Which one to buy?? P990i or N 73

Want to buy a new cell fone..
but there's some confusion over here...
which one is better ??
P990i or N 73

wat is the difference between N73 and ME edition??

Well, i guess your choice is extremely easy. You have chosen two so different phones, that your need will decide which phone you need.

P990i is a executive business oriented touchscreen and a pretty large phone. N73 is the youth targeted multimedia phone.

Please clarify your needs, do you want a rocking music and a camera, slick looking phone, or a phone which allows for better email and word proccessing.

N73 shall give you an excellent camera, music as well as the highly popular S60v3 OS which will allow you to increase its functionality a lot using 3rd party application.

P990i will give you touch screen comfort for easy emailing and word processin. Music and camera are not as good as the N73. It has the UIQ3 OS from Sony, which has software support, but not as much as S60.

My suggestion, N73. And about the diff between N73 and N73 ME.

Before a week or so, the difference was the Software and the color. ME came in black color, had a better music player and supported Stereo Widening. But there was no hardware difference, so by changing you product code, you could update the ME software on you normal N73.

But with the latest firmware update, N73 has been given the ME as well the IE features. But ME is also getting an update in a week or so, so what additional features will ME gets is unknown.

But since ME costs only 1 or 2 K more, comes with 2GB card and in a nice looking black color, i would suggest ME.

n73 me

thnx for the help guys..

K

I find P990i to be better. Not only is it an excellent business phone with features like touch screen, qwerty keyboard, document viewer, excellent browser and business card reader, it is also a great multimedia phone, more so than N73 ME. It has a large QVGA display, 2mpix camera with auto focus (same as K750i), excellent sound quality (same as Walkman phones; it even has Mega Bass), A2DP and can playback video at VGA resolution at 30 fps.

but N 73 has 3.2 MP cam...
good resale value..
2 GB MMC
dont abt the sound quality of P990i

P990i Ftw . So much for a Symbian pone

Awesome the qwerty keypad makes me surft the net easily while doing email and all.. The touch pad is play .. WHile cam is not every thing Beleive it ot not Cam on Mobs sucks their quality is far cry from that of Digi cam

SO better buy P990 i lots of features

yup.. Lately i m very inclined towards the p990i even tho i m a n73me fan..
Besides all the above features there r reports that u can flash it and install a mobile version of ubuntu.. Tho its risky..

whoa...

n73 me is great phone

But why you want to install ubuntu in a phone. Go for N73, you will get excellent games support too!!

H

only n73 me its just 1500 more u get more memory black colour panel plus grt sound qualityyyyy

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I m a P990i user and must say that it rocks for sure.

Pros
- Large Screen 2.8
- Wifi 802.11b
- Qwerty kbd
- Touch screen
- Stock player supports all the standard multimedia files
[mp3 , aac , mp4 videos , 3gp ] which is gr8.
- Symbian UIQ 3.0 - install loads of s/w's

Cons
- Hard to use this in daylight
- had probs opening bigger .txt and .doc files [> 100kb]
- shud have bundled a nice IM
- loud speaker aint that gr8.

I got mine for 14.6K [w/o bill]

Also check Dopod 818pro if u are the pda type user.
This is for 19~20K approx.

^^All the cons are pros for N73 ME!
And some pros are cons

Well it totally depends on usage and requirements which one you should buy...The two arent comparable..

yup.. The n73me is an excellent fone.. But if u r bored of symbian fones (perhaps like me) then u shd experiment

Well, i would not spend my bucks on experiment which i would regret in an month. How could i live without those new wonderful software every week opening a new chapter in my cell!!

^^Well thats the magic of symbian....The only reason why I bought N73 ME over SE phones...

one more advanteage of n72-HUGE and i mean HUGE flaunt value.its the thing which will seperate u frm the croud and a sure headturner where ever it goes,unlyk n73 which is really very common nowdays...tashn ka bhi toh khayaal rakhnaa padega na

my frnd is going in 4 a new fone.between N73ME and 5700 which one wud u guys suggest.he will use it as a modem for surfing net on pc.

K

assasin said:
my frnd is going in 4 a new fone.between N73ME and 5700 which one wud u guys suggest.he will use it as a modem for surfing net on pc.

N73 ME. It has better camera.

No doubt n73me is a better fone... But u can t compare the two... Check the price range.. 5700 is a 12k fone and n73me is a 17k one...5700 seems to be better vfm..

At this price i find P990i much appealing

If he does not need a good camera, ask him to go for 5700.

It has S60v3 feature pack 1. Also it has a 16 million color screen. Should go for it if you dont want the N Series brand value and if you dont want an excellent camera. 5700 has a 2Mp flash camera, which should not be bad.

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P990i is a 'hyped' phone!

Basically it has lot of FW problems! Only recent FW is somewhat stable otherwise it's hell of a phone!

One of my friend really suffered like anything with it and regretted a lot!

Only a handful of software available for UIQ V3 that too has lots of restriction,unstable,Wi-Fi connects easily but has frequent drops for unknown reasons!

Before buying P990i,have a personal experience with a owner satifsfy yourself and then buy it!

Price looks catchy! For that reason P910i or even P900i are far better phones as they are more stable and supports more third party software!

how good a fone is Nokia E65?my frnd cant decide between 5700,E65 and N73ME.he's considering E65 for EDGE Class 32 and wifi.

5700 supports videos encoded in h.264 codec,but does E65 and N73 support it?

No E65 and N73 dont support that codec. Ask him to go for 5700. It is a Symbian S60v3 Feature Pack 1 phone with a 16 million color screen.

BTW, E65 is cool too, i am not much sure about its camera and music capabilities, but it has an awesome form factor and Wifi.

One of my friend recently got E65... He is not too happy with its camera. However, i have not personally checked it yet

krazyfrog said:
I find P990i to be better. Not only is it an excellent business phone with features like touch screen, qwerty keyboard, document viewer, excellent browser and business card reader, it is also a great multimedia phone, more so than N73 ME. It has a large QVGA display, 2mpix camera with auto focus (same as K750i), excellent sound quality (same as Walkman phones; it even has Mega Bass), A2DP and can playback video at VGA resolution at 30 fps.

but u don't know whats he's after!!!!!!! He might like music more than videos!!!!!!!!!!!

K

cooldudie3 said:
but u don't know whats he's after!!!!!!! He might like music more than videos!!!!!!!!!!!

music in P990i is, imho, slightly better than that in N73 when you use headphones like HPM-70 with it. The media player is exactly same as in Walkman phones (it even has Mega Bass). It also supports A2DP which N73 doesn't.

hmm... N73 now supports A2DP (stereo bluetooth) After V4. Firmware Update.

As all say... I'ld go for the N73ME

hmmm.. Both r good fones.. I like both but prefer n73me more as i hav come to my senses.. Btw u can also save some bucks and go 4 a 5700.. I feel its more vfm than n73me

P1

^^cost?

^^ i suppose that was a joke..

pathiks said:
^^ i suppose that was a joke..

of corz it was!! things were getting too serious in this thread!!

pathiks said:
^^ i suppose that was a joke..

noooo...
i hav heard of that fone..
Overview

Features

K

Manshahia said:
noooo...
i hav heard of that fone..

Everyone has heard of it. But its not launched yet in india. Even if it were launched it wouldn't be any where near the price of N73/P990i (about 25k).

alsiladka said:
No E65 and N73 dont support that codec.

got a N73 ME yesterday.and surprisingly its playing videos encoded in h.264 codec perfectly.
i didnt get any scratch card with the fone to activate the preloaded songs.if any1 cud give me that code then i'll be able to activate the songs.

K

assasin said:
got a N73 ME yesterday.

I thought you were gonna buy an Imate phone.

Hey sorry, i mistook it for the MP4 codec. What i meant was that there is an advanced codec support for some MP4 codec.

BTW, about your preloaded songs, call up 30303838 along with your local zip code, tell them that you bought an N73 ME but you did not get the scratch code and that you would like the activation keys to play those songs.
They will ask you for your IMEI number and sms you the keys.

krazyfrog said:
I thought you were gonna buy an Imate phone.

actually i did buy iMate JAMA last week,used it,only prob with it was it didnt hav EDGE and GPRS speeds suck.so sold it off to my frnd for 12k yesterday and got the N73 ME.

How much did u lose on the Imate Jama???
Also didnt u check b4 hether it has EDGE or no???
U seem to have lotsa cash... Neways congo for the n73me..

i do like SE more than nokia but P990i is total crap
go for p1i instead!

pathiks said:
How much did u lose on the Imate Jama???

lost 2.2k on the imate. :cry:

Also didnt u check b4 hether it has EDGE or no???

no.i didnt. :cry:

U seem to have lotsa cash... Neways congo for the n73me..

no i dont hav lotsa cash cuz if i did i wud hav got a N95 instead.