Steve O wrote:
> In the shop, it came down to two choices - the slimmest Motorola available,
> or the Nokia N73.
> The assistant assured me that the Nokia was the better phone, so I went for
> it.
> It probably is the better phone, especially when teamed up with a nice 2 gig
> SD card.
> But why does it have to be so bloody big!!!?
> It's like walking around with a housebrick in my pocket, and it's starting
> to annoy me.
> There's no point saying to people, "It's a smartphone!- It's like a mini
> computer!" because all they can see is this bloody great big thing which
> looks like a throwback to the early (2nd? ) generation phones, despite the
> bigger screen.
> The camera isn't as good as I thought it would be either - it's produced
> quite a few dodgy photos and it's pointless trying to use it in low light.
> So come on - I'm stuck with the thing now ( at least until it's time for an
> upgrade) so what can you say to convince me that I shouldn't have stayed
> with the slimline Motorola?
> Or am I missing out on some possible uses or advantages which may have
> previously escaped my attention?
>
>
>
Mine is ok, though there are a couple of annoying aspects. I can't just
type in a number and phone it (I have to press a numeric key, then
end-call button, then dial the number for some bizarre reason.) There
was no way to switch off the flashing blue "energy saving" light, so I
painted over it ;-) Phone logs were buried about 4 levels deep when I
finally found them, but it's simple to move them to the top-level menu I
guess. It's too easy to open the camera by mistake when taking the phone
out of your pocket, and it crashes/resets too often.

Apart from that... ;-)

In retrospect, if I wasn't signed up for a year now, I probably would
have gone for a Sony Ericcson instead...