oh, and I forgot - you can watch video streams from the net. Here in Slovenia you can get it via one of our operators, Simobil, and you can watch our national television and some cartoons. Surprisingly it works quite well, though you better have a good data option on your subscription (you can get unlimited GPRS here for about $32)
I've been a bit surprised by the amount of negative statements about this phone. I have it for about 2 weeks now, and here are my comments on it. - I really like that it has Symbian on it, and that you can finally write some decent applications for it. With C++ you have access to just about anything, way way better than J2ME which mostly seems to be able to turn pixels on/off and beep (though in 3650 now it is able to send SMS/MMS and use the camera). I have a NFS app for it, so I can mount the drives from linux, the SDK sort of works on linux as well, so for me this really kicks ass!
-It for sure is big, but still not too big. When I don't want to carry something as big with me, I just switch my SIM card to something smaller. - the keypad is strange, but I got used to it pretty quickly. i still type faster on a normal phone keyboard but not too much - it for sure is neat to take photos wherever you are and just zip them to your email right away. Perfect for mobile blogging. Though the photos are not too great, but work for the purpose. -connecting with PC via IRDA works well, and many friends have reported BlueTooth working quite well as well - maybe bluetooth problems are only in US sets (mine is European?). when connected to pc, symbian apps can use PC's internet connection for their net connection - nice for testing - an excellent email client - quite a few good web browsers out there for symbian - gprs is kinda slow compared to let's say siemens (only class 6, compared to class 10), but still quite usable
so, if you want something you can really play with (ie, hack), this is quite neat.
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oh, and I forgot - you can watch video streams from the net. Here in Slovenia you can get it via one of our operators, Simobil, and you can watch our national television and some cartoons. Surprisingly it works quite well, though you better have a good data option on your subscription (you can get unlimited GPRS here for about $32)
Hi there,
I've been a bit surprised by the amount of negative statements about this phone. I have it for about 2 weeks now, and here are my comments on it.
- I really like that it has Symbian on it, and that you can finally write some decent applications for it. With C++ you have access to just about anything, way way better than J2ME which mostly seems to be able to turn pixels on/off and beep (though in 3650 now it is able to send SMS/MMS and use the camera). I have a NFS app for it, so I can mount the drives from linux, the SDK sort of works on linux as well, so for me this really kicks ass!
-It for sure is big, but still not too big. When I don't want to carry something as big with me, I just switch my SIM card to something smaller.
- the keypad is strange, but I got used to it pretty quickly. i still type faster on a normal phone keyboard but not too much
- it for sure is neat to take photos wherever you are and just zip them to your email right away. Perfect for mobile blogging. Though the photos are not too great, but work for the purpose.
-connecting with PC via IRDA works well, and many friends have reported BlueTooth working quite well as well - maybe bluetooth problems are only in US sets (mine is European?). when connected to pc, symbian apps can use PC's internet connection for their net connection - nice for testing
- an excellent email client
- quite a few good web browsers out there for symbian
- gprs is kinda slow compared to let's say siemens (only class 6, compared to class 10), but still quite usable
so, if you want something you can really play with (ie, hack), this is quite neat.