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Nokia 3650: The Early S60 Icon with Camera Zoom Cover
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)
⭐ WOW Factor: Back Cover with Camera zoom
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Cameron
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: 450 €
📊 Units Sold: ~6M
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3650 is one of the most distinctive early Symbian smartphones ever produced, combining an expressive design with advanced multimedia features and a unique circular keypad that immediately set it apart from every other phone of its time. Released in 2002 as the successor to the Nokia 7650, it expanded the Symbian Series 60 platform with MMC memory card support, Bluetooth, video recording, and tri-band GSM capability.This unit comes in a bright yellow Xpress-On cover, one of the more uncommon color variants, and features an extremely rare camera back cover with a rotating zoom-lens mechanism. This accessory physically extends the camera assembly, allowing manual zooming and enhancing the phone’s multimedia personality. These zoom-lens covers were produced in very small numbers, making them a highly desirable collectible today.
The 3650’s circular keypad design became one of Nokia’s most iconic experiments, bridging retro inspiration with modern smartphone functionality. Its sister model, the Nokia 3600, was the first Symbian OS phone to launch in the United States, marking a major expansion of Nokias smartphone presence in North America.
With its early camera capabilities, expandable storage, Bluetooth connectivity, and unmistakable styling, the Nokia 3650 represents a key moment in the evolution of mobile phones. This yellow unit with a rare zoom-lens back cover stands out as a unique and collectible piece of Symbian history, showcasing Nokia’s bold engineering and design experimentation at the dawn of the smartphone era.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗
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Nokia 3660: The Rare 3650 Upgrade
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.3/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Sylvester
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: 450 €
📊 Units Sold: ~2M
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3660 is a refined and expressive successor to the iconic Nokia 3650, combining the power of the early Symbian Series 60 platform with a redesigned keypad and a striking color-focused design. Released in late 2003, it addressed user feedback by replacing the circular keypad of the 3650 with a more familiar rectangular grid layout, improving typing comfort without losing the distinctive charm of Nokia’s bold early smartphone era.This mint-condition red unit is an exceptional example of the 3660. The red housing is one of the more eye-catching and vibrant variants, reflecting Nokia’s early 2000s focus on personalization and expressive design. These colorful versions were popular at launch but are difficult to find today in clean, near-new condition.
Powered by Symbian OS 6.1 with Series 60 UI, the 3660 offered video recording, Bluetooth connectivity, multimedia messaging, RealPlayer support, and expandable MMC memory at a time when most mobile phones were still limited to basic features. Its VGA camera made it a capable early cameraphone, continuing the evolution that began with the Nokia 7650 and 3650.
With its combination of color, capability, and unique early smartphone personality, the Nokia 3660 stands as a memorable and collectible piece of Nokia’s Symbian history. A mint red unit like this is a rare and valuable addition to any serious mobile phone collection.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗
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Nokia 3720 C
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: B (Uncommon)
⭐ WOW Factor: Nokia first IP certified device
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
⏱ Life timer: 25 m | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2009 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~2M
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3720 classic is a mobile phone by Nokia announced in July 2009 and manufactured in Hungary. The phone runs the Series 40 6th edition platform.
This phone is IP54 rated against water, dust and is also shock proof. This makes the phone Nokia’s first IP certified device. Nokia has released videos showing how rugged this device is such as being placed under water, kicked by a rugby boot and hit by a golf club.📝 Reviews when released: cNET 🔗
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Nokia 3810: The Lost Asian Shadow of the 3110
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: A true APAC-market ghost model, the Nokia 3810 exists as a secret evolution of the 3110, built on a unique NHE-8A hardware branch, sold only through selected Asian operators, and so rare today that even many hardcore collectors have never seen a real one outside archival photos.
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 8.5/10
⏱ Life timer: NA | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 1998 | 💰 Release Price: ~11000 PHP
📊 Units Sold: ~1M
📰 Why this phone matters: Nokia 3810 is one of the most obscure and region-locked handsets Nokia ever released, a model that at first sight looks like a Nokia 3110 from the late 90s, but in reality is a completely different device built specifically for the Southeast Asian market. Created around late 1998 to early 1999 for operators like Globe Telecom in the Philippines and Singtel in Singapore, it was never part of Nokia’s global roadmap and never appeared in eur;opean or American catalogs.Internally, the 3810 belongs to the extended NHE-8A platform, a rare fork of the 3110 architecture that Nokia used only for operator-specific customizations. Unlike typical localized firmware builds, this model has a modified PCB layout, different RF filters, region-specific power amplifiers, and firmware adjusted for hot and congested GSM-900 networks in Asia. The firmware also contains unique operator menus, a different startup behavior, and a SIM Toolkit implementation that the original 3110 did not have.
Visually, the 3810 shares the silhouette of the 3110, but key differences immediately confirm it as its own device. It has a redesigned navigation cluster, different soft keys, a unique lower mask, and a housing made from a thicker, more rubberized plastic type. These material changes were intentional, allowing the phone to survive the high humidity and heat typical of Southeast Asia. The keypad layout is also subtly different, confirming that this is not a housing replacement but a dedicated mold used only for this variant.
The 3810 was priced below the 5110 and slightly below the original 3110 in the APAC region, typically selling around PHP 7000 to 9000, often bundled with prepaid or SIM activation packages. Because Nokia kept production extremely limited and distributed the model only through operator channels, most units were used heavily and eventually scrapped. Almost none were exported, and very few examples have survived in clean or working condition. Today it stands as one of the rarest late 90s Nokias, more elusive than many prototypes, and almost never seen in Western collections.
The unit presented here is a remarkable surviving example, displaying Globe firmware on boot and all the unique hardware traits of the genuine 3810 platform. More than just a variant, it represents a hidden branch of Nokia history, a fully official model that Nokia itself barely acknowledged and one that existed only because regional operators demanded a slightly more modern, network-optimized alternative to the aging 3110. Devices like this highlight how complex Nokia’s APAC strategy truly was and why some of the rarest Nokias were never sold outside their home markets.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗