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Nokia 3250: the first Symbian OS 9 based device starts shipping
The Nokia 3250 is the first Symbian OS 9.x / S60 v3 phones that is publicly available. The phone is music oriented but has only support for 1GB storage (which is enough to store around 700 "MP3 quality" songs however). You can expect to find the phone in the shop around April with a public price around 450 Euros.
Phone details
Symbian OS v9.1 / S60 v3 platform
Tri-band GSM coverage on up to five continents (GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900) with automatic switching between bands
EDGE: Class 10, download up to 236,8 kbit/s
GPRS: Class 10, download up to 62,4 kbit/s
Twist-on design to access phone, camera, or music functions
Weight: 130 g
Dimensions: 103.8 x 50 x 19.8 mm
High-resolution, 262,144-color display
Integrated 2-megapixel digital camera
10 MB internal memory plus expandable microSD card support (up to 1GB).
USB 2.0 full speed with mass storage profile
audio codecs supported: eAAC+, AAC+, M4A, MPEG-4 ACC LC, LTP, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, 64 polyphonic MIDI, RealAudio Voice, RealAudio7, RealAudio8, RealAudio10, WMA
More on Nokia website.
700 songs in 1GB?!?
> 1GB storage, which is enough to store around 700 "MP3 quality" songs however
My 4GB MP3 player currently has about 760 songs on it, with a decent encoding of 160 or 192kbps so how they can claim to get the same number on a disk the quarter of the size is beyond me!
Obviously they must be using a really bad encoding to boast about the phone! The songs must sound rubbish like that!
700 songs in 1GB?!?
It's partly marketing talk and partly the truth. When they say MP3 quality they mean the encoded tunes will sound like a 128 kbps encoded MP3.
The codec they recommend is e-AAC+; which at 32kbps is CD quality stereo. An average 4 minute track comes to around 1 mb or under; so on a 1 GB card theoretically you can have 1024 e-AAC+ tunes and it sounds much better than 128 kbps MP3, probably as good as 192 kbps MP3.
Of course MP3 is also supported in this device; so is AAC and AAC+; but they best codec for quality/space is e-AAC+. e-AAC+ can encode in full stereo at 32 kbps; I think it even does 5.1 surround encoding at a slightly higher or the same bit rate! It's almost like rocket science :-)
AMK
700 songs in 1GB?!?
Hey! I bought the phone, and before that i checked the sound quality at the shop. As far as the encoding, all mp3 songs run at 128 kbps and higher encoding will NOT improve the sound quality (maybe they will be louder but that can be done with other software and with 128 encoding). I am really a music freak and quality is the most important thing. and i had several mp3 players (including iPOD and HP pocket PC) and they both had an amazing sound with the right earphones. The only diffrence is that the pocket pc had a lot more settings and diffrent software so i liked it a lot more. Now on to the 3250: at first i put on mp3 files with diffrent encodings and then when i checked out all the software included, i found out that Nokia music manager is a lot like iTunes and i gave it a shot. i enoceded a song to AAC+ and i left the same song on the phone with the mp3 format and listened to both of them. Trust me that there is no diffrence, i was shocked as well. The truth behind AAC and other encodings is the compression of sound, and the 1 MB file has the same quality as an MP3 which have been around for ever. If you dont believe me try it on you comp., convert an mp3 in to AAC+ and listen to both of them.
Thats all, BY
700 songs in 1GB?!?