There have been reports that the Nokia 3230 is not the phone everyone thought it was. The natural assumption was that the phone was a scaled down version of the Nokia 6630, because of it's release date and the general similarity in features. (e.g. 1.23MP camera, Symbian, hotswappable memory.)
It seems that this might be inaccurate.
SP Mark 04 apparently shows that it has a 123Mhz processor, and while the radio sounds stereo, the MP3 playback is decidedly dual-mono. Taken together, this simply means that everyone was being a tad too optimistic. The Nokia 3230 is, after all, the _3_230. This has traditionally been a "lower" series, with fun and trendy phones which were slightly disadvantaged technologically. There have been other suggestions as to why the 3230 was numbered in this series, ranging from the fact that it is non-3G to the idea that Nokia had decided to make perfect phones finally.
So, the Nokia 3230 is probably just a slightly upgraded Nokia 7610, which means it is not Symbian 8, which means that it's not a worthwhile upgrade for current Nokia 6620/6260/7610/6670 users. I frankly feel like just getting a Nokia 6630 now. Or perhaps the Panasonic X800, when that arrives.
