warranty from Advance Mobile, but only after using it for 3 days I found a software problem with integration of e-mails, after trying so many times it didn't work.

Many other E72 users are having the same problem as reported on Nokia's site. Now I am back to my Blackberry, until Nokia provides new fault less software on their website to download for smooth running of e-mail setup or suggest to me another solution of the same.

Rest of it's features are excellent but it is much heavier than the Blackberry 8310 curve. Let's see how long it will take as there must be some more complaints on the way.