- Twist to access phone, camera, or music functions instantly
- Play tracks and create playlists with the music player (MP3/eAAC+)
- Memory expandable to up to 2 GB for 1,500 songs (2 GB card available separately)
- Share playlists with your friends over Bluetooth, MMS, or email
- Plug your own headphones into the connector jack in the headset cable
- Integrated 2-megapixel digital camera
- Turn and capture still photos or video in a single twist
- Share and publish your mobile memories via blogging
- High-resolution, 262,144-colour display
- Tri-band GSM coverage on up to five continents (GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900)
- Automatic switching between bands
- Weight: 130 g
- Dimensions: 103.8 x 50 x 19.8 mm
- 176 x 208 pixel TFT active matrix 262,144-colour display
- Size: 34.8 mm x 41.1 mm
- 270-degree rotation (-90 and +180 degrees): Twist on text/phone access, camera or music functions instantly
- Joystick, two softkeys, application key, edit and clear key, send (Push to talk key) and end key, ITU-T keys, power key
- Music keys: play/pause, stop, rewind and forward
- S60 platform on Symbian operating system
The essentials:
- Optimized, easy-to-use music player: Music collection management and playlist editing
- Dedicated music control hard keys: Play/pause, stop, rewind, forward
- High-fidelity 3.5mm stereo headset with voice call and music playback remote control
- eAAC+ storage: Memory expandable up to 2 GB of great quality stereo audio with the new advanced eAAC+ digital audio codec *
- Battery playtime: Up to 10 hours
- Built-in memory: 10 MB
- Memory card: Supports up to 2 GB microSD card
- Radio pre-sets: 20
- Enhanced music features: Sound Check (equalizer, stereo widening, reverb, bass boost)
- Buy new music from Web services or download your own records from PC to enjoy hi-fi stereo music through high-quality headphones
- Formats supported: eAAC+, AAC+, M4A, MPEG-4 ACC LC, LTP, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, 64 polyphonic MIDI, RealAudio Voice, RealAudio7, RealAudio8, RealAudio10, WMA
- Tunes Studio: Create your own ringtones from the approx. 40 MIDI tones pre-loaded in the Nokia 3250 XpressMusic phone
- Visual Radio
* Total storage capacity is limited by number of songs. Storage capacity is approximate and based on 3 minutes and 40 seconds per song and 48kbps eAAC+ encoding. Actual storage capacity is dependent on sales package configuration.
With Nokia Music Manager 1.0, you can create and organise digital music files on a compatible PC and transfer them to your Nokia 3250 XpressMusic phone.
Basic functions:
- Transfer AAC, eAAC+, WMA, and MP3 tracks from Music Manager to your phone
- Save CD music tracks to eAAC+ format
- Play eAAC+, AAC, WMA, and MP3 music tracks
- Create, edit, and play M3U playlists
- Convert from MP3, WMA into AAC/eAAC+ format
- Organise music tracks and playlists in the Nokia Music Manager
- Play audio CDs
- Supports all Nokia music devices
- Supports Windows2000, XP, and Vista
With Nokia Music Manager Music Studio you can organise and copy audio tracks onto your phone. Music can be placed into the program from any Windows folder.
The CD player allows you to save CD audio files in AAC digital format, which may then be transferred to your phone.
Note: The Nokia 3250 XpressMusic phone is also compatible with Windows Media Player.
With Nokia Music Manager you can transfer music tracks to your phone from a CD. You first save music from a CD on the PC and then transfer the tracks from Music Manager to the phone.
Use a USB cable (DKU-2 or CA-53) connection to transfer large files such as music files between your phone and the PC quicker than with other connection types.
- Transfer from CD
- Insert your music CD in the CD or DVD drive on your PC.
- The tracks are listed in the CD view. If online, the metadata for the tracks is fetched automatically. If offline, input data manually.
- Transfer from PC to phone
- Connect your phone and PC with the USB cable and then select PC Suite.
- Select Scan for Music Files. Select the wanted tracks from the UI using your mouse and then click the Copy to Phone icon.
- Integrated 2-megapixel digital camera (1600 x 1200 default image size)
- Twist and capture still photos or video in a single twist
- Advanced camera modes: still, burst, video
- Options for night, brightness adjustment, image quality, and self-timer
- 4x digital zoom
- Video resolution: 176x144 or 128x96 pixels (QCIF or SubQCIF), 15 frames per second
- Video services: video capture up to 1 hour with microSD card, download, view, streaming
- Music keys double as camera controls: zoom in and out, shutter key, stop
- Watch your videos or stream music video from network using RealOne player
- Enhanced video editor: Edit your videos with master set of different effects and options and create new views with your own video content
- Share and publish your mobile memories via blogging
- Upload content to Web or just attach the content to your email or MMS
- Send your content via MMS or directly to friends locally over Bluetooth wireless technology
- MMS OMA 1.2: Combine image, video, text, and voice clips and send as an MMS to a compatible phone or PC; use MMS to tell your story with a multi-slide presentation. The MMS OMA 1.2 specification allows you to send/receive messages up to 300 kB in size.
- Text messaging: Supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list
- Predictive text input: Support for all major languages in Europe and Asia-Pacific
- Email: Access your work and private email accounts; supports SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 protocols
- Presence: Includes Wireless Village, Instant Messaging, and Dynamic phonebook; know someone's status before you call
- 10 MB internal memory plus expandable memory up to 2GB for 1,500 songs with microSD card
**Nokia recommends the use of approved microSD cards. While Nokia adheres to approved industry standards for memory cards, other brands may not function correctly or be fully compatible with this device.
Listen to music and interact with your favourite radio stations:
- Find out what song is playing, who sings it, and other artist information
- Enter contests and answer surveys, vote for your favourite songs
- Download the songs you buy direct to your phone
Find out more at www.visualradio.com
- Nokia Music Manager: Create and organise digital music files on a compatible PC and transfer them to a compatible mobile device such as your Nokia 3250 XpressMusic phone.
- Nokia Sensor: Express yourself to other Sensor users nearby by creating your own personal pages on your phone. Check out the pages of people nearby, exchange Sensor messages and share files using Bluetooth wireless technology up to a range of ten meters. Find out more at www.nokia.com/sensor.
- Muvee: Make movies on your phone
- Yahoo! Go: Mobile Portal with quick access to Y! PIM, Messenger & Photos applications, browse to Y! Wap sites, WAP search for Web, images and local info. Photo features include sync of gallery and Web albums, subscribe to albums for viewing on phone. Messenger lets you view friends online presence, send text, voice, and photo IMs with emoticons and Audibles. Connected Life lets you send and receive Y! Mail to/from mobile device and sync online Address Book and phone contacts.
- Nokia Lifeblog Multimedia Diary: Create a diary of all your mobile phone's photos, videos, text messages, and multimedia messages. It's easy to browse, search, edit, and save - on both your PC and mobile! Find out more at www.nokia.com/lifeblog.
- Tunes Studio
- Sound meter: Measure the noise level of the environment, such as at a football game or concert. The sound level meter is not meant for professional use.
Bluetooth wireless technology
- Talk handsfree with a wireless Bluetooth headset enhancement
- Play wireless multiplayer games over a Bluetooth connection
- Synchronise your phone and compatible PC over a local Bluetooth wireless connection
- USB2.0 full speed with mass storage profile
- WAP 2.0, xHTML browsing over TCP/IP
- EDGE*: Class 10, download up to 236,8 kbit/s
- GPRS*: Class 10, download up to 62,4 kbit/s
*Note: Actual achieved speeds may vary depending on network support
- Phonebook
- Calendar
- Notepad
- World Clock
- Converter
- Calculator
- File Manager
- Remote synchronization
- Active idle
- Messaging
- Browsing
- Platform security:
- Device integrity (no tampering of binaries and device settings)
- End-user privacy (protected access to contacts, calendar, messages)
- Controlling the access to sensitive operations or APIs, such as protecting network connections)
- Snakes
- Speed dialing: Up to 9 names, with keys 2-9
- Last-number redial from dialed calls list (Dial key brings out the dialed calls list)
- Automatic redial (max 10 attempts)
- Automatic answer (works with headset or car kit only)
- Call waiting, call hold, call divert, call timer
- Automatic and manual network selection
- Caller identification with image
- Conference call (up to 5 participants)
- Vibrating alert
- Enhanced voice dialing
- Voice commands
- Voice recording
- Integrated handsfree speaker
- Supports downloading music over the air
- Two new UI themes
- Downloadable Symbian and Java applications
- Game services incl. levels and sounds
- Ringing and alert tones: eAAC+, AAC+, M4A, MPEG-4 ACC LC, LTP, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, 64 polyphonic MIDI, RealAudio Voice, RealAudio7, RealAudio8, RealAudio 10, WMA
*The Nokia 3250 XpressMusic phone is based on the S60 release 3 platform. Some applications created for S60 2.x platform may not be compatible with this phone.
- Nokia 3250 XpressMusic phone
- Nokia Battery BP-6M
- Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-53
- Nokia Compact Charger AC-3*
- Nokia Music Headset HS-20, AD-41
- Nokia 1 GB MicroSD card MU-22**
- MicroSD card adapter
- CD-ROM (includes Nokia PC Suite software)
- User guide, Quick guide, product leaflet
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa only
** Nokia recommends the use of approved microSD cards. While Nokia adheres to approved industry standards for memory cards, other brands may not function correctly or be fully compatible with this device.
| Battery | Talk time | Standby time | Playback |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery BP-6M, 1100mAh | Up to 3 hours | Up to 245 hours (10 days) | Up to 10 hours |
Operation times vary depending on the network and usage.
- Certification information (SAR)
- Eco declaration
The availability of the product and its features depends on your area and service providers, so please contact them and your Nokia dealer for further information. These specifications are subject to change without notice.