MOTOROLA C650 T-MOBILE GSM CAMERA CANDYBAR PHONE

by Motorola

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• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• ASIN: B0002VIV76
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,326 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

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Compatible with T-Mobile cell phone service, the economically-priced Motorola C650 phone sports a digital VGA camera, built-in email and mini-USB port, as well as a speakerphone function, MP3 and MPEG4 playback, and more, all displayed on a high-resolution, 65,000-color CSTN screen.

Calling Features

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Used simply as a phone, the C650 features a 4-way joystick for easy navigation to a variety of handy features, including a dedicated voice mail button, a voice mail indicator, and call timers, redial, missed call indicator, call log, voice activated dialing, any-key answer, auto-redial, speed dial, mute control, no-answer transfer, one-touch 911, usage alert, vibrating ring, differential ring, speakerphone, picture caller ID, and a phone book capacity of 1000 entries.

Messaging and Internet
The phone's wireless Internet browser provides high-speed data transmission via GPRS, as well as advanced EMS messaging, which lets you send, receive and edit text, voice, and pictures (such as ones you take with the camera) to and from other compatible phones and computers. Predictive text input and text message templates round out the package, along with the ability to expand your phone's functionality by downloading Java MIDP 2.0/CLDC 1.0 applications.

Organizer
The Motorola C650's organizer features include a calendar, calculator, alarm clock, and voice memo, among others. Using the built-in mini-USB adaptor, you can also easily sync up data from your phone's organizer with your PC.

Cameras, Fun, and Games
As mentioned above, the C650 comes with an integrated VGA digital still camera with 640 x 480 resolution and 4X digital zoom. You can view your photos on the color display, or send them to your computer or via MMS to a friend with your Internet connection. Three games come built into the phone, and many others are available for download from the Web. Also available for download are an infinite variety of MP3s for listening to on the C650's handy MP3 player. If you get tired of the faceplate, you can swap it out for another one, available separately.

Vital Statistics
The Motorola C650 weighs 3.23 ounces and measures 4.04 x 1.73 x 0.77 inches. Its Lithium Ion batteries are rated at 390 minutes minimum talk time, and 200 hours minimum standby time. It runs on the GPRS at 800/1800/1900 MHz.

What's in the Box
Motorola C650 cell phone, charger, hands free headset

Product Description

TMOBILE MOTOROLA C650 CAMERA PHONE

Customer Reviews

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Darn Good 09/11/04, September 11, 2004

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Elam D. Noor "Noore" (MN, Minneapolis St. Paul Metro) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MOTOROLA C650 T-MOBILE GSM CAMERA CANDYBAR PHONE (Wireless Phone)

This phone is pretty great.
I used to have the Nokia 3650, which was a great phone too, it was just a bit bulky, so i use it as a side phone when i need it. The Moto-C650 is so small (about half the size of my 3650) and so functional.

PROS:

*It's small! You can find the dementions yourself, but its small enough for me

*It's loud, the ringer's loudest setting is at least twice as loud as my 3650 ever was, and it uses the same speaker for its speakerphone which can also get very loud and clear, of course, you can turn them down if need be.

*It has excelent reception. Now i know this is somewhat subjective, because it depends on location and service (We use T-mobile about 30 miles from the Minneapolis St. Paul Metro Area)
Even when the reception bars are low, the phone still has good clarity)

*Easy to use menus

*Cool camera, it has about twice the resolution of my 3650 (a lot more than the screen on the phone can even display), and some cool functions like on-screen brightness controls and a 4x digital zoom

*Clear, Colorful screen

*Cool USB Port on the bottom that has (Potentially) endless aplications

Cons:

*Small buttons, with a small phone, you obviously get small button, but for a guy with big fingers, it can get a bit clumsy (hitting the 1 button instead of the Send, etc...)

*When i said the USB port had potentailly endless apllications i ment POTENTIALLY, meaning there are none now...not even a driver from Motorola to enable it to connect to your computer, now im sure there will be many in the future, there just are none now...

*There are no easily accessable "Profiles" as in Nokia's sybian phones, so you cant easily switch between ringer, or have "Quiet, Meeting, Outside" settings with one button switching. All you can do without entering the menu is turn it up and down, vibrate setting and Silence, i minor inconveniece but worth mentioning.


Thats about all i can think of right now, i might add more later after i have had the phone for more than a month.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More comments on C650 vs. T610, January 24, 2005

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Julie Sanders (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MOTOROLA C650 T-MOBILE GSM CAMERA CANDYBAR PHONE (Wireless Phone)

I got the C650 as a replacement for the T610 - I liked the menus/display on the t610 better but was having major reception issues (signal strength jumped all over the place, missed/dropped calls) in major cities all along the west coast. I had this problem with three different t610 phones (how many I had to try before they'd let me switch brands) and know other people who've had this problem too. The c650 gets much more reliable reception.

And to respond to other's comments: I find it's relatively easy to pop off the back if you put two nails of one hand in the two slots and one nail on the other hand where the silver inlay is on the top of the phone. I personally like that it's not easily removed - so your battery doesn't just pop off randomly (my old sprint phone would do this). Also, if you set one of the soft keys to "recent" you can easily access missed or received calls. You only have to hit the call button to see previously dialed calls. You don't need phonebook as a soft key since pushing the up/down button will get it for you.

Finally, use the menu-* key lock! I've had the phone go through menus in my pocket and order wallpapers/ringtones without me even knowing it!

Respectable phone, not perfect, but reliable.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK phone with some drawbacks., April 4, 2005

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Giancarlo Cairella (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MOTOROLA C650 T-MOBILE GSM CAMERA CANDYBAR PHONE (Wireless Phone)

I had an old Nokia and needed to upgrade because the battery had died and it was cheaper to get a new phone than buy a new battery. I also needed a tri-band (900/1800/1900) phone because I needed it to work in the US and Europe. The C650 fit the bill and it was cheap. I am not disappointed, though the phone has some annoying drawbacks.

On the plus side, the phone has a standard USB interface. I had the Motorola MobileTools CD from an earlier Motorola phone I bought in Europe and installed the software on my laptop (the CD has drivers for all Motorola phones) and was able to access the C650 and all multimedia features from my laptop very easily. This allows you to download photos/videos to your PC and easily update your address book and personalize the phone (use any MP3 audio file as your ring tone etc).

Major annoyances: as other reviewers have noted, the display is very dark unless the backlight is on. This is annoying because the backlight is turned off by default when you lock the keyboard, so sometimes it can be hard to tell if the phone is on at all (pressing a key doesn't do anything, you have to unlock the keyboard, then lock it again).

The little "joystick" control is very hard to use, especially when you have to press it in the center position to select a menu choice (most of the time I end up pushing it in the wrong direction). My main gripe is that the AC adapter only works on 110V current. This is unforgivable for a tri-band 'world phone, all the more so because it's advertised as a 'travel charger' but doesn't work outside the US: all my other phones had 110/220V adapters so like an idiot I assumed this one was and I fried it by plugging into an European power outlet. In the end I had to buy two separate adapter, one for 110V and another 220Volt for travel purposes.

Standby and talk times are as advertised, so no complaints there.
I don't really care much for the camera or any of the other multimedia features, so I can't comment on the picture quality as I have no basis for comparison against other phones.

Overall, it's an adequate phone that's worth its money as long as you don't have unrealistic expectations (and are willing to buy a new AC adapter if you plan to travel to Europe).