Nokia Nostalgia: Nokia 3650 Symbian phone with rotary keypad
The Nokia 3650 was definitely one of those head turning designs, possibly for the wrong reasons. It was one of those, ‘had to be a Nokia’ daring design, successor of the very much liked 7650.
Notice the non standard circular keypad. Possibly not the easiest thing to use.
According to Wikipedia, this was the first Symbian smartphone to reach North America and the first phone in North America with an integrated camera. I’m not sure the phrase ‘smartphone’ was uttered in the days of communicator/early Symbian models. I think the likes of 7650/3650 were thought of as phones with PDA like qualities.
A more conventional keypad came with the release of the 3660 and this design was not seen again until Nokia codename ‘charlie’ aka, 6630.
I remember the newspapers here in UK giving a mention for what was then, a class leading, cutting edge phone with all of the must have features. Oddly, online reviews rarely had much problem for the retro rotary keypad.
Here’s an ad for the Nokia 3650 – I think this went viral for the shock factor. Apparently there was no real cat and this ad was never released to the media.
Guy talks about his 3650 back in 2011
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Keypad of this phone wasn’t problematic at all. I didn’t even own it and I had no problems writing a sms on my brother’s 3650.
Lol, spammed this post before , but I posted a few pics of the 3650 a while ago
http://carman58.hubpages.com/hub/Nokia-Nostalgia-The-Nokia-3650
Nice one
Great stuff! Nice plane pics too from 808!
lol, thanks for taking a look Jay, sorry for spamming MNB
I wish to see new nokia phone using same body design as the old once “outsource thinner & with touch scr…)
something like Nokia 7610 or 7600 (girls would love that 1)
Can you imagine how long the battery would last if we used today’s components in something as thick as the 3650? It could give Curiosity Rover a run for her money.
3650′s design could be nice for Asha series. Thinner, bigger screen and little bit less buttons. I loved the design back then and it’s not bad looking with today’s standards either.
That kind of unique design could be a key factor in Asia.
Heh, had one of these! Was my first smartphone. Remember taking choppy as hell video on a business trip to Honduras. The pictures were great compared to what I had gotten with the 7710 (?)before
. And yes, the keypad was a pain in the ass. 
what relief the 6600 was in that regard.
This was my first Smartphone and I still have it.
Mine was stocked in the drawer, nobody knows how to fix it here in KSA.
Own one too. Great phone. I actually power-up this phone once a year to keep it alive.
I loved having this phone, it still can do things the current Iphone can’t. Back in 03 installing apps, using memory expansion, taking video, streaming video in the browser. This as amazing
I actually consumed 2 of these, both were blue and loved them dearly for 5 proud yrs… The keypad wasn’t clumsy, it was just as quick to SMS as the competition at the time but required 2 hands. I recycled the last one only a year ago. Off topic – admittedly, my biggest crime ever was to have a 1st gen. iPhone alongside with 3650. I confess having loved the digression very much.. Since then, no emotions to any of those, however – repeating the hackneyed formula over & over again has dispelled the magic completely. That’s where N9 has been a true revelation, both of ‘em
. —Sorry for being so epic
I see you took a liking to my Nokia Classics series eh?
Nokia Nostalgia, nice!
Hi Izzi,
I looked up what you were referring to. Actually, no, this is unrelated, but good idea too. Nokia fans like to reminisce. I’ve always shown some old Nokia Collection of sorts and I was lucky to find a whole bunch of them straight from Nokia that I could share.
My first post titled Nokia Nostalgia was back in December. That’s when I started seeing again how much folks still loved those old Nokias outside the geekyverse.
Looks insane
Nokia 3660 was my first ever phone, and I LOVED IT SO MUCH >.<
Everything was so wonderful at that time and I used it for 3 years. Then I did a big mistake by selling it and now I really miss it a lot T_T
i had one of these for some odd reason i thought it was a samsung though
Saw this phone on display many years ago. I was using a Nokia 6030 (budget phone with colour screen) at that time if I recall.
My second symbian smartphone (after the 7650)!!!!