The Nokia 3250 is a cellular phone which features a unique 'twist' design that transforms the traditional phone keypad into a camera (90° CW/CCW) and dedicated music control keys (180° CCW). It can store up to 2 gigabytes of music (500 songs) and other data thanks to a microSD memory card slot, and features a two-megapixel camera and Smartphone

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 capabilities. It uses the S60 (3rd Edition) user interface and the Symbian OS 9.1 operating system.

The triband GSM 900/1800/1900 model started shipping in the first quarter of 2006 with an estimated retail price of 300 EUR before subsidies or taxes.

Specification sheet

Feature	Specification
Operating System	Symbian OS (9.1) + Series 60 v3
GSM frequencies	900/1800/1900 MHz
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...  (EGPRS)	Yes, class 10
Video recording	Yes, MPEG-4 MPEG-4 MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group under the formal standard ISO/IEC...  Simple Profile at QCIF or SubQCIF, 15 frames per second (max. clip length 1 hour)
Multimedia Messaging	Yes
Video calls	No
Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC)	Yes
Java support	Yes, MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1
Bluetooth Bluetooth Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...	Yes, 1.2; Profiles supported: Basic Printing, Generic Access, Serial Port, Dial-up Networking, Headset, Handsfree, Generic Object Exchange, Object Push, File Transfer, Basic Imaging, SIM Access, and Human Interface Device
Data cable support	Yes
Browser	WAP Wireless Application Protocol Wireless Application Protocol is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.Before the introduction of WAP, mobile service providers had limited opportunities to offer...  2.0 XHTML XHTML XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written.... /HTML HTML HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
Email	Yes
Music player	Yes
Video Player	Yes (Realplayer)
HF speakerphone	Yes
Offline mode	Yes
Talk time	3 hours
Standby time	1 days (24 hours)

Key Features

• Twist: 3 twists for 3 modes of operation
• Optimized, easy to use music player: Music collection management and playlist editing in device
• 2 megapixel camera with 4x zoom
• 10 MB internal memory, hot swappable microSD up to 1 GB. The phone can now take a 2 GB MicroSD with firmware V3.24 and above.
• Sales package includes 512MB microSD inbox
• GSM/EDGE
  Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
  Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...
  
   900/1800/1900
• USB 2.0 Full Speed with Mass Storage profile
• Stereo am Radio playback including Visual Radio functionality
• Tutorial Application
• Sound Meter application
• Picture editor
• Movie maker
• Lifeblog application
• Setting Wizard (automatically sets the configuration settings of the phone for e-mail and network)
• Comes standard with a full web browser

Music

• Playback time: up to 10 hours
• Supports microSD cards up to 2 GB (1500 songs, with latest firmware)
• Supports WMA, M4A, MP3, AAc, eAAC and eAAC+ music files
• Audio setting include different equalizer settings, Stereo Widening and Bass Boost
• Nokia Audio Manager
• Music Library

Camera

• Resolution of images: 1600x1200 (default), 1152x864, 640x480
• Resolution of videos: 176x144, 128x96
• Streaming and video capture: H.263, 3GPP and Real V8

Connectivity

• USB Data Cable
• Bluetooth
  Bluetooth
  Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
  
  
• Nokia PC Suite

External links

• Manufacturer link
• Symbian's 3250 overview
• Nokia Mexico

Reviews

• Mobile Review
• All About Symbian
• GSM Arena
• infoSync World
• Nokia 3250 reviews and specifications roundup
• Mobile Today - Retailer Review
• Fonebiz - Nokia 3250