Nokia 3250 Review - Introduction and Digital Camera/Basic Features

Introduction

Nokia has announced a new range of Xpressmusic phones. It was about time, since Motorola had its ROKR iTunes cell phone and Sony Ericsson had Walkman phones. The first music phone that has been released to mark the new line of cellphones is Nokia 3250. The device features a 2 megapixel camera, a built in radio all powered by a Series 60 Smartphone operating system. The user interface is unique, rotating at 270 degrees to enable the user on text/phone access, camera or music functions in a snap.

Nokia 3250 weighs in at 130 g (4.1 oz) and measuring 19.8 mm in thickness. The phone will use microSD memory cards. The user will have the possibility to store up to 750 songs of quality stereo on expandable memory of 1 GB (twice that of ROKR). The phone has an FM Radio with Visual Radio client, which means that users can access and download related interactive content and services when listening to a song.

Digital Camera and Other Basic Features

The Nokia 3250 comes with a built in two-megapixel camera, the same as N70 cell phone, with a 4X zoom. One can switch to the landscape mode by twisting the phone keypad 90 degrees. The screens resolution is 1600x1200 pixels, 1152x864 and 640x480 pixels and the quality of the pictures can be either High, Normal or Basic. The user can set up the White Balance in the photo choosing between Sunny, Incandescent and Fluorescent, or activate the Night Mode when needed. Pictures are saved in JPG format. They have EXIF information and are generally about 500 KB begin size.

The video recording quality is rather poor. The only available resolutions are 176x144 and 128x96 pixels at 15 frames per second. Videos are saved in 3GP format. The camera possibilities are limited, Scenes and Settings are disabled.

Basic Features

Voice Features:

• Voice commands

• Automatic redial (max 10 attempts)

• Voice recording

• Integrated handsfree speaker

Personal Information Mangament (PIM):

• Calendar

• Notepad

• Calculator

• File manager

• Remote synchronization

• Messaging

• Browsing

• T9 Predictive Text Input (with this feature, the software predicts the words you are just about to type, and gives you a list of suggestions in drop down menu format. You just select the right word and the job is done!)