Nokia N72 - Nseries fashion focused phone
Published by Rafe Blandford at 15:24 UTC, April 26th 2006
The Nokia N72, announced yesterday, is Nokia's new Nseries fashion phone for emerging markets. Rafe in his Nokia N72 preview summarises and explains the phones features, capabilities and market positioning and concludes that the Nokia N72 could be a best seller.
The Nokia N72 specifications are not at the cutting edge - there is no 3G or WiFi, 'only' a 2 megapixel camera, a 'low' resolution screen, and it runs the 'old' version of S60 (2nd Edition). However this phone has it's own significance and it should outsell any of the other Nseries devices announced thus far. Rafe looks in more detail at the recently announced Nokia N72.
The Nokia N72 is the one of the smallest Nseries handset with a volume of 95cc (the same as the N70), it is second only to the N73 (90cc) in size. It is a tri-band GSM phone (900/1800/1900 MHz) with 3.5 hours talk time and 260 hours standby time with GPRS and EDGE support for data transfers. There is 20 MB of on board memory with further expansion available via the hot swap RS-MMC (MMCMobile) slot and a 2.1 inch (176 x 208) 262,144 colour screen.
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Categories: Hardware
Platforms: Series 60
News Discussion
jukkaeklund
Good analysis.
But where did you get the thickness part, N72 is the same thickness with N70 (21,8mm). N73 is 19mm and the thinnest Nseries, but the thinnes of them all is E60 with 16,9mm.
Rafe
I'm getting the thiness from the Nokia data sheet (it says it is 17.5mm). I've just read the specifications which say the same as you (21.8mm).
I'm going to correct this now - thanks very much for pointing it out. I'll think up a new introduction :)
and yes the E60 is the thinnest S60 phone... and I really think it would be great to see an Nseries of this size. Nokia smartphone still sometimes look like they have eaten too many pies!
Edit: Now updated - doesn't read as well, but it will teach me to check the accuracy of the data sheet in future.
jukkaeklund
Well, if you want to have a camera with real mechanics it's going to take some space.. BTW, which data sheet were you looking at?
Rafe
Agreed on camera optics. For my personal use I'd far rather have something a bit thicker if it means I get a few extra features. But I'm not everyone.
The data sheet was a pdf of the Nokia one (I think it was from nokia.de). I note now that its now been updated on the press page, but I still have the print out from the first one.
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