Weight: 116 g
Length: 110 mm
Width: 49 mm
Thickness (max): 19 mm

Display: Up to 262,144 colors, 2.4 inch QVGA 240 x 320 pixels display with automatic brightness control

Price: $349.00 to $679.90

The N73 Music Edition is a candy bar mobile measuring 110 x 49 x 19 mm and weighing 16 grams, it is the latest in the N70 series building upon a solid base of middle range function while adding small layers of either business smartphone like technology or multimedia capabilities. This N73 opts for the multimedia buyer and differs from the standard N73 in only a few ways. The first is obvious with the previously silver design now clad in stealth black a move mirrored from the Sony Ericsson range.

Email is also included with SMTP, IMAP4 and POP3 clients supported. Email attachments can be downloaded and saved to the N73 Music Edition’s mini-SD card or to the 42MB of internal memory. The mini-SD card slot is cleverly located at the bottom of the handset. There is also regular MMS and SMS messaging with T9 predictive text input, but the poorly designed keyboard will affect messaging speeds.

The N73 Music phone is a tri band data enabled mobile and as seen in the standard N73 it is a rugged little performer running the Symbian OS 9.1 S60 3rd edition. The screen is the same stunning 262k colour 240 x 320 pixel unit which is chosen for its clarity as part of the standard N73 camera phone model, here it has all those features plus makes for a great interface for the media player functions. Below the screen sits the now standard Nokia button set-up for a candybar design, there 2 soft buttons provide quick access to a variety of menu options and there is a surprisingly shallow navigation joystick which is more fiddly than normal.

The N73 Music Edition conveniently includes an adapter to plug in a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, which is handy, because the included pair only does a mediocre job. There is a digital music player with stereo audio supporting MP3, AAC, M4A, eAAC+ and WMA files. The device also includes RealPlayer, so playing full screen videos in MPEG-4 format is possible. Best of all, the N73 Music Edition is a USB mass storage device so files can simply be dragged and dropped onto the phone without using Nokia software. A stereo FM radio with 20 preset stations is also included, with all multimedia functions controlled through a stylish media menu.

Key Features:
3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
Large, bright 2.4-inch display
Stereo FM and support for Visual Radio
Advanced auto-focus and mechanical shutter
Integrated 3-D stereo speakers

Multimedia:
Visual Radio*: Listen to music and interact with your favorite radio stations
Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favorite songs
Download the songs you buy direct to your phone
RealPlayer Media Player
Download and play multimedia files (video and music)
Stream media files from compatible media portals
Full-screen video playback on the phone to view downloaded, streamed, or recorded video clips in larger size
Played formats (decoding): MP3, AAC, Real Audio, WAV, Nokia Ring Tones, AMR, AMR-WB, AMR-NB, AU, MIDI, H.263, JPEG, JPEG2000, EXIF 2.2, GIF 87/89, PNG, BMP (W-BMP), MBM, MPEG-4 and eAAC+
Digital music player for MP3/AAC/eAAC/eAAC+/WMA formats with playlist and equalizer
OMA DRM 2.0 support for music files
Stereo FM radio (87.5 - 108 MHz / 76 - 90 MHz)**
Integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound effect

Browsing:
WAP* 2.0 xHTML/HTML multimode browser

Imaging:
.2 megapixel camera (2048 x 1536 pixels) with up to 20x digital zoom
Settings for night, brightness adjustment, image quality, self-timer, white balance settings, and color tones
On device photo editor and video editors (manual and automatic)
Camera Specifications
CMOS sensor, 3.2 megapixel (2048 x 1536 pixels) with autofocus and digital zoom up to 20x
Carl Zeiss Optics, Tessar™ lens
Focal length 5.6 mm
Focus range 10 cm ~ infinity
Macro mode with 10 cm focus distance
Mechanical shutter with 1/1000~0.2s shutter speed
Active slide cover for lens protection
Photography
2-stage capture key for autofocus control
2.4 inch camera viewfinder in landscape orientation and with active toolbar
Slide for camera protection and activation
Integrated flash (operating range up to 1m)
Modes: auto, off, on, red-eye reduction
Advanced camera modes: still, sequence, video
Scenes: automatic, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, sport and night
White balance: automatic, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent
Color tone: normal, sepia, B&W, vivid, negative
Light sensitivity: high, medium, low, automatic
Video
Video: play, record, stream
Audio recording AAC stereo
Video stabilization
Video clip up to 1.5h (limited by available memory)
File format .mp4 (high), .3gp (normal, MMS)
Video capture: 352×288 (CIF) at up to 15 fps MPEG-4
Automatic white balance control
Scenes: auto, night, close-up, snow/beach, cine, old film
Digital zoom CIF up to 4x / QCIF up to 8x
Two-way video call capability
Second VGA camera (640 x 480 pixels) with up to 2x digital zoom
Real time video sharing to another compatible mobile device

Messaging:
Multimedia messaging: MMS for creating, receiving, editing, and sending videos and pictures with AMR voice clips
Email: Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and APOP protocols. Support for attachments (view jpeg, 3gp, MP3, .ppt, .doc, excel, and .pdf files)
Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list

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