[anuprav]

In contacts the font size is too small. You can not read your messages that are saved in your SIM card. Camera shows black flickering lines on the screen. You get connection error.Voice is at low pitch and sometimes you will not be able to hear that your phone is ringing (too much low sound)

You even get your Firmware updated with latest one even then no improvement but it becomes more worse.

Overall bad phone.

First impression and the last impression with nokia phones.Never in my life I am going to buy a NOKIA products.

And even now I am discouraging others to buy a NOKIA.

[dagrim1]

Well, I think the loudness of calls and ringing is just fine. Maybe you just have to try another ringtone...

About the fontsize, no problem for me but I've heard about others thinking it's too small as well. Big enough for me though, unless I'm missing something but contacts and sms are perfectly readable...

Firmware update fixed almost every issue I had with it and don't think it introduced any new ones so I wonder what is 'more worse' with the update.

About the camera, do the black lines appear only on the screen or also on the pictures taken. And what are the lighting conditions? Maybe this truely is a fault with your phone but other then that I disagree with your statement... I think the N73 is a great phone, not yet perfect but close to.

Only wishes I have is some more speed, improved camera (even more improved yeah ), improved mediaplayer (music edition version for example) and another gallery.

[nj7_]

Like "dagrim1" said, overall a great phone. After last FW, almost all problems have been correct... only one still... Bluetooth. When On, not always after connection with headset (HS-56W), it have sound. And only solution is reboot the phone.
No problem with loudness, fontsize and great camera (for a phone) because still have the Blue cast on interior photos.
And is the first S60 with enough battery juice... only N-Cage QD can be compared, but not a regular phone.

[viper]

i dont think it's a bad phone at all, only wish they'd release the firmware for my variant

[anuprav]

Hi! to all.

At least this time I got some replies.

When I switch on the camera then only there are black flickering lines on the screen. Photo taken is perfect.

I have changed different ringtones but when I use headphone the its very Low even though volume is set to full.

I have mentioned the voice is not audible when you attend a call or do a call.

About font I am talking when you click on the contact and select the number you want to call, you will find its too small.Other fonts display is not a problem.

What about are you able to read the messages stored on your SIM CARD????? any any one have solution to that. I have tried everything by copying it also but messages not reading.

[viper]

i dunno maybe u got a faulty handset

i aint experience any fault apart from hardware failure on the camera, i did a factory reset and it seems to have cleared the fault, my main problem is bluetooth connection dropping intermittently, just waiting for nokia to get their finger out and release the firmware

[puretoon]

I've used Nokia phones-and only nokia phones, for many years now-infact since I started off with mobiles-and have found most to be superb. The N73 is a brilliant phone, it looks smashing, does just about everything you need it to do, so it's sad you're having problems with yours.
The only 'bugbear' I have is the text side. Both in reading and composing I find the fonts a bit too small and that curser! its a **bleep** when you're composing! can I hell-as-like find it if I've got to correct something. I've also downloaded the JK free vid and find the sound is low-my phones vol is on 10-the highest.
I think the N73 is a little belta in everyway. The O2 store did say their best seller is the sony phone but on looking at it (800i (?)) in both black and silver I still went for the N73.
Yeh the softwares a tadge on the slow side, but comeon...its a phone not a pc.......

Can I suggest taking your phone back to the supplier and letting them have a look?

[voithdriver]

to add my bit,
i was thinking about this today, that when you read around the forums the N73 comes out very bad, but to be fair, i think its because its mainly the bad ones that get reported by the very fact that when there's a problem, the first thing people do is hit the net, but how many do the same when they are happy with their choice.

however, with mine, though i do not use it to its full capacity, so apart from it being a phone that works well, volume is good, though now it has been mentioned i can see what you are meaning about the small fonts in the contacts, but it does not cause me any problems.

Message Edited by orinoco on 22-Dec-2006
06:23 PM

[korngear]

And Nokia N73 ME I would like to say-just rocks!

[anuprav]

N73 just a ROCK!!! yeah its a ROCK which shall has to be thrown.

Did you notice that any other mobile manufacturer brings in initial version then the series like 1,2,3,4 and so on.

Nokia just fools the customers by bringing in New series as people shell out more by first series and then buy other series and this process goes on and on...........

For how long this will continue???? One day or the other day they are going to stop this.

Any operating software which is introduced is first tested and if after that bugs are reported they are urgently attended and it get automatically updated either on the website with auto update or second edition CD is introduced.

For Nokia they keeping bringing in the market the Sets with OLD software that is pre loaded and never bothers to set the thing right before shipping the further sets.

[nj7_]

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22-Dec-2006
04:37 PM
anuprav wrote:


What about are you able to read the messages stored on your SIM CARD????? any any one have solution to that. I have tried everything by copying it also but messages not reading.

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Menu - Messages - Options - SIM messages.

[anuprav]

What about are you able to read the messages stored on your SIM CARD????? any any one have solution to that. I have tried everything by copying it also but messages not reading.

Menu - Messages - Options - SIM messages.

with this it will display all the messages that are stored in SIM card.

In order to read these messages you have to mark all or mark which you want to read then copy them to My folder and from there you will be able to read the SIM messages that too only after copying into folder

[clonmult]

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23-Dec-2006
08:04 AM
anuprav wrote:
Did you notice that any other mobile manufacturer brings in initial version then the series like 1,2,3,4 and so on.

For how long this will continue???? One day or the other day they are going to stop this.

Any operating software which is introduced is first tested and if after that bugs are reported they are urgently attended and it get automatically updated either on the website with auto update or second edition CD is introduced.

For Nokia they keeping bringing in the market the Sets with OLD software that is pre loaded and never bothers to set the thing right before shipping the further sets.

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Please, grow up, or get a grip on reality.

Nokia is no better or worse than any other manufacturer of tech products for revisions after release.

I've only ever worked on ONE system that was close to bullet proof (IBM iSeries mid-range systems), every other system, without exception has had issues, with either security or reliability.

Nokia at least give you a ridiculously simple system for upgrading the firmware yourself, without having to go to a service center (in the same way that SE have done for a year, and Siemens have had for a good 2+ years).

The PSP tends to ship with what, the 2.6 firmware (at least the ones I got at christmas were both 2.6), and needed to be updated to 2.8 before they could play the games.

Firmware updates are nothing new, and will continue to be the way of working.

I'm willing to bet that on the N73, the marketing departments and carriers were pushing like mad to get the phone to market early, which is why the firmware updates came through pretty quickly - the product was probably released maybe a few weeks earlier than the design departments wanted, they knew that the v2 firmware wasn't as reliable as they wanted it to be.

I've worked in applications development for years, and understand the processes and pressures only too well. The way you speak, you'd think that all OSs should be released perfect. Dream on. Is about as likely to happen as George Dubya Bush coming out of the closet and subsequently saying he'd love to bed Saddam Hussein.

[anuprav]

I vey well see the reality. Do microsoft, SUN, IBM bring out any new OS so early. MS is yet to bring VISTA in the market and they are testing the bugs and recently one Russian site has reported the major bug in OS VISTA.

How early Intel brings new processor.They all introduce step by step brings in New Versions. Even chipsets mother boards are introduced by other manufacturers once its get tested by Intel and complaince with the Intel policies.

This all I have to say.

But your entry has to be edited as when I used the same language it got edited.

Is that person reading this post who has deleted the word which he has used.

[matej999]

chill down... its not worth it...

[viper]

ur having probably the worst experience with the phone ever!

[clonmult]

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28-Dec-2006
02:29 PM
anuprav wrote:
I vey well see the reality. Do microsoft, SUN, IBM bring out any new OS so early. MS is yet to bring VISTA in the market and they are testing the bugs and recently one Russian site has reported the major bug in OS VISTA.

How early Intel brings new processor.They all introduce step by step brings in New Versions. Even chipsets mother boards are introduced by other manufacturers once its get tested by Intel and complaince with the Intel policies.

This all I have to say.

But your entry has to be edited as when I used the same language it got edited.

Is that person reading this post who has deleted the word which he has used.

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Intel have a history of bringing out buggy processors, Microsoft have yet to bring out a bugless OS.

The Vista TCP/IP stack is totally new (ie. it will have issues), and due to the way that Microsoft develops the OS, bug fixes generally come through extremely slow. Look at the selling of Vista exploits prior to release. The release version of Vista is final. Sure, they will be working on trying to circumvent the exploits, but from what I've read, Vista seems to have some fundamental security issues that will need a massive kernel re-design to get it secure.

Kudos to Nokia for releasing their firmware updates quickly though - I've had 3 updates to the N73 that fixed the minor niggles I had with it.

The IBM iSeries OS/Platform is the only one I have worked on in 20 years of development that hasn't had major issues.

In general, current hardware/software systems are incredibly complex, and with the best will in the world, they will never be free from issues.

[anuprav]

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29-Dec-2006
08:56 AM
clonmult wrote:

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28-Dec-2006
02:29 PM
anuprav wrote:
I vey well see the reality. Do microsoft, SUN, IBM bring out any new OS so early. MS is yet to bring VISTA in the market and they are testing the bugs and recently one Russian site has reported the major bug in OS VISTA.

How early Intel brings new processor.They all introduce step by step brings in New Versions. Even chipsets mother boards are introduced by other manufacturers once its get tested by Intel and complaince with the Intel policies.

This all I have to say.

But your entry has to be edited as when I used the same language it got edited.

Is that person reading this post who has deleted the word which he has used.

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Intel have a history of bringing out buggy processors, Microsoft have yet to bring out a bugless OS.

The Vista TCP/IP stack is totally new (ie. it will have issues), and due to the way that Microsoft develops the OS, bug fixes generally come through extremely slow. Look at the selling of Vista exploits prior to release. The release version of Vista is final. Sure, they will be working on trying to circumvent the exploits, but from what I've read, Vista seems to have some fundamental security issues that will need a massive kernel re-design to get it secure.

Kudos to Nokia for releasing their firmware updates quickly though - I've had 3 updates to the N73 that fixed the minor niggles I had with it.

The IBM iSeries OS/Platform is the only one I have worked on in 20 years of development that hasn't had major issues.

In general, current hardware/software systems are incredibly complex, and with the best will in the world, they will never be free from issues.

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I think you are working for IBM so NO negative issues.I am the STG (channel partner) of IBM products and I know what problems are faced by the customer. You have yourself counter replied which you have earlier stated that no company has ever brought in reliable OS.

I am even the GID of INTEL

So I know which company has what kind of issues and how much time they take it for resolving it.

[clonmult]

Nope, definitely don't work for any OS vendor ....

The IBM iSeries (As/400, OS/400) in 9 years I worked on it only ever had one failure, just one. Apart from that, it had zero downtime. And it was a seriously large implementation, supporting a company whos turnover was in the billions. The system had been designed from the ground up to be secure and reliable, and apart from that one outage (caused by one very bad memory module), it totally proved its reliability.

None of the other systems at the company could say the same, be they windows or unix boxes.

[radek2007]

You are absolutely right this phone is cack the worst problem is tha error conection and the camera takes purple pics some times over all like u mentioned bad phone nothink to compere to sony ericcson.