Nokia introduces its newest models last September 6, 2002 in its native land of Helsinki, Finland. The Nokia 3650 is the first product to give the Series 60 platform global availability by operating wherever there are GSM 900/1800/1900 GPRS networks available throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Duh! What is Series 60 Platform?

The Series 60 is the software platform of choice for developing and deploying applications that harness multimedia messaging, content downloading and browsing in a small and dynamic package. It is designed for smart phones characterized by color screens, rich communications and enhanced applications. The software platform consists of key telephony and personal information management applications, browser, messaging clients and a complete and modifiable user interface.

The Nokia 3650 follows the Nokia 7650 imaging phone introduced in the European and Asia-Pacific markets earlier this year. Mobile phone users around the world can now enjoy easy-to-use and fun new mobile services, such as mobile games, multimedia messaging and video clips. In addition to enabling creative and fun features, the Nokia 3650 will also provide business users with a wide range of business applications, such as corporate e-mail access, calendar, to-do lists and contact applications.

Nokia's new imaging handset extends the company's support for Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), a service which allows consumers and mobile business users to send messages combining text, images, graphics and sound in a single "rich" message. MMS is poised to replace Short Messaging service (or SMS) which we, Filipinos, are very well versed at (C'mon! The Philippines beat the whole European continent in terms of number os SMS sent!).

Key aspects of the Nokia 3650:
User Interface - Based on the Nokia Series 60 platform, the Nokia 3650 features a large, high resolution, active matrix color display (176 x 208 pixels) with 4096 colors and a 5-way rocker navigation key providing users with easy-to-use, one-handed operation.
Supported Technologies -JavaTM: J2ME/MIDP, Symbian OS, WAP2.0/XHTML browser, and inter-device communications via Bluetooth or Infra-red (IR), all of which enable personalization of the phone and downloading of applications.
Key Features - The Nokia 3650 features a high-quality VGA camera and a video player, and a unique, ergonomic keypad.
Specifications - The Nokia 3650 weighs 130 g and has 4 MB internal user memory, which can be expanded with an MMC memory card to enable flexible storage for more pictures, games, or other files. The new compact and lightweight 850 mAh Li-Ion battery provides a talk time of up to 4 hours, a standby time of up to 8 days and a fast charging time of approximately one hour.
Target Audience - The Nokia 3650 is an imaging handset in Nokia's high-volume "Expression" category, designed to appeal to a mass-market audience of those who are free-spirited, expressive and young-at-heart.

The Nokia 3650 will be available globally in early 2003.

Also last September 6, Nokia announced the new Nokia 3510i, which features a high-quality color display, multimedia messaging (MMS) and Java(TM) technology for downloadable games and other applications. The Nokia 3510i is another important demonstration of Nokia's strong commitment of bringing phones with JavaTM technology to the mass market. The Nokia 3510i, slated for Europe and Africa, is expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter, 2002.

(with text from: www.nokia.com)