battery life on n73?

I've had mine since Tuesday 7:30AM (I remember because I was woken up by the delivery!) and it lasted just under 3 days standby off the first charge including about 40 minutes worth of calls, 20 minutes browsing on 3G, 20 minutes playing music / radio etc, 20 minutes playing with the camera etc. I charged it over night on Thursday after it started to warn of 'battery low'.

It is now Saturday just before 5PM and since the 2nd charge I've made around 10 mins of calls and used the camera extensively and it is currently displaying full power on the battery indicator (7 bars). Battery life seems about as good as my previous phone the 6230 so far - if not better. I guess after more charge cycles this will improve. 😊

Finally a decent battery! If is like 6230, is enouth.

Glyn81 wrote:I've had mine since Tuesday 7:30AM (I remember because I was woken up by the delivery!) and it lasted just under 3 days standby off the first charge including about 40 minutes worth of calls, 20 minutes browsing on 3G, 20 minutes playing music / radio etc, 20 minutes playing with the camera etc. I charged it over night on Thursday after it started to warn of 'battery low'.

It is now Saturday just before 5PM and since the 2nd charge I've made around 10 mins of calls and used the camera extensively and it is currently displaying full power on the battery indicator (7 bars). Battery life seems about as good as my previous phone the 6230 so far - if not better. I guess after more charge cycles this will improve. 😊

The big question is are u happy with the N73? I was mega disappointed by my N80 (batt life, blurry pics) and sent it back. I have to wait til August 14th for my N73! What's the camera like? My N80 blurred pics at the slightest movement of the subject.

N73, just has said by Glyn81, have a good battery - better then N80. Photos??? But the lens are Carl Zeiss with auto-focus and mechanical shuter - on paper, way better then N80. Let�s see when Glyn81 answer.

I'm very happy, it's easily the best phone I've ever had (so far!). Battery life seems excellent for a phone with so many functions and its only been charged twice so far so this may improve further.

As for photos I have no complaints at all - see my other thread comparing it with my real digital camera. If you move the camera about I'm sure it would create blurry photos but so far I've not experimented much with moving subjects 😊

Not specific to the N73 I'm sure but the Nokia software for the PC is great too, I just plug my phone in with the supplied USB2 data cable and the software can (and is now) set to auto download all photos and videos from the N73 to the PC and then erase them from the phone 😊 It's almost too easy!! It even puts them in dated folders in 'My Pictures' on Windows XP.

Photos taken at the maximum 3.2 Mega pixel setting take around 800-900KB in size. There are so many settings with the camera that I have not tried yet, except the night mode which is really very good but of course you need to be steady with a longer exposure time.

I'd recommend this phone to anyone who wants the best camera phone with symbian. The N80 looks good as one of my friends has one but it sounds like battery life and the camera have issues which kind of out weight any benefit the wi-fi function may bring (at least for me) Why would you need Wi-Fi on a phone exactly? Most hot spots cost money anyway so why not just use 3G, and if I'm at home I have a PC or laptop! 😊

What about software rapidity? Same line of OS v3 devices? How many RAM free after the device starts?

nj7 wrote:N73, just has said by Glyn81, have a good battery - better then N80. Photos??? But the lens are Carl Zeiss with auto-focus and mechanical shuter - on paper, way better then N80. Let�s see when Glyn81 answer.

Technically, the Carl Zeiss Lens should give excellent pictures, and although I haven't done a lot of tests yet, I can say that pictures taken in LOW lighting are just as poor as on any previous Nokia, including the N80. The next Nokia N-Series handest really needs a REAL Flash bulb, not an LED.

Apart from that the N73 is excellent and probably the best offering from Nokia in a long time.

Dez

Glyn81 wrote:As for photos I have no complaints at all - see my other thread comparing it with my real digital camera. If you move the camera about I'm sure it would create blurry photos but so far I've not experimented much with moving subjects 😊

With the N80 I found that if I was photographing people, they had to be really still or the pictures would blur. Just like on a normal camera when the shutter speed is too slow.

SiBradbury wrote:With the N80 I found that if I was photographing people, they had to be really still or the pictures would blur. Just like on a normal camera when the shutter speed is too slow.

It�s a problem of shuter speed! Need to be more fast! What about N73?

nj7 wrote:It�s a problem of shuter speed! Need to be more fast! What about N73?

Showing my ignorance here, but do CCD sensor devices actually have shutten speeds?

Dez

dez_borders wrote:Showing my ignorance here, but do CCD sensor devices actually have shutten speeds?

Dez

Is not a phone related problem, is more, and I don�t know a lot, a photographic problem. The CCD is a surface, an electronic surface, where the light must be focus (by lens). The CCD takes the place of old plastic film. After that, all the things are comon, between analog cameras and digital ones, even if the DSC is a phone. To capture a fast image, it�s necessary a fast shuter and high ISO rating. But, if all that is a mess, seach here: http://www.olympus-europa.com/.
Olympus, usually have a good explanations about DSC cameras and digital capture. But, maybe are others.

nj7 wrote:Is not a phone related problem, is more, and I don�t know a lot, a photographic problem. The CCD is a surface, an electronic surface, where the light must be focus (by lens). The CCD takes the place of old plastic film. After that, all the things are comon, between analog cameras and digital ones, even if the DSC is a phone. To capture a fast image, it�s necessary a fast shuter and high ISO rating. But, if all that is a mess, seach here: http://www.olympus-europa.com/.
Olympus, usually have a good explanations about DSC cameras and digital capture. But, maybe are others.

Thanks for the useful infor m8!

So does that mean a proper flash bulb in a phone would not improve the resulting photo when taken in low lighting?

Dez

battery life on N80 was the worst i have seen ever...terrible,whats the use of having wifi on a phone that the battery will last no more than 1 day with a normal use..hopefully the N73 will last 2-3 days of normal use

dez_borders wrote:Thanks for the useful infor m8!

So does that mean a proper flash bulb in a phone would not improve the resulting photo when taken in low lighting?

Dez

A proper flash increases the light captured by lens, that way, they improve photo quality. But the light in a photo, is another subject, also from photographic world. If the light is to hard, the object with light gets bright, and the background gets dark. So a bulb flash is important, but not all flash works the same way.
See in Olympus site or in dpreview.com.

nj7 wrote:It�s a problem of shuter speed! Need to be more fast! What about N73?

Whatever it is, my 1.3 megapixel 3230 didn't suffer from it! 😃

6630 it�s even worse... but happy You, don�t feel the limitation!

Glyn81 wrote:
As for photos I have no complaints at all - see my other thread comparing it with my real digital camera. If you move the camera about I'm sure it would create blurry photos but so far I've not experimented much with moving subjects 😊

Strangely I have found that if I take a picture of a moving subject - say somebody walking down the street - the picture comes out quite sharp, but if I move the camera the image blurs horribly.