Though it’s been almost two years after the launch of Nokia E71, still the memory of people is clear and fresh saying that it is one of the finest smartphones that Nokia had launched until now. For a while Nokia captured the market, after the introduction of E71 and E72 for a considerable amount of time. But customers faced a bit of problem in buying E72, because there was no carrier for American public. Here is where Nokia E73 Mode pitches in and plays its role smoothly with T-Mobile branding. A reworked version of E72 is what we can call E73.
When we take Nokia E73 in our hand we feel right at home since the first time as it reminded of the comfort feel that E71 gave. Definitely Nokia would preserve its magic trick and efforts to put E73 as close to E71 body and hardware that stole so many customers heart. If allowed to wax poet then it would be nice to say that this new version has 10 millimeters thickness, but when taken for real feel in hands it feels much sleeker. This feature has been made by some creative curves on the side and back of the handset.
The battery is safeguarded by a metallic cover, quite a solid piece of metal that protects the phones delicate areas that needs some durable shield. What we have observed though there is enough protection given to the battery cover but it tends to smudge and become sticky and oily.
The key design is quite similar to E71; the rows are straight across where it should have been a bit curved. We definitely think that not having a clear and well-designed QWERT keyboard could bring its momentum a bit on downside, thoughit’s not sad enough to break the deal. So we expected that Nokia would have worked on the keyboard a bit more before launching it for the users.
Even the navigation keys that are above the keyboard are not as comfortable as expected. The center area is dominated by the D pad, a four way ring with an optical; pad in the center. Actually it seems Nokia got over ambitious, where they have provided the rocker and optical pad together in this handset which is creating a bit of hassle. The pad is a bit uncomfortable to swipe when the ring surrounds it, but tackling this was not much of a problem as switching off the optical pad solved this issue. Critics say that either an optical pad or a rocker ring would have sufficed instead of both in the single handset. Overall we can say those who are Nokia fans and love handling earlier E series would probably invest in this smartphone.
