Nokia 6220 Classic was recently approved by FCC and it's now ready to hit the US market. Despite its "Classic" name, the phone is not a mid nor a low-end device, as you might expect, but a highly featured one.

First announced in February, at the 2008 edition of MWC, Nokia 6220 Classic has specs that make it comparable with most of the Nseries phones. One of the handset's highlights is its 5 Megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash, self-timer, auto focus, video recording and geotagging - a camera that, on the paper at least, is better than the ones packed in Nokia N95 and Nokia N82.

Other specs include Symbian 9.3 OS (S60 3.2 version), built-in GPS, A-GPS, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA (3.6 Mbps), a 2.2 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors, TV-out, Media player with support for MP3, AAC and MPEG-4, stereo FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0, Java MIDP 2.0, WAP and HTML browser, email, Instant Messaging and microSD card support.

The 6220 Classic measures 108 x 47 x 15 millimeters (4.25 x 1.85 x 0.59 inches), weighs 90 grams (3.17 ounces) and comes with a 900 mAh Li-Ion battery capable of providing up to 3.5 hours of talk-time and up to 250 hours of stand-by time. We can't say when does the phone hit the market, but it will surely do it with a retail price of about $500.

According to the User Manual available on the FCC website, the recently approved handset works on the 850 / 900 / 1800 /1900 MHz GSM networks as well as on 900 and 2100 MHz UMTS ones. Which means it will not support AT&T's 3G network, since they only use the 850 and 1900 UMTS frequencies. Therefore we can assume the new Nokia won't be released via the largest US mobile carrier. But we have to wait for official details to be sure about this.