Nokia N73 review

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May 20, 2007

Posted by: Victor Lamarque

"Avoid at all costs"

What I like:

Good camera, nice screen

What I don't like:

Crap phone, charger, battery life, keyboard and THE F******* blue light!

Review:

I am not exaggerating, this is the worst designed phone imaginable. Cnets rating is usually spot on but they have obviously not had to live with this phone.

The first thing one is confronted with is Nokias new charger - this means that all your old chargers are now useless, and now it has become, for now, more difficult to borrow someone elses - everyone seemed to have an old Nokia charger in some drawer. No longer, and millions of old chargers are now useless. This would be fine if the charger seemed to bring any great benefits. it doesnt- the smaller size prevents you from getting dirt out of the hole, and my N3 arrived malformed so the charger wouldnt fit. And do we need a slightly smaller charger on a phone that is much larger than many of the old Nokias?

The flashing light! You cant turn it off without ruining the battery life (it turns on when the phone is on auto low power mode and flashes) Surely enough people sleep with their phone on for this to matter.

I cant be bothered to write about its other problems as I doubt very much if a Nokia designer/engineer will read this, they dont seem to have much of a clue as to what little but important things are annoying their customers - far too busy eeking an extra megapixel to compete against Sony. If only they had stuck to making well designed phones.