Nokia 3250 hands on
May 13, 2006 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Convergence Phones, Nokia, Portable Audio
Got a chance to play with the Nokia 3250 “twist” phone. A rogue among all of Nokia’s designs, this SOLID candybar phone allows you to twist the bottom part of the unit’s real estate in three iterations for phone mode, shooting mode and music mode.
Perhaps the biggest question on the minds of readers would be whether the twisting mechanism provides a good UI compliment for phone and multimedia. The answer is that it wins 2/3 times failing in the realm of the camera. Tilting the bottom half perpendicular to the screen makes it a bit uncomfy for taking shots since the “shoot me!” button is naturally programmed as the 5-way joystick. If you use your right hand, you’d feel awkward. If you use your left hand, you’d cover the screen. Of course you can always shoot using the standard candybar mode but you’d have to press buttons instead of flipping the phone – which is like, the coolest thing.
The music player is semi-decent. It must be noted that the 3250 comes with a set of In-ears which is a huge plus. The big minus is that the expansion card slot is located NOT on the side of the phone but between the flipping mechanisms. It was sooo hard to locate and open.
Err did you not notice the fact one of the music keys can be used as the camera shutter button in twist mode…
yup i did notice that. thats why i said:
“Of course you can always shoot using the standard candybar mode but you’d have to press buttons instead of flipping the phone”
sometimes though, people take the 5-way joypad to be king of all buttons.
I think you misundertsand. Press the play button i.e. it is just like a normal camera with a shutter button on the top right…. No using the joystick as you suggest.