On using the N73
Nokia’s N73 video phone needs a kickstand. I took the phone out for a test drive, primarily looking at it’s video capabilities and how well it would work as a vlogger’s tool. Impressed not was I. The first thing I tried to do was tape myself ranting randomly. The phone has two cameras, one next to the super nice (and awesomely big) LCD and another on the outside of the phone. The interior camera’s quality was poor enough to not justify using as Internet video. Video phone calls, maybe.
The logical next step is to move on to the main camera. I set the camera down on my desk to aim it at myself and it promptly fell over. All four edges of the camera are beveled, meaning you can’t just set it down anywhere. Hence the need for a kickstand. Nokia offer’s a Music Stand for the phone they’ve pushed as a replacement for a digital camera, but no kickstand. If I was going to regularly use this phone, I would have to mod it somehow, maybe slap some of that sticky, silly puddy type stuff to the bottom when using it. It also begs the question as why does it have a video/pic timer if you can’t set the phone down and then move in front of it.