The Nokia 3410 is a
mobile phone
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made by
Nokia
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, the successor of the popular
Nokia 3310. It was announced at
CEBIT
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on 12 March 2002. The 3410 was the first
Java
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phone by Nokia, as well as being one of the earliest mobile phones outside
Japan
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to feature 3D graphics and an image editor.
The Nokia 3410 was never released in the Asia-Pacific region, likely due to variants of the 3310 such as the Nokia 3315, which featured almost the same design cues as the Nokia 3410, as well as Nokia observing
tetraphobia
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Rationale
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in Asian markets where the number four is viewed as unlucky.
Hardware and software
The Nokia 3410 is compact, but somewhat heavy with a weight of 114 grams with the 825mAh removable
Li-Ion
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battery. It has up and down buttons to assist with menu navigation and a stiff black button on the top of the phone serves as a switch to turn profiles on and off. Its display has a higher definition than its predecessor's with 96×65 pixels (as opposed to 84×48 on the 3310). It also came packed with a
WAP
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1.1 browser, and basic utilities such as a calculator, alarm clock, stop watch, and countdown timer. It also can store up to 10 notes as reminders and has customizable and downloadable profiles. On the entertainment side it comes with five games (''
Snake II'', ''Bumper'', ''
Space Impact
''Space Impact'' is a mobile game series that was published by Nokia and its games usually came bundled with several Nokia devices.
The first Space Impact appeared on the Nokia 3310 in 2000 and later included in other models released throughout ...
'', ''Bantumi'', ''Link5'') and a basic
SMS messenger.
3D graphics
The Nokia 3410 was one of the first mobile phones released outside Japan to feature mobile
3D graphics
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(notably the animated
screensavers and the mobile game ''Munkiki's Castles''). Despite its
monochrome screen and a 96×65
screen resolution
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, it includes almost all of the rendering features from
OpenGL ES 1.0, used in only three applications: 3D text generator, animated screensavers and ''Munkiki's Castles''. It uses a proprietary API for the mobile phone to render 3D graphics via the baseband processor (
Texas Instruments
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MAD2WDI C GSM Baseband Processor). However, rendering on this device is only displayed at a lower polygon count (since it uses a software renderer) and it runs slower than other mobile phones that support 3D graphics.
See also
*
List of Nokia products
Notes
References
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