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Nokia has made a pair of music related announcements today. The Finnish mobile handset giant will be releasing a new music orientated handset, the Nokia 3250, which along with the N91 will be the first to include Nokia's new music branding, dubbed XpressMusic.
Although full details are still not available for the Nokia 3250, which has been a talking point on the internet since its debut at the Nokia Trends music festival, Nokia have released a few more details.
Is is now known that the Nokia 3250 will support microSD cards of up to 1GB, allowing for storage of up to 750 songs. Music formats supported include MP3, WMA, M4A, and AAC, and songs can be transferred from a PC over USB 2.0 or downloaded over-the-air. The Nokia 3250's design includes a twist section, with music controls on one side and a standard mobile phone keypad on the other. The Nokia 3250 will be running the Symbian Series 60 smartphone operating system, and will be tri-band (GSM 900/1800/1900Mhz) compatible. The Nokia 3250 will retail for around 350EUR (about $425USD) starting in Q1, 2006. Official pictures of the Nokia 3250 will be available later today.
The XpressMusic branding has been announced by Nokia as a way to differentiate its music orientated handsets. For a handset to include this branding, it must comply to a list of features defined by Nokia, these are:
Great audio quality
Dedicated key(s) for fast and easy access to the music collection
Play, talk and play - music pauses when a call comes in, resumes when the call has ended
Use any headphones for listening with standard 3.5mm jack
Extended battery time (minimum of 10 hours for music)
Substantial storage for large number of songs
Create and edit playlists on the go
USB 2.0 support for fast and easy transfer of your music
Wide support of audio formats, including MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC and eAAC+
Easy access to over-the-air music downloads
