Nokia E72 Unlocked Phone with GPS and Free Voice Navigation -- U.S. Version with Full Warranty (Zodium Black) This instant

This is a review of a Nokia E72.

Disappointed. Would not recommend.

Stability -- Terrible. Applications crash or lock up frequently. My max uptime is less than one day. It is trivial to crash this phone. This is with the latest available firmware (as of 20099-12-13) and stock applications. Sometimes the crash is limit to just one app, other times it's the whole phone. Sometimes it locks up hard and the only way to recover is to remove the battery. I've had to pull the battery three times in five days.

Sound quality -- The sound quality during calls is excellent. Plenty loud enough.

Battery -- Battery life is excellent. I can go two days on a full charge compared with one day on my iphone. I'm impressed by the battery life.

Web browser -- The built-in browser does not support tabs or multiple pages of any kind so you may spend a lot of time using the back button. The only real alternative to the built-in browse is Opera Mobile 10, which is in beta and has some significant bugs on the E72 (e.g. the "u" key types an asterisk, "*").

Mail -- I use the phone with both an IMAP sever and an Exchange server. Both work well. I've encountered two flaws. One is with IMAP support. You have no control over where copies of sent message are stored. Unlike most IMAP clients you cannot choose the folder. The other flaw is mass delete. If you have many messages you wish to delete there are three options. Mark all messages in the folder and delete (deletes *all* messages in the folder), delete and confirm each message individually (two clicks per message), or mark each message you wish to delete and delete (requires *five* clicks per message).

Tethering -- I'm impressed how easy it was to tether via USB. Works great with NetworkManager on Linux. No extra drivers needed. When phone asks, choose "PC Suite" mode.

Overall -- It's a good phone when it works. However, it is so unreliable that I cannot recommend it to anyone. Is there hope in a newer firmware (when one is released)? Maybe. Unfortunately, the more I read and ask around, the more I heard that Nokia phones are not known for stability. I'm doubtful. It's pretty clear that Nokia is done with S60 and has moved on to the Maemo platform. Going forward I don't expect them to put much effort into the S60 software.
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