10 things I love about my new Nokia E72

1. Control my downloaded torrents

Using Utorrent WebUI mini I can check download rates and add new torrents remotely so I can download anything I want before I get back and have it ready by the time I’m home. Its this tiny add on that you download to utorrent after you activate WebUI in the preferences which adds a phone compatible webpage to the WebUI GUI
I love checking my speed and ratios on the go!!


2. Search!!

I loved the search function on my old E61i and now the new E72 makes it even better!
Instead of wading through 5000 messages the search function makes it easy to find the one you want. You can also search media, contacts and your calendar for whatever you want. The new search function is more refined and easier to navigate not to mention significantly faster. I love having it on my standby screen ready at a moment’s notice.

3. Check weather, time, exchange rates, news, flights and email.

The phone has the wonderful “world traveler” software preinstalled and preset email configurations for Nokia’s OVI mail, Gmail and Windows live hotmail among others. This makes setting up your email as simple as typing in your login and password.

Plus now that they actually got the phone to work automatically with gmail I don’t have to wait for the phone to download ALL my emails before I can read them. This was a royal pain with my e61i and I’m glad they fixed it.


4. The OVI store

Ok, I don’t really love this cheap imitation of apple’s app store, but Its still nice. The way everything is presented, its easy to find what you’re looking for and downloading and installing is much simpler and much faster thanks to the improved processor inside the phone

5. I love me some Active notes!!!!

Anyone who knows me can tell you how terrible my memory is, and that is exactly why “Notes” has always been one of my favorite applications in the Nokia E61i. And now they’re even better!
I always use notes when I’m driving around town trying to find the best deals on different products, or I want to leave myself a reminder to check out a new movie, game or restaurant. The fact that they are only text never really bothered me till I saw what you could do with the new and improved “active notes”.

Now you can add images, phone numbers, files that are stored on your phone and you can even link them to a contact so they display when you make or receive a call from that contact number!!

Who wouldn’t want to see “Don’t forget to buy her this necklace on your anniversary in September” accompanied by a picture of the aforementioned necklace when they get a call from their significant other??

6. Dictionary
Now who can honestly tell me they didn’t wish they had a dictionary in their phone!! I love the way the Finnish think!!

7. Wirelessly plug into my Upnp network at home

There was this wonderful new addition to symbian devices which I stumbled upon when I first got my new E72 called home media that can access media servers on your network. Now I can share new media from my phone and stream music to my phone from my laptop, PS3 and TV media Center!!
This is amazing all I have to do is pick whatever I want to listen to and it plays it perfectly directly on my phone! I can’t get it to play movies on my phone yet, but I have yet to try real media files. I’ll post an update If I find a way to do it.



8. One touch keys

Although you no longer have that wildcard key that you had on the E61i, with four quick access keys to the menu. Calendar, contacts and email exchange (which you can reconfigure if you are so inclined) you now have the two application keys free to set to whatever you need.

I have mine set to camera and active notes. In addition to the 6 standby applications I can access anything I want with fewer click than ever before.

9. Flashlight, Bluetooth and silent keys

The e61i didn’t have a camera flash (or autofocus for that matter) so you couldn’t use it as a flashlight which you can do by simply pressing the spacebar on the E72.

You also had to memorize the Blue arrow + ctrl combination to activate/deactivate your Bluetooth connection. Now you have a single clearly marked key to perform this action.

And of course you can switch your phone to silent mode by pressing and holding “ctrl” which you could also do with older models albeit with a different key, but now it is clearly marked and you don’t need to look through the manual to know about it.

10. Predictive calling

Instead of remembering numbers you can simply type in names and the phone will automatically display possible contacts. For example if you want to call “John Doe” you can simply type the name on the keyboard and you can make the call!

Amazing stuff!! I really love this new device and this new OS. I cant wait to see what else they come up with in the future.