Nokia 6650 is a mobile phone developed by
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...
. It was the company's first
3G phone, first leaked in June 2002 and eventually unveiled on 26 September 2002.
It was also the first device supporting the 3G
W-CDMA
The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third generation mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed and maintained by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), UMTS is a component of the Inte ...
2100 MHz band.
A 1900 MHz version known as the 6651 was released for the North American market soon after. Alongside the jointly-launched Motorola A845, the pair were the first UMTS 3G phones launched in America, on the short-lived AT&T Wireless UMTS network (the network later shut down, as part of the merger with Cingular Wireless - which eventually debuted its own 3G UMTS network). As a result, the Nokia 6651 was one of only two phones that ever launched on the AT&T Wireless 3G network.
Its appearance is very similar to that of
Nokia 6100
The Nokia 6100 is a popular mid-range Nokia mobile phone that was available from 2002 to 2005. It was announced on 4 September 2002 (together with Nokia 7250).
The Nokia 6100 was Nokia's lightest phone with a full 12-key keypad at the time. Com ...
, but with a larger screen and external antenna (it was the last Nokia
candybar phone
The form factor of a mobile phone is its size, shape, and style, as well as the layout and position of its major components.
With one non-movable section
Bar
A bar (also known as a slab, block, candybar) phone takes the shape of a cuboid, usuall ...
with an external one). The 6650 uses the
Nokia Series 40
Series 40, often shortened as S40, is a software platform and application user interface (UI) software on Nokia's broad range of mid-tier feature phones, as well as on some of the Vertu line of luxury phones. It was one of the world's most wide ...
platform, and is equipped with a VGA camera and supports
Java ME
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applications. The device has 4096 colours and features
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is limi ...
,
Infrared
Infrared (IR), sometimes called infrared light, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. It is therefore invisible to the human eye. IR is generally understood to encompass wavelengths from around ...
and a
WAP browser.
The Nokia 6650 was used by UK mobile network operators to test their networks during the 3G roll-out. Despite this, The Nokia 6650 was never released to the general public in the UK.
References
Mobile phones introduced in 2002
6650
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