<<Review Edited after feedback from Antibiotix:>>
I have been seeing the image of Nokia 3650 as a concept phone on the net since its initial conception, I guess since year 2000. So, my joy knew no bounds when I became a owner of one. Yep, the circular keypad is different, you may have to struggle if you are a quick-finger sms savvy user, before you get used to it, but this circular keyboard makes it one of a kind phone, for a bold / daring owner.
The Symbian OS v6.1 is quiet stable but if you take lot of pictures using the camera, and do not bother to store in the Multi Media Card (16MB MMC card comes as standard package), the phone crawls - the 4MB main memory of the phone is not enough and should ideally be kept unused. There are limited set of unimpressive applications, like Notes but, ff you are a real geek, you can download Symbian SDK from Nokia Developer forum and start developing your own application using C++ or Java, and even try to sell it on https://softwaremarket.com
The Video Recorder: This is a great feature, if your service provider does not provide MMS this feature is not exciting. For me Singtel provides MMS, so as soon as I bought this phone I recorded my little one and sent it to my kins in India by MMS, and that made lots of difference to them, rather than viewing a still picture. Though each recording can last only <15 seconds, it is enough to share a moment with others. I guess the <15seconds limit is due to the file size limits in Telcos MMS centre which is <100kbytes.
Note: In order to play the .3gp file clips on your computer you have to use either a software provided by Nokia download site or Apple’s QuickTime v6.3 and download 3GPP component of this QuickTime player on your computer.
RealAudio Player: This phone comes with real audio player! I could play streaming video on this phone, with my GPRS connection I could watch Channel News Asia live! This is one cool feature to stay informed, instead of staring blank at others when commuting.
Other irritant apart from the circular keyboard is - there is no Voice Command feature, even though Nokia site clearly states that this feature is available in 3650.
Other cool features, which I am not particularly interested are thumbnail picture for identifying the caller, limited set of games (2 to be precise), Java games, Xpress-on covers et. al. This is a well rounded phone (literally) with latest features and offering Triband and gives us a feel of future 3G phones.