Firstly I can only agree with seriousSam
Mate that's exactly how I feel about this phone, especially the point about how hard it is to get over it.
This is not a phone for power users, its a phone for puddle users. Users who are out of their depth with anything more than making calls, getting calls and showing off their sleek new phone.
"look, I sent an sms"
If you've ever seen Brazil, all I can say is this phone was "something for an executive" ... think pointy haired boss with an etch-a-sketch.
Now on to chanchan05's rebuttal ... I despise misinformation. You know, not stuff which is deliberate lies, but the stuff which has just enough truth to it that a Court Judge would rule that its true but have trouble sleeping that night. What chanchan05 writes is just that sort of truth.
>4. Email default client not working through wifi
is false.
well actually yes in the sence that a defence lawery would agree with but a resounding no in the sence that any reasonable person would agree with. I guess you work for Nokia? Is is well documented around the web and even admitted to by Nokia the mail client will not connect to WiFi and use Nokia Messaging at the same time.
So you either put up with a mail client which (after much tricking the wizzard yoga) will allow you to connect to your chosen IMAP or POP account without giving Nokia Messaging your credentials (can't wait for them to get hacked and have the masses and masses of email credentials lost. There will be a great Gnashing of teeth that day as hundreds of thousands of email accounts are given to hackers).
In that scenario then your email will drop off after 5 minutes ... simple ... hardly what any reasonable user thinks is right or expects.
But it is "true" that it works ...
>5. As the E72 is still pretty young,
Patent **bleep**. Even on the day that the E72 was released it was clearly an evolution of the E72 and part of a long line of development in that series. That it should have so many flaws is simply miserable testing.
Clearly Dilbert worked at Nokia.
Now in 2012 years after its release many of the fundamental issues remain un-addressed ... so even as a prediction that is utter **bleep**.
Now its not that the E72 is a bad phone, far from it, its one of the most promising phones I've ever seen. (yes, even now 4 years later). I personally prefer it to the Blackberrys in so many ways.
But its crippled in so many ways as to make using it as much a frustrating experience as it is a positive one.
While I'm sitting here typing this, my Nokia E63 sits beside me, still connected to my IMAP email and getting fed mail as it happens. I can rely on it. The same can not be said for the E72
Instead you have to either prompt the E72 to check my mail every other time you think about it or just forget it.
Yes you can set up a polling schedule on the E72, but ONLY if you define a access point ... not very flexible is it.
BTW chanchan05 or anyone else, feel free to correct my errors here ... be happy to learn. I mean I'd love to rely on my E72.
Why?
Because I love the E72's feel, balance and fit into my pocket.
But in so many other ways life with the E72 is just a ticket into frustration.
- email problems as spoken of above and widely written about on the web in general and on this forumhttp://cjeastwd.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/nokia-imap-power-use.html
- predictive text is just a poor joke, particularly when you compare it to the E63
- the earphone speaker is good, but the hands free speaker is pathetic. My E63's heaps better. Put it in your pocket and you just can't hear the E72.
- Despite the great camera the integration of the email application makes it impossible to choose camera images to attach. Sure you can send one from the gallery, but only ONE. From the email app you can only navigate to folers and files ... pathetic. Even the E63 has a better image attachment process on its email
The Nokia E72 remains a popular seller on eBay, and some places still sell it new. So while this phone is now discontinued I feel its important to set the record right.
Nokia could still pull their **bleep** house sales out of the doldrums and fix the problems with phones like this and sell a bundle of them in developing countries and to business people who actually still yearn for a phone like this.
The hardware is first class ... so sack the idiots who were on the team, beg the guys from the E63 development to go over there, keep the pointy haird bosses out of the picture and you'll have a class leading phone.
The Nokia show pony is a gelding and not a stallion
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