The Nokia N73 Music Edition



MUSIC EDITION


In addition to the basic N73, Nokia subsequently released the N73 'Music Edition'. It has technically the same hardware as the N73, 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 visualisations, 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. Music Edition's music player is included in the basic N73's current firmware.
However, both versions of the N73 appear to be being changed to have the same software, making them the exact same phone - the V4.0735.3.0.2 dated (01-09-2007) updates the standard N73's Music Player to the same as the N73ME's enhanced Music Player detailed above. Also, during recent UK Nokia poster campaigns, the black (ME) version of the phone was advertised without the term 'Music Edition', and the O2 UK shop sell the N73 in both Silver/Plum and Black, with the Black version having the multimedia button.