Nokia 3250 features a 2 mega pixel camera, a built-in radio, the latest Symbian OS 9.1; on the top of it, it uses the tiniest memory cards in the world and comes with a wide range of accessories. Other important features of the phone include unusual rotary construction, solid body and well elaborated construction, Active stand-by mode, Good keypad, USB Mass Storage, Exceptionally fast Java, Powerful loud speaker. The device suffers a few setbacks which include Incompatibility with older applications, Lower speed compared with common mobile phones, Not highest resolution display, Red receiver key closes running applications, Music player works, Bad camera macro mode and No infrared port

The 3250 weighs 115g, the screen is large, bright and clear and its 176 x 208 pixels. It runs the third edition of Symbian’s Series 60 operating system. The software includes competent calendar and contact management, FM radio, music player, support for Visual Radio, voice recorder, image viewer and Web browser. A 2-megapixel camera is built in and you are provided with the PC Suite software for synchronizing with a PC and the required USB cable (though Nokia sticks stolidly to Pop-Port at the handset end so don’t’ lose or damage the cable).

Nokia 3250 is seen as a music playing handset. However the 10MB built in memory is far too less for any phone with music playing features, but flash memory cards are supported and Nokia supplies128MB card. The format that’s been chosen is MicroSD (also known as Tran Flash). These cards are absolutely tiny, and Nokia almost seems to be poking fun by locating the slot for the 3250’s card in an almost inaccessible spot on a part of the casing that is only revealed when you swivel the bottom section through 90 degrees.

Rotating the bottom comes handy both when you use the camera and when you play music. The 2-megaixel camera’s lens sits on the bottom right edge of the handset. You can use it without swiveling the number pad section at all, by running the camera software from the 3250’s menu. The screen turns into a viewfinder in landscape format, so that you orient the handset long ways and then shoot pictures and video and access the various options via the mini joystick and soft key buttons.

For music playback you rotate the number pad section through 180 degrees so that the number keys end up on the back of the 3250. The Series 60 music player runs automatically and the four buttons which were on the back are now at the front. Now you can play, pause, and jump backwards and forwards between tunes. You can pause music to take incoming calls, and can skip within tracks.

Nokia’s HS-20 headset is provided. This is a two piece affair. The part that connects to the handset slots into the same Pop-Port connector used for the PC connection cable. The connector is on the right edge of the casing which means it protrudes quite a bit from the side of the handset. This is not the most pocket friendly solution.

Finally we can say that Nokia 3250 has good construction, excellent elaboration of its body, pretty colors and high-class keypad. The phone is extremely fast in Java and offers all advantages a Symbian OS can provide - an endless phonebook, brilliant time organizing functions; work with messages and emails etc. Nokia 3250 has one of the best cameras among same-resolution phones too.

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