After seeing one in action, and reading about cool midlets available I think I need to buy myself a Nokia 3650

However, it’ll cost me a fair amount of money and I want to be sure that it’s the phone for me. Does anyone know if the J2ME support still suffers from the problems that Russel Beattie noticed with the 7650?.

Also, for those of you who use it. Do you find the keypad odd? I’m a fairly heavy SMS user and if it takes a bit of getting used to then maybe I’ll think twice. Though I did adjust to a Kinesis Ergonomics Essential keyboard, so I’m sure a keypad won’t take too long either.

As I mentioned in an earlier post my main motivation for a j2me phone is to let me write applications that can connect to my server at home and do useful things for me. Say:

• Rotate logs
• Tell me the number of hits to my various webpages
• Shutdown my desktop computer so I can save ten percent
• And so on and so forth

Odds are I’ll be using SOAP and Python or Perl to do the server side of things, but I’d really like to write the client code in Java.

Is this something the phone will let me do? Or will I end up frustrated with a funny looking phone whose keypad irritates me?