14 DAY TRIAL // Photos and specifications from a line-up of three Nokia mobile phones, branded the Express Music, have leaked on the internet, giving us a very weird sensation that Nokia, the world's largest mobile phones manufacturer, doesn't seem to care very much about security along the development process. I guess this isn't such a bad thing after all, because we, the ones that bring you the news every day, have to make a living too, and, if this is going to happen with the help of some company's lack of interest in protecting the info of yet to come products, so be it. On the other hand, this kind of "leaks" could even be a planned strategic move of the Finnish company marketing department, because who knows how the intricate marketing plans of the big companies work like? I don't.
Now let's see what this is all about. The three leaked phones are a new and improved Nokia 3250, the Nokia 5200 and the 5300. Having branded these devices with the Express Music label, Nokia is again showing the world they care about the music lovers, and they do whatever is necessary to keep them happy.
The 5200 and 5300 handsets are both based on the Nokia 6111 platform, with goodies like the 1.3 megapixel camera with video support, external MP3 player controls, infrared, Bluetooth, EDGE technology, microSD memory expansion card slot with support for memory cards of up to 2 gigabytes, and support for USB mass storage. They will run on Series 40 Edition and will have support for all the features available on the 6111, 7370 and 6280 Nokia mobile phones.
From what has leaked, we can tell you that the 5200 model will be 5300's poorer brother, the 5200 having a 65k colors 128x160 pixels CSTN display, compared to 5300's 262k colors 240x320 TFT QVGA display. The 5200 will also lack FM radio and have less memory, and a 4x zoom camera compared to the 8x zoom one of the 5300.
The most important feature of the 3250 will be the 1 gigabyte microSD memory card included in the sale package. The handset is running a Series 60 Developer Platform 3.0 operating system, has a 262k colors 172x208 pixels TFT display, with a rotation angle of 270 degrees, a 2 megapixel camera, a dynamic internal memory of 10 MB, a microSD memory expansion card slot and a TransFlash one, FM radio and a xHTML browser.
The release date or prices of the three phones haven't been made public, but it is certain that these handsets will be a must-have for the music fans.