Stuff by Sarah

New Mobile - Nokia N73

Wed, 14 February, 2007 – 12:03 am

My mobile phone contract is due to finish so I've been eyeing up the new phones available over the past month or so. After looking over the Nokia website I discovered the N Series and instantly fell in love with the available options on these phones.

Luckily Vodaphone had the N73 available for free, and my price plan has actually dropped by £15 a month! So a quick call yesterday to upgrade means I am now in the possession of a brand new N73 which is gorgeous. You can see all about it on the N Series page (go to Products and N73, sorry I can't directly link) however my main reasons for getting this phone are

1. 3.2 MP Camera with Flash - I know I have a 7MP camera however I have my phone with me 100% of the time and it'll be great to always have the option of taking photos.

2. The Business apps available - okay they may not be just for business but for my business they're perfect. I've always set up email on my telephone since I had web/wap access. My last phones, 6230 and 6230i, actually had an email application and whilst it was very handy to check my emails whilst out and about, it was still a bit frustrating with a max no of characters per page and not being able to view attachments. Now I can do all of that and more. The email app is so easy to use and view, and I can open doc, xls and pdfs easily, along with images and a variety of other files.

3. Not a reason for getting it (as I wasn't aware) but another good reason if you know. It has an RSS reader. Simply go to the RSS url, it will subscribe you and then you can read feeds at your leisure.

4. Another initially unknown but great, great reason. Finally Nokia have caught on to the fact that people want to use their mp3 player and/or camera when they can't have their sim card roaming ie. on a plane. That was the major downfall for me as I don't own an MP3 player and relied on my phone (it's just as good!), however had to switch it off on the plane, but that is not the case any more. You can take your phone offline and essentially switch the telephone/sim card part off and still use the rest of the phone as normal. It also means you can take your SIM card out (for whatever reason) and still have use of the phone, another issue that Nokia seemed to have previously whereby you couldn't even access your photos if you didn't have a SIM card in the phone.

So I've been playing off and on all afternoon, sorting my settings out (it happily transferred my old phone data, contacts/calendar/notes, straight to the new phone, no computer needed!) and setting my email up. I've probably run my GPRS bill up today as I've been playing around on the web, grabbing RSS feeds etc. However the phone is now set up and ready to go. All I've left to do is nick the SD card out of my camera and put it in the phone to store some music on it until I get a new SD card. I've got a 6 hour train round trip on Thursday to Cardiff and back so I'll be glad of the music. Plus the sound from the music player is pretty amazing and very stereo! I've tried reading a PDF on the phone however it'll only be used when absolutely necessary, which I've found also on the PDA. At least I have the option and functionality to read files if I need to.

Anyhow, I've got a new toy to play with for 18 months until my next upgrade

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