Nokia 3200
Discontinued 9th November
2003
The
Nokia 3200 is a fully-featured phone with a twist. For
some time now, Nokia and other handset makers have
been building phones with changeable snap-on covers.
The Nokia 3200 goes further than this, supplying paper
templates that can be put into most inkjets and colour
lasers so that people can create a truly individual design,
be it girlfriend, pet cat, football teams or whatever
It may look a little gimmicky on the outside, but underneath
is a very decent multifunction tri-band phone featuring
WAP over GPRS, HSCSD for standard dial-up (where available)
and an XHTML browser, plus an integrated digital
camera, polyphonic ringtones and Java games.There's
predictive text input, MMS and the usual sorts of features
that you'd expect, but then the Nokia 3200 manages to
fit in an FM radio and torch to boot. Somehow
this all fits into a fairly standard 90 gram package
measuring 45x106x20 mm.
There
are a few of points with the Nokia 3200 that not
everyone might like, and the first one of these is the
keypad with it's pretty sparse number of keys. Primarily
designed for games and media control, it seems fiddly
for manual dialling or texting. On the other hand, if
you enjoy playing games and use the phonebook more than
manual dialling, then the 3200 loks good. However, a
fully-loaded lightweight phone like this means a short
battery life, and although the Nokia 3200 has a pretty
good standby time of six days, talktime is typically
two to four hours, ruling it out of most business applications,
which is a shame because a company logo branded phone
could be a good seller.
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