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Nokia 7650 Camera phone
Advantages
• Excellent picture quality
• Fast picture sending to other phones
• Email, voice and picture facilities
• Intuitive user interface |
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Disadvantages
• Awkward to use key pad
• Too large and bulky
• Too complex to enable email facility
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The Nokia 7650, MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) capable mobile
phone is one of the first phones to use the MMS technology. It
gives consumers the ability to take excellent quality photographs with
their mobile handset with a touch of a button. Photos can then
be forwarded to friends with a few simple clicks.
The product comes complete with easy to install software to archive the photos you have taken on
your hard drive; these can also be sent to other people or printed out
like a normal digital photo.
Specifications
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Europe,
Africa,
Asia Pacific in the 2nd quarter of 2002.
154 g
114 x 56 x
26 mm
2 - 4 h
100 - 150 h
EGSM900/1800 in Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific (Dual Band only)
Camera (VGA, 640x480 pixels) Graphical colour display (176x208 pixels, 35x41mm) |
Set-up
The Nokia 7650 user interface is
mainly controlled/navigated with a small joystick and two large
selection buttons. Additional
facilities have been built into this mobile, including the various types of email (SMTP,
POP3, IMAP4). This does require some experience in setting up email
accounts, but details of how to do this are covered very well in the instruction manual. The device
also comes fully WAP ready and with the large screen and navigation buttons.
Surfing on
a phone has never been easier.
Aesthetics
Nokia, in my mind and in the opinion of many others I have asked, have not done a
fantastic job on the styling of this product. They seem to have
concentrated more on the usability and interface (which is excellent
and easy to use) of the phone than the
case of the 7650. The overall shape of the phone is rather large
and is just slightly too big to fit in a pocket. Most of the phone's size is
because of the clear and big screen.
Nokia have used the "sliding" on this phone to reveal the keypad.
Although the build quality of the parts is good, it does make using
the key pad quite difficult and therefore SMS a bit tricky too.
Product
testing
The Nokia 7650 is the "point and shoot" mobile phone camera. Taking
pictures is very easy: just one click. There is a slight delay in
pressing the button and taking the picture, therefore it is not really
designed for action photos. Nokia have also added a realistic
camera noise to every photo you take - not really a must-have, but a
nice touch!
There is no
flash unit on the camera so darker pictures do not come out as well,
however there is a setting to allow you to set the photo conditions.
The phone has a good standby time of 100 – 150h and, as you
would expect, the more photos you take the shorter the battery
lasts. The phone is Bluetooth ready and has the standard
Nokia IR port for communication to computers and other mobiles.
You can store a considerable number of pictures on the 3.6Mb
phones memory; not as many as a digital camera maybe, but
of course, it is a mobile phone too. Various applications
can be downloaded and transferred to the phone. More details
on these applications can be found at www.nokia.co.uk.
This Nokia is also fully equipped with a "To Do" list, Calendar, WAP
browser, Calculator and also some very flash versions of Nokia games,
including Snake.
Overall, the Nokia 7650 is a good buy for users who want an
MMS-enabled mobile phone that is very easy to use for taking pictures.
However, I think that the aesthetics of the model will improve with
the release of the next generation handsets.
Costs and where to buy?
For further information on the Nokia please go to:
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7650/
The Nokia 7650 is available through T-mobile. For more information
about this and other handsets is available, see:
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk
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