The Nokia 7250 is a mobile phone handset manufactured by

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. Announced on 4 November 2002 and released for sale in February 2003, it was designed at Nokia Design Center in

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, by the Bulgarian-American

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Miki Mehandjiysky. It was the successor of

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. The Nokia 7250 is notable for its unconventional design, striking colours and integrated digital camera, and also had Xpress-On covers.

Features & Specifications

*Size: 105 x 44 x 19 mm *Weight: 92 g *Battery standby: 150 – 300 hours *Battery talktime: 2–5 hours *Tri band *WAP 1.2.1,

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*High Speed Data (HSCSD) - max 43.2

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s per second *MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) *Downloadable Java applications *Colour display (256 colours, 128 x 128

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s) *Polyphonic ringtones (MIDI format) *3.5

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s shared memory *Integrated

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FM radio *Integrated handsfree speaker *Changeable x-press on covers *Nokia Pop-Port connector *Infra-red and cable connections *Downloadable colour wallpaper *Screensaver: digital clock *Speed dialling *Phone book (up to 300 entries) *2 games (Triple Pop and Bounce) *Clock, alarm clock, calculator, currency converter

Nokia 7250i

The Nokia 7250i is a slightly improved version of the Nokia 7250, introduced in June 2003. It includes

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browser, OMA Forward lock

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, zoom function to magnify images and a more advanced camera. The phone has exactly the same design as the 7250. The

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was essentially the same phone in terms of features, but featured a more conservative design to appeal more to business users while the 7250i was intended to be a fashion-oriented phone. The

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also had a similar feature set, however, the 3200 was intended to be a more affordable youth-oriented phone and featured a different style graphical user interface derived from that of the Nokia 3100.

References

7250 Mobile phones introduced in 2003 Mobile phones with infrared transmitter Series 40 devices {{Mobile-phone-stub