Finland has a lot to thank Nokia for. If you’re old enough to be able to remember the time before mobile phones became the pocket-sized multimedia life jackets they are today, you’ll remember that Finland only used to be famous for, er… well nothing springs to mind actually. But whereas a few years ago Nokia was big enough to see off the likes of Ericsson and more recently Siemens, it’s not quite the giant it once. Part of the reason for that has got to lie with the fact that it’s made some odd decidedly odd handset choices in recent years. It let Sony Ericsson overtake it for style, its early 3G offerings misfired, and its more quirky designs rarely convinced.
This brings us to the 3230, a phone that seems to have something of an identity problem. It’s a candy bar style phone, with an angular top half, curved button area and a grey and silver two-tone finish. It weighs 110g, so while it’s not as thin as something like the Razer V3, it’s not thick either. It has a smart business-like look and runs Nokia’s Series 60 operating system. Confusingly then its feature list contains some decidedly non-business applications, which left me a tad nonplussed on how to take this phone.
The handset is a standard 2.5G phone with Tri-band coverage at 900, 1800 and 1900 frequencies. It supports GPRS, but there’s no 3G shenanigans going on here. As such it makes sense that there’s only a single camera on the back. This has a resolution of 1.2Megapixel count rather than the now more common 1.3Megapixel. All this means is that maximum resolution pictures are 1,280 x 960 rather than 1,280 x 1,024. The former is actually a standard 4:3 resolution, though I’m not sure why Nokia has gone for one and not the other. Indeed Nokia itself seems a bit confused, as on its site we found a picture of the 3230 showing a 1.3Megapixel label, which is clearly isn't.
This brings us to the 3230, a phone that seems to have something of an identity problem. It’s a candy bar style phone, with an angular top half, curved button area and a grey and silver two-tone finish. It weighs 110g, so while it’s not as thin as something like the Razer V3, it’s not thick either. It has a smart business-like look and runs Nokia’s Series 60 operating system. Confusingly then its feature list contains some decidedly non-business applications, which left me a tad nonplussed on how to take this phone.
The handset is a standard 2.5G phone with Tri-band coverage at 900, 1800 and 1900 frequencies. It supports GPRS, but there’s no 3G shenanigans going on here. As such it makes sense that there’s only a single camera on the back. This has a resolution of 1.2Megapixel count rather than the now more common 1.3Megapixel. All this means is that maximum resolution pictures are 1,280 x 960 rather than 1,280 x 1,024. The former is actually a standard 4:3 resolution, though I’m not sure why Nokia has gone for one and not the other. Indeed Nokia itself seems a bit confused, as on its site we found a picture of the 3230 showing a 1.3Megapixel label, which is clearly isn't.
| General | |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 / Gsm 1900 |
| Announced | 2004, 4q |
| Status | Available |
Size | |
| Dimensions | 109 X 49 X 19 Mm, 90 Cc |
| Weight | 110 G |
| Display | |
| Type | Tft, 65k Colors |
| Size | 176 X 208 Pixels, 35 X 41 Mm |
| - 5-way Navy Key - Downloadable Screensavers, wallpapers | |
Ringtones | |
| Type | Polyphonic (48 Channels), Mp3 |
| Customization | Download, |
| Vibration | Yes |
Memory | |
| Phonebook | Advanced |
| Call Records | Yes |
| Card Slot | Rs-mmc, 32 Mb Card Included, |
| - 6 Mb Internal Memory - Up To 60 Min Video Clips | |
Data | |
| Gprs | Class 10 (4+1/3+2 Slots), 32 - 48 Kbps |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | Yes, 118.4 Kbps |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | Yes, V1.1 |
| Infrared Port | Yes |
| Usb | Yes, Pop-port |
Features | |
| Os | Symbian Os V7.0s, Series 60 Se Ui |
| Messaging | Sms, Mms, Email, Instant Messaging |
| Browser | Wap 2.0/xhtml, Html |
| Games | Agent V, Rally Pro, Warrior + Downloadable, |
| Colors | Black, Red |
| Camera | 1.23 Mp, 1280x960 Pixels, Video(qcif) |
| - Push To Talk - Java Midp 2.0 - Mono Mp3 Player - Stereo Fm Radio - Visual Radio - T9 - Organiser - Voice Dial/memo - Built-in Handsfree | |
Battery | |
| Standard, Li-ion 760 Mah (bl-5b) | |
| Stand-by | Up To 150 H |
| Talk Time | Up To 4 H |
