An old idea made new (Nokia 3650)

Member Name: LastLine

Product:	Nokia 3650
Date:	05/06/09 (6 review reads)
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Advantages: Revolutionary ideas

Disadvantages: Very awkward button placement

This phone has been around for years now and I've just recently pulled it out of my draw to recycle in exchange for a couple of quid.

The phone at the time of release about five years ago was truely revolutionary, it held one of the best mobile phone cameras going, and rather shockingly had a screen that you could see the pictures on, it might not sound much in today's world of 3/4/5/6 megapixel phone cameras but at the time it was standard to be able to take a photo the size of your thumbnail and that was about it, you could tell it was a photograph...but that was it. I still have the picture I took on this phone of the local church after a storm where you could see the rainbow up in the sky showing each distinctive colour, something that's quite hard to catch on even a decent dedicated camera.

The phone is quite large, even given the time that it came out in, but this isn't necessarily bad, as I know that I for one can't stand phones that you can lose in your jeans pocket.

The keyboard design however is the one reason I absolutely hated this phone. For some reason someone came up with the concept that putting the phone keys in a round dial like the old rotary phones would be a really clever idea. Admittedly it is part of why I bought the phone, but it's also part of why six months later I stuck it in a draw permanently. It was just horrific to try and text on, I didn't know where to put my fingers and thumbs to control the keys. A great idea but thankfully one that never took off!

Summary: A nice idea, but poorly executed

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