Perhaps there won’t be a Nokia E71i, but there will be a Nokia E72 as shown here. The E72 features a 5 megapixel camera (watch the video and see the back area of the smartphone), a QWERTY keyboard very much the same as the E71 and a touch-sensitive/optical navigation pad.

Here’s a video from Nokia Conversations (Nokia themselves), I find something weird with the video though. The Nokia E72 is using S60v3 with Feature Pack 1 only. Scratch that thought, it does indeed use S60v3 with Feature Pack 2, just like the E71x.

Possible pricing for the Philippines is believed to be around P22,000 (around $460 USD). The Nokia E72 is set for a 3rd quarter 2009 release.