The Nokia 7650 Cell Phone w/ Integrated Camera

Unstrung writes "Nokia has just started shipping, in Europe, its first mobile phone with a digital camera onboard, unleashing on the unsuspecting continent a device with roughly the same mischief-making potential as the office photocopier - but in a package you can take to the bar on a Friday night." It's 640x480, and doesn't look clunky. In short, me want.

this is cool, but..

[Anonymous Coward]

they already have them in japan. who would have thought?

Credit card sized camera

[Felipe Hoffa]

If you are looking for a really small camera, be sure to check the SMaL Ultra Pocket [smalcamera.com]. It is the size of a credit card and 6mm thick.

You can find it as the "Fuji Eyeplate [axia.co.jp]" or as the "Logitech Pocket Digital [techtv.com]".

I've got mine and its really cool.

Fh

Re:It won't be here soon

[Jack Porter]

HELLO? Cingular and Voicestream offer GPRS in their GSM1900 markets. AT&T is also rolling out GSM850 and GSM1900, and offering GPRS phones for their mMode service.

Review with pictures

[dracvl]

A review with lots of great pictures can be found here [digit-life.com].

Re:this is cool, but..

[Anonymous Coward]

The phones in Japan are amazing, check this one out: http://www.j-phone.com/h-e/products/products/index .html [j-phone.com]

7650 review

[halk]

A more informative review [my-communicator.com]

I got one of these

[QoluB]

I got a 7650 this afternoon from work (whee me make MMS-messages, me get nice phone :) ) and I've gotta say that this thing just rocks. I saw the phone on a mobile communications fair a few months ago and it was slow and buggy but the final version seems to be fast and reliable, no glitches yet... just came back from the bar where I snapped a nice bunch of photos which I can later use to embarass my friends ;) The screen is big (176x208), bright and clear, at least the same level as a good PDA.
The phone can hold almost a hundred pics with the default quality setting which seems adequate, I only managed to snap a bit over 40 pics this evening although I had the phone in my hand to use / show to the curious for nearly the whole evening. Btw, gotta love the polyphonic ringtones, no more crappy beep-beep sounds, the midi tunes on this baby sound really really nice! I guess I'll have to grab the starwars theme midi or something to use as a ringtone, just to hear how good it sounds compared to the oldskool-phones :)

On the whole, the 7650 is a really nice gadget when disregarding the hefty price tag (about 800EUR in Finland) and the weight (154g). It sure as hell kicks the SonyEricsson T68i:s ass big time in speed, image quality, usability and of course in overall coolness.
A definite must-have for any gagdet freak with enough dough.

Can't wait til Hantro [hantro.com] publishes their MPEG-4 player/encoder for this baby.

They have it in Hong Kong too

[dadman]

In Hong Kong, it is about US$320.
http://www.orangehk.com/eng/eshop/prod_de sc.jsp?Pr odID=DP9N7650

I have a chance to play with it for a while, and this thing is cool albeit too bulky and heavy. However, I am amazed on the battery life of this phone, I could play around with the camera, talking on the phone, sending emails and MMS all day without seeing the battery indicator dropped one mark.

One thing I found interesting was when you have the Keypad slide down, set the phone to silent mode, then pretend you are talking on the phone; because of the camera's position, no one will be suspicious of you taking pictures of them!

This is actually cool (and somewhat worrisome). I did an experiment and found that one could managed to sneak into some perfect positions and took pictures of anyone without them knowing it. (And of course those are friends that won't mind me doing this experimentally and I did told them later about what I have done :-)

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Official Details

[martyb]

Here are the Full Specifications [nokia.com] as well as a link to the official 7650 page [nokia.com] at Nokia.

They've had this

[Apreche]

in Japan for quite awhile now. Why not in the US? Oh yeah, there was a slashdot article about that a few days ago. For the latest and greatest in cell phone technology go where I go. http://www.nokia.co.jp
duh.

Standards

[Cato]

There is an open standard for picture/video type messaging - it's called MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) and is supported by the 7650 and Ericsson T68i. This really only applies to the GSM world, but maybe it will extend out to CDMA etc as it is based on IETF/W3C standards such as SMTP, MIME, SMIL, etc (with a little WAP to present messages on handsets).

For more information on MMS, see http://www.nokia.com/mms/