Nokia High-speed UMTS for the US

By Nicolas Fogelholm, About Nokia
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

As part of its annual Capital Market Days event, Nokia unveiled one of the first handsets designed to support 1900MHz UMTS networks. The Nokia UMTS (3G) phone features a 2.2 inch, 320×240 pixel QVGA display, a 1 megapixel camera, FM radio, digital music player with hot-swappable miniSD card support and Bluetooth. The phone is expected to be available during the first quarter of 2006.

New UMTS networks supported by the Nokia 6282 phone enable customers to access a number of exciting 3G services. Some of these services include streaming multimedia audio and video content and the rapid upload and download of large files - including downloadable games and video, MP3 or AAC ringtones, or over-the-air synchronization of calendar, contact and to-do information using the built-in SyncML client. Says Nokia

The Nokia 6282 is a Series 40 Platform 3rd Edition phone. This means it is a “normal phone” (Series 60 or S60 phones are smartphones). I do not know exactly what´s new in the 3rd Edition of this platform, but some improvements in the UI (user interface) and the ability to use spam filter for incoming mails should be there.

We all know Nokia´s market share is not on the same level in the US as it is in Europe, not to speak of NokiaLand (Finland) were I live. With the Nokia 6282 Nokia hopes to gain some more market share in the US. Good luck!

We Say: I have been using my Nokia 6630 UMTS phone for a year and not once have I needed the fast UMTS networks. Do not get fooled by this marketing trick and all the hype around UMTS. If you like the phone and its other features buy it, but because of UMTS - no!