Nokia's second-ever phone with MP3/AAC playback capabilities will also offer a color display, an integrated FM radio, instant messaging and support for J2ME and MMS.
Following up on its first model ever to sport MP3 playback capabilities - the Nokia 5510 - Nokia is now launching a new youth model which by all accounts and measures seems to be the successor of the 5510. Sporting a design heavily influenced by the 5510 and the N-Gage wireless gaming console, the MP3-enabled Nokia 3300 will offer USB connectivity and come bundled with a 64 MB MMC card.
The new Nokia 3300 will be made available in two editions; one for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and one for the North American market. Although the two models will respectively offer 900/1800 MHz and 850/1900 MHz connectivity and have slightly different feature sets, both will be sold under the Nokia 3300 model name in their respective markets.
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Both editions will also feature the same design, which has taken clues from both the Nokia 5510 and the Nokia N-Gage wireless gaming console. Horizontal, rather than vertical, the design includes a color display, a four-way navipad and shortcut buttons to access audio player functions more easily.
Audio is an area where most of the focus in the Nokia 3300 is placed, as the device offers both MP3 and AAC playback capabilities and also sports an integrated FM radio. Music is transferred to the 3300 by means of a USB connection to a Windows PC enabled by the 3300's Pop-port, and the music player automatically pauses upon incoming calls. In addition, a digital recorder lets users record audio from various sources, including the FM radio which also offers 20 presets. The phone will come with preloaded music samples, as well as preloaded ring tones: polyphonic, and a format Nokia calls True Tones.
The Nokia 3300 is the first mobile phone for the GSM markets supporting True Tones, which provide ring tones with wave audio samples, allowing users to utilize any kind of audio as a ring tone. The True Tones will be part of Nokia's mobile services for music when the Nokia 3300 phone is commercially available, and are based on Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) technology selected by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as the Wideband codec for GSM and 3rd generation wireless WCDMA applications.
Additional features include a WAP 2.0 XHTML browser, as well as support for J2ME. Several J2ME games will come pre-loaded on the phone, and personalization features will let users utilize photos and images as wallpaper.
According to Nokia, the 3300's battery will provide up to two and a half hours of talk time and up to 12 days of stand-by time. A price has yet to be announced for either edition of the 3300.
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