According to WIND Mobile’s blog, they will soon be getting a medium-powered and low-end smartphone from Nokia, the 5230.

Quite slim and attractive, the specs are a bit of a letdown, considering WIND has no decent touchscreen phones for sale. There is a 434MHZ ARM processor, 128MB RAM, 2MP Camera and a resistive (not capacitative) 3.2″ touch screen running at a nice 360×640 resolution.

I’ve always liked WIND’s easy approach to phones: buy a phone outright at a decent price, activate a no-contract voice and data plan and use the phone until you no longer want to. Then cancel the plan and sell the phone. The End. No contracts, nothing.

However, the three best phones that run on WIND’s AWS network are not offered in Canada unless you import them: Google’s Nexus One, T-Mobile’s HTC HD2, and the Nokia N900. Luckily, WIND will offer you a free SIM card with any plan activation, and, as the Nexus One already comes unlocked, it’s a pretty easy procedure to get it working.

Especially now that Google has included WIND on their compatibility list for the T-Mobile Nexus One, if the Nokia 5230 comes in at more than $300, I would not recommend purchasing one. But that’s just me. Some people love Symbian. Right?

Ummm…

(via Mobile Syrup)