Nokia 7650

What a piece of kit! Or so I thought. I've owned a string of mobiles now, and I've found Nokia to be consistently the best manufacturer to suit my needs, and always capable of providing a good quality, solid, reliable (ish), and extremely user friendly phone. How disappointed I find myself with Nokia's latest offering is incredible. Why I hear you ask - let me begin. The Nokia 6210 I was using previously was an excellent phone, solid, dependable, easy to use, but ultimately quite dull. After one and a half years with my network provider, I decided it would be time for an upgrade, and lo and behold, the idea of the 7650 was sown. Now, I will admit at ...  Read the complete review

Strange title I know but don’t worry, the reason will become apparent as you read through the review. The 7650, is it a phone or is it a camera ? Well obviously the answer to that is it is first and foremost a phone and yes, it performs all the necessary functions very adequately. I could bore you with the technical specs and the key presses needed to do this or that but I think the majority of people are now fully conversant in the standard use of mobile phone functionality, i.e, making a call, texting, storing numbers etc and would be bored stiff so what I will do is concentrate more on the feel of the phone and the additional functions it ...  Read the complete review

Yes, this is an op with an agenda! Like almost everyone else, i'd been more than happy with my Nokia 8310 for quite some time. In fact, that particular phone so pleased consumers that they stopped buying new phones ? which until recently had been worrying the phone manufacturers no end. What wasn't to like? It had a radio, was a perfectly handy size, and also boasted Nokia's usual stylish design. So the manufacturers have been pushing phones with new features onto the market for a while to try and get us buying phones again ? and it's starting to work. The digital camera wasn't the killer app for me ? sure it's fun to ...  Read the complete review

The Nokia 7650 comes direct from the latest crop of photo cameras aimed at the typical non-business customer. It is decidedly bigger than its rival, the 3650, clocking in at around 11cm long and 3cm thick. However, its looks ensure that this is not a mobile to be ashamed of; it has a certain charm and unique quality bereft form other similarly designed Nokia phones. Indeed, from the outset it looks a lot like a PDA, featuring a large and clear screen, a small joystick and only three buttons. All fears of a fiddly touch screen style interface are quickly forgotten though with a keypad that slides down, as immortalised in the film "The Matrix". Of course, this ...  Read the complete review

For those of you who don't know what horse dung is: it's the dung from a horse ;) Okay, okay. Here we go: BAD: Okay, so the phone's a pda which you can't synchronise with a palm(tm) or with windows address book, or even export records to a comma delimited text file. You have to buy MS Outlook or Lotus Notes (ugh). You can't edit the records on screen with your PC like a normal PDA Bluetooth is great, if you can actually do something with it: with the nokia, you can only export single records to a mobile device, can't use a bluetooth headset, and Nokia haven't released a satisfactory driver to collect sms ...  Read the complete review