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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 while
browsing the Internet, and then may switch to write a
text message or e-mail, without having to close any
applications. With the exception of newer Sony Ericsson
phones like K550 and W610, 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. The
N73 does not support Wi-Fi.
Java applications as well as Symbian (S60
release 3) applications can be installed to or removed
from the phone by the user, using either the Nokia PC
Suite software, which is included with the phone, or the
installer application on the phone itself. Notably, Nokia supports firmware upgrades to the N73 to be
made by the user via a module in Nokia PC Suite. Since
the N73 supports access via Bluetooth and USB
Mass Storage (amongst other methods), it is possible to
transfer large collections of files to and from it using
any computer that also supports either Bluetooth or mass
storage via USB (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Linux; Mac OS X
etc.). The N73 uses a database system for the
supplied 'Gallery' applications (which permanently run
in the background, in order to reduce seek and operation
times) and again these databases can be updated locally
on the device itself. This means that supported image,
video and audio files can be placed almost anywhere in
the file system and browsed easily, and in the case of
MP3 audio files, by ID3 tag (e.g. 'album'; 'artist'
etc.).
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