Brian Sweeting

I am going to get a new wireless phone and I’ve narrowed my selection down to two models. The Sony Ericsson T616 or the Nokia 3650.

Both phones use GSM on the AT&T Wireless network. Both phones have bluetooth, built-in cameras, XHTML browsers, WAP, SMS, and color screens. After rebates the Sony Ericsson T616 is about $40 less. And the Nokia 3650 is over an inch taller than the T616. Both sync with Apple’s iSync service, which is only important if I buy a new PowerBook 15″ when they are updated.

At first, I thought the idea of a camera phone was kind of stupid, because if I wanted to take a photo of something, I could just use my Canon digital camera and get a much better picture. But then I started hearing about moblogging (or mobile blogging) where you can post text and photos to your weblog from your phone using a Java Midlet via the Blogger API (which is what Movable Type uses). There is an application called BlogPlanet that facilitates this but the only phone that can post photos as well as text is the Nokia 3650 because it supports the J2ME Mobile Media API. Other java-based phones can still post text, but not photos.

If anyone has used either of these phones or has any recommendations, please let me know.