Nokia N97 comparisons

Nokia N97 is probably the world's most advanced mobile computer launched this year, but it has some competitive challengers as well. See how N97 do in comparisons by independent reviewers:

Australian IT: Nokia N97 priced to match iPhone 3G in Australia.

"The N97 sports screen widgets capable of carrying fast updating content and News Limited, (publisher of The Australian), the ABC, Austereo and Facebook have all developed widgets to take advantage of the phone’s busy home screen."

Slick Competition by SunSentinel.com: The Apple iPhone 3.0, Palm Pre and Nokia N97 face off.

"Nokia's new phone ($699, 32GB) needs its own theme song, considering it is an iPhone on steroids. It comes with a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss optics camera (compared with the others' 3) that shoots video and still photos with a built-in dual flash."

eWeek.com Mobile & Wireless: Nokia N97 Smartphone Looks to Challenge iPhone 3G S, Palm Pre:

"The device is Nokia's first to include a personalized home screen, where users can customize which widgets are displayed whenever they turn on their phone. These widgets, accessible through Nokia's Ovi Store, include not only social-networking apps such as Facebook and newswire services such as Associated Press and Bloomberg, but also productivity tools and games."

jkOnTheRun: Palm Pre Hitting EU Nations by Year-End — Should Nokia Be Worried?

"How will the introduction of a new handset and platform shake up the European market share numbers? "

PC World: Smartphone Palooza: 10 Hot Touchscreens Compared.

"If you want lots of storage space so you can carry your music around with you, the 32GB iPhone 3GS or the Nokia N97 is a strong candidate.
If you take a lot of pictures, choosing a phone with a 5-megapixel camera--like the Samsung Galaxy, the Samsung Omnia or the Nokia N97--is a good idea."

GulfNews.com: Nokia N97 makes a practical choice

"On the one hand, even a cursory examination of the phones shows that the N97 is obviously Nokia's answer to the Apple iPhone. It has a large touch screen and is heavily geared towards anyone who is looking for a rich internet experience.
On the other hand, the phone has a number of features that seem geared to set it apart from the iPhone, including a sliding QWERTY keyboard, an FM broadcaster and an ability to recognise handwriting."

Nokia introduced E72

The full QWERTY Nokia E72 comes to succeed the extremely popular E71. New Nokia E72 has new features like optical scrolling and 5 Mega pixel camera. After building success on E71, the new Nokia E72 takes Nokia’s very best and most successful QWERTY device and makes it even better. The optical navigation makes scrolling through email breeze and also helps bounce the menus quickly and easiest way. Heavy data users will appreciate the support of up to 10.2 Mbps connection over HSDPA.

The Weight of E72 is only 128 g and standby time is up to 16 days in GSM mode, and up to 22 days in WCDMA mode.

Besides, it also comes featured with active noise cancellation techniques to improve the quality of sound and digital compass. The space bar key functions as a torch off/on key to make available one touch access

E72 Features:

• GPS with compass and Maps
• Music player
• Media player
• FM Radio
• Quick access to applications with one-touch keys (Home, Calendar, Contacts, Email)
• High Speed connections with HSDPA and HSUPA
• Support for popular social networking applications
• Voice Functions to manage your device without touching it
• Built-in mobile VPN for convenient intranet access
• Security protection: HW accelerated data encryption and remote lock and data wipe
• Quickoffice 5.3 with support for Office 2007
• Email: Supported protocols: IMAP4 (with idle), Nokia Messaging, Microsoft ActiveSync, POP3, SMTP, Support for Nokia Messaging service, Support for Mail for Exchange, Support for Lotus Notes Traveller, HTML email support, Multiple simultaneous email accounts (e.g. business email + private email), Support for e-mail attachments, Support for e-mail with filtering, OMA e-mail notification support.

The E72 will be available at the end of quarter 3 of 2009 in Zodium Black, Metal Grey and Topaz Brown. It expected price tag is 350 euro before subsidies and taxes with a 4GB microSD card in the box and a lifetime license for Nokia messaging.

The Instant Messaging capabilities of the new Nokia E72 are complemented by onboard clients for Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler. Nokia Messaging, the company's mobile email and IM service, also allows users to access Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, Ovi Mail, as well as a wide variety of other email service providers, all through a simple on-device email setup, while integrating the owner's corporate email accounts as well.

Nokia E75 review at The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald reviews Nokia E75 and writes - NOKIA has produced two excellent and deservedly popular business-minded mobiles in recent years. The E51 is a solid yet stylishly compact "candy bar" handset with a standard alphanumeric keypad, while the E71 (and the more budget-minded E63, for that matter) has a large square screen and qwerty keyboard. With the new E75, Nokia has borrowed a little from each of them while adding some new twists to the mobile mix. Foremost is the new Nokia Messaging service, which delivers BlackBerry-style email. This works across a refreshingly broad range of email services from web-based email such as Google and Windows Live Hotmail, plus ISPs including BigPond, OptusNet, iiNet and Internode. Nokia has streamlined the set-up process for all these so that there's minimal pain - you need only enter your email address and password.

Ovi Contacts application

Use Ovi Contacts application to see where your friends are and what they are doing. Key features of the Ovi Contacts application are:

• Presence: Let your friends know if you are available, busy or on the phone. Check your friends' availability.
• Enhanced presence: You can share - or hide - your favorite places with your friends. You can also let your friends know what you are listening.
• Chat: Get in touch with your friends with chat. Convey your messages with emotions and share your location on the map via chat.

Supported features depend on the platform. There are versions available for S60 3rd Edition (all Feature Packs), Series 40, and Maemo.

Nokia E75 released for North America

The Nokia E75 began shipping in Europe last month, but a version specifically created for North America has just been released. The Nokia E75 is Symbian S60 smartphone that has a large keyboard and an emphasis on mobile messaging. It uses a slider design, with a 2.4-inch, 320-by-240-pixel (QVGA) screen, numberpad on the front and a QWERTY keyboard that slides from the side. The E75 runs Symbian S60 Feature Pack 1, and offers a host of wireless options such as Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth. The North American version is a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM phone with tri-band (850/1900/2100 MHz) 3G -- UMTS/HSDPA.