At the recent CTIA Global Wireless trade show in Las Vergas, Nokia unveiled four new mobile phones based on North American CDMA and TDMA systems for a mass market.

The tri-band 3285 CDMA and dual-band 3280 CDMA handsets and the tri-band 3360 TDMA and dual-band 3320 TDMA, all of which will offer limited Internet browsing capabilities. Incorporating WAP technology, the phones also feature Internet e-mail and advanced text and graphic picture messaging.

Later the same week at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, Nokia went head-on with Ericsson, who also unveiled a next generation phone, with the launch of its new WAP-enabled phone for GPRS. Designed for the business user, the Nokia 6310 has built-in Bluetooth capabilities for wirelessly transferring data with a nearby Bluetooth-enabled device.

• HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit Switched Data) enables data to be transmitted at speeds of up to 43.2 kbps.
• SyncML standard for synchronizing data with other devices
• Voice features such as voice recording and voice dialing
• VCard support makes it possible to automatically save contact information such as business cards listing on a WAP site to the phone’s memory
• Wireless Telephony Application Interface Public Library, which enabled the user to make a call from a WAP site, without terminating the WAP session

The Nokia 6310 will be available by the end of the year.