The Music Edition firmware (retro-fittable to standard N73's by some accounts) has as its centre piece a brand new version of Music player, complete with two Windows-style visualisations ('Oscilloscope' and 'Spectrum'), full support for Album Art (especially when syncing across from Windows Media Player) plus optional 'stereo widening' and 'loudness'. Ultimately these are all frills, but when you're aiming at the consumer it pays to tick all the boxes, I guess.
Rounding off the Music Edition are a couple of new themes, 'Waveform' and 'Stave'. Again, ultimately more frills and frippery, but combined with the black case, 'Waveform' at least looks pretty darned cool and gives off the right sort of vibe. (The less said about the awful green, default theme, 'Stave' the better...)
Despite my few marketing digs above, the facelift that is the Music Edition is definitely worthwhile overall. It reinforces another core capability of modern smartphones in a fairly friendly and very cool way - and the fact that it does it to a device which was arguably near the top of a different class of phone - camera phones - means that Nokia has made this doubly attractive.
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