The FCC has recently approved a new Nokia candybar, namely the Nokia 6212 Classic, a handset that was first announced by the Finnish company back in April. The phone might not be seen by many users as a "good looking device", but at least it has some nice features packed in it.

First of all, the 6212 embeds the NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, which allows users to connect it with other NFC devices, transfer data and even make electronic payments. The candybar further brings quad-band GSM connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) as well as 3G, but only on UMTS frequencies (850 / 2100 MHz), hence it will not be able to provide data transfer speeds higher than 384 Kbps.

The rest of the features of 6212 include: a 2 inch TFT display with 16 million colors and a QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels), Push to Talk, Opera Mini browser, push email, Instant Messaging, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, MP3 and MPEG4 player, stereo FM radio, Nokia Xpress Audio messaging, miniUSB, a 2 Megapixel camera with flash and video recording, front-facing camera for video calls, handsfree and so on. The 6212 has only 22MB of internal memory, but there's also microSD card support for up to 4GB.

Nokia 6212 Classic weighs only 88 grams, measures 114.7 x 47.1 x 14.5 millimeters and comes with a 1000 mAh battery capable of providing up to 3.3 hours in talk-time mode or up to 300 hours in stand-by mode.

There are no details on the release of Nokia 6212 Classic, but since the handset now has FCC's approval and it supports the North American wireless frequencies, it might soon be released by a US operator. As for the price of 6212 Classic, this should be somewhere around $300 (free of any contract agreement).