{"id":503,"date":"2006-10-16T21:25:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/16\/n73-my-impression"},"modified":"2009-03-28T10:57:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T08:57:57","slug":"n73-my-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/n73-my-impression","title":{"rendered":"Nokia N73 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c My thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong> on November 25. Added a bit about the game selection and joystick…<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Today the package subscription finally started working and I can start using my phone for real. I’ve had a chance to play with it offline so this is what I think about it at the moment.<\/p>\n

I think I should mention that this is my first S60 phone; my previous phones, Nokia 3210, 3330 and 6101 have been Series 40. (If that’s all gibberish, Forum Nokia<\/a> has a nicely presented Device Specification<\/a> section. Those two 3xxx phones I’ve had aren’t included, though.)<\/p>\n

You navigate with a joystick<\/strong> that is located between the call start\/end keys and the softkeys. It is quite easy to get used to the joystick even though at first it felt very weird. Pushing up is a little bit awkward still. Some have reported that the joystick has broken off — let’s hope that won’t happen to me. It does feel a bit flimsy, true, but I’m not planning on manhandling my phone.<\/p>\n

I like the menu structure<\/strong> very much. It’s nice when there’s only a few options, the submenu pops on top of the main menu.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

(I’m using the default Nokia theme for the moment. I’ll have to look for a nicer, less blue, one.)<\/p>\n

Also a nice feature is the tabbed menu. In many submenus e.g. Settings I can go to the next selection of settings by moving the joystick left or right.<\/p>\n

\"Tabbed<\/p>\n

The Active standby<\/strong> screen is heaven-sent! It shows the calendar, to-do list, currently playing radio channel or music track and probably much more. On my old phone I used calendar and other memo features, but only way to be reminded of the events was an alarm which I never use. Now I see current (a week ahead?) calendar entries right away!<\/p>\n

\"Active<\/p>\n

(Yeah, I know there aren’t any calendar entries for this week. That doesn’t mean I don’t have any plans. Well, yeah it does, personally, but I have lots of work plans \":)\" )<\/p>\n

On the screen there is also a customisable list of six shortcuts.<\/p>\n

Media key<\/strong> gives 4 more slots to customise shortcuts. I’ve chosen to have shortcuts to multimedia<\/em> applications but it’s not restricted what you can have there. There is one grief with the Media key, though: it makes a sound when the view opens. I haven’t found any way to silence it except to use Silent profile.<\/p>\n

\"Multimedia<\/p>\n

There is only one game<\/strong> pre-installed. In some nooks of the world people get also Sudoku in addition to the Snake that is installed on my phone. Whyyyyy oh whyyyy<\/em> can’t we have Sudoku installed? I could do without the weird 3D Snake (nothing beats the Snake II that was on e.g. Nokia 3330) but I love Sudoku!<\/p>\n

The world clock is also a fancy feature. I’m sure I wouldn’t find it useful if I didn’t have a trip to Australia to look forward to…<\/p>\n

\"World<\/p>\n

A great<\/em> tip was given by Harri in a comment on S60.com Blogs » S60 User Experience<\/a>. He told that he uses a camera (digital or phone cam) for taking notes of for example timetables. Well, I took a photo of the timetable for buses from work. Now I only have to remember that I have the timetable easily available.<\/p>\n

A great shortcut is that by pressing # you can switch between silent and default profile.<\/p>\n

On the N73 support page<\/a> there is an SMS Accelerator application and “it is recommended that you install this application to prevent slowness in SMS sending.” I sent my first SMS today and it left very swiftly so I’ll just have to wait and see what this alleged slowness is.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a bit of a ‘Scuse me? moment. There are “My Folders” for messages but I haven’t yet figured out how to move messages to them (or anywhere for that matter). Today I finally received SMSs in my inbox so I can try if it really is difficult or I just didn’t have any moveable messages. (I could only move old messages to drafts so I think I’ll leave them on my computer and not move them to my new phone at all.)<\/p>\n

Today I went shopping and bought the Music Headset of HS-20+AD-41. The AD-41 audio adapter has a 3.5mm plug for headphones so I can use any pair I like, but the HS-20 earphones are pretty good too. It has 3 (pairs of) ear pieces in different sizes and the smallest is actually small<\/em> unlike with Koss’s Plug. It fits in my unnaturally small ear (or ear canal) very nicely. Now I only need to get a 1 Gb or 2 Gb memory card to get some music on the road. Before that I can always listen to the radio.<\/p>\n

I also ordered my preferred Robbie ringtone (I’m not going to say what it is because I don’t want to hear it from any other phone than Mine! \";)\" ) so I’d say this phone is all set.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Screenshot application: Screenshot for Symbian OS (S60)<\/a><\/p>\n

Some nice links
\nNokia Nseries<\/a>
\nS60 Blogs<\/a>
\nS60 Tips<\/a><\/p>\n

All S60\/Nokia website tips are welcomed \":-)\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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