Nokia today announced the Nokia 3230, a symbian smartphone featuring a megapixel camera with video recording and editing.

Based on the Series 60 platform, the Nokia 3230 is a tri-band camera phone for GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 networks. Shipments are expected to begin during the first quarter of 2005 in Europe and Asia. The unsubsidized retail price excluding taxes is expected to be around 350.

In a contemporary design, the Nokia 3230 offers a large color screen with 65,536 colors and an in-built 1.3 megapixel camera sensor, effective resolution 1.23 megapixel. With mobile video recording and editing, users can create unique and entertaining content and easily share it with others by sending a multimedia message.

With the Movie Director application on the phone, the users can turn their video clips into personal movies by adding special effects such as music, text, colors or images. 

The Nokia 3230 also offers new games, including the Agent V reality game that literally puts the player in the middle of the action. Agent V utilizes the camera viewer and the motion sensor in the phone, and by moving the phone, the player can move the objects appearing in the game. 

Weighing 110 grams, the Nokia 3230 camera phone offers up to 4 hours of talktime and up to 230 hours of standby time.
 
Key features include:

• Large high-resolution color display (65.536 colors)
• Integrated 1.3 megapixel camera sensor, effective resolution 1.23 megapixel
• Video recording, editing and sharing
• Movie Director application
• Expandable memory with a hot-swappable memory card
• Bluetooth technology
• MMS, chat and Instant Messaging
• XHTML and HTML browser
• Push to talk with dedicated key
• Presence enhanced phonebook
• Symbian OS, the Series 60 platform
• New games incl. Agent V
• Stereo FM radio and MP3 player
• Visual Radio