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New Nokia 3230 smartens mid-rangeBy Jørgen Sundgot, Tuesday 2 November 2004
Spewing new Series 60 models, Nokia today unveiled the media-oriented 3230, featuring a Megapixel camera, FM radio with Visual Radio support, Bluetooth and much more.

At the annual Nokia Mobility Conference in Monaco and the Destination Nokia event held in Bangkok, Thailand, Nokia today announced a media-oriented addition to the company's widening range of camera phones - the Nokia 3230. Featuring a megapixel camera with video recording and editing, the Nokia 3230 is a potential successor to the 3600 series of Series 60-based smartphones, targeting a relatively untapped mid-range market.

The Nokia 3230 looks poised to replace the ageing 3650
Powered by the Symbian OS based Series 60 platform, the Nokia 3230 boasts tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support for 900/1800/1900 MHz networks, and is the last addition to a rapidly expanding line of Nokia smartphones. As with other Series 60 smartphones, the 3230 offers a large colour display with a resolution of 176 x 208 pixels and a 16-bit colour depth, but also includes a Megapixel camera which has only been found in two previous Nokia smartphones, the 7610 and 6670, thus far.

With an effective resolution of 1.23 Megapixels, the camera offers both video recording and editing in addition to picture taking, letting users add special effects such as music, text, colours or images to videos. Also, courtesy of pre-installed software and the 3230's support for Bluetooth, users will be able to print pictures to compatible Bluetooth kiosks, or upload them to online picture albums.

Memory expansion is ensured by a hot-swappable MMC Card slot, and the 3230 will also come bundled with a 32 MB card in the sales package. Further on the topic of connectivity, the 3230 also offers an integrated FM radio with Nokia's own Visual Radio software, designed to facilitate an interactive connection between FM broadcasters and their listeners.

Other software includes Wireless Village-based instant messaging and presence-enhanced contacts, as well as the usual compliment of Series 60 PIM applications, an XHTML compatible microbrowser and Push-To-Talk support. The Nokia 3230 also offers new games, including the Agent V reality which draws on the camera viewer and motion sensor of the phone to let the player move the objects appearing in the game.

Weighing 110 grams and measuring in at 109 x 49 x 19 mm, the 3230 will offer up to 4 hours of talktime and up to 230 hours of standby time, according to Nokia. Shipments are expected to begin during the first quarter of 2005 in Europe and Asia, with an estimated retail price of approximately 350 EUR.

An additional hi-res picture of the Nokia 3230 is available on the following page.
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