What's your age?

I'm 19...
Hey David, nice to see somone else from my nick of the woods! 😊 I live in St. Albans (very close to Hatfield!)

Lee

I'm 34. Hardly youth! It was a toss between the 3650, GD87 and GX10. Video camera won it 4 Nokia. I wasn't even aware of most of its other talents when I got it!

Three weeks and i'm 18...

In my day the youth did not have enough money to buy such toys. And I did not grow up poor. So how in the world can a "youth" afford a $350 phone is beyond me. How is that for positioning for Nokia.

Well, I think the "yoof" postioning is BS too ... that's why I asked the question.

The cost isn't so much of an issue though ... for UK networks (and I can't speak for elsewhere) the cost of the phone is heavily subsidised if you take a pay-monthly contract. For example, my phone only cost me �15 ona �30/month 200 minute + 50 text per month contract.

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OK I will speak for Russian and the US, the two markets I can say things about with confidence. In Russia the networks do not subcidize the phones at all. In the US even if the phone were subcidized then for someone to sign a contract you would go through a credit check. Credit history for most youths will show insufficient so that in order for them to sign a contract they would have to put a $1000 security deposit for 1 year. Even worse then buying a phone. So in many countries cost is an issue.

...And mine was free on my tariff. Although that is 50 squid a month with my bills averaging 70-80 squid. Definitely not affording that when i was a mere boy!

I am 6teen,as you see under my avatar.

I'm 28. I might get older but will never grow up 😃

i just turned 20... 😊 and i agree... youth phones should be cheaper.. 😊

It is a business phone not a Youth Phone. Nokia blew it bigtime.

I would not say that Nokia blew it. They made one hell of a phone. However it is indeed more of a business phone but the packaging is rather flashy and "youthy". This may turn away some buyers to that I would agree.

I'm 38 :angel: 😃 😃

I wanna say that NOKIA 3650 is multi-functional SMARTPHONE,and i like it.

i agree, i tihnk tht rather then it being a so called "youth phone" . a multifunctional smart phone would be a better name for it clearly so far our records here at allaboutsybian.com show that not only youths have the phone, no offence
also the title "youth phone" to me puts the phone down a little a word of mouth is always important

"Youth" phone? 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 (How about 48? 😮 )

My daughter has a "youth" phone (Nokia 3590). :P

I'm 19 😊

Since I posed the original question, I'll exercise the right to summarise the results so far.

It's clear that the majority of folks in this forum who took the poll fall into the 22-25 year old category. The histogram also shows a classic bell-curve distribution, rather than one skewed to younger users. This kind of suggests that Nokia have got the "yoof" positioning somewhat wrong.

But bear in mind that the age divisions I gave weren't symmetrical ... I wanted to make a distinction between young teenagers (13-15), older teenagers (16-18), coming of age (19-21), young adults (22-25) and "the age of emerging responsibility" (26-29). Each of these age groups typically has very different attitudes to life and so should be regarded differently.

Having said that, add together all the teenaged group, and all the 20-something group, and we find:

teenagers: 18
20-somethings: 16
30-somethings: 7
40-somethings: 3

So on the face of it, it's younger users who predominate ... but when you subdivide those younger users you find it's the 22-25 group which lead.

This suggests to me that the phone is indeed more attractive to younger users, but that they're more likely to be business folks too who appreciate the Bluetooth, tri-band, GPRS, email and web aspects of the 3650.

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I am 27, I have not bought the phone yet, as it is not out on Orange yet : (

The reason why I am going to buy it is because it would seem it easy to write your own applications for it (has anyone done this?). The big screen is nice, and being able to use a multi media card is a very big plus for me.
Also the battery life and the quality of the camera and RF attracts me.

The P800 I have discarded, as I do not want a PDA, and do not like stylus phones, also price is too much, a magnet for getting nicked.

The SPV I discarded because the keyboard is pants, and the you need to pay Microsoft a lot of money to get the SDK for it. Also the slow release of the next version has annoyed me. Not to mention the poor battery life. Nokia and Sony Ericsson seem to have the monoply on this.

I do not think the 3650 will be that big a seller in the youth market because it is probably too big a handset to appeal. My girlfriend laughed when I told what phone I was going to get, I think smartphones are going to be well and truly the techno heads, who like to play : )