It looks like the long awaited replacement for the hugely popular and much loved E71 has finally hit our shores. Nokia originally announced the E72 back in June with a slated launch date of Q4 2009.

Crazy John’s, who is a Vodafone reseller now has the E72 listed for purchase on their website and according to rumours on Whirlpool (one of Australia’s biggest online forums) Vodafone will be offering the phone in a couple of weeks. Crazy John’s has the phone listed with an outright price of $719 or for “free” on a $69 per month cap.

The major improvements of the E72 over the E71 include the following:

• An optical D-pad
• Standard 3.5mm headphone socket
• 5 megapixel camera
• Builtin compass to provide heading on mapping applications
• Accelerometer. Which apart from making for some fun games will also open the phone up to Augmented Reality applications
• More memory and a faster CPU
• S60v3 FP2 operating system which means improved graphical effects like transitions
• Even greater battery life than the amazing battery life of the E71

The phone itself is not a huge improvement over the E71 so if you already have one you might be hard pressed to find a reason to upgrade but anyone who was thinking of buying an E71 should head straight for the E72 unless looking for a bargain.

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