N73

The Nokia N73 is a smartphone by Nokia officially described as a "multimedia computer".In common with other Nokia 'N-series' and 'E-Series' phones of its time (late 2006), the N73 comes loaded with many software applications, including contacts, messaging, picture and video galleries, a music player, a Visual FM Radio, RealPlayer, an IM client, a WAP browser, a full web browser based on KHTML/Webkit, a Microsoft Office document viewer, a PDF viewer and some games. The majority of these applications support background execution; for example, one may listen to music whilst browsing the Internet, and then may switch to write a text message or e-mail, without having to close any applications. Non 'smartphones' typically cannot do this or can do it in only a very limited way; for example, only the music player can run in the background. The feature which most distinguishes the N73 from other 'N'- or 'E'-series Nokia mobile phones is the 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera which was the best available at the time of release. The N73 does not support Wi-Fi.In addition to the basic N73, Nokia subsequently released the N73 'Music Edition'. From a hardware perspective, the phone is the same, but the 'multimedia' button on the keypad has been replaced with a button that starts the music player. The Music Edition also includes a 2Gb memory card and the phone is completely black. The Music player on the Music Edition supports Album art and playlists which that on the regular N73 does not. It also has an improved control interface where 'play', 'pause', 'stop', 'next' and 'previous' may all be selected directly by simply pushing the phone joystick in the appropriate direction rather than having to scroll through on-screen buttons for these controls and then select them as on the ordinary N73.