Its been long that i had been using touch phones with windows mobile. feels good to come back to querty keyboard. In a sentence I could sum up that I am happy that I made the decision to switch. I read a few reviews from gsm arena, phone arena and my mobile magazine and had excellent reviews from every corner.
The optical pad was a nice breathe of fresh air for Nokia phones. You can easily run multi applications simultaneously.
Few applications that I recommend strongly are:
Bloomberg Mobile from Ovi Store (free)
gives live market rates and live fx rates as well, great application to have while on the move
Nokia maps + free GPS installed and can be updated from OVI Store ( free)
I am very bad at roads, gps gives me an exact direction ( drive as well as walking), finds alternate routes if you wish to change direction due to traffic with ease.
Nimbuzz from Ovi Store (free)
For all the people who loves to be online, you are always connected on yahoo, msn, gtalk
Some websites did compare blackberry bold 2(9700) and E72, not the best to compare them. However Nokia has snatched the biggest competency from BlackBerry, real time mail. Checked out personally, the mails on blackberry and Nokia email get delivered the same time.
Camera is a good 5 mp catcher. The phone looks very smart at hand. The shiny metal at the back looks great. The music player is very good, headphone quality is descent, however u may well want to upgrade to better earphone if you are savvy. radio reception is good and you can save upto 50 stations and the device searches them on its own.
It may take you 3 to 4 days to get use to the qwerty, if you are a touch phone user.
All In all, I am happy with this product. Thank you Nokia