Nokia 5300, 5200 and 3250 - three great looking mobile music phones
Nokia have announced the new Nokia 5300, Nokia 5200 and Nokia 3250, three great looking mobile music phones.
Covering the full price range, from the low-end 5200 (EUR 200), through the slightly higher 5300 (EUR 250), to the more expensive 3250 (EUR 400), Nokia are pushing the music features of their new phones hard.
"With today's launches we are reaching out to a broad range of consumers who want both the features of a modern mobile phone and a quality music player in a single, stylish device," says Heikki Norta, Senior Vice President, Mobile Phones. "
More details and pictures of the Nokia 5200, 5300 and 3250 after the jump.
Nokia's XpressMusic has been around some time on many of its preiouvs phones, but more as an added extra rather than the main event.
With these three music phones, though, Nokia are really going for the music abilities, laying down a direct challenge to Sony Ericsson's Walkman range.
One thing you can say about the phones - they look great. Very neat, compact and stylish, with easily-accesible music buttons, they're clearly designed around the music first rather than the phone.
Better still,with the help of the Nokia Wireless Audio Gateway AD-42W, you can stream your music collection from the phone to any stereo, which is a nice feature.
The phones are expandable via microSD cards of up to 2GB (equivalent to 1500 tunes), and come with a 1.3 megapixel camera, and the usual extras.
One problem Nokia might have with these phones, is the brand name: XpressMusic is pretty vague and meaningless, and certainly not as instantly recognizable as Walkman.
So if Nokia really are serious about music on their phones as the main selling point (and they are, as the quality of the tunes on its previous music phones has been broadly praised), they might need to rethink their branding strategy.
XpressMusic is OK for a feature, but it's not going to sell a phone on its own.
The Nokia 5300, 5200 and 3250 will be released in the next few weeks, well in time for Christmas.
