N73 was my first Symbian phone and i love it. just switched 3 days ago to N95 and so far i'm missung N73. it's slower than N95, but not too slow even for my "every second counts" style of life. Great camera. joystick sucks for gaming only, for all other tasks -- it's fine. keys are small, but i managed for 7 month to get use to it, so with my medium size tumb (and one hand operation) i can push star key instead of "7" -key (to be exect - a split a second before pressing "7"-key itself) but it not happened too often and i do send 900 SMS/month. i'm menaging to screw up my typing with larger size keys on N95, especially the functional keys, not number ones.
so i'm recomending N73