26th September 2005
At a first glance, the Nokia 3250 looks almost identical to the Nokia 3230, and indeed it's pretty closely related in technical terms. But there's one immediately noticeable difference.. the keypad on the bottom of the Nokia 3250 twists around to reveal a set of music controls.
We've seen twisting phones before, for example the Nokia 6260, but this is the first time we've seen it in a candybar format phone. Like the 3230 and 6260, the Nokia 3250 is a Symbian Series 60 smartphone, and it also features a 176x220 pixel TFT display in 262,000 colours, a 2 megapixel digital camera, expandable memory up to 1Gb on microSD cards (only 10Mb is included internally though) and Bluetooth.
However, the Nokia 3250 is really a music phone, and it can play back MP3, AAC, eAAC+, RealAudio and WMA files plus more. Nokia state that the 3250 is capable of stereo media playback, unlike the 3230 which was mono only. Nokia also say that you can fit up to 750 tracks on a 1Gb memory card, although presumably at pretty low quality, although it's probably enough space for 16 albums worth of high-quality MP3 audio.
There's also an FM radio and Nokia's ''Visual Radio'' over GPRS feature, and it's also possible to download tracks directly from your mobile phone network. There are a set of other media related features too.. probably far more than most people would need.
2000-2009 m.paginasmoviles.com.ar