Nokia 3650 Symbian Imaging-phone

Ch_Omega writes "Nokia have announced a new cameraphone in the, traditionally low-cost, 3xxx-series. Surprisingly enough, it seems to have the same functionality as the Nokia 7650, as well as tri-band, MMC-expansion slot, and abillity to capture video as well as still images. The new smartphone has been given the name Nokia 3650, which, according to this article indicates that it will be much cheaper than the 7650, while actually being superior feature-wise!"

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GSM, HSCSD and GPRS

[mah!]

Another preview dated Sept 16. of the 3650 is to be found at GSMBOX and of course at all their other sites, including the original one.

They english translation says that it's targeted at European, Asian and North American markets however, being a 3-band GSM it means that it'll work quite everywhere in the world except in Japan: all across Africa for example, and in South America too.

As in the original article it'll be initially marketed in those 3 continents, but nothing prevents it from being sold and used anywhere else.

Curiously enough, non-GSM users are left out for now. Hopefully, at least in the North-American continent, the (late) conversion to GSM by AT&T will speed up the conversion of the last 30% of the world maket to the dominant global standard.

Re:bandwagon

[sideone]

i agree. i have made the mistake of buying many products because they were inexpensive, even though reviews told me that the product was shit. You know what i found out, exactly what the word cheap really means.

Re:Great, but why would I use it when I have a dig

[Serveert]

Actually, you are wrong. The pictures(640x480x24bit) can be mailed to any e-mail adress, transfered to your box via bluetooth and more, in .jpg format.

Let's say you want 5" x 7" prints of your photos. At 640 x 480, the pixels per inch will be 640/7 or 91 ppi horizontal, 480/5 or 96 ppi vertical.

With my Nikkon 775 which was around $300, I get 1600 x 1200 resolution. This gives me 228 ppi horizontal, 240 ppi vertical.

You approach photorealistic quality at 300 ppi. If I were to get 5 by 7 prints, the photos your camera would produce wouldn't be tolerable. Not even talking about the fact that my camera uses 32 bit color.

Add in the fact that it probably doesn't have flash and other nice camera features like red eye, etc... you'll have to conclude that it's no replacement for a digital camera.