Nokia 3650 was introduced in 2003 Q1. geekzone.co.nz reviews the Nokia 3650 and writes about battery, “The battery cell is Li-Ion, 850 mAh, with up to 4h talk time and between 150h and 200h standby. It takes 90 minutes to fully charge it, and it is installed on top of the SIM and MMC cards connectors. The phone is medium sized, not small like the Sharp GX10, and you can see it compared to the tiny Ericsson T39m.”

Todd Ogasawara from O’reillyNet talks about camera, ” I had never used a phone with an integrated camera until I tried the Nokia 3650; now, the whole phone-camera and photoblog frenzy makes a lot more sense to me. In fact, during my 10-day evaluation and testing period I probably used the camera option (for both still photos and videos) more than the phone itself. The phone let me email a photo very quickly to anyone in my contacts list. It was easy to pull the phone out of my pocket to take a quick photo. The quality is nowhere near that of a multi-mega-pixel camera; however, I was able to capture many photos that would have been missed completely, since I do not always carry my digital camera. And it takes more time to pull a camera out of the case, remove the lens cap, turn it on, and take a photo.”

MobileBurn reviews the Nokia 3650 and writes, “And while the 3650 is really a phone, it offers a lot more than basic call functions. Unlike the Nokia 9200 Communicator series, which was basically a PDA with an integrated phone, the 3650 is a phone with advanced PDA like features. It can synchronize with MS Outlook on your laptop, for example. It has a full calendar/to-do client, and a very nice integrated SMS/MMS/Email client. It’s large color display make those applications usable, too. Sure, there is no thumbboard or a touch screen input system, but those are features of a PDA, not of a phone. On a phone, you make due with T9 for text input because you want a smaller and lighter device. But with devices like the Sony Ericsson P800 coming out to market at the same time, I am not sure that this phone is smaller and lighter enough. And in terms of input methods, a lot of people have already raised concerns about the 3650’s new keypad design - a retro-rotary type layout. But we’ll get to that later.”

CNET reviews the Nokia 3650 and writes about camera, “one of the 3650’s major selling points is the built-in VGA (640×480 resolution) digital camera and video recorder. You can take pictures on the highest resolution of 176×208 pixels in three different modes: up to 300 images in Portrait, 18 pics with Night, or 15 shots in Standard. In video mode, you can record up to 95K of footage at 15 frames per second. The video isn’t exactly smooth, and you get only 30 seconds of playback, but it’s a nice novelty. While you can use the included RealOne player format to add music clips, you can’t record sound when shooting videos. It’s easy to choose between storing pictures and videos on the phone’s internal memory or on the external MultiMediaCard. As with many of these devices, the image quality is mediocre at best and not suitable for printing.”

MobileTechReview.com reviews the Nokia 3650 and writes about applications, “The 3650 comes with a suite of PIM applications including contacts, calendar, to-do list and more. You will also find applications that will work with your camera, images, videos and other multimedia functions. The connectivity tools include built-in Bluetooth, IR and wireless modem. There are also a quite few trial software packages on the storage card including Photobase, Goldminer, LogJam and more. ”

InfoSync reviews the Nokia 3650 and writes about design, “Where the Nokia 7650 was a rather clunky and square brick, the Nokia 3650 has fortunately been given a complete makeover leading to a more elegant shape. Unfortunately neither total size or weight have been reduced by more than a few percent, and it also suffers from a very blatant usability flaw as its center of gravity is positioned too high - swiftly inducing an uncomfortable strain during one-handed use beyond typing a text message. ”

ZDnet.co.uk writes about Nokia 3650 performance, “When capturing still images, your options are limited to Standard format, Portrait (which crops the sides) and Night for lower light levels — however, with no flash don’t expect too much. Video operation is relatively fast and effective, with no lengthy lag thanks to the 3650’s ARM processor. There’s 3.4MB of internal memory for phone numbers, messages and photos plus 16MB on the external MMC card, so you shouldn’t run out of storage.”

Mobile-Review reviews Nokia 3650 and writes, “According to the manufacturers, Nokia 3650 has the same lens as Nokia 7650. Shooting modes were not changed. We think that photo quality (or, more precisely, automatic settings) was improved, pictures look much better than on Nokia 7650. Certainly, we can’t compare them to usual photos made by digital cameras, because the main aim of these phones’ cameras is to take picture, which looks attractive on the display of the smartphone (the resolution of the display is 176×208 pixels).”