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The last handheld officially presented by Nokia at the Mobile World Congress 2009 is the 8208 CDMA cellular phone, a device that first appeared a couple of weeks ago, sometime in January.

The bad thing about the Nokia 8208 is the fact that it’s targeted to CDMA markets outside the United States. Why is that? We don’t know. But I suppose that the Finnish company has a very powerful reason for such a decision, and we shouldn’t blame them for something we don’t know.

The dual-slider is part of the mid-end category, being the perfect alternative for people who aren’t into smartphones that are able to sing and dance and prepare your breakfast each and every morning.

As far as the features are concerned, they include: dual band CDMA/EV-DO connectivity (800/1900 MHz), a 2.2 inch display with a resolution of 240x320 pixels and 16 million colors, a 3 megapixel camera with flash, the Nokia S40-like user interface, GPS functionality, Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, 3.5 mm headset jack, FM radio, dedicated music buttons, an internal memory of 150MB which can be expanded through a microSD card of no more than 16GB (there’s a 1GB microSD card included).

The CDMA cellular phone measures 101 x 45.2 x 15.9 millimeters and weighs approximately 126.3 grams. Its battery provides up to 4 hours of talk time and up to 11 days of stand-by time.

“We instinctively wanted to carry out a very modern look and feel in the design of our new devices, and to bring consumers a wide range of features”, said Larry Paulson, Nokia Senior Vice President, CDMA devices. In addition, he said that “Consumers want devices that are beautiful to look at and reflect their individuality, but also have the functionality that keeps them connected to their world easily. This device echoes our goal to broaden the Nokia portofolio of high tech, yet stylish devices in select global CDMA markets”.

The Nokia 8208 is expected to become available by the end of the first quarter of this year.

Labels: Nokia

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