Nokia N72 Review

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• Nokia N72 Photos & Specification

[Wilhelm]

A colleague from work has a Nokia N72 and he asked me to get him some games for it so I had the chance to poke this phone a bit.

Despite the fact that the N72 has only a 176x208 pixel screen , the diagonally size of 2.1" and 256k colors are just amazing!
I couldn't believe it is supposed to be a 176x208 screen ONLY.

The N72 is running on Symbian OS 8.1 , Series 60 UI 2.8 and it does it well.
Symbian games work and look just great (even S60v3 tagged games)!

For some reason the N72 seems to be somewhat picky when it comes to Java games - every few simply seem to lag heavily. But as it isn't my phone I didn't get the opportunity to investigate what could have been the reason.

Edit: Nokia N72 benchmark scores , 1 pass only:

JBenchmark 1.0
Score: 4769
Text: 1312
2D Shapes: 1142
3D Shapes: 595
Fill Rate: 376
Animation: 1344

JBenchmark 2.0
Score: 199
Image Manipulation: 286
Text: 885
Sprites: 185
3D Transform: 99
User Interface: 67

JBenchmark 3D (3.0)
HighQuality Score:178
LowQuality Score:275
Triangles p.s.:39442
KTexels p.s.:1869

JBenchmark HD (4.0)
Rendering Quality:
Bilinear filtering: Success (99%)
Trilinear filtering: Failure (80%)
Sub-pixel precise perspective correction: Success (85%)
Z-buffer depth: Success (14 bit or higher)
Performance:
Smooth triangles: 63472
Textured triangles: 53525
Fill rate: 1254 kTexels
Gaming: 121 (4.0 fps)

SPMark Java06
Score: 1149
2D (fps):0.8 ??? Huh
3D (fps): 11.1
Fillrate (kTexels/s): 2689
Polygon (kVertices/s): 37.8
PNG: 51
JVM: 1895

DisplayBench v1.5.5
CPU Tests
Failed to perform. Exits the application.
2D Tests
Polygon Draw: 285
Color Draw: 78
Circle Draw: 109
Graphics Draw: 75
Smoothed Edge: 88
Filled 37533 pixels at 16003 Pixels/s


The posted results are only a 1-pass score - therefore results will most likely vary compared to other Nokia N72 benchmark results.

It is a pity that this phone is discontinued by now , but that doesn't make it stop working - no way!
The Nokia N72 is very robust and seems to be indestructible , if You don't count bruises and scratch's , as long as You recharge the battery it just keeps running.

[k11ant]

i have used n 72 two years .it is a mobile with less talk time good camera and *.sis file support.i really loved the model but iits cabinet discollers in 6 months only

[Josskids]

I think n72, is one of the best smart phone around. Mine is close to two years of usage, and still active. Its worth every money spent in getting it!