Impatient 3650 purchaser with a few questions — Nokia 3650, 3660, and 3620

matzie 04 Sep 2003, 14:17

Hi there everyone. I'm new here 😃

Brief self bio, introducing myself to community:
Matt Saunders, 28, married father of 2.9 kids (number three due Oct. 3rd). I train the tech support staff of Plusnet, a pretty good UK ISP. Interested in home cinema, dual-processing PCs and theology. Hi!

I've just bought a 3650 from Vodafone UK online, �25 plus �15 a month for 100 carry-overable crossnet mins plus �8 of gprs / sms / whatever, which I think is a reasonable deal considering that one of my priorities was a low monthly rental.

It should arrive tomorrow but I'm *really* anticipating it! I've read so many reviews in the last few days, I feel like I know the phone inside out already.

It was a close thing actually between this and a Siemens S55 which I liked in terms of PIM/PDA features (seemed better than others) but in the end I'm confident I've made the right decision and the 3650 will do what I want and more.

Anyway while I'm waiting, I do have a couple of questions someone here might be able to help with:

1) In most reviews I read, it came with a 16MB MMC. Has anyone received a 3650 from Vodafone to be able to confirm or deny this? I'm *not* expecting it but it would be a pleasant surprise. If that's a definite no, I'll order a card today so I can have a good play over the weekend.

2) Vodafone branding. I've searched other posts on this and I understand there might be some un-deletable favourites, but can anyone comment on any other annoying features this might entail?

3) Bluetooth. A *big* thing I want to do is connect the 3650 to the net via bluetooth. That is to say, I want a PC with a permanent net connection and a BT dongle to be the access point for the 3650. I've read that 10-page thread which was linked to in Russell Beattie's blog and think I understand how to do it but (a) are there any updates on that process (ie is it working ok for people here) and (b) does choice of dongle matter, or can you just run the appropriate software on any dongle with the same chipset which they all seem to have?

I know these are disparate questions, I guess I'm just killing time until it arrives tomorrow...

Matt Saunders

N/A 04 Sep 2003, 14:26

As far as I know, Nokia ships the 3650 from their factories with 16MB MMC cards.

I don't know if Vodafone UK purchases special batches of devices without them, though.

That is, in all likelihood you will get a 16MB MMC, but Vodafone might have haggled and Nokia might have said "OK, but then you don't get the bundled MMC". You'll know soon enough. 😉

N/A 04 Sep 2003, 14:32

Different Bluetooth hardware manufacturers can use different Bluetooth chipset from different vendors with drivers from the same or yet different, again, software providers.

The main question is which Bluetooth profiles the device & associated drivers support on your PC.

You'd want a device that supports at least the Serial Port profile and Dial-Up Netowrking profile. Additional useful ones are OBEX File Transfer profile, OBEX Object Push profile. You might also find Fax profile, LAN Access profile, Headset profile, Handset profile useful.

Things your phone won't support are Basic Imaging profile, Personal Area Network (PAN) profile. At least.

matzie 04 Sep 2003, 17:15

Thanks for your replies N/A. I'm not holding my breath about the mmc card. It would be nice of course but then I reckon 16mb would only give me a little bit of breathing space anyway.

Thanks for your info on bluetooth. I've since read some articles on profiles and I understand the situation a lot better.

I'll update this thread after the weekend with my experiences.

Matt

matzie 07 Sep 2003, 15:48

quick update (too busy playing with it!)

16MB MMC Card WAS included with loads of useless video clips.
Vodafone customisation seems minimal. Right soft key was configured to go to Vodafone Live (a kind of wap portal page I guess) but this was easily changed (tools -> settings ->standby IIRC).

Installed snails, ReadM and a load of ebooks so far.

The 3650 definitely rocks!

But you knew that.