Nokia has announced the Nokia 6650, an S60 phone which will be available exclusively to T-Mobile International Customers. The 6650 has a 2 megapixel camera (with LED flash), integrated AGPS. microSD card slot to supplement the 30 MB of internal memory, FM radio and HSDPA connectivity. Rather than using Nokia's own Ovi services it will use T-Mobile services. The 6650 will be available in the third quarter on a number of European T-Mobile networks.
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Is there any Ovi support for this device?
Just wondering given all the rumours about T-Mobile dropping Nokia phones because T-Mobile felt threatened by Ovi.
Don't think so. As the press release says above:
"This is in contrast to other Nokia phones which utilise the Nokia Maps services as part of the Ovi service suite."
From where I guess OVI services are left out totally, however knowing the "hacking" community, it might be later made "somehow" active... 😊
Have Nokia purchased the RAZR tooling and production line from Motorola?
Presumably these can have S60 apps installed and used?
As rumor says there will be a "provider independent" version of this, called 6600 Classic and it will be the direct rival of moto RAZR2 V8.
are numbers so limited that nokia has to keep re-using old numbers of their phones. Its not even as if the original 6650 was remotely like this new one released.
hope that it would not be like that crap n76...
I'm trying to get more information to answer some of these questions... but in all probability...
The phone will ship with T-Mobile services (e.g. NaviGate) instead of Nokia ones. However I would imagine you will be able to install sme of the services on to the phone (e.g. Nokia Maps). BTW the bit n the news item is our take not the press release. Not supringly the press release says nothing about Ovi. You wont get the full experience though.
Yes a independent release of this seems likely.
I am sure S60 apps will be installable. I suppose there's a chance they could be locked to Symbian Signed only apps, but i reckon that is unlikely.
Nokia have been resuing number for a while. It doesn't really matter in one sense and a lot of people dont remember the model number anyway. There are plenty of spare numbers in one sense e.g. 6543... but these are less easy to pronounce or remember.
I agree with the above poster - it looks like something destined for the the US market, ie it looks aweful. I can't imagine Europeans buying many of these.
Talking of re-using model numbers. Does anyone have a chart of images of old phones/models? I used to have an old Nokia phone (in the US), but I can't recall the model number. I think a big chart would be a cool thing to have online 😊 I guess it'd be of limited use though beyond nostalgia.
I may be totally off with this, but how do you know this is an S60 device? I've read the press release and there is absolutely no mention of Symbian or S60 in it.
^There's a S60 key on the phone.
Yes the assumption was that the S60 key indicated an S60 device. There are also some strong suggestion elsewhere in the spec.
It has GPS, and as far as I know only S60 Nokia phones have GPS.
does the nokia 6650 have bluetooth and where can i purchase it from. .but on pay as you go not pay monthly. .please help me out .
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