Nokia N73 (Unlocked)

Summary: I'm not a phone geek in any way and might be amateur at best when it comes to all these features that they have in phones nowadays, but the nokia N73 blew me away.

I read the review on this site and some of the cons listed might have been a bit nitpicky. I mean if you want quick response times and stuff then get a computer. For all the features they packed into a phone, I'm surprised how well it responds. The operating system is Symbian 9.1 which is the newer version of the software. It is quicker than old one's obviously so I don't know why they want it quicker when it's already an upgrade? The only problem I had was with the location of the navigation stick...it's just too low in my opinion. Every now and then when I try to navigate up, I end up clicking the stick by accident. Wifi right now is not a big deal for me, I guess it can come in handy when you want to get onto the net but if I wanted to surf and things like that, I would rather be on the computer. I think this is a 50/50 feature since maybe half of the people would probably want it and the other half probably won't even care. Of course I say that now but at this point, I just see no point in wifi unless somebody can enighten me on the purpose of wifi on the phone. The camera turns on a couple of seconds after you pulled the cover but if you are going to gripe about that then you should do the same with regular digital cameras, they do take a couple of seconds to load when you switch it on ya know =)

Now, the pros are just too many to list so I'll jump to the one's that stuck out to me. The screen is huge and really nice. The camera works pretty good for phone, and at 3.2 megapixals with a Zeiss lens, you can't really go wrong. The miniSD card is hot swappable and with capacity at 2 gigs is really decent for fitting a good library of mp3's, taking pictures/videos, etc. Oh, did I say it plays mp3's? It does and it even comes with headphones but the controller on the headphones only controls the volume, I guess you can say that is a con. I haven't played around with this feature too much but there is a button you can press that will direct you to the 5 things that you use the most instead of having to find it in the different menus, I thought that was cool. I can't forget to mention the office viewing ability and e-mail support. Battery life is really good, my friend has an N80 and he said the battery lasts a day maybe, the battery has lasted me a good 3 days with all the tinkering that I've been doing and with room to spare!!!! Lastly, since this is a quadband phone, it's pretty much usable anywhere in the world.

I would actually rate this an 8.5, I can't give it a 9 or a 10 since nothing is perfect. A 9 would definitely be something in the range that the cnet reviewer would give this phone but lacking the features they listed. Of course, everybody is different so my experience might be a bad one for somebody else, the best I can say is if you are interested in this phone, then just like any product, take a leap of faith and try it out. There is a guy who did a more in depth review on the phone and compared it against similar phones with other makers....it's a really good read, just google it. I hope this review helps.