Buying N73 ME. · DIGIT-ARC

I have done a lot of research and found n73 me to be best vfm to me as i need a all in one phone and n73 me has it all. i will be buying it tommorow so is it there something i should take care while buying the set like firmware etc as this is my first smartphone

. plz dont tell me the basic things like warranty card and battery connection plates :razz:

please shoot your reply fast as i have very less time .

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Excellent choice mate ,btw if you don't care about cam then have a look at 5700 and N81,they have symbian 9.2 OS.

I want a great cam. i had a look at n81 only through images.it looks cool what r its features and price ? .i dont wanna increase my budget and i guess its around 17k

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^^Stick to N73 then.Both phones have below average cams.N81 is inclined towards music(awesome sq) and gaming(gaming keys).

Ya n81 uses the ngage platform for gaming .btw i ordered a ep 630 from ebay to pair with n73 me.

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go for it mate, its worth it

I havnt yet got the answer to my question. someone answer please

actually you dont have anything to look for as its a pretty dated phone (its been there since 2006) so the firmware will be latest only

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Which firmware version should i look for?

The only problem with n73 is that it does not have a standard 3.5mm jack so you have to carry its adapter with you always , also look at the manafacturig date on the box since new ones come with the firmware update so you wont have to deal with trouble to update its firmware online .

look for firmware version 4.0808.4.2.2 or higher .

I dont have any problem in carrying the adapter. and yes i will surely be looking for the new package. btw whats the current firmware version?

N81 has very poor battery. It dun even haf haf talktime as N73.

Anyone knows how much ram does it have?

I think its 4.0808.4.2.2 but not sure . it was released around november 07 dont know if any new one is released later.

Also there is no way to check the firmware version on the phone before buying it . Just see the manafacturing date and try to get a new piece .

utsav said:
Anyone knows how much ram does it have?

Its still a mystery but nokia says it has 64 mb ram .

I am unable to find its ram capacity anywhere on the internet .not even on nokia s site .it should be 64mb i suppose

N73 is a rocking phone ..

Also , Firmware v4.0808.4.2.2 has been pulled off by Nokia

... newer N73's are already shipping with v4 firmwares so wait for the newer firmware to come out ...

Also , N73 ME coupled with EP630 is as good as N81 if not better .. its down to the music player at last ... Also , N73 is also under NGage2.0 platform , so that won't be a issue .. and u get an awesome 3.2MP cam

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Ya. i know n73 is under ngage platform .i saw it last week on the nseries portal. the latest firmware is 4.07xxxx i suppose.

Another thing is that i am not going to wait anymore. i waited for it since september 2007 as i didnt wanted to spoil my board exams which will end today

gud luck with ur exams..
nd BTW , if u wait for some new technology, it wud be eternity.

Thanks and yup

N73 is good phone in this range.
Its current firmware is 4.0736xx. The 4.08 version was pulled back soon after it was released as it was buggy.

And regarding RAM. GSM arena says it has 64 MB RAM. But actually it has 44 MB. From this, 22 MB is allocated to the system and you will have 22 MB free memory after a fresh restart. But after installing a few apps and using the phone for a month or so, the free memory will stay around 15-17 MB depending on what all apps you are running on the background.

I have tried ngage 2.0 first access games in it and its pretty fast.

I have around 40 applications installed(testing new ones everyday) and still the phone isn't slow.

At the most i will be multitasking by running music in background while surfing the net so that much ram will suffice . i have to go to exam hall after an hour and i am foruming here

What price should i expect it to be? my frnd told me its 12.5 k but today in the newspaper its written 13.9k .

Yes, u'll get that around Rs.14000\-

Its a great phone bro.
I'm having that.

The latest firmware is v4.0736.3.2.1

Dont forget to post your cam pics in the topic. *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47207

^^ The phone does have 64 MB , that 22 MB is actually kept just for the OS to access , but even then the OS keeps accessing from the rest 44 MB mem. .. back at nokia forums , they said that by the next few firmwares , the full 64 MB will be made free ..

And btw , i'm using v4.0750.31.2.1 .. donoo why they pulled this off the net , coz this is the fastest firmware i've used on the N73 .. and the one that actually has some demand paging into it ..

Some features u can expect in the later firmwares : better Demand Paging , More free Mem. , around ~ 30 MB at start .. faster loading of Gallery .. better Music Player . Intergrated Nokia Maps , Updated Flash Lite (version not specified yet , but could be v3.0) , Update QuickOffice and Adobe PDF reader ...

Being included in the NGage 2.0 platform got this phone some attention from the Nokia developers group

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Good choice Utsav.
What about N95?U ditched it?

The phone has around 20 MB free ram & with time it goes on decreasing.
I suggest you reboot it once in a day, to get good fast performance.

I was going to update to 4.0750 version, when I read that most of the phones crashed during the update process. And soon after that they removed that firmware. Now i am waiting for the next stable release. Still happy with the old 4.0727.

.. i took that risk coz the additions seemed tempting ... and don't regret it a bit ... rather .. am loving it ..

^^ Really? How much free ram are you having after startup? and what is the camera startup time in this 4.0750 version?

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@utsav : Great man!!!Congrats for the new phone...

in advance

I'm also buying the same by this weekend,it's priced @ 13.5K here in bangalore.I donno about nokia priority dealers,heard there is a price diference..Not sure though..
Also frns(N73ME owners specially),they are bundling HS-23 headset with it which i think lacks a 3.5mm jack.Is it so???If yes then what are the alternatives??

P.S Sorry for hijacking your thread utsav...Really i'm..

Lucky_star said:
^^ Really? How much free ram are you having after startup? and what is the camera startup time in this 4.0750 version?

Well , didn't exactly count the startup time .. but its definitely faster than previous firmwares particularly with font router ..

And about free mem. .. well . at startup its around 20-21 MB ... but the best part it the demand paging which actually free unused mem. .. Suppose u use gallery for some time , and close it .. after some time , when u again start using the phone , u'll notice that some mem. is actually emptied .. Meaning ..

Standby - 18 MB
Gallery Running - 14.4 MB
Gallery Closed , Standby - 14.4 MB
Music Player launched after some time - ~16.8 MB ...

The best part is that if u launch gallery after this , its actually loads up faster than the first time , meaning most necessary files were still cached .. now i can actually run the phone over days at a stretch without worrying about the mem. getting chocked up

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Just now returned from exam hall . yippeee.

. @cool g5. i ditched n95 8gb becoz gps and 5 mp cam is not worth the increased price tag . gps will be useless in my city and my dad told that he will be getting a 10mp dslr very soon

Damn. nokia priority closed :sad:

i have to wait till tommorow :sad:

Why are u buying from priority dealer by giving extra money? Buy from any local dealer and you will get a good discounted price.

@deathvirus_me, that was a great info. Now I need this version badly. I am going to download those update files. Do the 4.0736 version support demand paging? Because its still available for download.

I'm not sure about the availability demand paging. AFAIK its just a rumour and there is no official info from Nokia about the availability of this feature in the latest firmware. Also I doubt it can be implemented in pre-FP1 devices.

Also utsav don't buy from Nokia Priority dealers. They're much more expensive. You'll easily save around 1-2k if you buy from a regular shop. As long as you get a bill, it doesn't matter from where you buy it. Priority dealer won't give you any special treatment for the extra premium they charge you.

^^True!
The regular ones in Noida are selling N73ME for just 12K bucks along with the common softwares CD! I dont know, why the softwares? Unnecessary, but a good strategy though!

And btw, Congrats for ur new mobile.

@Utsav - I was telling you the same thing to get a seperate digital camera.So it's good for you 10 MP SLR+ N73 ME.

Enjoy buddy.

Local dealers r asking 13.5k in my city jhansi and my dad wants to confirm from priority dealer also so i l wait till tommorow

mayanksharma said:
^^True!
The regular ones in Noida are selling N73ME for just 12K bucks along with the common softwares CD! I dont know, why the softwares? Unnecessary, but a good strategy though! And btw, Congrats for ur new mobile.

12 k

abey majaak mat kar

^^ yeah 12k is for the plain vanilla N73 not the Music Edition

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best choice

Just now got the phone for 13.5k at the nokia priority .same as local dealers price. and got airtel sim free

yippeee

congo dude, post a review

Yup very soon. i am puzzled with the huge number of booklets provided with the phone.
and its manufacturing date is march 2008 and today itself the new stocks arrived

you could've buyed a 22'' TFT from ViewSonic at that price

Gigacore said:
you could've buyed a 22'' TFT from ViewSonic at that price

giga kya re... thats 'bought' there is nothing called 'buyed'

you are using that frequently

btw why are you doomed??

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Giga weak in grammar. he is giving board xams.

And the funniest part is the phone is bought from my own earnings from my blog techjunkiez

Really? Great
type *#0000# in your phone and post here what version firmware you got. Eager to know...

utsav said:
Giga weak in grammar. he is giving board xams.

And the funniest part is the phone is bought from my own earnings from my blog techjunkiez

welcome aboard to blog earners association of india

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huh, i'm weak in grammer and thats a old news for me :lol:

Anyway, congrats utsav. You are making fortune from ur blog/site

utsav said:
he is giving board xams.

and looks like even you are weak in grammer :))

@lucky 4.0736.3.2.1 @giga. i am the all time topper in grammar among my classmates

@digitaldude

though my grammer is bad, my english marks is always 90+

haha thats quite common

and many of my friends have this 'sticky' behaviour.. like they are fluent in english and write well but for some reason make an odd mistake everytime with the same thing

guess habits are difficult to break

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utsav said:
4.0736.3.2.1

That means they are still on 4.0736. I am thinking of updating to this version soon. One more thing; are there user defined equalizer settings in the music player? Heard that, with this version, that option had been removed.

there r 5 equaliser presets and all of them r fully customisable

Ok thanx. There is an option to add even more.

Ya there is. i didnt noticed

How can i find the amount of free ram in the phone ?

Use X-plore

Use Handy Taskman. Its the best task manager.

I am unable to activate the 100 songs that came with it. whenever i am sending sms to 55555 then the message sending gets failed.

I am unable to activate the 100 songs that came with it. whenever i am sending sms to 55555 then the message sending gets failed.

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Are you able to message on other numbers???i.e., other value added numbers like 58888 or on any number for that matter??

offtopic:
Also utsav did your phone headset has a 3.5mm jack??

yes i am able to send message to other numbers like 57575 .

the phone came with AD-41 adapter which has a 3.5 mm socket

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Hmmm then i donno man,probably you can give it a try later some time,gonna buy N73ME tomorrow..

Shall tell ya if i face the same problem..

BTW loads of thanx for the info on 3.5mm jack...

Thats simply a crap thing to do with the bad activation procedure

Just call the Nokia Customer Care(I don't remember the number) and say that you want to activate the songs. They will ask the phone model, your IMEI, and your number. Within a minute you will receive a lot of SMS(I got 65). Just save anyone of them. And all your songs will be unlocked. Though you can spend time saving all those SMSs.
Crappy DRM...

And the songs are sooo badly encoded aac ones that you will hear it once only

Afaik the number is 3082 3082 . can u copy those songs to pc after activation?

In PC they are just useless files.

utsav said:
Local dealers r asking 13.5k in my city jhansi and my dad wants to confirm from priority dealer also so i l wait till tommorow
12 k abey majaak mat kar

abey majaak nhi kar raha hun yaar!!

Two of my frnds have recently purchased it!!

lol..

Nokia should have given those songs on a mp3 cd. that would have been worth. i am searching for a good free antivirus. which one should i use.

@mayank standard model hoga

utsav said:
@mayank standard model hoga

Come on yaar! Believe me. Even i was despaired after hearing the price. I bought mine just after its launch for 21K !!

As i mentioned two of my frnds actually bought the piece for 12K each!! Now, do i need to produce the bill copy too??

hehe..

Anyways, tell me...have u upgraded ur mobile's firmware? I heard that the latest one add A2DP support to the phone? err...i see u've the latest one, i.e. 4.07...something like that! So, does ur phone support A2DP? One more thing, mine after an year and half has gone rather slow while navigating gallery and few items like that. Any solutions to it?? Is upgrading the firmware only solution? I really dont want to do that...!

regarding Antivirus, i think NetQin Anti-Virus Pro v2.2.40 should be good! I heard, even Kaspersky Mobile version 7.0 is available. Check that out too.

There are currently no viruses available for S60 3rd edition phones. So installing an antivirus is of no use now. The present symbian OS has got inbult platform security features than older ones. So, even if you get a virus(you have to install it by yourself to make it work

) it will be doing little harm to your system.

I also found on the net while googling that the new firmware has A2DP support .but i havnt chked it yet becoz i dont have any wireless stereo headphone.

.I upgraded to 4.0736 version yesterday and now i am regretting that.

The memory performance is too bad. After opening and closing a couple of apps, the ram lowers to 10 mb. While the previous one used to stay at 16-17 MB.

In my fone it hovers around 16MB after 2-3 hours of surfing and music. after reboot the free ram in my case is 21 to 22 mb

use opera mini for high speed browsing, opera mobile for advanced features, and Ucweb browser for downloading stuffs and all that.

i am using opera mini. is there any download manager which can save files on my desired location??

I am facing a strange problem. From yesterday the image and video gallery is not showing any file in it even though i have many pics and videos in the memory card. What to do .please help someone :sad:

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m havin N73 it rocks

Just remove(press power, remove mem card) and reinsert your card while the phone is on.

If it doesn't solve.. you must have LCG Xplore installed? Its an xcellent file browser. Open the images folder. All your images are there. Here there is a hidden folder called _PAlbTN. Delete that. Now again open gallery and wait for 2-3 minutes.

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Hey me too got a spanking new N73ME this saturday!!!!
Man i'm sooo happy to own one after having 3SEs and a motorola.My first nokia!!!

Bought it @ 13.2k after bargaining..

Got 100 songs with it.
@utsav:Hey man i got all the songs without a hitch.

@lucky_star:Hey i'm unable to create or edit any playlists in my fone(My firmware is 4.0736.3.2.1).whats d prob.

Thanx in advance

My songs also got activated. I went to nokia priority(my fone dealer) he took my number and sent a request via net and in 5 seconds smses started coming. I got 100 msges

There is a sms for activation of the preloaded contents in N-Series.
Just sms & you will start receiving sms for activating songs.

You can send the songs to other phone but they won't be able to play them due to unavailibilty of activation key.
They are .dcf files which is DRM protected.So are useless on other devices.

@Utsav - Is your gallery problem solved?

I found a solution to the gallery problem .i will try it now. In my case the sms to 55555 was not reaching for activation and the files r aac not dcf.

I mean transfer the DRM file to another phone & check it's extension.It will be .dcf.

Nope. they r aac

What AAC??
I transferred a song from my friends N73 to mine phone & it has .dcf extension.

Sharx said:
Hey i'm unable to create or edit any playlists in my fone(My firmware is 4.0736.3.2.1).whats d prob. Thanx in advance

What error are you getting?
Create a text file anywhere in the phone like name.m3u. The extension should be .m3u, or better you can create a blank file in notepad with .m3u extension and transfer it to the phone. Now goto Music Player->Music Menu->Options-> Refresh Music Library. Navigate to the Playlists menu. Open the file which you added just before. It would be blank. Select Options->Add Songs. Done!

My gallery problem solved. @cool g5 there is only one song which is dcf format. Its the nseries brand music .

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Lucky_star said:
What error are you getting?

I'm not getting any errors,the thing is,in phone manual its mentioned that under playlist menu there will be some default/dynamic playlists.
But for me its not showing anything,also if i choose the option to create a new playlist it never prompts me for the new playlist name,it directly displays (no songs) and after that there is no option to add songs to the new playlist.

Anyways i shall try ur method.

On a second note,i'm not seeing any album arts in my music player,even after doing a sync with windows media player(V 10).The same song shows album arts in WMP but not in phone music player.

Try adding album art using ur fone music player and then see

Sometimes album art and ID3 tags added with WMP are not shown in the music player. For adding album art as well as tagging I would recommend you to use "Tag and Rename". Anything added with it(album art, tags) shows in the player of the phone

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utsav said:
Try adding album art using ur fone music player and then see

No that way it is working,but i don want to use a work around,it should display images added/embedded in a song as v c them in WMP..like v have in ipods.

@lucky_star : I tried ur playlist method but nothing is displayed in phone,its damn blank

,it is displaying the playlist in my PC but not reflecting it in phone even after restarting d device.

Anyways thanx for the "Tag and rename",shall give it a go..btw have you used it on ur N73me??is it working??

Same is happening to me here. i cant see some album arts in the phone but can see them in wmp

@Sharx, Yah.. I am using it. I use Tag and Rename to add the album art and that's the only way I found to make the album art appear in the phone.

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Lucky_star said:
@Sharx, Yah.. I am using it. I use Tag and Rename to add the album art and that's the only way I found to make the album art appear in the phone.

Thanx for d response man,shall give it a try... :arrow: