Another milestone for Nokia

Subashini Selvaratnam
New Straits Times
11-29-2004
Another milestone for Nokia
Byline: Subashini Selvaratnam
Edition: Computimes; 2*
Section: Lab Report Benchmark

THE unveiling of three new mobile phones marks another milestone for Nokia, which is known for its innovative and user-friendly gadgets. The new models include a smart phone model Nokia 7710 and two camera phones model Nokia 3230 and Nokia 6020.

According to Nokia Pte Ltd's vice president of sales and channel management of Nokia multimedia for Asia-Pacific Mauro Montanaro, the mobile phones will add to the company's portfolio of personalised products to meet the growing users' communication needs.
"The new models complement the existing range of Nokia's mobile phones and are not meant to replace any of our existing models," he explained during a media briefing held in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Nokia 7710. The 7710 is the first wide-screen multimedia smart phone with pen input, which offers features such as Internet browser and integrated music player with stereo audio.

Among other features are personal information management features, word processing, spreadsheet, PowerPoint viewing, an on- screen keyboard and handwriting recognition.

The 7710, which works on the global system for mobile communications (GSM)/general packet radio service/enhanced GPRS 900/ 1800/1900 networks, also has an e-mail client that allows users to remotely access mail servers. It includes a set of video features such as playback, streaming and recording, a megapixel camera with 2x digital zoom and up to one hour of video recording.

Powered by Symbian OS, the 7710 includes a Pop-Port connector with universal serial bus (USB) and Bluetooth wireless technology for data transfer and personal computer (PC) synchronisation.

It also features several mobile media applications and services such as Visual Radio, which provides interactive information channel to enhance the FM broadcast experience.

"Based on the features and functionalities of the 7710, this model is indirectly competing with the basic personal digital assistant (PDA) market, thus allowing users to achieve a balance between personal productivity and entertainment while on the go," he explained.

The Nokia 3230. The 3230 is a tri-band camera mobile phone for GSM/GPRS/enhanced data rates for global evolution (EDGE) 900/1800/ 1900 networks. Based on the Series 60 platform and Symbian OS, the 3230 offers a large colour screen with 65,536 colours with built-in 1.3-megapixel camera sensor to capture images.

To further enhance the user's experience, the 3230 can be customised with Symbian and Java applications. It also features video recording, editing and sharing, expandable memory with 32 megabytes (MB) hot- swappable memory card, Bluetooth technology, extended hypertext markup language (XHTML) and hypertext markup language (HTML) browser.

Other features include push-to-talk with a dedicated key, new games such as Agent V, stereo FM radio, MP3 player and visual radio.

The Movie Director application on the mobile phone allows users to turn their pictures and video clips into personal movies by adding special effects such as music, text, colours or images. The 3230 is designed for the youth and young-at-heart, hip and trendy users.

The Nokia 6020. The 6020 is also a tri-band camera mobile phone running on the GSM 900/1800/1900 networks. It offers up to three hours of talk time and up to 330 hours of stand-by time.

It comes with a video graphics array camera to capture images and video clips, supports up to 65,536 colours, voice-activated dialling to ensure faster access to contacts and EDGE connectivity.

The 6020 is targeted at business users and consumers who are driven by emotional, style and lifestyle.

The 7710 is expected to be available this year while the 3230 and 6020 are expected to be available in the first quarter of next year.

(Copyright 2004)