Nokia 2323 Classic and 2330 Classic

Again, Nokia will be tarhetting the low-end/mid-end mobile phone markets with these two twins: Nokia 2323 Classic and the Nokia 2330 Classic. And believe me, you will be surprised to see this jam packed phone's features which no one would have expected to be present in such a low cost phone which would possibly be priced at around 40 to 50euros. Lets take a closer look at each phone now:

Nokia 2323: This Classic variant features a 1.8 inch and 120 x 180 pixel display, an FM radio, MP3 ringtones, GPRS and EDGE data, a web browser and email client. And remember, the screen would not be comparable with other high end Nokias as we are talking about a low priced device here. This small baby comes supports either GSM 900 / 1800 or GSM 850 / 1900 network. Java is supported as well. A battery life of 4.8 hours talk / 22 days standby should be handy. The features this phone DOESN'T have are :camera, Bluetooth, and memory card.

Nokia 2330: Upgrading the Nokia 2323 Classic by paying about 10euros is what Nokia 2330 is all about. Wired headset is a add on that the box will contain and will be useful. This phone supports GPRS and contain a 0.3 MP VGA camera.

Nokia have introduced two new features with their latest range of phones called Mail on Ovi and Nokia Life Tools.
Looking at Mail on Ovi first of all, Nokia have realised that many people have email enabled handsets but no email account to go with it. So, Mail on Ovi is a free service that allows up to 1GB of email storage and an email address, with support built into the 2323 and 2330 handsets. So, as long as you have one of these phones and a GPRS connection, then you can have an email address.. even if the phone is your only access to the Internet. That's actually a pretty useful feature.

The other major feature that Nokia are offering with these phones is Nokia Life Tools. This is aimed at non-urban customers in developing nations, starting with India. Life Tools allows access to information on Agriculture, Education (including learning English) plus some entertainment features. Accessing the Internet on a phone is no big deal, but the clever thing about Life Tools is that it uses SMS as a transport mechanism rather than GPRS - this means that it should work even on the most basic cellular networks that don't support packet data.

As said earlier, both these phones does look impressive but also carry jam packed features. These two phones does play a really important role for Nokia in capturing the emerging markets epecially i countries like India.