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Video: Taking a picture with the Nokia E72

Categories: Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 2:18 AM

The Nokia E71, the device I’ve been using for over a year now and you’ll have to kill me if you want to pry it out of my hands, has a terrible system for taking photographs. You have to push the letter “T” to focus, and then hit the center button of the d-pad to actually snap the photo. I bet over 50% of Nokia E71 owners don’t know how to focus their photos. Thanks to the optical trackpad in the Nokia E72, that works in a similar fashion to the trackpad inside the new BlackBerry 8520 [read Simon's review]. You open the camera application, let your finger touch the navigation pad, at which point the image focuses, and then you fully depress the button to snap a photo. Much better user experience. Now Nokia just has to work on getting images off their devices less of a pain in the ass, and we’ll all be happy campers!

[Via: The Nokia Blog]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • bazza

    I take it you never use pc suite.

    You tell it what folder you want to sync your photos to on the computer, you connect your phone up via usb or bluetooth and viola your photos are on the computer from the phone. It even opens up the folder after the tranfer is complete just in case you forgot where it is.

    Otherwise you could always just transfer straing from te memory card.

    Or there is Windows built in photo tranfer funtion that works with any usb strorage device which most nokia phones support.

    unless you meant something else.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    I meant easy as in posting the photos to Twitter or Flickr or what have you. Getting the configuration right is a PITA.

  • James

    The fact about using “t” to focus your camera was more interesting than the video of the E72 but thanks anyways because I had been wondering why my pictures were so terrible. Now they’re just mediocre! I’ve had the phone for almost a year also and love it but just gave up on the camera.