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The Nokia 7650 is a consumer-oriented GSM mobile phone developed by Nokia, announced in 19 November 2001 and released in June 2002. Belonging to the fashion and experimental (7xxx) series, it was one of Nokia’s first camera phones[a] as well as their first Series 60 platform device (which would go on to power the majority of Nokia smartphones for many years after), as well as the first mass market Symbian OS device to be released,[5] allowing the sideloading of both Java and EPOC applications.

The 7650 was introduced in Barcelona on 19 November 2001,[6] and was described by CEO Jorma Ollila as the company’s most important launch of that year.[7] Feature-rich, it was the first Nokia phone with a built-in camera (VGA resolution), and thus its imaging capabilities was widely marketed. It has a large (at the time) 2.1″ colour display with a resolution of 176×208 pixels. The 7650 was also the company’s first to feature Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and it also has Bluetooth and GPRS connectivities[8] (although to much criticism did not support Bluetooth headsets).[9] It was also the first Nokia phone with sliding keypad, the second being the Nokia 6111 released three years later.

These factors made the 7650 much-hyped at the time, especially as it came almost four years after the formation of Symbian Software Ltd.[10] It was eventually released on 26 June 2002 for around €600 (about €980 in 2025, inflation-adjusted). The release was promoted in conjunction with the science fiction film Minority Report.[11] Good sales of the 7650 helped Symbian OS to become the top product in the European “handheld devices market” in Q3 2002, above Palm OS and Windows CE.[12] By this time its successor Nokia 3650 was introduced.

The 7650’s significance for its time has been hailed in later years, with many considering it as being one of the most important mobile devices and one of Nokia’s most iconic products.[13][14][15]

Technical specifications

The Nokia 7650 has a 32-bit RISC CPU, based on ARM-9 series, a 104 MHz CPU clock, 4 MB of non-expandable main memory (RAM) (3.6 MB available to the user) and 16 MB ROM.

Picture taken with a Nokia 7650

Other features

Notes

  1. ^ The first Nokia-branded camera phone was the Japan-only J-NM01, released in 2001; it was not an in-house development as it was made by Sanyo as an original design manufacturer.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Mobiledia. “Nokia 7650 Phone”. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  2. ^ Mobiledia. “Nokia 3600 Phone”. Retrieved 30 August 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ “Nokia to launch Sanyo-supplied J-NM01 handset”. Telecompaper. Retrieved 2026-04-11.
  4. ^ “Nokia J-NM01 | Aalto repository”. repo.aalto.fi. Retrieved 2026-04-11.
  5. ^ “Symbian’s Secret History: The battle for the company’s soul”. www.theregister.co.uk.
  6. ^ “Nokia’s first imaging phone marks start of Multimedia Messaging era”. Nokia (Press release). 19 November 2001. Archived from the original on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  7. ^ Orlowski, Andrew (20 November 2001). “Nokia 7650: smart phone, shame about the price”. The Register. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  8. ^ Schäfer, Volker (20 November 2001). “Nokia: Handy mit eingebauter Kamera”. www.teltarif.de.
  9. ^ Choong, Aloysius (6 January 2003). “Nokia 7650 Review”. ZDNet. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  10. ^ “Nokia 7650 – the camera phone future?”. www.theregister.co.uk.
  11. ^ “Hello Neo: Nokia Exists Only In Movie Form (Mostly)”. October 23, 2014. Archived from the original on October 24, 2014.
  12. ^ Broersma, Matthew. “Microsoft launches smartphone assault”. ZDNet.
  13. ^ K, Peter (22 July 2015). “Nokia’s forgotten smartphones”. Phone Arena.
  14. ^ “The incredible history of Nokia camera phones in pictures”. Microsoft Devices Blog. July 25, 2013.
  15. ^ “Retrospective: Nokia 7650”. RefurbStore blog. 28 February 2025.