With hot new skinny phones coming fast and furious, you would think that cell phone design is all about thinness and not much else. The twist-action design of the phone is made possible by having the phone split into two parts; the display half and the keypad half.
Twisting the phone lets you switch between phone mode (with the dial pad in front), camera mode (the keypad portion in a 90-degree angle), and music mode (with external music controls in front), triggering the appropriate application at each turn. The Play/Pause key also doubles as a Camera button when in camera mode.
You have to twist the keypad into camera mode (90 degrees), and it is located right underneath the Talk key. There’s also a LifeBlog feature that lets you upload pictures on your phone directly to the Web.
Speaking of which, the phone comes with a 2-megapixel camera that also acts as a video recorder. Camera options include image-quality settings (High, Normal, Basic), image resolution (640×480, 1,152×864, 1,600×1,200), night and sequence modes, a self-timer, white balance, and color tones.
You can transfer music from your PC via Nokia’s Audio Manager software, Windows Media Player, or third-party software. Along with music, you can download video clips to the phone for viewing on the go. The phone has an internal memory of 10MB, but the phone’s Micro SD card slot ups the potential storage capacity to 1GB, which is good for such a multimedia-heavy handset.
The phone supports J2ME applications and comes with a Snakes game preinstalled. Audio quality of the speaker is great, as is the quality of the sound from the music player. We managed to pair the Nokia 3250 successfully with the Nokia BH-800 Bluetooth headset.
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