The Nokia 3650



So I promised some thoughts on my new phone. Here goes.

I picked up a Nokia 3650 during finals. The real reason for doing that was that my Siemens had real issues with wind noise and dropouts.

This phone was really grown on me. Initially I was excited by the reception but found it a bit confusing and counter intuitive. The more time I've spent with it the more I've grown to appreciate it.

The good:
Bluetooth works flawlessly, and it's about 4x faster than the Siemens. It syncs your address book pictures back to OSX and the Calendar application is much better than the Siemens. At this point I'm just holding on to the palm out of fear of detachment.

Being able to add any Series 60 software is terrific. Games, utilities, everything. Having 64+ megs of usable storage is really nice. It makes it easier to feel OK using the camera and camcorder features.

Reception is terrific of course, and the sound quality is pretty good. The incoming sound isn't quite as good as the Samsung S105, but using the bluetooth headset it doesn't matter. I also like that the bluetooth headset can be used for all of the phone's audio, not just calls.

It's got a ton of features I haven't even come to understand yet. But it's ok.

The bad: It's big. It falls into the category of BFP (Big Darn Phone). For comparison, here's the Nokia next to my previous two phones:


So anyways, it's a good phone. Get one!

Posted: Tue - December 30, 2003 at 11:45 PM          

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