Nokia 6282
Available
now 2nd December 2005 Discuss this
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The Nokia 6282 is an unusual beast -
but on the surface, it looks pretty normal - it's a
3G slider with a large 320x240 pixel display, expandable
memory and a 1 megapixel digital camera. At its heart
though, the 6282 is very different from most other 3G
phones as it's one of the first handsets to be made
for the UMTS 1900 networks being created in the
US and Canada.
This version of UMTS is unusual because
most of the world uses UMTS operating at 2100 MHz which
is a dedicated frequency range for this type of communication,
however in the US and Canada there is no dedicated frequency
and UMTS has to share the same frequency range as GSM,
in the 1900 MHz range. You don't have to be an expert
to realise that trying to operate both 2G (GSM) and
3G (UMTS) in the same frequency range might be. In the
US, the main 3G rival to UMTS is the CDMA2000 standard
which does not have the same radio frequency issues.
Because the UMTS 1900 networks in North
America as still very new, and currently there's a lack
of UMTS 1900 handsets available, notably there is the
Motorola A845 and the upcoming Nokia
N80 will also support the 1900 MHz band.
Back
to the 6282 though - this is clearly a phone very closely
related to the 3G Nokia
6280. There's a 2.2" display with 240x320
pixel resolution, multimedia player, miniSD memory card
expansion and a FM radio. Unlike the 6280, the 6282
only has a 1 megapixel digital camera (the 6280's is
2 megapixel) and it doesn't have video calling capabilities.
In addition to UMTS 1900, the 6282 supports GSM 850/1800/1900
and presumably GPRS, but Nokia make no mention of EDGE
support. Unlike the similar Nokia N80 (also to
be released in the US) this isn't a Series 60
smartphone, instead it runs the less capable Series
40 operating system, but that should still be good enough
for most people. The N80 also supports UMTS 2100, EDGE
and quad-band GSM so it's considerably more capable
than the 6282 even it looks similar at first glance.
It seems odd that the 6282 has a lower
specification than the 6280, but perhaps this is just
a question of market positioning and cost. Although
the price of the 6282 hasn't yet been confirmed, based
on the price of the 6280 we would think that this handset
would be about $500 before subsidy and taxes (compared
to over $600 for the N80). The handset will be available
sometime in 2006.
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Nokia
6282 Provisional Specifications
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Available:
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2006
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Network:
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UMTS
1900 + GSM 850/1800/1900
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Data:
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UMTS
+ GPRS
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Screen:
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240x320
pixels, 252k colours
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Camera:
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1.0
megapixels
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Size:
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Large
slider 100x46x21mm /
115 grams approx
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Infra-red:
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Not
known
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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2-5
hours talk / 10 days standby
(estimated)
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