Key Features

• Video recorder and player
• Digital VGA camera
• Active TFT color display
• Bluetooth wireless technology
• Streaming video and audio
• Music player for MP3 and AAC files
• Stereo FM radio
• EDGE and GPRS
• MultiMediaCard (MMC)

Tri-band Operation

• EGSM 900, GSM 1800, and GSM 1900 networks in Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, and South America where these networks are supported
• Automatic switching between bands

Size

• Weight: 97 g (with BL-5C)
• Dimensions: 103 mm x 44 mm x 20 mm, 76cc

Display and User Interface

• 27.3 mm x 27.3 mm display
• Active TFT color display
• Supports up to 65,536 colors within 128 x 128 pixels
• 5 lines for text in basic mode with 16-pixel font
• Three soft keys with five-way scroll including select function
• User configurable right and left soft keys
• List and grid menu

Integrated VGA Camera

• Resolution up to 640 x 480
• Self timer function (10 sec)
• Phone display used as a viewfinder
• Standard, portrait, and night modes
• Photo album in Gallery
• Gallery for storing and editing images
• 3 image quality options: High, normal, basic
• Integrated video recorder: 3GPP spec (H.263 video and AMR audio packed in .3gp format)
• Integrated video player: 3GPP spec (H.263 video, MPEG-4, and AMR audio packed in .3gp format)
• Video streaming: 3GPP spec (H.263 video )

Phone Features

• Personal shortcuts
• Alarm clock
• Stereo FM radio
• Radio as alarm clock alert
• Automatic volume control
• Extensive calendar with busy view of the week, improved notes view for each day, snooze on calendar alarm
• Notes view for each day
• To-do list (up to 30 entries)
• Automatic key guard
• Wallet
• Stopwatch
• Countdown timer
• Wallpaper: Full-screen color image
• Animated color screensavers
• Changeable color schemes
• Calculator

Messaging and Imaging

Multimedia Messaging (MMS)

• Multimedia messaging (MMS) with compatible devices: Send and receive messages containing text, a sound clip, and an image or a video clip to other compatible devices
• Max message size: Up to 100 kB per MMS

Email

• Over SMS
• Java midlet

Presence

• Chat (Instant Messaging )
• Presence-enhanced contacts

Text Messaging (SMS)

• SMS distribution list
• Up to 150 text messages or 50 picture/concatenated messages
• Concatenated SMS: Send and receive up to 6 messages (885 characters) as a single message
• Message register
• Predictive text input: Support for all major languages for Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas
• Picture messaging: Send pictures with text to other compatible phones, 10 preset pictures in the phone, all replaceable

Templates

• Quick and easy sending of predefined messages
• Insert smileys with the editor

Imaging

• Picture viewer
• Storage of images uses shared user memory. See Memory Functions below
• Images: 10 preset wallpapers, 10 preset SMS pictures, 5 preset frames, 10 preset clip art pictures in the phone
• Image editing
• Image editing features: Add a scalable clip art picture, add colored text, make the image smaller for contacts

Games

• Java games
• Beach Ralley II, Golf, and Chess Puzzle
• Possibility to download new games
• Two-player games over Bluetooth technology between compatible devices

Java™ Applications

• Converter II: Converts currencies, measurements, temperature, etc
• World Clock II
• Translator
• All applications user removable
• Downloadable games and personal applications via Java™ technology (MIDP 2.0)
• Max download size: 128 kB per application

Ringing Tones

• Fixed ringing tones: 20 polyphonic and 10 monophonic tones

Connectivity and Data Transfer

Connectivity

• Pop-Port™ interface
• Connect wirelessly to a compatible phone or to a compatible PC
• Connect to a compatible PC with Nokia Connectivity Cable DKU-2
• Infrared
• Bluetooth wireless technology
• Send and receive images, video clips, audio files, and graphics
• Install applications with Nokia PC Suite for the Nokia 6230 phone
• Browsing XHTML (WAP 2.0) over TCP/IP stack
• JPEG/PNG support in browser
• Full OMA DRM for content protection
• SyncML

Data Transfer

• EDGE* Class 10 (4+1, 3+2): Speed up to 236.8 Kbit/s
• GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Class 10 (4+1, 3+2)
• HSCSD (High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data)
• Data transfer up to 43.2 Kbit/s in HSCSD networks
• Multitasking
• TCP/IP

Call Management

• Speed dialing: Up to 9 names, with keys 2-9
• Last-number redial from dialed calls list (Dial key brings out the dialed calls list)
• Automatic redial (max 10 attempts)
• Automatic answer (works with headset or car kit only)
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert, call timer
• Automatic and manual network selection
• Caller identification with image
• Closed User Group
• Fixed Dialing Number, allows calls only to predefined numbers
• Conference call (up to 5 participants)
• Vibrating alert

Voice Features

• Voice dialing, 25 preset
• 16 voice commands
• Voice recording up to 3 min
• Integrated handsfree speaker
• Automatic volume control

Software

• PC Suite

Memory Functions

The following functions use shared memory that is dependent on the data quantity per item and shared memory available at a time in the Nokia 6230 phone. The shared memory pool is up to 6 MB. Possibility to get additional memory with MultiMediaCard (MMC).

• Notes: Up to 3000 characters in one note
• Email messages: Max 30 kB per message
• Ringing tones in Gallery: 20 preset, all removable
• Images in Gallery: 10 preset
• Video clips: Record up to 2 MB (equal to up to 5 min); download up to 5 MB
• Multimedia messages: Max message size 100 kB per MMS
• Java™ applications: 6 preset, max download size 128 kB per application
• Phone book: Up to 1000 contacts with all entries filled, in addition to SIM card contacts
• SMS messages: Up to 150 maximum-size text messages in addition to SIM card inbox messages

Personalize

• Java midlets
• Games: Possibility to download new games
• Polyphonic tones
• Monophonic tones

Power Management