Customer Reviews

Nokia E73 Mode Symbian Phone (T-Mobile)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I purchased this during the first week that it came out. My previous smartphones were all BlackBerries, most recently an 8900. I looked at the offerings from every major U.S. carrier and this was by far the most capable candy bar QWERTY on the market. It still is. The only competition is from the Blackberry. These two are in a class apart.

The E73 does everything. The camera takes great pictures even outside at night without streetlights! I take more pictures and send more picture messages and I email more pictures with this than I ever did with the BlackBerry. Typing on this keyboard is better than 1he Blackberry with one hand or with two. I find myself instinctively typing letters correctly without looking at the keyboard. The web browser is superior. The speakers are loud enough.

There are tons of built-in and pre-loaded apps. Ovi maps beats BlackBerry maps and google. The flashlight app that is built-in to the keyboard is convenient and bright. The Radio application is fun to use and doesn't drain the battery. YouTube is pre-loaded. I have never been able to view YouTube on a Blackberry. Podcasting is pre-loaded. QuickOffice is pre-loaded; so, I do not have to carry a laptop anymore.

It is not as fast or as addictive as the Blackberry. Blackberry is still the ultimate messaging device. This phone is not easy to use. Sometimes settings are mysterious to find, and navigating menus is slow enough to annoy me. The wi-fi calling didn't work that well for me. I kept dropping calls for no apparent reason. So, I turned it off, and now my calls are stable everywhere T-Mobile has good coverage.


It is a great all around phone with loads of style and a more solid build than most smartphones that I have played with. Most of the others felt like toys compared to this, and this phone is thin enough to carry in a shirt pocket. This phone just looks and feels classy like a black silk tie.

If you want the most efficient messaging platform, a Blackberry is better. If you want everything, get this as long as you are willing to learn how to use it.

I have never owned an Iphone, Blackberry or Android and my previous phone was a Samsung Memoir. After having the Memoir for 2 years, I wanted to try something different but did want to spend the money for any of those phones. I did my research and came upon this phone which many expert reviewers have given 5 stars and is very popular in Europe. I found a used Nokia E73 on Ebay for $85 and snapped it up. The used E73 arrived with a few scratches and chips, but it was definately useable and workable.

The phone is definately an improvement over my Samsung Memoir. I can type easier, the photos look better on the display, the phonecalls seem clearer and the speakerphone definately better. In fact, I disagreed with many reviews that berate the speakerphone on the E73. It seemed loud enough and the people on the other end seemed to hear me. This phone has many different bells and whistles that I can use such as the integrated GPS system which is valuable when trekking around the city, a flashlight, a place to store my personal files, a voice recorder, a decent camera, a video camera etc. Another big plus is that its a slim pocketable phone, very lightweight. I charged this phone over 24 hours ago, but it still has 3 battery bars left. My Samsung Memoir would have run dry by now.

You will not be disappointed if you are coming from an ordinary cellphone. This device seems to do the job and has many desirable features. Is the Android, Iphone or Blackberry a better device? Yes, they probably are, but they will cost you $500-$800 with no contract and $200 with a contract. This phone can purchased new on Amazon for $250 with no contract or used on ebay at very low prices. Keep in mind that with a better device, if it gets lost, damaged or stolen then you are out $500-800 (thieves will recognize your iphone). If you lose this device, then the most you can lose is $250.

I recently purchased the Nokia E73 to replace my E71, which turned out to be very frustrating. With in a month the unit began to reboot it self almost daily. After every mysterious reboot icons would turn up missing only to return after I powered down and restarted the unit? There is also a bug in the external email set up. All pop mail Gmail, hot-mail etc. set up and connected perfectly however after less than a month I was unable to access any of my external email accounts? Only after powering off and rebutting the unit, was I able to receive or send an email. Unfortunately, the power off maneuver only lasted a few minutes before the unit reverted to its previous dysfunction and once again prevented me from sending or receiving emails. I immediately phoned T-Mobile who were very sympathetic to my frustration and are going to ship out a new unit. I really hope the next one works. Ironically I'm back to using my trusty E71 which has not failed me. If only it was compatible with T-Mobile USA's 3g network.
I will give the E73 one more try; with luck the new unit will work? if not its back to the shop and off to the crack berry I go.

overall a great smart phone, very easy to use and has a multi touch screen that makes the qwerty keyboard complete! Hehe. My only complaint is that sound sometimes gets stuck on headpiece and won't reproduce audio via speaker.

The phone is basically an E72 albeit slightly slimmer with nice curved keys that are easy to use also.
The OS is a little outdated and I hope Nokia can come out with an update soon as I really like the phone but am getting tempted with the competitions OS. OVI has some good apps and GPS is free on this phone, though I don't use it much, as guess what? I have an actual gps in my car for that. I use the phone mainly for calls and emails and occasional texts, all of these the phone handles very well. Call quality is good and I really like that it announces the contact's name while incoming calls. Email is also good and you can set up work and personal emails, overall I am happy with the phone and will most likely keep it for a while if Nokia can introduce an updated OS.

I bought this phone because it has full email capability, a QWERTY keyboard, it's made by a good, ethical company (Nokia), and it was very cheap with my new contract on T-Mobile. Now, I'm not sure I made the right decision.

The good:

Loaded with cool features. I have it set to announce who is calling, with every call, which is kind of amusing, especially in the company of friends. It comes with an OCR scanner ("MultiScanner"), which you can hold over any printed text in full light, and it will scan it and spit it out into a note file (with the clearest text in the center). The camera is pretty useful, often comparable to my point and shoot digital camera, and of course much more accessible. The camera has a video function which has been very useful and can take as much video as can fit on your micro-SD card (which is for me, over an hour), though the quality is kind of grainy. The LED flashlight, which I just discovered, is very bright. And the best thing is, the Nokia Ovi Suite (which works much better with Windows 7 than Windows XP, and appears to have a compatible Mac version) can instantly sync the contacts, photos, videos, and even TEXT MESSAGES to your computer. This is why I needed a smartphone, and in this aspect it's very capable.

The bad:

Bad reception. I updated the phone software, reset it with T-Mobile tech support every way, and then finally ordered a new phone from T-Mobile, with no discernible difference. I'm really tired of having calls dropped or not connecting at all. (I'm even writing this review right now because I couldn't make phone calls!) Meanwhile, other people under my same t-mobile plan, using Blackberry or other phones, calling in the same place, connect just fine. It's usually okay outdoors, but indoors it seems to get a lot of interference.

Software freezes. Not constantly, but enough to be annoying. Again, a hard reset, software update, and a new phone didn't correct this problem.

Keyboard is cramped and difficult to use. Maybe that's the norm these days, but I found my old Treo to be much easier, and my limited Blackberry experience to be easier as well. I've gotten used to it by this point, but I still have to go back and make corrections pretty frequently.

Symbian. Oh, symbian. You feel like a geek when you download software, because no one has ever heard of it. It still has a good load of apps to choose from, but a lot of them don't seem to install correctly, or are really unnecessary. I hear that Nokia will be switching to Windows Phone 7 soon, which is all nice and dandy if you happen to like Windows. But a lot of the world tries to avoid it! Which brings me to my next point.

As convenient as Ovi Suite can be, it has one problem: it's totally Microsoft-centered, and Windows Professional centered for that matter, so you'll find things that are generally unfair about the program, like: The calendar only syncs with Windows Exchange, which doesn't come with any computer's Windows Home edition. And I think the notes (which I use constantly) only sync with some special Windows program, which I don't have, or even know about. In any case, if it doesn't sync directly in the Ovi Suite, it's pretty useless. Not to mention, the Ovi Suite is not at all compatible with Linux (my OS), which means I can only sync it to someone else's computer. But then, I don't know any smartphone that uses Linux-compatible software.

So, this phone has been fun and useful in many ways, but the poor reception and software freezes make me wish I didn't have to wait a year and a half to get another phone at a decent price. Maybe if you used another phone to make most of your calls, and this phone as a sort of data center and smartphone toy, you could keep it around. But as much as I really want to recommend it, I can't really. I guess I'll just deal with it.

i love this phone , it so cool for texting love the speaker, but i do wish they would have a new OS for this phone tho but in all so cool

Per Audible Customer SErvice:
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At this time the Nokia E73 is not supported by audible.
The Nokia E73 runs the Symbian OS 9.3, Nokia S60 v3.2 Operating System and the Audible Air application was developed for Symbian OS v9.2, Series 60 operating system.

Each manufacturer must be willing to alter the device firmware to make it compatible with Audible. Some manufacturers do not wish to make this change. We are constantly working with device Manufacturers to make their device Audible Ready, but ultimately it's up to them to decide since the devices firmware have to be updated.
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