Nokia E73 Mode Review

By Chris Ziegler posted Jun 14th 2010 9:00AM

Some two years after its release, there are still plenty of people who'll swear up and down that the E71 is the finest phone Nokia has ever produced -- and for good reason. As a platform, S60 was the product of a simpler time when the smartphone market was dominated not by touchscreens, but by numeric keypads, and the E71 was arguably the last of a string of bona fide successes that Nokia enjoyed in the platform's heyday alongside pioneering handsets like the N82 and N95. Thing is, the E71 was different than those other models in a very important way: it was elegant. Historically, Nokias have typically favored function over form and saved the highest-quality materials for the Vertu line, but the E71 bucked that trend -- it was slim, sexy, chock-full of metal, and curved in all the right places. In fact, to this day, it remains one of the best-looking, best-feeling smartphones ever made.

Customers (and reviewers) made their love for the E71 clear, and Nokia sought to recapture the glory with the introduction of the refined, upgraded E72. For Americans, of course, the biggest problem with the E72 was that you couldn't buy it from a carrier -- and unlike the E71, it never got much traction as an unlocked purchase. That's where the E73 Mode comes into play, a mildly reworked version of the E72 with T-Mobile branding and, of course, support for 3G on T-Mobile's AWS bands. Put bluntly, though, this is still just a warmed-over E71 -- and in 2010, is there a market for that? Let's have a look.

Nokia E73 Mode review

Having been nearly a year since we'd used an E71, we felt right at home the first time we wrapped our hand around the E73 -- it's obvious that Nokia put effort into preserving the magic that made the E71 such a great piece of hardware. For those of you who haven't played with an E71, though, you don't know what that means -- so allow us to wax poetic for a bit. The E73 clocks in at just over 10 millimeters thick, but for some reason, it feels even thinner; that's probably a result of some creative curves along either side of the back, a trick similar to the E71's. The battery cover is a solid piece of metal that looks and feels great, though it has a tendency to smudge and oil up very, very easily, so you'll want to keep a lint-free cloth (or, you know, a shirt sleeve) handy for when you're trying to keep appearances.

The E73 also shares what might be its single most important trait with the E71: rock-solid construction. Nokias -- even modern devices like the N97 and N900 -- have a tendency toward the plastic end of the spectrum, and creaks, squeaks, and wobbles aren't out of the question (the N95 was particularly notorious for feeling a little cheap). That might all change with the N8, but for now, the kind of monocoque shell employed by the E73 is still a bit of a rarity. It feels absolutely fantastic in the hand, perfectly weighted and contoured.

If there was a complaint to be levied against the E71's design, it'd have to be the keyboard; the rows were straight across rather than being curved upwards like most well-regarded portrait QWERTY handsets (BlackBerrys, for instance), and the keys -- while well-contoured -- didn't have quite enough "click" to them. The E73 adds a hint of curve, but the key design and feel remain the same. We're not huge on portrait QWERTY keyboards in general, admittedly -- but whereas we'd be able to get proficient on a BlackBerry Bold within a minute of picking it up, we never stopped regularly making typos on the E73. It wasn't disastrous enough to break the deal, but we do think Nokia could've made some minor changes here that would've helped immensely.

Similarly, the navigation keys above the keyboard are a little weird (albeit for different reasons). This is actually an area where the Mode has taken a small step backward from the E71, because the shortcut keys for Home, Calendar, Address Book, and Mail are no longer delineated. Instead, they share the same piece of plastic as the soft keys and the Send / End buttons, giving the functions far less positive feel than we'd like -- especially since they're mushy, to boot. The center is dominated by the d-pad, a four-way rocking ring with an optical pad in the middle. It seems Nokia got a little too ambitious here with the spec sheet; they should've picked a rocker or an optical pad, not both, because we found the pad uncomfortable to "swipe" when it's surrounded by a raised ring. It's not a huge problem -- we just turned off the optical pad and used the ring the same way you would on an E71 -- but we would've been fine with a properly-designed optical pad alone, too.

The screen is a landscape QVGA unit, a relic of days gone by -- but that's just a reflection of the underlying operating system as much as anything else. Using the E73 is a serious time warp, though it does at least manage to use S60 3.2, a bump up from the Eseries-customized build of 3.1 used on the E71. In practice, that means you'll enjoy some quaint screen transitions (which look pretty awful compared to the transitions on any current Android device or iPhone), a clock and third soft key on many screens, a new gallery app, and other refinements sprinkled throughout. The browser is typical S60 fare, which is to say quite good -- by 2007 standards, anyway -- employing a WebKit rendering engine along with Flash Lite 3.0 support. Sure enough, Engadget's full site, our gold standard for this sort of test, rendered just fine -- but it was painfully slow to complete and actually continued to periodically freeze up while scrolling even after loading had completed (probably Flash's fault, if we had to guess). Indeed, the E73's processor, just like the platform itself, is straight out of yesteryear.

On the bright side, T-Mobile has done a marvelous job of staying hands-off with the E73's software build, leaving it nearly bone stock (compare that to the debacle of AT&T's butchered E71x, for instance). Don't get us wrong, there's quite a bit of software in ROM, but it's actually all stuff you probably would've downloaded anyway, believe it or not -- no, seriously. Stuff like Google Mobile, YouTube, Adobe Reader, QuickOffice, Psiloc's Wireless Presenter, and Ovi Maps with free turn-by-turn nav is all bundled, and about the only two things you'll find with a whiff of T-Mobile influence are TeleNav and access to visual voicemail. Good stuff.

Nokia isn't really playing up the E73's front-facing camera, and it turns out there's a good reason for that. Strangely, this is one place where T-Mobile's ROM customization actually didn't go far enough, because the E73 lets you try to place video calls as though you were connected to a network that supports them (T-Mobile's network -- just like AT&T's -- does not). You do this just as you would on any other modern S60 phone, so it's obvious that someone just forgot to take out this menu item; clicking on it tries to make a call, followed by an error message a couple seconds later. Not a big deal, but it's a little sloppy. What bothers us more is that there's no great way to video call on the phone over Skype or a similar service; Fring is the only viable option that we're aware of, but it's awkward to use and (in our case, anyway) extremely buggy. We'd recommend sticking with voice until Fring gets better -- way, way better -- or another player like Qik gets into the game.

Speaking of the camera, the E73's primary shooter -- a 5 megapixel unit with LED flash -- wasn't half bad, especially considering that the phone is far from a multimedia-centric device. We'd love to have had a dedicated two-position camera key, but in lieu of that, we found autofocus and shutter lag to be pretty minimal. Picture quality was pretty solid, with little noise and a JPEG compression rate high enough to keep visible distortion to a minimum. Macro mode was a bit weak -- we couldn't focus nearly as close as we can on most modern handsets with dedicated macro modes -- but it still gave us an advantage for close-up shots over the standard setting.

As audio quality goes, the Mode's earpiece was crisp and very loud at the maximum setting; the loudspeaker less so, which surprised us considering the large three-hole grill to the left of the camera lens. It's usable in a room with little to moderate noise, but recently, we've noticed a trend toward very loud speakerphones on these devices that can nearly hold their own against traditional desk phones -- and needless to say, the E73 doesn't fall into that category. That might not be a big deal for many potential buyers, but considering the Eseries' traditionally business-heavy leanings, it's more of a consideration than it'd be otherwise.

Wrap-up

Unlike T-Mobile's other recent Symbian offering -- the forgettable Nuron -- we're inclined to think that the E73 has earned its keep, and there are people out there for whom this phone legitimately makes sense. Don't get us wrong, anyone coming from a G1, myTouch 3G, iPhone, Pre, or the like is going to be troubled by S60's aged, tired feel, but at the end of the day, this is still a very capable, versatile platform that can do pretty much anything you need it to -- as long as you know how to coax it, you can figure out what software to download, and you've got enough patience to let that geriatric silicon plod along.

What ultimately makes the Mode a potential winner, though, is the price -- we're talking about $69.99 for a legitimate 5 megapixel smartphone that looks (and feels) like it's been wrought from a single ingot of steel. S60's still a tough sell against virtually any other smartphone platform in T-Mobile's lineup today, sure, but when you consider that throwaway dumbphones like the Samsung Comeback and Highlight are selling in the same price range, it becomes a more interesting proposition. Indeed, Nokia has made no secret of the fact that it's looking to Symbian to help push smartphone tech deeper into the low end of the market over the next several years -- and if that means gorgeous $70 hardware, that's just fine by us.

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Some two years after its release, there are still plenty of people who'll swear up and down that the E71 is the finest phone Nokia has ever produced -- and for good reason. Beberapa dua tahun setelah rilis, masih banyak orang yang akan bersumpah atas dan ke bawah bahwa E71 adalah ponsel Nokia terbaik yang pernah dihasilkan - dan untuk alasan yang baik. As a platform, S60 was the product of a simpler time when the smartphone market was dominated not by touchscreens, but by numeric keypads, and the E71 was arguably the last of a string of bona fide successes that Nokia enjoyed in the platform's heyday alongside pioneering handsets like the N82 and N95 . Sebagai platform, S60 adalah produk dari waktu sederhana ketika pasar smartphone didominasi bukan oleh touchscreens, tetapi dengan keypad numerik, dan E71 itu bisa dibilang yang terakhir dari serangkaian keberhasilan bonafide bahwa Nokia dinikmati di platform masa kejayaan tersebut bersama perintis handset seperti N82 dan N95 . Thing is, the E71 was different than those other models in a very important way: it was elegant. Masalahnya, E71 berbeda dibandingkan model lain dengan cara yang sangat penting: itu elegan. Historically, Nokias have typically favored function over form and saved the highest-quality materials for the Vertu line, but the E71 bucked that trend -- it was slim, sexy, chock-full of metal, and curved in all the right places. Secara historis, biasanya disukai Nokias memiliki fungsi lebih dari bentuk dan menyelamatkan kualitas bahan tertinggi untuk Vertu garis, tapi E71 Yorkshire melawan bahwa tren - itu ramping, seksi, sesak-penuh dengan logam, dan melengkung di semua tempat yang tepat. In fact, to this day, it remains one of the best-looking, best-feeling smartphones ever made. Bahkan, sampai hari ini, tetap salah satu, smartphone paling tampan perasaan terbaik yang pernah dibuat.

Customers (and reviewers) made their love for the E71 clear, and Nokia sought to recapture the glory with the introduction of the refined, upgraded E72 . Pelanggan (dan peninjau) yang dibuat cinta mereka untuk jelas E71, dan Nokia berusaha merebut kembali kemuliaan dengan diperkenalkannya halus, upgrade E72 . For Americans, of course, the biggest problem with the E72 was that you couldn't buy it from a carrier -- and unlike the E71, it never got much traction as an unlocked purchase. Untuk Amerika, tentu saja, masalah terbesar dengan E72 adalah bahwa Anda tidak bisa membelinya dari operator - dan tidak seperti E71, tidak pernah punya banyak daya tarik sebagai terkunci pembelian. That's where the E73 Mode comes into play, a mildly reworked version of the E72 with T-Mobile branding and, of course, support for 3G on T-Mobile's AWS bands. Di situlah Mode E73 datang ke dalam bermain, versi agak ulang dari E72 dengan T-Mobile branding dan, tentu saja, dukungan untuk 3G pada band AWS T-Mobile. Put bluntly, though, this is still just a warmed-over E71 -- and in 2010, is there a market for that? Terus terang, meskipun, ini masih hanya dipanaskan lagi E71 - dan pada tahun 2010, apakah ada pasar untuk itu? Let's have a look. Mari kita lihat.

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Having been nearly a year since we'd used an E71, we felt right at home the first time we wrapped our hand around the E73 -- it's obvious that Nokia put effort into preserving the magic that made the E71 such a great piece of hardware. Setelah hampir satu tahun sejak kami menggunakan sebuah E71, kami merasa seperti di rumah pertama kalinya kami membungkus tangan kita sekitar E73 - sudah jelas bahwa Nokia dimasukkan usaha dalam melestarikan sihir yang membuat seperti E71 sepotong besar perangkat keras . For those of you who haven't played with an E71, though, you don't know what that means -- so allow us to wax poetic for a bit. Bagi anda yang belum bermain dengan E71, meskipun, Anda tidak tahu apa artinya - sehingga memungkinkan kita untuk lilin puitis sebentar. The E73 clocks in at just over 10 millimeters thick, but for some reason, it feels even thinner; that's probably a result of some creative curves along either side of the back, a trick similar to the E71's. Jam E73 in di lebih dari 10 milimeter tebal, tapi untuk beberapa alasan, rasanya lebih kurus, itu mungkin hasil dari beberapa kurva kreatif di sepanjang kedua sisi belakang, trik mirip dengan E71 itu. The battery cover is a solid piece of metal that looks and feels great, though it has a tendency to smudge and oil up very, very easily, so you'll want to keep a lint-free cloth (or, you know, a shirt sleeve) handy for when you're trying to keep appearances. Penutup baterai adalah bagian padat dari logam yang terlihat dan merasa besar, meskipun memiliki kecenderungan untuk noda dan minyak dengan sangat, sangat mudah, sehingga Anda akan ingin menyimpan kain-bebas (atau, Anda tahu, kaos lengan) berguna ketika Anda mencoba untuk menjaga penampilan.

The E73 also shares what might be its single most important trait with the E71: rock-solid construction. Para E73 juga berbagi apa yang mungkin satu ciri yang paling penting dengan E71: konstruksi rock-solid. Nokias -- even modern devices like the N97 and N900 -- have a tendency toward the plastic end of the spectrum, and creaks, squeaks, and wobbles aren't out of the question (the N95 was particularly notorious for feeling a little cheap). Nokias - bahkan perangkat modern seperti N97 dan N900 - memiliki kecenderungan plastik akhir spektrum, dan creaks, berderit, dan bergetar tidak keluar dari pertanyaan (N95 ini terutama terkenal karena merasa sedikit murah) . That might all change with the N8 , but for now, the kind of monocoque shell employed by the E73 is still a bit of a rarity. Itu semua mungkin berubah dengan N8 , tetapi untuk sekarang, jenis shell monocoque dipekerjakan oleh E73 masih sedikit langka. It feels absolutely fantastic in the hand, perfectly weighted and contoured. Rasanya sangat fantastis di tangan, sempurna tertimbang dan berkontur.

If there was a complaint to be levied against the E71's design, it'd have to be the keyboard; the rows were straight across rather than being curved upwards like most well-regarded portrait QWERTY handsets (BlackBerrys, for instance), and the keys -- while well-contoured -- didn't have quite enough "click" to them. Jika ada keluhan akan dikenakan terhadap desain E71, itu harus menjadi keyboard, baris yang lurus bukannya melengkung ke atas seperti handset potret dianggap paling baik QWERTY (BlackBerry, misalnya), dan tombol - sementara baik-berkontur - tidak memiliki cukup "klik" untuk mereka. The E73 adds a hint of curve, but the key design and feel remain the same. E73 menambahkan sedikit kurva, tetapi merupakan kunci perancangan dan merasa tetap sama. We're not huge on portrait QWERTY keyboards in general, admittedly -- but whereas we'd be able to get proficient on a BlackBerry Bold within a minute of picking it up, we never stopped regularly making typos on the E73. Kami tidak besar pada keyboard QWERTY potret secara umum, diakui - tetapi bahwa kita akan bisa mendapatkan mahir pada BlackBerry Bold dalam menit mengambilnya, kami tidak pernah berhenti secara teratur membuat kesalahan ketik pada E73 ini. It wasn't disastrous enough to break the deal, but we do think Nokia could've made some minor changes here that would've helped immensely. Bukan bencana cukup untuk memecahkan kesepakatan itu, tapi kami pikir Nokia dapat telah membuat beberapa perubahan kecil di sini yang telah membantu sangat.

Similarly, the navigation keys above the keyboard are a little weird (albeit for different reasons). Demikian pula, tombol navigasi di atas keyboard yang sedikit aneh (meskipun untuk alasan yang berbeda). This is actually an area where the Mode has taken a small step backward from the E71, because the shortcut keys for Home, Calendar, Address Book, and Mail are no longer delineated. Ini sebenarnya area mana Mode telah mengambil langkah kecil mundur dari E71, karena tombol pintas untuk Home, Kalender, Buku Alamat, dan Mail tidak lagi digambarkan. Instead, they share the same piece of plastic as the soft keys and the Send / End buttons, giving the functions far less positive feel than we'd like -- especially since they're mushy, to boot. Sebaliknya, mereka berbagi bagian yang sama dari plastik sebagai tombol lembut dan tombol Send / End, memberikan fungsi jauh lebih sedikit positif merasa dari yang kita ingin - terutama karena mereka lembek, untuk boot. The center is dominated by the d-pad, a four-way rocking ring with an optical pad in the middle. Pusat ini didominasi oleh d-pad, empat arah goyang cincin dengan pad optik di tengah. It seems Nokia got a little too ambitious here with the spec sheet; they should've picked a rocker or an optical pad, not both, because we found the pad uncomfortable to "swipe" when it's surrounded by a raised ring. Tampaknya Nokia punya sedikit terlalu ambisius sini dengan lembar spec; mereka harus sudah mengambil rocker atau pad optik, tidak keduanya, karena kami menemukan pad tidak nyaman untuk "menggesek" ketika itu dikelilingi oleh cincin terangkat. It's not a huge problem -- we just turned off the optical pad and used the ring the same way you would on an E71 -- but we would've been fine with a properly-designed optical pad alone, too. Ini bukan masalah besar - kita hanya dimatikan pad optik dan menggunakan cincin dengan cara yang sama Anda akan pada E71 - tapi kami pasti sudah baik dengan pad optik benar-dirancang sendiri, juga.

The screen is a landscape QVGA unit, a relic of days gone by -- but that's just a reflection of the underlying operating system as much as anything else. Layar adalah satuan lanskap QVGA, sebuah peninggalan dari masa lalu - tapi itu hanya sebuah refleksi dari sistem operasi yang mendasari sebanyak apa pun. Using the E73 is a serious time warp, though it does at least manage to use S60 3.2, a bump up from the Eseries-customized build of 3.1 used on the E71. Menggunakan E73 adalah warp waktu serius, meskipun ia paling tidak berhasil menggunakan S60 3.2, bump up dari-Eseries disesuaikan membangun dari 3,1 digunakan pada E71. In practice, that means you'll enjoy some quaint screen transitions (which look pretty awful compared to the transitions on any current Android device or iPhone), a clock and third soft key on many screens, a new gallery app, and other refinements sprinkled throughout. Dalam praktek, yang berarti Anda akan menikmati beberapa layar transisi kuno (yang tampak cantik mengerikan dibandingkan dengan transisi pada perangkat Android saat ini atau iPhone), jam dan tombol layar ketiga pada layar banyak, sebuah aplikasi galeri baru, dan perbaikan lainnya ditaburi seluruh. The browser is typical S60 fare, which is to say quite good -- by 2007 standards, anyway -- employing a WebKit rendering engine along with Flash Lite 3.0 support. Browser ini S60 tarif khas, yang berarti cukup baik - pada tahun 2007 standar, anyway - menggunakan mesin rendering WebKit bersama dengan dukungan Flash Lite 3.0. Sure enough, Engadget's full site, our gold standard for this sort of test, rendered just fine -- but it was painfully slow to complete and actually continued to periodically freeze up while scrolling even after loading had completed (probably Flash's fault, if we had to guess). Benar saja, situs lengkap Engadget's, emas standar kami untuk jenis uji, diberikan baik-baik saja - tapi sangat lambat untuk menyelesaikan dan benar-benar terus secara berkala membeku sementara bergulir bahkan setelah loading telah selesai (mungkin kesalahan Flash, jika kita telah menebak). Indeed, the E73's processor, just like the platform itself, is straight out of yesteryear. Memang, prosesor E73, hanya seperti platform itu sendiri, adalah langsung dari tadi.

On the bright side, T-Mobile has done a marvelous job of staying hands-off with the E73's software build, leaving it nearly bone stock (compare that to the debacle of AT&T's butchered E71x , for instance). Di sisi terang, T-Mobile telah melakukan pekerjaan luar biasa tinggal lepas tangan dengan software E73 membangun, meninggalkannya tulang saham hampir (membandingkan dengan bencana AT & T dibantai E71x , misalnya). Don't get us wrong, there's quite a bit of software in ROM, but it's actually all stuff you probably would've downloaded anyway, believe it or not -- no, seriously. Jangan sampai kita salah, ada cukup banyak perangkat lunak dalam ROM, tapi itu sebenarnya semua barang Anda mungkin akan men-download anyway, percaya atau tidak - tidak, serius. Stuff like Google Mobile, YouTube, Adobe Reader, QuickOffice, Psiloc's Wireless Presenter, and Ovi Maps with free turn-by-turn nav is all bundled, and about the only two things you'll find with a whiff of T-Mobile influence are TeleNav and access to visual voicemail. Hal-hal seperti Google Mobile, YouTube, Adobe Reader, QuickOffice, Psiloc Wireless Presenter, dan Ovi Maps dengan bebas turn-by-turn nav adalah semua paket, dan tentang hanya ada dua hal yang Anda akan menemukan dengan bau pengaruh T-mobile TeleNav dan akses ke visual voicemail. Good stuff. Good stuff.

Nokia isn't really playing up the E73's front-facing camera, and it turns out there's a good reason for that. Nokia tidak benar-benar bermain sampai kamera E73 yang menghadap ke depan, dan ternyata ada alasan yang baik untuk itu. Strangely, this is one place where T-Mobile's ROM customization actually didn't go far enough, because the E73 lets you try to place video calls as though you were connected to a network that supports them (T-Mobile's network -- just like AT&T's -- does not). Anehnya, ini adalah satu tempat di mana kustomisasi ROM T-Mobile sebenarnya tidak pergi cukup jauh, karena E73 memungkinkan Anda mencoba untuk menempatkan panggilan video seolah-olah Anda sedang tersambung ke jaringan yang mendukung mereka (jaringan T-Mobile - seperti AT & T - tidak). You do this just as you would on any other modern S60 phone, so it's obvious that someone just forgot to take out this menu item; clicking on it tries to make a call, followed by an error message a couple seconds later. Anda melakukan ini sama seperti yang Anda lakukan pada setiap ponsel S60 modern lainnya, jadi jelas bahwa seseorang hanya lupa untuk mengambil item menu ini; mengkliknya mencoba membuat panggilan, diikuti dengan pesan kesalahan beberapa detik kemudian. Not a big deal, but it's a little sloppy. Bukan masalah besar, tapi sedikit ceroboh. What bothers us more is that there's no great way to video call on the phone over Skype or a similar service; Fring is the only viable option that we're aware of, but it's awkward to use and (in our case, anyway) extremely buggy. Apa yang mengganggu kita lagi adalah bahwa tidak ada cara yang bagus untuk panggilan video pada telepon melalui Skype atau layanan serupa, Fring adalah satu-satunya pilihan yang layak bahwa kita sadar, tapi canggung untuk menggunakan dan (dalam kasus kami, tentu saja) sangat buggy. We'd recommend sticking with voice until Fring gets better -- way, way better -- or another player like Qik gets into the game. Kami merekomendasikan mencuat dengan suara sampai Fring menjadi lebih baik - jalan, cara yang lebih baik - atau pemain lain seperti Qik masuk ke dalam permainan.

Speaking of the camera, the E73's primary shooter -- a 5 megapixel unit with LED flash -- wasn't half bad, especially considering that the phone is far from a multimedia-centric device. Berbicara tentang kamera, penembak utama E73's - unit 5 megapiksel dengan lampu kilat LED - tidak setengah buruk, terutama mengingat bahwa ponsel jauh dari perangkat multimedia-sentris. We'd love to have had a dedicated two-position camera key, but in lieu of that, we found autofocus and shutter lag to be pretty minimal. Kami ingin memiliki kunci dua posisi kamera khusus, tetapi sebagai pengganti itu, kami menemukan autofocus dan lag rana untuk menjadi sangat minim. Picture quality was pretty solid, with little noise and a JPEG compression rate high enough to keep visible distortion to a minimum. Kualitas gambar cukup padat, dengan suara kecil dan tingkat kompresi JPEG cukup tinggi untuk menjaga distorsi terlihat minimum. Macro mode was a bit weak -- we couldn't focus nearly as close as we can on most modern handsets with dedicated macro modes -- but it still gave us an advantage for close-up shots over the standard setting. mode Makro agak lemah - kami tidak bisa fokus hampir sedekat kita dapat di handset paling modern dengan mode makro khusus - tetapi masih memberi kami keuntungan untuk close-up terhadap pengaturan standar.

As audio quality goes, the Mode's earpiece was crisp and very loud at the maximum setting; the loudspeaker less so, which surprised us considering the large three-hole grill to the left of the camera lens. Sebagai kualitas audio pergi, lubang suara Mode itu renyah dan sangat keras pada setelan maksimum, loudspeaker kurang begitu, yang mengejutkan kami mempertimbangkan grill tiga-lubang besar di sebelah kiri lensa kamera. It's usable in a room with little to moderate noise, but recently, we've noticed a trend toward very loud speakerphones on these devices that can nearly hold their own against traditional desk phones -- and needless to say, the E73 doesn't fall into that category. Ini dapat digunakan dalam ruangan dengan sedikit kebisingan moderat, tetapi baru-baru ini, kami telah melihat kecenderungan speakerphone sangat keras pada perangkat ini yang hampir dapat menahan mereka sendiri terhadap telepon meja tradisional - dan perlu untuk mengatakan, E73 tidak jatuh dalam kategori tersebut. That might not be a big deal for many potential buyers, but considering the Eseries' traditionally business-heavy leanings, it's more of a consideration than it'd be otherwise. Itu mungkin bukan masalah besar bagi para calon pembeli banyak, tapi mengingat kecenderungan yang Eseries 'tradisional bisnis-berat, ini lebih dari pertimbangan daripada itu akan menjadi sebaliknya.

Wrap-up Ringkasan

Unlike T-Mobile's other recent Symbian offering -- the forgettable Nuron -- we're inclined to think that the E73 has earned its keep, and there are people out there for whom this phone legitimately makes sense. Tidak seperti yang lainnya baru-baru ini menawarkan Symbian-Mobile T - yang Terlupakan Nuron - kita cenderung berpikir bahwa E73 telah memperoleh yang tetap, dan ada orang di luar sana untuk siapa ponsel ini sah masuk akal. Don't get us wrong, anyone coming from a G1 , myTouch 3G , iPhone , Pre , or the like is going to be troubled by S60's aged, tired feel, but at the end of the day, this is still a very capable, versatile platform that can do pretty much anything you need it to -- as long as you know how to coax it, you can figure out what software to download, and you've got enough patience to let that geriatric silicon plod along. Jangan sampai kita salah, siapa pun yang berasal dari G1 , 3G , iPhone , Pra , atau sejenisnya akan menjadi terganggu dengan usia, S60 merasa lelah, tapi pada akhir hari, ini masih sangat mampu, platform serbaguna yang dapat melakukan cukup banyak hal yang Anda butuhkan untuk - selama Anda tahu bagaimana membujuk itu, Anda dapat mengetahui apa software untuk download, dan Anda punya cukup kesabaran untuk membiarkan hal itu silikon bekerja keras sepanjang usia.

What ultimately makes the Mode a potential winner, though, is the price -- we're talking about $69.99 for a legitimate 5 megapixel smartphone that looks (and feels) like it's been wrought from a single ingot of steel. Apa yang akhirnya membuat Mode pemenang potensial, meskipun, adalah harga - kita bicarakan $ 69,99 untuk sebuah smartphone 5 megapiksel sah yang terlihat (dan terasa) seperti itu sudah tempa dari tunggal ingot baja. S60's still a tough sell against virtually any other smartphone platform in T-Mobile's lineup today, sure, but when you consider that throwaway dumbphones like the Samsung Comeback and Highlight are selling in the same price range, it becomes a more interesting proposition. S60 masih menjual keras terhadap hampir semua platform smartphone lain di hari ini jajaran T-Mobile, yakin, tetapi ketika Anda menganggap bahwa sekali pakai dumbphones seperti Comeback Samsung dan Sorot menjual dalam kisaran harga yang sama, ia menjadi sebuah proposisi lebih menarik. Indeed, Nokia has made no secret of the fact that it's looking to Symbian to help push smartphone tech deeper into the low end of the market over the next several years -- and if that means gorgeous $70 hardware, that's just fine by us. Memang, Nokia tidak merahasiakan fakta bahwa itu mencari untuk Symbian untuk membantu mendorong smartphone berteknologi lebih dalam ke ujung rendah dari pasar selama beberapa tahun mendatang - dan jika itu berarti hardware $ 70 cantik, yang baik-baik saja oleh kami.