The Nokia N73 is a smartphone by Nokia officially described as a "multimedia computer".
In common with other Nokia 'N-series' and 'E-Series' phones of its time (late 2006), the N73 comes loaded with many software applications, including contacts, messaging, picture and video galleries, a music player, a Visual FM Radio, RealPlayer, an IM client, a WAP browser, a full web browser based on KHTML/Webkit, a Microsoft Office document viewer, a PDF viewer and some games. The majority of these applications support background execution; for example, one may listen to music whilst browsing the Internet, and then may switch to write a text message or e-mail, without having to close any applications. Non 'smartphones' typically cannot do this or can do it in only a very limited way; for example, only the music player can run in the background. The feature which most distinguishes the N73 from other 'N'- or 'E'-series Nokia mobile phones is the 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera which was the best available at the time of release. The N73 does not support Wi-Fi.
Java applications as well as Symbian (S60 release 3) applications can be installed to or removed from the phone by the user, using either the Nokia PC Suite software, which is included with the phone, or the installer application on the phone itself. Notably, Nokia supports firmware upgrades to the N73 to be made by the user via a module in Nokia PC Suite. Since the N73 supports access via Bluetooth and USB Mass Storage (amongst other methods), it is possible to transfer large collections of files to and from it using any computer that also supports either Bluetooth or mass storage via USB (e.g. Linux; Mac OS X etc.). The N73 uses a database system for the supplied 'Gallery' applications (which permanently run in the background, in order to reduce seek and operation times) and again these databases can be updated locally on the device itself. This means that supported image, video and audio files can be placed almost anywhere in the file system and browsed easily, and in the case of MP3 audio files, by ID3 tag (e.g. 'album'; 'artist' etc.).
In addition to the basic N73, Nokia subsequently released the N73 'Music Edition'. From a hardware perspective, the phone is the same, but the 'multimedia' button on the keypad has been replaced with a button that starts the music player. The Music Edition also includes a 2Gb memory card and the phone is completely black. The Music player on the Music Edition supports Album art and playlists which that on the regular N73 does not. It also has an improved control interface where 'play', 'pause', 'stop', 'next' and 'previous' may all be selected directly by simply pushing the phone joystick in the appropriate direction rather than having to scroll through on-screen buttons for these controls and then select them as on the ordinary N73.
Specifications
| Feature | Specification |
|---|
| Form factor | Candybar |
| Platform | Series 60(S60) 3rd Edition |
| Operating System | Symbian OS 9.1 |
| GSM frequencies | 850/900/1800/1900 MHz |
| GPRS | Yes |
| EDGE (EGPRS) | Yes |
| WCDMA | Yes (2100 MHz) (model N73-1 only) |
| Main screen | 2.4 inch QVGA, TFT, 262144 colours, 240x320 pixels |
| Camera | 3.2 Megapixels (Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, flash, red-eye reduction, autofocus, 20x digital zoom) |
| Video recording | Yes (MPEG4, 3GP) |
| Browsing | Yes. Comes standard with a full Web browser |
| Multimedia Messaging | Yes |
| Video calls | Yes |
| Push to talk | Yes |
| Java support | Yes |
| Available built-in memory | 42 MB |
| External Memory | Up to 2GB miniSD Card (Nokia) |
| Memory card slot | Yes, miniSD (hot swappable) |
| Music player | MP3/AAC/eAAC/eAAC+/WMA |
| Bluetooth | 2.0 + EDR |
| Infrared | Yes |
| Data cable support | Yes |
| Email | Yes |
| Battery | BP-6M (3.7V, 1100 mAh) |
| Weight | 116 grams |
| Dimensions | 110x49x19 millimeters |
| Else | FM Visual Radio |
| | Stereo speakers |
| | Stereo headset |
| Colors | (White, Red), (White, Grey) ,(White, Black) ,(White, Mocha), (Silver, Purple) and (Black, Black (Music Edition) |
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