Summary: GREAT PHONE, GOOD AMOUNT OF MEMORY, PICTURES ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR EVEN AT LOWER MEGAPIXED SETTINGS. CAMERA HAS SO MANY OPTIONS YOU CAN'T HELP BUT GET A GOOD SHOT. CONSTRUCTION COULD BE A BIT MORE SOLID BUT THIS IS ALL I WOULD HAVE REGARDLESS OF PRICE.

Summary: Nokia N73 is a good example of an excellent design plagued by poor implementation. The phone's integrated camera with Zeiss optics is probably the best in its class (until Sony K850i comes out), the display is large, sharp, with strong back-light, Symbian O/S is as functional as Windows Mobile, but more stable (no lost SMS messages or voice mail notifications, ever). Music player, as well as FM radio, sound quality is excellent, overall battery life is good. Feature-wise, the phone definitely looks like a keeper, however, the phone's manufacturing quality leaves a lot to be desired. The slide-on camera cover rattles, numeric keypad strangely squeaks under only moderate pressure, miniSD card slot plastic cover bends out easily, the entire device feels... FRAGILE. The joystick is horrible: not only too flat and too receded to be used comfortably even with slightest sweat on your fingers, but also went from \"rigid\" to \"dead-stick\" after (2) weeks of use, even though my fingers are usually quite delicate (used to play a classical guitar for some years). As of July 2007, Nokia has only one repair center in the U.S. and even though Nokia support is always very courteous and genuinely tries to help, they have been unable to produce a repaired or a replacement N73 within (45) days. Yes, forty-five. Unless things change considerably, consider repair service for N73 non-existent.

Summary: I switched from N70 to this N73. They both have a very similar design but the N73 has a much better camera. It also has 3 speakers (2 top, 1 bottom) which provide exceptional quality. My girlfriend loves this phone so much and she's buying one for herself pretty soon.