Nokia 3230
Discontinued 2nd November 2004
From time-to-time Nokia like to stir
things up a bit, and the Nokia 3230 is one of those
times. This handset's classification as a 3000-series
phone means that Nokia are pitching it at the younger
market, but this is no cheap and cheerful handset, indeed
it sports Nokia's best digital camera to date.
In plain hardware terms, this is a tri-band
GSM phone with GPRS. The Nokia 3230 has a large 176x220
pixel display in 65,000 colours and taked reduced size
MMC (RS-MMC) cards, with a 32Mb card as standard. The
Nokia 3230 can be connected to a headset, PC or other
accessory via Bluetooth. There's stereo audio output
for playing back audio and video files, and the 3230
can capture and edit video too. [please see this
update
on the 3230's MP3 capabilities]
The Nokia 3230 supports Java for games
and other applications, and one interested bundled game
is called Agent V which makes use of the camera
and the inbuilt motion sensor (a feature borrowed from
the 3220).
The camera has an effective resolution of 1.23 megapixels
for stills pictures, and these can be sent to a PC,
via MMS (although the picture may degrade) or printed
out using Kodak Mobile Services.
Although the 3230 can play back MP3,
audio and video files, the 32Mb included as standard
isn't enough and you'll want to expand that. It does
come with a built-in FM radio with a feature called
"visual radio" which gives additional information
and features, a feature from the new Nokia
7710. In addtion to all this, there's an XHTML browser
and email client too, running on the Symbian Series
60 OS. It's not quite a Smartphone in software terms,
but it's close.
The Nokia 3230 is a real grab bag of
interesting features taken from other phones in the
Nokia range, borrowing from handsets as diverse at the
7710, 3220, 7610, 3300 and others. This is an important
and interesting handset as a result, even though it's
probably somewhat under the shadow of the Nokia
7710 announced at the same time, and we hope that
Nokia will produce many other phones based on similar
specifications in the near future.
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Nokia
3230 at a glance
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Available:
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Q1
2005
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Network:
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Tri-band
GSM (800/900/1900)
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Data:
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GPRS
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Screen:
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176x220
pixels, 65,000 colors
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Camera:
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1.23
megapixels
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Size:
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Medium-large
candy bar 109x49x19mm
/ 110 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Infra-red:
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Yes
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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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4 hours talk / 4-6 days standby
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