N73 Preview - Nseries multimedia all rounder
Published by Rafe Blandford at 15:21 BST, April 27th 2006
Following on from our first looks at the N72 and N93 Rafe previews the Nokia N73 the new all around multimedia Nseries S60 phone from Nokia. He concludes that as a modestly sized phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera, advanced music capabilities and backed by S60 3rd Edition it is a worthy sucessor to the Nokia N70.
The Nokia N73 may not have been the centre of attention at the recent Nseries device launch in Berlin thanks to the N93 and its DVD recording capabilities , optical zoom, integrated WiFi, but it is still a very capable smartphone (or rather multimedia computer as Nokia would have us call it). The N73 is an attractively small package, at less than 90cc and with dimensions of 110 x 49 x 19 mm it is one of the smallest S60 phones ever and shaves about 6% of the size of the N70. S60 devotees may recall our fondness for the cancelled Sendo X2 which was principally due to it's small (85cc) size. The N73 may not be quite that small, but it has a lot more to offer and it does reach the sweet point at which size is no longer a deterrent for potential owners.
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News Discussion
stuclark
I think the N73 is going to be the killer phone for Nokia this summer - it has just the right mix of features and size to make it an instant sales hit.
Rafe, I don't agree that the N72 will sell more - I don't see why people will go for it when they can get an N70 cheaper and easier (and with 3G). They'll sacrifice the design for the price in that case....
and on that subject - a few times through the review you say N72 when I'm sure you mean N73... :embarasse
Rafe
Must be going ga ga - corrected the two N72 to N73's.
I still think the N72 will sell more. However it is going to sell in Asia and other emerging markets not in the traditionally strong Western European market (that's where the N73 will sell). The N73 will be up against other S60 phone, while I think the N72 may have less direct competition in its respective market.
stuclark
That's very true - I must admit I'd been mainly considering the European market in my comments.
The N72 may be at a small disadvantage in some other markets though - they don't have the same fan-boy mentality to S60 and Symbian - although a fair few phones out there do run Symbian (FOMA et al), they don't seem to mind what the OS is as much as the European or US markets do. (for the US, read Palm)
Bearing in mind that the N72 is basically last year's design, it will potentially be up against (better) offerings from the likes of SE and Moto.
MarcTGFG
None of them will sell that well, unless and until they are actually released ;-)
Now it may cheer us up a little bit to know that Nokia Germany is listing the N80 as immediately available and their German online shop even has the N71, N80, N91 and E60 listed as immediately available. No mention of the E61 and E70 though :-(
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