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Nokia E5-00 or Nokia E72 (Photo Heavy)
By Mike Browne on August 24,
 2010 at 00:00,

Nokia E5-00 or Nokia E72The Nokia E5-00 has landed and comes packed with many of the features we've come to love on the Nokia E72, so is it just this year's flavour of QWERTY smartphone or are there differences that make the Nokia E5-00 suited to a different type of user to the Nokia E72? With that in mind, it's time to help you decide between the Nokia E5-00 or the Nokia E72. Plus it gives us an excuse to show-off both devices side-by-side...

On the surface the Nokia E5-00 and Nokia E72 have the same tech spec. The Nokia E5-00 offers pretty much the same level of performance as the Nokia E72, you’ll find a 2.4-inch screen, full QWERTY keyboard and even the use of the same Symbian S60 3rd Edition OS. However, the Nokia E5-00 comes with a neat style all its own with a more rounded body and simplified navigation buttons.

Check out our Nokia E72 review

Both the Nokia E72 and Nokia E5-00 have a full metal body and the build quality of both is quite amazing – both being built to last. The D-pad on the E72 comes with scroll functionality but you won’t find this on the Nokia E5-00, being a more standard button design.

The big difference between these two devices is the screen. While both have a 320 x 240-pixel resolution, the colour depth and actual screen technology used differences. The Nokia E72 has 24-bit colour depth and uses a transflective screen, which means it can be used just as well outdoors as in, while the Nokia E5-00 uses a transmissive screen technology, which illuminates the display from behind, making less ideal to use outdoors.

Add to this the fact the Nokia E5-00 has an 18-bit colour depth and you’ll see that the Nokia E72 has the edge in terms of screen prowess. Where the Nokia E5-00 starts to offer more is in the storage department, as it comes with 256MB of SDRAM, twice that of the Nokia E72 and you’ll be able to add a 32GB microSD card, once again, twice that capable of being handled in the E72.

However, the true success of the Nokia E5-00 comes in its extended battery life, as you’ll find 26 days of standby time on offer, up from 16 hours with the Nokia E72, a well as offering longer talk-time and music playback time. So, for heavy chatter boxes, the Nokia E5-00 is the way to go.

So, who will like the Nokia E5-00? Clearly it’s a business device and with its slightly lower price point over the Nokia E72 we can see this handset working well as being rolled out on masse to corridor warriors rather than heavy travellers.

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Tags: E-Series E5 E72 Nokia Nokia E5-00 Nokia E72 QWERTY Symbian S60 3rd Edition
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  • Stylinred

    They’re very similar looking too however I find the E72 to look much better than the e5

    I havent had the e5 in my hands but it doesnt look like it would feel as sturdy/expensive/awesome ;)

    but then again I am biased ^^

  • Neil

    I am disappointed with the overall spec of the E5. It seems that Nokia have taken a great phone in the E72 and downgraded it to compete with the E71.
    My understanding is that the E72 has 256Mb of ram?
    To be honest the 16Gb upgrade option SD card is ample for most users.
    Battery life is impressive as is storage capacity on the E5. Where it loses out is screen technology and optical nav key. I don’t think I will upgrade to the E5.
    I would like to see a comparison on internet speeds?

    Thanks for the review

  • Rashad

    Hey guys, im going to buy a new phone in about 9 days and im down between the E5 and the E72, i wanted the E5 for a while, but then later i wanted th E72, besides a bad case of indicisive disorder, what else do i need to know, and which one should i choose, so far the E72 still sounds like its a better phone than the E5, am i right?

  • tulsa jimmy

    im pretty sure that users of e72 have successfully run the 32gb micro sd cards in them.

    The e71 originally was spec advertised that it was limited to a FOUR gb max SD card, and mine ran 16gb card with no prob, even though 16 gb cards did not exist when the phone was originally released.

    I think Nokia basically uses the top limit of what is readliy avail on the market at the time in SD memory as its’limit’, when in fact the devices will run most SD cards of larger sizes that conform to the SD standard architecture.