I'm going to be spending the summer in Europe (France and Italy with some likely detours to AMS and maybe the UK) and I'm one of those poor unfortunate Verizon wireless customers.

Deciding that since Verizon screwed me on the matter i'm certainly not giving them any more money I'm shopping for an unlocked GSM phone and looking at a SIM to go along with it.

I think I found a phone I like - any opinions of the Nokia N73? It seems to be a cost-effective solution to get a quad-band GSM phone with decent camera and video capabilities. It occured to me in the shopping process that I likely wont want to carry around my SLR but I certainly will want some random shots of the places I wander into.

Next up, the SIM card- any thoughts or experience with Telestial? I don't know if their pricing is good or not, but they offer a service that tracks you on a google map and makes a little blog that you can even post photos to from your phone. I'm sure all these bits are possible other ways and by other means but I've not seen them easily bundled and offered along with airtime.

Any thoughts?