Nokia E72 Smartphone
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Full QWERTY keyboard
The Nokia E72 does not have a touch screen, as is the norm today on almost every smartphone. It does have a full QWERTY keyboard, with keys optimally sized for comfort without making the phone awkwardly wide. I have large hands, yet the keyboard is so good that I don't accidently hit the wrong keys at all, making writing an e-mail an easy, speedy & comfortable task. On the Acer's touch screen typing was an exercise in frustration: it was slow, uncomfortable and relied heavily on text correction. Bottom line: on a touch screen texting is bareable, but you won't want to write e-mails on it.
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Why should Nokia E72 Be Considered
First of all, I'll admit right away that I indeed bought myself a Google Android-based phone at first, the Acer Liquid running Android 1.6 (the mainstream version at the beginning of 2010). It was a compromise on my part: it didn't have the full QWERTY keyboard that I wanted, but it did have Google Android. I rely heavily on Gmail, I have several accounts that include Google Apps for Domains (Gmail on my own domain) and I needed an e-mail client that worked the Gmail way. Anything else is a bonus. If any platform is going to have that, it is the one made by Google itself. Big dissapointment buying Android in many ways, it definitely felt like I had thrown away $350 on a bad phone, as I wouldn't have been able to live with its shortcomings for long. Lucky for me (as it turned out), in less than a week the phone got stuck in an unrecoverable reboot loop due to a software bug in Android and I had to return it. From a limited number of choices, I had it swapped for the Nokia E72. Best accident ever.Full QWERTY keyboard
The Nokia E72 does not have a touch screen, as is the norm today on almost every smartphone. It does have a full QWERTY keyboard, with keys optimally sized for comfort without making the phone awkwardly wide. I have large hands, yet the keyboard is so good that I don't accidently hit the wrong keys at all, making writing an e-mail an easy, speedy & comfortable task. On the Acer's touch screen typing was an exercise in frustration: it was slow, uncomfortable and relied heavily on text correction. Bottom line: on a touch screen texting is bareable, but you won't want to write e-mails on it.
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