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Nokia unveils a mobile phone for ultimate convenience and personalization
March 18, 1999
The Nokia 3210 dual band GSM 900/1800 mobile phone includes picture messaging, user changeable front and back covers and predictive text input
Nokia has today announced a mobile phone with a set of personalized features for users' total convenience. The Nokia 3210 dual band GSM 900/1800 mobile phone can be customized with the Nokia Xpress-On front and back covers. The stylish grey covers can be easily removed without any tools and replaced with covers that better match the user's mood and attire. There are 6 optional colored covers, and there will also be an extensive range of painted and graphic covers available. The Nokia 3210 was unveiled at the CeBIT '99 exhibition in Hannover, Germany, and at an Asia Pacific launch held in Singapore. The product will be available in volume in the second quarter of 1999.
"The Nokia 3210 demonstrates Nokia's commitment to meeting the personal needs of today's savvy and trendy users. The user has the freedom to make the Nokia 3210 reflect his or her individual taste. We trust that the Nokia 3210 will attract wide consumer appeal especially among the young and the young at heart. First-time buyers and upgraders alike will be impressed by the extensive set of features and the highly sophisticated design of the Nokia 3210," said Anssi Vanjoki, Senior Vice President, Nokia Mobile Phones, Europe and Africa.
The new phone is much smaller and slimmer than the popular Nokia 5110, yet it is full-featured. The predictive text input feature enables users to type messages with greater speed and convenience. The phone has a built-in dictionary, which assists in quickly picking up the right word. Picture messaging is a totally new feature, allowing users to send short messages containing images. With Nokia 3210 user can create his/her own images, download new ones from the web, and send them to any other Nokia 3210 phone. It is now possible to create truly personal and surprising messages. These features are complemented by the large, high-contrast quality display. The Nokia 3210 is equipped with the Nokia NaviKey, the famous innovation enabling easy access to the phone features.
The Nokia 3210 has a sensitive built-in antenna that makes the phone convenient to carry and use. The phone works on three types of networks, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM900/1800 dual band networks. The phone automatically chooses the best available frequency band, and it has the capacity for handover between 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency bands even during a call within the dual band network.
The internal battery of the Nokia 3210 is protected under the Nokia Xpress-On back cover. The semi-fixed Ni-MH battery gives up to 4 hours 30 minutes of talk-time and up to 260 hours of standby time. The Nokia 3210 has 40 ringing tones. Extra ringing tones can be either composed by the Nokia 3210 or downloaded over the air. Every phonebook entry can have an individually selected ringing tone.
The Nokia 3210 has 34 language options. The credit status of the pre-paid subscription can be
graphically viewed either constantly on the display or accessed through the menu. The Nokia 3210 supports all three wireless voice codecs: Full Rate, Enhanced Full Rate and Half Rate. Nokia developed the Enhanced Full Rate together with the University of Sherbrooke and drove for its adaptation as the industry standard.
Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks including related customer services. Nokia also supplies solutions and products for fixed and wireless datacom, as well as multimedia terminals and computer monitors. In 1998, net sales totaled FIM 79.2 billion (USD 15.7 billion, EUR 13.3 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on five European Stock Exchanges and on the New York Stock Exchange (NOK.A), has sales in over 130 countries and employs more than 44,000 people worldwide.
Contact information:
Nokia Mobile Phones
Communications
Tel. +358 10 5051
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