Nokia 6650, Super 3G Phone

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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 1, 2002 @05:03AM from the post-away dept.

Ch_Omega writes "Nokia has announced the 6650, which in short, is the first phone ever to meet the 3G-standard! It combines GSM and WCDMA into a single handset, then throws in a VGA still camera and video camera with sound. More info on Infosync and and Nokia forums!"

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Just shoot me. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 05:09 · Score: -1, Troll

The Nokia 6650 phone is the perfect choice for shooting and sending while on the go.

I believe that given this post-9/11 world, Nokia should come up with a better aphorism for recording video than "shooting". Whoever came up with that should be shot.
/. is too Europe-centric! by govtcheez · 2002-10-01 05:09 · Score: -1, Troll

What does this matter to those of us in the US? I realize Taco's from Holland, but it doesn't mean the whole site has to be devoted to European news!
Hold your horses by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 05:12 · Score: -1, Troll

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this phone to retail. Nokia has built themselves quite a reputation for vaporware here in Europe. Besides, how is battery time on this one? The latest nokia phones i have seen has had two-thirds or even half the battery time of the competitors.
Too bad it's Nokia... by Lumpy · 2002-10-01 05:19 · Score: 0, Troll

ever cince that piece of trash known as the Nokia 5160,5165 hell the entire 5100 series... I will never EVER buy another nokia phone as long as I live or reccomend anyone to. Ergonomically laid out by a large number of morons, has the "oops the screen is dead" feature that requires a complete hard reset, losing all your stored numbers.. (Out of a fleet of 20 phones, we have 15 of them that do this on a regualr basis! and have been replaced several times!)

nokia.... no thanks... let me know when a company that makes good phones (motorola, Qualicomm) get's one out.

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Stories vs. Product Placement by haa...jesus+christ · 2002-10-01 05:25 · Score: 0, Troll

Maybe I'm totally misreading this, but can we please stop it with the damn product placement? It seems that Slashdot has had a lot of these 'stories' up lately, be it an actual money-maker for OSDN or otherwise (most likely the case, since I don't think the editors even read half the stories). Not so much meant as a bitch, but more a cocern for whatever passes for journalistic standards around here.
Re:Awesome! Finally, a 3G phone...wait a second... by sirinek · 2002-10-01 05:30 · Score: 0, Troll

WCDMA is the European standard which is almost-but-not-quite 3G. 3G is called CDMA2000.

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Why wasn't this news a week ago? -5, Troll ? by E_elven · 2002-10-01 05:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Bah. I guess /. has some guidelines that only old news gets published?

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