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Nokia 3650 Symbian phone unveiled
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By Jørgen Sundgot, Friday 6 September 2002  
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Nokia's 7650 will no longer be the only Series 60 phone; meet the youth-targeted Nokia 3650 sporting tri-band GSM, GPRS, Bluetooth, MMC expansion, a 12-bit color display and MMS.
While the Nokia 7650 is one of the hottest smartphones to arrive yet (although in all fairness, there aren't too many of them), Nokia does obviously not see that as a reason to rest on its laurels. At the Nokia Totally Board event in Marseille, France and at an Asia Pacific launch event held in Singapore, Nokia has now revealed the next-generation Series 60 phone, which effectively is the 7650's big brother although it's placed in Nokia's 3000 series and thus targeted at the young and trendy.
 | Nokia's 3650 takes a whole different approach - yet strangely familiar - to the keypad
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Like the Nokia 7650, the 3650 sports an integrated digital camera capable of taking pictures in VGA resolution, 4 MB RAM a 12-bit color display, GSM, GPRS, HSCSD and Bluetooth - but there are some subtle differences as well. Apart from the updated looks of the 3650, which sports a rotary style keypad, the phone has tri-band and not dual-band GSM, its Bluetooth is likely to support Bluetooth headsets and car kits - meaning it's v1.1, and there is also an integrated MMC card expansion slot.
Also, despite the Nokia 7650 also having an integrated digital camera, it's only capable of taking pictures while the 3650 will come with software to record and play back video, and will also be bundled with the Series 60 version of the RealOne Mobile player, recently exposed by infoSync. Something else is new in the software department as well, and that's an WAP 2.0/XHTML browser that among other things supports browsing i-mode content; the Nokia 7650 only comes with a WAP browser.
J2ME and MMS support is also present in the 3650, and Nokia will be offering a new Photo Zone service to share photos and send e-cards. Continuing the theme of sharing experiences, Nokia also said the 3650 would support multi-party game play over infrared and Bluetooth without delving into deeper detail.
The Nokia 3650 phone weighs 130 g, and comes with an 850 mAh Lithium ion battery where the Nokia 7650 only has a 650 mAh battery, giving 3650 a talk time of up to 4 hours hours, a standby time of up to 8 days and a faster charging time of approximately one hour. Also, user-changeable Xpress-on covers which will be shipping along with the 3650 in early 2003 will be available to allow owners to personalize their handset as with other youth-targeted phones from the company.
Additional hi-res pictures of the Nokia 3650 are available on the following pages.
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