Nokia 3650 review

The long wait for the Nokia 3650 is finally over; the new phone, which thanks to its built-in camera lets you take photographs and, a complete novelty, also shoot short video clips, has been on sale for a few days now.

The 3650 is the evolution of the 7650. As often happens with Nokia phones, the design is an important feature, appreciated by consumers and one that rarely disappoints anyone.
In this case we have a phone with a circular keypad, which gives the handset a vague teardrop shape and will require getting used to the new arrangement of the buttons.

Inside this "wheel" we also find three function keys and a mouse-key for navigating the phone's menu.

The display, on the other hand, brings no news, it's the same excellent TFT display from the 7650, with 4096 colors and a resolution of 176x208 pixels. Compared to the 7650, however, the 3650 is lighter, weighing in fact 130 grams, while the dimensions are almost identical.

Technically the 3650 is a tri-band phone, 900-1800-1900 Mhz, equipped with GPRS technology for fast connection to the Internet, and MMS support for sending and receiving multimedia messages.

It's precisely multimedia capability that is this phone's strong point: besides MMS, the 3650 supports RealPlayer formats (already integrated at the time of purchase), MPEG4, MIDI and WAVE for ringtones, while thanks to Java support you can download and use dozens of applications (software and games) specifically designed for these phones.

In this way you can have a completely full video transmission service: you shoot a clip with the camera, and send it to friends via MMS transmission. The base memory of the 3650 is 4 MB, but thanks to the expansion slot you can reach 256 MB of memory, so as to have more applications and larger video clips.

Despite its capabilities, the battery guarantees high autonomy, 200 hours in stand by and 4 hours of talk time.
After all this concentration of new features, the other characteristics bring us back down to earth, rounding out the package are wap, speakerphone, infrared port, modem, voice commands and voice recorder, and the classic functions of calendar, alarm clock and games.