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Nokia N73 Music Edition

This is a special issue of the N73, which is called music edition. Renewed software kit and package contents make the difference between the models. Hardware components are equal.

Class: smartphone, 3G, multimedia
Position in the line: above Nokia N73
Rivals: Sonyericsson K800
The price forms 450-500 Euros
Description based on official information, preliminary

General features
- Announced in April 2006, official announcement on the 26 September 2006
- eGSM 900/1800/1900, WCDMA 2100
- Battery type 1100 mAh Li-Pol (BP-6M)
- Battery life:
- Full recharge takes 2 hours
- High-contrast graphical display, 262000 colours (TFT), the resolution of 240x320 pixels, size 2,4"
- Run by Symbian OS version 9.1 (interface S60 3 edition)
- Weight: 116 gramms
- Dimensions: 110x49x19 mm

Memory
- 42 MBа of memory are shared dynamically between the phone book, the calendar, messages, images and applications
- Memory slot miniSD
- You can assign a photo to a number
- For each name you can store Name and Surname (two lines), Company name, Position, Phone number, Mobile, Fax and E-mail address — totally 8 fields. Add any number of fields.
- No limit on the number of user groups, a capability to assign a name to several groups at the same time
- SIM entries are stored separately, so that you can't view them at the same time with the phone's memory
- Call lists, no limits on the number of entries, all entries have the type specified besides time and duration. Set a storage period for calls in the list(a month by default)

Call management, ringing tones
- Vibracall
- Polyphonic call melodies, True Tones, supported formats include AAC, eAAC+, MP3, RealAudio, WAV
- 64-tones call melody, mp3, AAC, WAV, NB-AMR, WB-AMR
- Voice dial doesn't depend on the pronounciation, no need in recording tags preliminarily
- Speakerphone
- Call duration is shown during a conversation
- Melody editor, assign melodies to names

SMS
- Predictive call input Т9
- Message templates (10 preset and you can change them or add own ones)
- Sending and receiving graphical messages
- Concatenated messages (up to 459 characters)

Camera
- Integrated 3.2-MP camera (CMOS)
- The maximum resolution of 2048x1536 pixels
- Integrated flash usable in the distance of up to 1.5 m
- Anti-red eye effect, scene setting, lighting tune up
- Digital zoom x20
- Autofocus
- Records video with sound (15fps, 352x288 pixels)
- Frontal VGA-camera for video calls

Multimedia
- Stereo FM-radio, Visual Radio
- 3GPP Video Streaming
- RealOne Player: playback of RealMedia and 3GPP-compatible files
- The player supports the following formats: M4A, MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, 64 polyphonic MIDI, WMA
- Remote controller compatible with stereo-earphones
- Musical profile - the smartphone as an mp3 player
- Java (MIDP 2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
- Themes

Connectivity
- WAP 2.0
- Bluetooth v.2.0
- GPRS class 10
- EGPRS (Class B, Multislot class 11)
- E-mail protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 - attachments
- MMS
- Synchronization with PC via Bluetooth or cable
- SyncML
- SMIL
- USB 2.0 via Pop-Port
- PoC or PTT
- Instant Messaging
- VideoCall

Organizer and extras
- User profiles (5), temporary profile
- Time, date
- Calculator, currency converter
- Stopwatch (up to 20 intermediate values), countdown timer
- Organizer supports various events, you can set a reminder
- To-do list
- Dictaphone
- Photoalbum - advanced gallery
- QuikOffice - application supports MS Word, MS PowerPoint
- PDF+
- MIDP JavaTM (2.0), 3D API (JSR-184)
- Upload Java applications
- Games