Nokia is shipping its latest business-centric smartphone, the E72, in Europe. It
goes for £360 in the U.K.
You can now pre-order the North American Edition of the Nokia E72, not expected to be released until December, from a pair of online stores: eXpansys and Amazon.com. The former is asking $450 and the latter $470 for one of Nokia's more recent and comprehensive business-centric smartphones.
The E72 replaces the aging E71 and includes a similar tablet shape with a QWERTY keyboard below its display. While it is a quad-band smartphone with support for both AT&T and T-Mobile, it can only send and receive information over AT&T's 3G cellular-wireless data network.
You must pay full price for the E72 through Amazon.com and eXpansys as these stores' offers are only for the unlocked version of the smartphone. There's no word on whether a carrier will pick it up eventually. Should that happen, expect it to go for much less from that particularly operator.
Features include Symbian S60 Feature Pack 2 (v3.2), support for personal and enterprise e-mail and messaging. So, with the E72, you can receive work emails in real time through support for Microsoft Mail for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveller. Pre-installed Nokia Messaging provided access to 10 personal e-mail accounts.
Additional corporate-friendly features include an integrated VPN, data and memory encryption, remote lock, and wipe.
There is also an optical navigation pad, 5-megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, voice control, stereo Bluetooth, and QuickOffice. See
here for a full list of specifications and features.
eXpansys expects Nokia to release the E72 on December 7th.
[via Brighthand]
