Mobile Phone + Music + Messaging = Nokia 3300 Music Phone for Back to
School
Nokia redefines the way you listen to music
IRVING, TX - (August 4, 2003) - Just in time for the busy back to school season,
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is marrying music and messaging into the Nokia 3300 music
phone for young music lovers across North and South America. The Nokia 3300
music phone includes an MP3/AAC player, FM stereo radio and a full messaging
keypad to make messaging and music mobile in one fashionable and small device.
It is currently on sale at www.nokia.com/us and at Cingular stores in the United
States. More carriers across North and South America are expected to offer the
Nokia 3300 music phone in the coming weeks.
The 3300 music phone is the first of its kind in the Americas and marks a
completely new way for music fans to legally consume music content. The digital
music player offers extensive music listening with swappable multi-media memory
(MMC) cards with battery life allowing for up to 15 hours of music play, while
the FM stereo radio with 20 presets can play up to 10 hours of music.
Transferring music from CDs or digital files is easy with Nokia's Audio Manager
PC software and the USB cable (included with purchase). An in-box 64MBMMC card
will include True Tones -- an exciting new way of personalizing the combined
mobile phone and music device with real music samples as ring tones to alert
users of an incoming call. When a call comes in, the Nokia 3300 music phone
automatically pauses the music while you take the call. And when the call is
complete, you can go right back to jamming to the tunes without missing a beat.
A plug-in for *RealNetworks®' award winning RealOne(TM) Player is scheduled to
be available for use with the Nokia 3300 music phone in the near future. When
the plug-in is made available, the RealOne Player will allow users to create
play lists from their music library that they can quickly and easily transfer to
the Nokia 3300 music phone for listening on the go. With advanced CD burning,
MP3 recording up to 320 Kbps, and streamlined play list creation, RealOne Player
offers full music management and jukebox functions that active mobile music
lovers seek. When made available for the Nokia 3300 music phone, consumers will
be able to download the RealOne Player with the plug-in for free from
www.real.com.
As an additional bonus, the Nokia 3300 will be sold with a CD-ROM of full-length
tracks showcasing some of today's hottest bands and newest emerging artists.
Hoobastank, The All American Rejects and Ozomatli have included
never-before-released music on the CD in addition to upcoming artists Diffuser,
GOB, Brand New, Wakefield, Flashlight Brown and Forty Foot Echo. Five of the
music industries hottest record label's -- Arista, DreamWorks, Island/Def-Jam,
Razor & Tie and Hollywood -- were responsible for contributing the tracks and
True Tones. Users of the Nokia 3300 music phone can download these tracks from
the CD to their phone with the included Nokia Audio Manager PC software.
"The Nokia 3300 music phone is a hip little number that puts the bling-bling in
your ring-a-ling," said Nada Usina, general manager of Nokia mobile phones
entertainment and media. "With amazing sound quality, messaging made easy, and
oodles of ways to personalize the music phone to your personality, it's certain
to be the phone to carry back to school this year."
"We are thrilled to have our music featured on the Nokia 3300 music phone. Nokia
is always leading the way with innovative phones and it is great for our artists
to be associated with a company that is in touch with the same audience," said
Ken Bunt, vice president of new media for Buena Vista Music Group.
North American Concert Tour to Feature Nokia 3300 Artists
The Nokia Unwired Tour will celebrate the music available with the purchase of
the Nokia 3300 with a 20-market concert tour in the United States and Canada
from October 2 through October 31. The tour will feature the aforementioned
Hoobastank and The All American Rejects along with bands Ozomatli and Diffuser.
All of these bands have contributed music to the CD or MMC included in-box with
the Nokia 3300 music phone - an extra bonus for music lovers who buy the phone.
"The music included with the purchase of the Nokia 3300 music phone is an extra
bonus for music lovers," continued Usina. "Use it with the hands free speaker
feature, and you've got the digital boom box of a generation."
The Nokia 3300 music phone features a radical new look including a horizontal
design with a full messaging keyboard optimized for quick text input in
messaging and browsing. It supports multiple ways for text chatting including
instant messaging (IM), e-mail, multi media messaging (MMS) and text messaging.
Built for stylish and trendy music lovers who need to message on the go, the
phone is meant to show the personality of its users with True Tones, multimedia
message templates and color wallpapers. The dual band (850/1900) Nokia 3300
music phone also has a high-resolution color display (128 x 128).
For more information about the Nokia 3300 music phone, visit www.nokiausa.com/phones/3300
.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience,
innovation, user-friendliness and reliable solutions, the company has become the
leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed
broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet Nokia creates new
opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people.
Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.
www.nokia.com
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