The Finnish mobile phone leader Nokia has been releasing and announcing new mobile phones during the last quarter of the year.  With launch dates well into the first quarter of 2010, Nokia has just announced early November about a trio of CDMA phones meant to cover the entire spectrum of its demographics in countries with CDMA mobile telephone networks, China in particular.

From the low end 1506 to the higher end 6316 with middle of the road Nokia 3806 the new CDMA mobile phones strengthens Nokiaâ??s presence in CDMA territories. These are not high end phones as they all sit at the bottom of the mobile phone totem pole but they carry all the basics of what a mobile phone should be.

Competitive Features

Inheriting what Nokia designers call â??DNAâ? design concept, the Nokia 3806 is more than just a brainy beauty.  Itâ??s the epitome of functional elegance and affordability on the classic monoblock candybar form factor lined with a subtle silver on a body that will come in three colors of your choice â?? black, pure white and rose gold.

Nokia seems to have gone back to the basics but without forgetting what the market of the 21st century expects from a versatile mobile phone.  You wonâ??t get a large screen but just the usual 2.2â? LCD TFT display with QVGA resolution.  Itâ??s small, alright, but it gets the job done where it is needed most, and thatâ??s about navigating and using the rich feature of the handset. While it can play you favourite video, thatâ??s not it main mission.

The 3806 has a modest imaging feature with a 2-megapnixel camera with QVGA recording.  Thereâ??s no 3G high speed data connectivity which its slider 6316 brother has.  Thereâ??s also no WiFi for internet surfing in hotspots, but you get Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR for high speed local data transfers and synchronization with your laptop or Desktop PC.

Thereâ??s a microSD slot to expand its equally modest internal memory but only up to 4 GB as per specification, though it may be able to use the large 8 MB microSD cards as most mobile phones can use SD and miniSD cards beyond what they had been specified to.

One stand-out feature of the Nokia 3806 is its pre-loaded Heath assistant application which is essentially a database that offers advice on health problem you may encounter in the course of using the handset such as stress-related issues.  Not that youâ??d be stressed out using the mobile handset but more as a health companion for you and your colleagues at work as well as family members at home.

Available Soon

The Nokia 1506 is planned to be released by the end of December while the other two, including the Nokia 3806, are slated to be released in the first quarter of 2010.  Pricing has yet to be disclosed but we donâ??t foresee any of them setting their foot into high end pricing territory as their features clearly show a more down-to-earth entry level handsets.

All the three newly announced CDMA handsets clearly emphasize Nokiaâ??s continuing support to CDMA as the thriving mobile telephony standard thatâ??s as much as force to reckon with GSM networks.  China Telecoms, the leading mobile network provider in the whole of China, is expected to carry the handsets on a subscription plan.

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