Nokia 3720 Classic: 125 EUR, coming out this summer, nearly impossible to break
By Stefan Constantinescu on Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 6:54 AM PST In Nokia
Less than 6 hours ago, I predicted the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 3720 Classic would be announced within 2 months. Well it happened.
For 125 Euros (110 British Pounds or 180 American Dollars) this summer you’ll be able to pick up what Nokia is calling their “most rugged mobile handset to date.” It’s fairly standard, feature wise, with triband GSM/EDGE supporting the 900/1800/1900 MHz bands, a 2.2 inch 240 x 320 pixel 16 million color screen, 2 megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.1. What stands out is the IEC 60529/Level IP54 certification for being dust and water resistant.
She is pretty small at only 115 mm x 47 mm x 15.3 mm, weighing in at 94 grams with a 1050 mAh battery that can provide 7 hours of talk time and 18 days standby. I can see a lot of my friends picking this up as a holiday/weekend phone for the cottage/lake.
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the first thing i thought of when i saw these video’s was the NYtimes article of jan chipchase you linked in your “trimming in public” series. having a cellphone like this for the salesman in mumbai who keeps his mobile in a plastic bag to protect it from floods that enter his house, etc… can’t help but think this phone will do well in the developing countries where a rugged phone would be best suited.
it will also make a great drunk phone when getting trashed poolside in vegas
“She” is pretty small ? How come? the cell phone is a woman or what ? “It” is pretty small, smart guy.