Nokia's music handset, the 3250, has proven to be particularly popular with consumers, according to a press release from Nokia today, with more than 1,000,000 of the handsets sold world wide. The 3250 is notable for coming with 1Gb of on-board memory, allowing storage of up to 750-odd songs in a variety of formats, including MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC and eAAC+.

"As the world's largest manufacturer of digital music players, Nokia continues to lead the way in making mobile music widely accessible," says Heikki Norta, Senior Vice President of Nokia's Lifestyle Products Group. "As we enter the summer holiday season, the Nokia 3250 is an ideal travel companion - it stores all your favourite songs, records fondest summer memories, and even has an off-line mode for those endless long-haul flights."

The 3250 also comes in an array of fetching colours, with the pale pink version shown here. Whilst Nokia claim that the high volume of sales shows consumer faith in the S60 software that underlies the handset, I think it probably has more do with the phone being able to be used as an iPod replacement.