Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Nokia 3650 Released in US Market

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-lust-on dept.

A Swing Dancing Dork writes "Check out the new Nokia 3650! Video and still imaging, MMS support,Bluetooth,Triband, and polyphonic bliss all wraped up in a uber-modern package." I was looking phones all morning so I'm glad this showed up. Anyone have advice on cel phones? I'd like IMAP, HTTP, and IM, as well as PDA functionality that can sync via bluetooth to a Mac. I was looking at the Sony Ericsons, but this may work as well.

3 of 341 comments (clear)

  1. Welcome to last week by Samir+Gupta · · Score: 0, Troll
    We've had such phones, and more importantly, the network infrastructure, in Japan for a year or two, and people actually use them. Network usage is cheap, so people do indeed use video and pictures as a primary form of messaging. In Japan, the phone, not the PC is the primary Internet access platform. We even designed our Gameboy Advance and SP to be compatible (in Japan only) with mobile phone hookups for online gaming.

    Now the US is still playing catch up, and I'll bet US cell phone companies will charge you a arm and a leg, ensuring such features are relegated as a novelty for marketing or a small niche of people, like police or real estate work.

    I only wish Japan was on the GSM standard, so that I could use my J-phone while overseas.

    --
    -- Samir Gupta, Ph. D. Head, New Technology Research Group, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.
  2. Cell phone advice: by Telastyn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't get one.

    Just one more thing to lose.
    Just one more way for others to annoy you.
    Just one more way you can annoy your fellow man.

  3. Re:I can' t even imagine... by ruiner13 · · Score: 0, Troll
    "how irritatating it would be to try and dial that thing, with the buttons not layed out in the traditional, muscle memory configuration. Oh sure, you can use voice recognition, or look up numbers on a list, but even with all that enabled, I still end up *dialing* my phone about 50 - 60% of the time, and trying to deal with that keypad combination would suck, especially with numbers where you can only remember it by dialing it."

    Did you also bitch when they switched from rotary dialers to touch tone? We handled the change back then, and unless you have an IQ well below 100, I think you can handle this too.

    --

    today is spelling optional day.