Nokia N73: impressions on the Optus network, and a Mac
I am now the proud owner of a Nokia N73. Thank you Optus. Of course, getting to use it is a little quirky.
I’ve not been able to get the Flickr Upload working. Maybe this is something Optus decided to disable? Anyone can confirm this? Instead, I’ve decided that a ShoZu account is probably what I want, and that’s my “interface” to Flickr or even to WordPress it would seem. Oops, scratch that. Flickr Upload does work, it just seems to be configured a little differently (and if you’re doing it on a Mac, you need to send the file via the Bluetooth File Exchange utility in Applications/Utilities). One thing ShoZu is missing seems to be the MovableType API.
I’ve not been able to get it to sync with Linux, which is a bit of a pain, but I’ve managed to get it to sync with iSync on the Mac. You want to read Adri’s excellent post on the topic, and get this file. I’d say read the site, but I can’t read German myself. Now my calendar and contact details are on my phone, which is rather nifty, because unlike the iPod, I can edit entries here.
Inserting the memory card is a pain. You need nails. I just cut mine yesterday. I thought this was bad on the Nokia 770, but this one’s worse. Speaking of which, the chargers for the Nokia 770 and the N73 are similar! No more old Nokia phone chargers (though they do provide the dongle for it, if you absolutely need to use it).
I can’t figure out how to display the time thats being taken on the current call. Help? This was available on the Ericsson T610, and the Minute Minder is generally useful as here we have free 20 minute calls to other Optus customers. Also, the Autolock seems daft – why do I need to enter a pin to unlock a keylock? On the T610, after 20 seconds it’d keylock the phone, but unlocking it was simple and didn’t require a PIN. Can this be replicated?
It has a built-in radio. Very cool stuff. I just paid $5.50 so I could get my favorite ring tone, Bittersweet Symphony on the phone. Talk about a Optus Zoo sham. Worse, its not even the tune that I wanted, but a twenty second MP3 rip!
And the camera phone, probably the reason I went with this, is just amazing. The photo quality is great. Its got more megapixels than my first digital camera. Technology has come far!
Quirk: once I’ve locked the keypad, and open the camera, it takes a while before all things start working. This is with the radio playing in the background.
Anyways, more after some playing. In other notes, I’m sick. High fever, flu, and its really hot outside. Sigh.
[…] Really, its a cool unit. I considered getting the Sony Ericsson k800i, but went with the Nokia N73. I don’t think I’m looking back! (Choices provided by my phone provider, as my contract is up and it’s time to upgrade – a more technical review, well first impression thing, at the other blog.) […]
Flickr upload doens’t work? that’s strange.
I think you need to enable your account for flickr upload, and they will give you a new password (that’s different from your flickr account).
http://flickr.com/nokia
It worked ;-) It didn’t initially, and their instructions differed a bit, but I managed to configure it
I now have flickr or shozu uploads. Very nifty
Hi can you help me unlock my N73 from the 3 network?
Do you have any hints on how I could try to figure out sync w/ linux (specifically evolution) – I know u said above u didn’t figure it out but maybe you made some progress I can build on?
I’m primarily interested in just contacts, anything else is a bonus (this will also let me use the nokia as the ‘syncing bridge’ between windows (outlook) and linux (evolution) – darn you work and games LOL
cheers mate
Hi,
You can make the N73 sync with linux apps by using syncml with the free service of as a sort of gateway. I haven’t used it much with linux myself as its syncing with google calendar has been enough for me. Be careful if you sync contacts too as I have had problems with special characters and duplication of entries.
Regards – jes.vestervang@gmail.com
…with the free service of scheduleworld.com – don’t know why it was cut out my previous post.
…and with syncevolution you can make evolution sync with scheduleworld.com.
http://www.estamos.de/projects/SyncML/
Hi Stephen and everyone,
Do you people have any idea whether its possible to unlock the n73 in any way?
Waiting for a positive reply,
Thanks in Advance
My cousin who has come uk has bought a nokia n73 ,but it is a vodafone when i put my sim in it it shows sim not valid .tell me how to use my sim in it
No way to unblock nokia n73..okey there is one; call your service provider and ask them unblocking code at some price.they will give you as long as you are the owner of the phone and the sim card..and phone doesnt have any debt or not stolen..
got that??
please…
can everyone help me…
i need to unlock a n73 from 3uk…
if someone knows,
just send me a mail for rpx_@portugalmail.pt
thanks
No, this is not an “how to unlock the nokia n73” site. wrong reason(s) to come here!