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Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

bgalakaza — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:01:54 -0000

e71 free ram is about 70mb, e72 is 40 mb. Launch 2 apps and you got issues. HUGE PROBLEM

Camera doesn’t matter as no gsm camera is better than a digital one. e71 is also much cheaper.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

rrouhayem — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:10:55 -0000

hey guys,

to cut it short,i bought my E71 approx one months after it's release and i still love. Nokia kept me waiting for their next firmware upgrade right after each release, but i will never change brands. this is my 8th Nokia phone and will keep on upgrading from the same brand. now what i would really appreciate, is to make FP2 available for E71 but they need to sell their new product right? anyway, regarding the question if i will upgrade or not. eventually i will, but unlike when i got the E71, will wait some time for two main reasons:
- to check the feedback from everyone else :)
- will wait for its price to decrease, since the E71 got 150$ cheaper only 4 months after i bought it. won't make that same mistake again :)

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Leo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:06:06 -0000

definitely not, got my e71 in feb this year and own it foraround 7 months, I love the design and the all the necessary functionality such as wifi and 3.5G, but the weakness' are unit sometimes overheating when I used it for a long conversation or conversation + fring on and the really crappy camera [although it's 3.2mp, couldnt beat my 2mp sony erricson z610] I am upgrading to much better platform blackberry where email is faster, and many of my network utilizes BBM. I'm waiting for BB onyx or essex, but I will surely miss my E71... I really love it, but I need more my 2 cents

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

anthonettex — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:01:07 -0000

Well I'm going to upgrade my Nokia 6300. Yeah it's not even an 'E' class phone; I've been waiting on Nokia to work out the kinks and tweaks and they have done so perfectly in the form of the E72. But I would like to see how the new N900 will perform. Price vs features will be the ultimate factor, but I am still favouring towards the E72 due to its physical keys and the feeling that I'm not carrying a very expensive device in my pocket.

Somewhere I've read it comes out October 12th.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

dddw — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:40:20 -0000

no won´t upgrade. I decided to upgrade from E61 to E71 after I saw the E72 promo movie. I really dislike the optical button.
Next phone will be an android phone with qwerty keyboard (no slide keyboard though)

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Name — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:45:19 -0000

microSD is standard.... idiot.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:19:06 -0000

How did you get the dust out? I find this annoying also!

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Martin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:33:34 -0000

If Nokia does not improve their build quality, I'll never buy one of their phones again.
I am particularly referring to the dust issue. Dust particles keep appearing on the inside of my E71's screen which annoys the hell out of me. I've found a way of opening and cleaning it but that simply shouldn't be necessary.
If not for that and the extremely slow browser (when dealing with larger websites) the E71 would be a great phone. Its functionality and qwerty keyboard packed into a slim case are exceptional.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

cb2000a — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:35:32 -0000

Ok the e72 is nice, BUT the N900 has me drooling. Wow!!! Look out Iphone!

http://www.engadget.com/200...

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

crazyfootballer — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:34:44 -0000

Cash is hard to earn nowadays...I am not prepare to upgrade to the dying OS. E71 works perfectly for me and those E72 functions are only just a little improvement from E71 without excitement.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Rui Alexandre — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:22:13 -0000

I recently bought my e71... so, no way. I mean, there's stuff that'll just be software "upgrades" that my e71 could do!

Excited? No. A bit angry? Yeah.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Dylan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:43:06 -0000

I was planning to upgrade to E72, but now seriously doubting it :

- S60 is End-of-life and starts to look and feel old. And knowing Nokia .. an update to Symbian^2 later on, will probably not be supported.

- Nokia Messaging is definitely not stable yet (see Nokia forum .. full of complaints .. i also experience lot of bugs and missed e-mails myself).

If the iPhone wasn't available only from The Netherlands worst carrier (T-Mobile) i would buy that one. But not sure at this moment what to do.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Mike Macias — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:26:34 -0000

Thanks for the info. Despite our heated debate, i really do appreciate some of your viewpoints and honesty. And to be honest I agree fp2 should be added to the e71. That is obviously a business move by Nokia.

Sent from my Nokia phone

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Cloud Se7en — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:35:51 -0000

Design wise personally I think E71 is better than E72, even though E72 might have better features. And just for this reason alone, I am sticking with my E71. Try customizing your E71 with TehkSeven's themes and you'll simply start to love your E71 even more. Even though right now I am also using a Blackberry Bold for my business uses, I'm not gonna ditch my E71 any time soon.

Oh and one more thing, I don't like it that the E72's speakers are placed at the back. The speakers on the E71 will work better. Think of it this way, if you use some leather phone cases like the ones from PDAir, the speaker will be blocked if it is placed on the back. But with the speaker on top, if you use the vertical leather pouch types which is open at the top, the sound can flow better and the volume will be better than if it is placed at the back. Loud ringtones FTW.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

riversandlakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:17:37 -0000

He's in the Matrix.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

riversandlakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:15:06 -0000

Hmm what is the hype about FP2? tehkseven themes solved the fugly icons? ;)

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

riversandlakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:14:08 -0000

There should be one or two more firmware updates, don't you think?

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

mike — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:37:53 -0000

i'm sorry but after a year of e71 and a year and a half of the e61 before that, i don't see myself throwing anymore money into Nokia's incinerator. they have to figure out a way of supporting the installed base and fixing bugs like andriod, iphone and even winmo teams have been.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Kimble — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:20:54 -0000

Why does everyone complain about the E71 camera?

The daytime photos are better than any other camera phone I've seen and compare well to point and shoot (sans a few megapixels) cameras. Night time is pretty poor but I've never seen a decent photo out of a camera phone at night time.

If you think this "problem" is going to be fixed with the E72 I think you'll be sorely dissapointed.

I do agree with the comments about Nokia holding things back. They need to stop this practise or they will continue to lose market share. There is no longer a separate business phone, gaming phone, navigation phone etc. There is just one phone and it needs to do it all and well. Where Nokia can differentiate and beat Apple especially is by offering different handset formats - a touchscreen, a qwert touchscreen, a slim qwerty (e72) etc etc.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

agentstark — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:17:57 -0000

"Have you used the E71x? That phone is so locked down it's ridiculous, and that's because of AT&T. You're still better off getting the E71 unlocked. It also came out much later."

I don't want a locked down version of FP2, I just think it would be nice if Nokia would make one for the E71. I'm no expert, but it seems the E71 is more than capable of handling all those features you mentioned in the above article, as well as fixing the camera issues once and for all.

Mike, I was also wondering (kind of off topic but kind of not) with the release of these new devices, what does the future hold for e71fanatics? My experience with the E71 would not be half as good as it is without this site.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Gaston — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:28:47 -0000

I bought my E71 at the Nokia Store on Regent Street (for no less than a small fortune) on the day it came out. It is truly a remarkable phone and I've continuous gone back to it when I'm not using my iPhone. It's a job to use - it just works.

My overall problem is that Nokia is a Handset Manufacturer and their software support for older hardware is just downright poor (and the E71 isn't old!). Imagine my shock when the E71x came to the market and it ran Feature Pack 2. The E71 and E71x share a very similar internal make-up (if not identical) and this update will never be offered to E71 owners because Nokia wants you to buy the E72.

I won't be upgrading to the E72. My E71 is perfectly fine. Nokia should rethink their strategy. I would like to believe that a few commenters on this post would easily part with a few dollars if Nokia made a pay-for update available for the E71 to bring Feature Pack 2 to the device. (And while they're at it, throw in N-Gage. The E75 has it, so don't even begin to tell me that my E71 can't support it).

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Pali Madra — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:11:08 -0000

I do not think I would go in for E72 at this point of time. The incentives are too less to go in for one. Check out the differences at http://e71bynokia.blogspot.....

Even the features mention by Mike in post do not entice me into dumping my E71.

However, I had hoped that Nokia would fix the camera issue in E71 and allow us to take some decent pictures.

I also agree that Nokia should fix issues with older phones than just fixing issues in new models.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

samthefreeman — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:07:32 -0000

Android is infested with Java, it can't even run native C programs out of the box without hacking it inside out.

No native C programs means no GTK if you get what I am saying. So NO I am not ready for Android.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

ari79 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:05:26 -0000

I bought my E71 the week it was released. I played around with a demo unit while using my then current E90... it was love at first sight.

I know I don't need the upgrade to the E72, but i'll be honest, us guys love gadgets. So i'm going to buy the phone as soon as it's launched in South Africa and then sell my E71 on an auction site.

Re: Are You Getting Excited About The E72? Many Will Upgrade From E71

Stewart Lochrie — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:45:17 -0000

Love the E71. Had it for 8 months. None of the features of the E72 would make me rush out and pretend there isn't a recession on though. Unless the processor was, like, twice the speed or something.

If most people have a phone that works to the standard that they desire, and they are not ashamed to let people see, the stated improvements are probably not enough to force a sale. For these people, you're probably talking about a "normal" mobile shelf life - I reckon about 18 months to 2 years - before they reckon they've earned a treat.

Regards,
Kerouac