This week Nokia has announced a unique, slender candybar device for its select global CDMA markets. The Nokia 2228 combines a slim 12-mm compact design and ultra light weight (72 grams, including battery) with some essential features, targeted for a stylish and practical consumer.

True multi-tasking is simple with the Nokia 2228 (CDMA 1x, 800 MHz). It’s an affordable 1.3 megapixel camera phone with a built-in Nokia media player, supporting most of the common digital formats (MP4 ,H.263, MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+). It comes with several modes of messaging to make sure you can reach out to your friends and family, whether your preferred means of communication is short or long message, image or music.

On top of all that, it comes with speaker dependent voice recognition, as well as an integrated handsfree speaker, and it can be used as a modem that allows you to use your phone to connect to a PC for Internet access.

The slender design features a unique lanyard hole that has an LED indicator that flashes with incoming calls or messages waiting. The LED indicator "pulses" in cycles at a user-defined interval or in the off mode, allowing you to always see if any messages await you.

Other features of the device include, Stereo FM radio, 20-25 MB end-user memory (depending on region), MicroUSB, 2.5 mm universal headset jack, WAP 2.0 /BREW 3.1.5 (supports OMA download), BL-4C 820mAh battery with a life expectancy of up to 3.5 hours of talk time and up to 10 days of standby time.

The Nokia 2228 is expected to launch in select CDMA markets in the fourth quarter of 2008.