3650 one of the best phones nokia made (Nokia 3650)

Member Name: rjob

Product:	Nokia 3650
Date:	07/04/05 (1212 review reads)
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Advantages: wide variety of uses, large screen, easy to navigate

Disadvantages: takes a while to get used to keypad

I have had this phone for nearly two years, and only just upgraded to a 6630 (see my other reviews) but it was a hard thing to abandon this wonderful phone.

The first thing that you notice about this phone is the circular keypad, it takes a little getting used to but I am now having the same problems adjusting to the 'standard' keypad of my 6630. Don't be put off this great phone just because it looks a little different.

The screen and camera on the phone are now pretty standard, but when it came out they were by far the best that you could get. I previously had a 7650 and this was very poor in comparision. The canera may not run into the mega pixels that some cameras do today, but if you want high quality images then buy a digital camera. If you want to use the video recorder, and lets face it you will, you need to download a patch from the nokia website that allows the recording of sound as well. The video recorder that comes with the phone can anly record about 10 seconds, but there are plenty of applications out that allow you to record for as long as you like (or actually to how much memory you have).

This phone has all the connectivity opions you could possibly need, as well as the obvious gsm network (including wap) there is an infared connector and a bluetooth one, these can then also act as a modem connection for say your laptop, it's not going to givce you braodband speeds but then at the time that this phone came out broadband was not as common (only two years ago!!). If you don't have a infared or bluetooth connection on your pc then there is a data cable that you can buy, although it is probably cheaper to get a bluetooth dongle with them getting cheaper and cheaper.

You will want to connect this phone to your pc, you can transfer files, make backups and install applications with the nokia media suite that comes on a cd with the phone. This application seems to not like the infared connections a regulary fails on this so i would suggest getting yourself bluetooth. The video files are saved in 3gp format and you also get a player that can read these on your computer.

With the use of various third party applications you can put these connections to great use, for example recently i have used the infared port to control my television and the bluetooth connection to control power point prensentaions.

This phone can make voice calls, it also has a speaker phone mode and can hold conference calls. The messaging on this is also of the standard you have come to expect from nokia including mms.

There is a 3mb internal memory, again new phones surpase this but this is still good, and it comes shipped with a 16mb sd memory card. I have replaced this memory card with a 256mb one, and that is not as excessive as it sounds. You will fill this phone with so many applications and files. On my 3650 i have a windows style explorer, a memory monitor, a new video recorder, opera browser, a pdf reader, a word file reader, an excel reader, the ifared remote application, bluetooth application for power point, an mp3 player and then some photos, videos, mp3s and even a couple of episodes of the simpsons. There are also many games on there, there are the standard ones from nokia (they have some extra that you can download from thier website for free) there is a copy of fifa 2004 and doom amongst others, but by far the best games application you can get is goboy, which allows you to download roms of your favourite gameboy and gameboy colour games (you have to own the originals to do this legally) to play on your phone. There are thousnads of applications and games out there for the 3650.

The only reason that i got a new phone was because O2 offered it me for free, i prefer my 3650, but it is slower than the best new phones, but only the best it still beats most of todays phones and that is two years after coming out. This is by far the best phone that nokia ever produced.

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