Nokia N73 Candy Bar 3G mobile phone handset reviews and tariffs

+ The phone looks great. Nice big screen.

- Battery life is very poor!!!! Keep having to recharge after 1 or 2 days, even without much use.

+ good pictures

- scroll key breaks very easy

+ Looks good and sounds good. Pretty good software included. Altogether a nice phone despite its bad points.

- Keypad too small causing incorrect key presses. Navigation nipple is unresponsive and too small to use.

+ great shape and colour.
easy to hold

- thick

+ Connectability, syncronisation, camera

- Too big, sluggish/crashy software, silver paint chips off within days making phone look shabby

+ I think the camera is really good and takes great pictures. The screen is clear and very good quality. The quality of the transfered tracks are also good and I think the Nokia PC suite is an amazing idea as it keeps all your things together, making it really easy to organise pictures and sound clips etc.

- The microphone only records 1 minute and the quality isn't as good as the video mic. The buttons are a bit small. Also the blue light at the top that tells you your phone is still on is incredibly annoying!

+ Camera, memory

- Memory card doesn't stay in, quite a large phone

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- slow response time when switching between applications

+ Easy to use, lightweight, excellent camera, long battery life

- Lack of Memory Card Bundled with handset it would greatly improve the package

+ good battery life
sturdy

- the joystick has broken after just 3 months use
the phone is also very slow on certain themes

+ Excellent camera and overall features

- Its a nuisance the fact that it has to be updated on the pc regularly

+ The N73 is easy to use, has excellent features and looks the part when out and about!!

- The battery life is a disappointment, this is also coupled with the battery life bar showing 2/3 bars to go then suddenly shutting down...most annoying!!

+ Good sound and image quality. Large screen.

- Keys are really small, and sometimes hit the wrong buttons

+ Looks good, very nice camera.

- Connects to the internet everytime I turn it off and on. BAD BAD BAD.

+ It's easy to use, menus are simple, battery life better than I was expecting. But It's a Nokia, say no more!

- Navigating between camera & video camera can be tricky

+ nice and it very ok

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+ Practical device packed with useful features. Interfacees with GS-911 (see http://www.hex.co.za/)

- Camera suffers from time lag. A good few seconds pass between pressing the button and the picture being taken.

+ Battery life is better than SE.
It is a symbian phone but entry level.
May be used for TomTom with additional GPS/Software.
Large Screen - quality ok
Good toy for Geeks.
Music Player - quality ok
Good web browsing especially if you use an alternative browser such as Opera.
Price

- Camera is poor at night time or low light but good during the day. SE has better camera.
Even with the latest firmware (unbranded) moving around menus & accessing texts can be fairly slow.
No smiley icons for texting. Only characters such as :-( may be used!!
Can only use upto 2GB mini SD card anything higher is unstable.
Hard to use, many menus & sub menus, not logical to navigate. Takes a while to work out.
An advanced phone not ideal for noobies or non techys.

+ easy to use and looks good, sound quality is good as are the pictures.

- slightly bigger and heavier than most mobile phones.

+ Sleek, shiny, sophisticated mobile with lots of top features.

- The software means the phone is essentially a small pc, so it can sometimes be very slow.

+ I required a big screen for use with my GPS software which is great.

- Hangs sometimes on startup and if you are too quick with the keys

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- Doesn't auto lock like a Sony Ericsson. Occasionally crashes. Navigation through menu is confusing.

+ Good tactile phone, with great functions.

- Keypad layout means you press wrong buttOns ALOT.

+ Easy to use

- unsure of cost of internet, so don't use it at all

+ its light and the 2 cameras provide hours of amusement. Good looking I suppose

- Its not that user friendly. the earlier models were much easier to text by. I have difficulty selecting text recipients and seem to take ages to find callers and look at the caller history. basically OK but nothing to write home about.

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- Small buttons. And i have a thing in my screen that says i have a voice mail messege, when i don't. I cannot get rid of it. This bugs.

+ nice phone

- slow software and low battery life

+ this phone good in Email

- bad software

+ Good camera, good sound quality, easy to use, good screen.

- No wi-fi.

+ plenty of features,

- doesnt close an application when you exit it so you maybe connected to web without knowing etc,camera is very slow compared to my w810i

+ A very good idea

- Not all applications are compatible with eachother leaving the phone to freeze and unmanagebale at time. Very frustrating. It is not the most user friendly phone.

+ Easy to use

- camera not great for being 3.2 pixel

+ This mobile looks good and has loads of useful features.

- Nokia don't have a cradle to suit this mobile.

+ Love this phone, easy to use, fantastic camera and over all just the best phone I have ever owned.

- Can be slow to respond sometimes, but no real biggie.

+ I LIKE THE CAMERA,THE SOUND QUALITY THE BUTTONS,IT LOOKS NICE

- THE BATTERY LIFE

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- cant fault the phone

+ excellant

- the voicemail light does not go off, this I understand is as a result of the software Orange get Nokia to install.

+ great cam and ease to use

- bit on the large size wood b great smaller

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- when i phone people sometimes I can't hear the person on the other end

+ it got all the features which every mobile should have,like camera,camcoder,music player,photo organizer/editor,etc.

- the software for this mobile is lookstoo haevy because it tahes times to respond,when u want to open any application and some times it hangs

+ music

- design

+ Good Quality typical Nokia, you know what standard features you are going to get and no quirks

- very small keys and navigation stick is quite sensitive

+ good camera.pc suite easy to install and use.

- texting slow when sending to a group. keypad small easy to hit wrong letters when texting. bit bulky design.

+ Once you realise it is a small computer, the logic of the way things are laid out is easy to follow. The search / help function can be extremely useful

- I had a very basic Nokia previously but it had a great torch, the N73 doesn't. I was also a little rash in selecting it as I 'm not a fan of the small keys.

+ it has everthing you need in a phone

- the memory card keeps popping out of place

+ the good things about the nokia n73 are it was good for listening to music the use of the camera/video.

- the bad thing about the nokia n73 is th battery life it was only lastting about 1 to 2 days and when you had the keypad on the phone was to phoneing someone.

+ good photos

- not so easy to down load straight to memory card

+ The camera is excellent and the sound on the mp3 is great.

- I had to turn the dual banding off as the phone kept cutting me off but apart from that the phone is ace.

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- Everything is very slow

+ Decent size screen and plenty of features.

- Keys sometimes stick or don't work and the fact the phone unlocks if the camera slider opens up.

+ Menu system is quite intuitive.

- The instruction manual could be clearer.

+ the sound quality

- continued problems since having the phone with the camera and got it replaced and it happened with the 2nd phone

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- One of the worst phone's Ive had. Bad battery life, began defaulting after a couple of weeks. Turns itself off etc...bad bad bad!

+ A good compact phone, with a very clear screen.

- It is very easy to press the wrong Keys on the Key pad.

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- the navigation key comes off easily

+ has a great camera pictures are lovely, overall the phone is good quality and sturdy

- the joystick

+ Perfectly good phone. Does all I need it to and plenty I don't.

- Joystick control a bit awkward at times

+ its all good, even tho i dont have it anymore, its a real good, reliable phone, and i would recomened it to anyone who asks

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+ good camera

- very small buttons,having to delete messages individually,phone freezes and switches itself off on a regular basis

+ Ithink the camera and video are good and I think the phone looks good.

- Not as easy to navigate as my old Nokia.

+ camera

- doesn't allow to you to send texts to 'recently used' numbers

+ none

- Faults on the phone. COntinuously

+ great features

- affects other equipments (computer+phone) when in use

+ very easy to use!

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+ Most things are good, i actually prefer the design of the N73 to any of the newer models

- Remote control on headphones awkward, find can have a mind of it's own and change radio stations when walking.

+ Just find it really user friendly.

- Could be a bit lighter.

+ Excellent picture and video quality

- size

+ Fabulous camera, looks good, does everything you need it to do, sends texts fast

- not easy to work out all the features without studying the instructions for ages, ie not very self explanatory and straight forward

+ Better battery life than Nokia N80 (my previous phone). Easy to use.

- Nokia battery life is terrible, this model is not as bad.

+ The 3.2 camera makes really high quality pictures.
I like that I can set menu how I need.
Big screen is very useful.

- The battery life is to short.
My language (polish) is not available in fabric settings.
The buttons are to small.

+ Organiser
Camera / Video
Looks Good
Web Browsing

- Software

Battery life

+ small in size

- everything, the programmes are slow, battery life is terrible , the screen and keypad are awful

+ I wanted a phone that runs Tomtom software, bonus of having a good camera & screen.

- Battery life is worse than my old K700i

+ The camera is great quality.

- I am experiencing intermittant signal which is a pain although that is not relevant the phone

+ camera, design, ease of use

- menu layout

+ Good camera with quick reponse

- Some features are buried in menus and hard to find

+ non

- screen keeps turing its self off and produces brown lines, at times it blacks out all together.

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- The time it takes to take a photo - from the time you press the button to the time it actually snaps the shot is about 3 to 4 seconds. The time it takes for anything to open (i.e. message, clock etc).

+ Very little

- Too much to list, not up to the usual nokia standard

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- bigger than I thought, awful to use

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- The volume control (side button ) has broken already !

+ Big screen

- Software is slow
If you turn on keypad auto-lock you have to use a 5-digit code to unlock it
Every time you phone someone it flashes up a warning about having "active diverts"
Predictive text is not as easy to use as on my old SonyEricsson
All the user interface themes look a bit tacky and childish

+ Excellent sound/volume, easy to use, all round very nice phone, good battery life

- theres a blue flashing light when the phone is on standby which can not be switched off

+ music quality good.

- takes 4ever to boot up and switching functions takes too long.

+ Looks good, has good camera and organiser, memory card function allows large data storage capabilities, god battery life so far

- Not always easy to find the function you want and find it hard to sync with pc a lot of the time