Web Browsing on the Nokia E72

 

Being a “Business device” these days, means being able to handle browsing the internet.

That being said, the Nokia E72 does quite a decent job at web browsing. Here’s a little more about it.

Now, the Nokia E72 runs the same Symbian S60 v3 (Feature Pack 2) browser that we’ve all grown to love (and sometimes hate).

There’s a bunch of bookmarks already present when you start up the web browser. This can be either helpful to you or downright annoying. You can add new bookmarks, delete, edit or move them around according to your liking.

At the top is a “Recently Visited Pages” Folder which basically contains the history of your last few viewed websites.

Of course, at any time you can choose to delete your Private Data, such as your History, Cache, Password & Form Data, etc.

Also, it’s worth noting that if you prefer not to view your Bookmarks on startup, you can select an alternate Homepage in the “Settings” menu, under “General“.

You can also choose to switch off the History list and Recently Viewed Pages List, among other Privacy Settings.

There’s also a whole lot of various options that you can tinker with according to your liking, such as choosing not to load Images (to keep bandwidth costs low), Block Pop-ups, Increase/Decrease Font Size, etc. Personally I just leave them the way they are.

One nice aspect to the S60v3 FP2 browser on the E72, is the support for Keypad Shortcuts, and Toolbar Shortcuts.

The Toolbar appears and vanishes when not needed. You can customise which Shortcut leads to which function.

Likewise, you can customise your Keypad Shortcuts.

Customise which key on your E72, is for which function, etc.

These can be really helpful to make your browsing experience a whole lot better. You can access your Keypad or Toolbar Shortcuts and Edit them at anytime.

If you’re a big fan of RSS Feeds and other web feeds, the E72 browser has support for that too.

You can go to any page and (if it has a feed) subscribe to it’s Web Feed. In some cases (like Facebook and Twitter Feeds) you might have to actually manually enter in the feed address though, since it dont auto-detect the web feed in these cases.

You can also choose the access point that the Web Feed should use, and whether it should automatically update or not.

Coming to the Web Browser itself, pages load pretty fast. I couldnt really tell if it was any faster or slower than my experience with the ol’ E71, but yes, it did seem a tiny bit quicker.

The Web browser is usually auto-detected by websites, and if there’s a mobile version of the site, that is served up. Here’s the ZCJ Mobile Site, for example.

While the Page loads, a tiny counter appears at the top-right bar to show you how much data is being transferred (in KB or MB) for that web page to load.

This disappears as soon as the page loads completely.

When you scroll through the page, a tiny little page-overview pops up to help you know your position on the page.

Once a page has loaded you can view, scroll through it, interact with it, etc like you’d expect from a web browser.

You can Save it as a Bookmark, Reload, etc.

One thing worth noting though, is that the E72′s browser does not go to Full Screen mode automatically when it loads a page.

You have to manually switch to Fullscreen mode, using the Keypad shortcut or Options Menu.

Once you do so, the page occupies the whole E72 Screen, which can help if it’s a big website with lots of reading content, etc. Using the Screen Real Estate, so to speak.

The E72 isnt limited to just mobile-versions of sites though. It can very well handle full-desktop-version sites. Like our website for example :

And because the E72′s web browser supports Flash, it loaded our YouTube videos fine too !

Of course navigating around the whole site front page was a bit cumbersome. This is where Touch devices really have the advantage.  Still, you can zoom in or out to help. The Page Overview also pops up to help you navigate around.

Since the E72 has about 128Mb of Ram (with 48-ish Mb available at startup), the browser can handle heavy websites pretty well, and wont just give up and crash.

Here’s a short video to show you what the browsing experience is like on the Nokia E72 :

So that’s about it. The E72 can definitely handle Web Browsing, but ofcourse the experience isnt as great as a Touch Device in this day and age.

Have any questions about Web Browsing on the Nokia E72 ? Something we missed ? Do let us know in the comments y’all !

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