Nokia E72 Begins Shipping Today [Amazon and Other Retail Stores to Unleash the Nokia E72 Soon]

After an early announcement back in June, Nokia has now started selling the much-anticipated successor to their E71 smartphone, the Nokia E72. With its full QWERTY keyboard and optical trackpad, the E72 is definitely built for email and messaging centric usage by offering desktop-like email and chat experiences. It runs on the latest version of Symbian, comes pre-loaded with apps such as Ovi Maps (which support A-GPS assisted Navigation) and boast the company’s own Nokia Messaging email service.

In terms of looks, its very similar to the E71, but the same case now features a larger resolution display and a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. There’s also a (supposedly improved) QWERTY keyboard that should make texting and emailing an easy job and an added 3.5mm standard headphone jack which was missing in the E71.

Meant as a business smartphone, Nokia E72 is now faster and smoother thanks to an upgraded 600 MHz processor (compared to the 369 MHz in the E71).

Price wise, the unlock Nokia E72 is priced at €350 (some $525 at today’s rate) before taxes and subsidies — although Amazon has it listed for $469, but now yet selling. According to Nokia’s press release, it’s only a matter of time that online stores will start having the E72 in stock.