Nokia used its Nokia Mobility Conference in Monaco as a platform to showcase several new products, including its new smart-phone offerings: the Nokia 7710 widescreen multimedia smart phone, the Nokia 3230 megapixel smart phone and the mid-range Nokia 6020 camera phone.
“Smart phones are now at the heart of the industry,” said Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and general manager, Multimedia at Nokia. “Mobility is a powerful force. Not only are smart phones reaching the mainstream, they are drawing on cross-industry technologies to spur further innovation.”
The anticipated Nokia 7710 widescreen multimedia smart phone with pen input includes a wide touch screen with 65,536 colors; a full Internet browser; an integrated music player with stereo audio; video features including playback, streaming and recording; a megapixel camera with 2-times digital zoom; and an FM radio with Visual Radio client. Nokia plans to ship the GSM/GPRS device in Asia and China beginning in the fourth quarter and in Europe and Africa in the first quarter of 2005.
The Series 60 Nokia 3230 features is a tri-band GSM/GPRS device with a megapixel camera with video recording and editing. Shipments are set for the first quarter of 2005 in Europe and Asia.
The 3230 and the 7710 are both based on the Symbian operating system.
Nokia added to its mid-range portfolio with the tri-band Nokia 6020 camera phone. Shipments are expected in first quarter of 2005.
At the meeting, Nokia detailed plans to expand the Series 60 smart-phone platform to cover high-end and mid-range categories and incorporate additional multimedia capabilities, widescreen resolutions and touch-screen, pen-based and traditional input methods.
“In our industry, new kinds of products appear regularly and evolve rapidly. Nokia has already shipped 15 million Series 60 phones. Extending Series 60 will help operators and developers to innovate, differentiate their offerings and achieve critical mass quickly in these new markets,” said Antti Vasara, vice president, technology and sales.
Nokia also announced a Push to talk over Cellular client for certain devices based on its Series 60 Platform. The company said the client brings “walkie-talkie” functionality to the Nokia 6600, 6620, 6670 and 7610 mobile phones. Users can download the PoC client from their carrier’s Web site or at a carrier store. The company said it will provide the PoC client to carriers based on a software distribution licensing agreement free. <
