Hip Hip ... I bought a new cell phone - and its much more fun than I anticipated. In fact starting with a horrible lousy Samsung a few years ago, I upgraded considerably when I bought a Nokia E55. But it didnt had a camera and I never really got to explore it for real. So this time I went for a decent camera and have bought a Nokia N73 music edition. And it seems to be a lucky choice.
Ok, If you are as impatient as I, you are now thinking "get the bull over with and give me some facts". Ok here they are in two lists:
Bad things
* Reactions are a little slow
* The phone is somewhat large
* Keys with letters/digits small
* Ringtones too fancy
Good things
* Joystick and navigation-keys are fine
* Nice camera
* Good sound
* Large screen
* A lot of fun gadgetlike effects which simply works
There are a few comments, though, for the curious:
Move data. So i had a lot of things at the old E55, but setting the two up with bluetooth was easy. then, using "Move data" it moved almos tall data from the old to the new phone. Exceptions was "templates" in messages, my goosync settings and my Gmail program. Well.
Buttons. The number-keys 0-1-...-9 at the center are rather small. I have to aim carefully or use the finger nails when writing and I am not even having particularly large hands. I cant imagine a person with Parkinsons or a construction worker dialing anything with ease. The central joystick, on the other hand, and the four important buttons above the number-keys are fairly large and easy to use. This is important because much of the activity with the phone is using these five buttons. So mixed results on the button size, I guess.
Speed. For some reason this it has almost always low priority to make phones respond quickly to whatever you want them to do. The N73 with Symbion60 feels similar to E55, perhabs even at bit better, but still you will have to wait for up to a second on some things. It drives me mad, but apparently there are not enough people feeling the same way for Nokia to change it. I am not sure what the goal should be, if 0.1 sec is fast enough - I just want the feeling of instant reaction. It is the same with the camera; as with many other ordinary digital cameras, it takes a while from I push the button until the picture is actually taken - and meanwhile,the Loch Ness monster has dived again, your mothe rstopped smiling or the party is over and people has left. Sigh.
Camera. So the speed in the camera is not cool, but many other things are. It is 3.2 MPixel (a spec which sounds stupid in about a week) and have many adjustments for shuttertime etc. And a real autofocus. Many pictures are good, but there are still some of these over-contrasted disfocused ones ...
Music. It worked easily hooking the phone up with the PC using USB cable and copy the music to the phone using the Nokia PC Suite. i could in a hurry move an album with Trentemoeller and rush off to the concert without getting stressed out over technology almost working. Reasonably easy and nice. Of course the music is stored on the mini SD card so there is room for max 2 GB. Decent, I guess.
Radio. The build in radio, which requires use of the headset/plugins worked perfectly and complete effortless. Good experience indeed!
Ringtones. This is a standard complain I have: Why the hell are there no ordinary phone-like sounding ringtones. Does everybody HAVE to have a stupid song or sound clip? I visited some websites to find something I could download, but no. Out of 30,000+ ringtones (they claimed), there were not a soingle one sound like, e.g. a electrical phone. The ringtone "Low" which was on the E55 was no longer there, so now I am stuck on that issue.