10Meters News Service

November 30, 2001 – Nokia's upcoming 7650 is the next logical step in mobile-phone moments. After all, with multimedia capabilities, it only makes sense to have your phone and camera, too.

Nokia's 7650 'camera' phone

The Symbian OS-based phone takes full advantage of MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), which allows you to use the built-in digital camera to snap a picture and then send the image directly to an email address or to another MMS-capable handset.

Not only can you take a picture, you can add an SMS message or a voice message to the image before shipping it off to a friend.

The photos it snaps (VGA, 640x480 resolution) cover the gamut of formats, from bitmap to GIF, JPEG, TIFF. It also supports WBMP, which means you can save and upload your images for WAP-page display.

WAP is second nature to the dual band GPS/GPRS 7650. The combo allows for both SMS and always-on WAP and Internet communication. The 7650 is also Bluetooth and infrared compatible.

You can store dozens of photos in the 7650. It comes with a photo-album feature and 4 MB of dynamic memory.

The 7650 supports three speeds, 14.4 kilobits to 43.2 kilobits, the latter allowing the phone to be used as modem. It doesn't connect directly to a printer, but since it interacts with a PC, that means you can transfer your images or messages to the gray box and let it take over from there.

Oh yeah, and it's also a phone. Features include voice dialing, a voice recorder, enough memory to store 25 names and numbers and an integrated handsfree speaker.

What it doesn't support: the U.S. market. The 7650, scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2002, will be available in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific.