<img src="http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7066/nokia9iv.gif" align="right"> Nokia 3230 smart phone
By Trusted Reviews
Friday 5th August 2005 11:30 GMT
Whereas a few years ago Nokia was big enough to see off the likes of Ericsson and Siemens, it's not quite the giant it once. Part of the reason for that is the fact it's made some odd decidedly odd handset design choices in recent years. It let Sony Ericsson overtake on styling, its early 3G offerings misfired and its more quirky designs rarely convinced, writes Benny Har-Even.
Nokia 3230This brings us to the 3230, a phone that seems to have something of an identity problem. It's a candy-bar handset, 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 Motorola's Razr V3, it's not thick either.
It has a smart business-like look and runs the Series 60 version of the Symbian operating system. Yet its feature list contains some decidedly non-business applications, which left me a tad confused as to how to take this phone. The handset is a standard 2.5G phone with tri-band coverage with GPRS so it makes sense there's only a single camera on the back.
This has a resolution of 1.2 megapixels rather than the now more common 1.3 megapixels. All this means is that maximum resolution pictures are 1280 x 960 rather than 1280 x 1024. 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 1.3 megapixel label, which it clearly isn't.
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