Nokia shows off E72 business smartphone

Nokia on Monday unveiled the E72, the successor to its popular E71 business handset.

The updated version of Nokia's Qwerty-keyboarded candybar phone includes an optical navigation key. According to Nokia vice president Ilari Nurmi, the new input method allows for "more intuitive scrolling through menus, emails and fast panning of images".

Another enhancement visible on the front of the Series 60 phone is the ability to turn the handset into a torch with a single press of the spacebar key.