Extras/Games/Tools

    The Extras folder is the home to some miscellaneous utilities. There is a Notes utility which is similar to Windows' Notepad.

    A Calculator function for all your basic adding/subtracting/dividing/multiplying needs. A very useful Converter (at least for me) with a whole lot of categories like currency, area, mass, power, temperature etc! However, the currency conversion will need you key in the current exchange for it to work.

    A voice Recorder to record your voice conversation and any ad-hoc voice memo. The file is saved as an .amr (Adaptive Multi-Rate) file which is the approved sound format for 3G WCDMA and is the standard audio format for MMS. 

    A Composer for those diehard ringtone fans and a simple Clock panel for setting an audible alarm/changing the default clock view in the standby screen.

    Let the Games begin! The Nokia 7650 is a J2ME^TM phone which means that thousand of free Java^TM midlets can be installed and used without any problems. However, most midlets are written for monochrome mobile phones but there are nice games/utilities written for colored screen out there if you look hard enough. Midlets have 2 separate files necessary for installation. The .jad file is like a instruction maunal for the actual archive, .jar, to install properly. Please note that you must have both files. 

Java applications panel / Transfer installation files via. BT

 Free Java games

    The phone came bundled with 3 games. They are Snake EX, Mix Pix and Card Deck. Seriously though, these 3 games are enough to keep you occupied for a long time especially with Mix-Pix where you can created your own puzzle.

Default 'Snake' graphic / Create your own "Green Tea" game 

    This is where it gets very interesting. Applications written for Symbian OS/EPOC (with the extension .sis) can also be installed on the Nokia 7650. You will have to make sure that it DOES work with the phone. I bought 2 games recently and they took the wind out of me! They played great. The sound effects are nice and I thought games like these only exist for PDAs!

    Tools is a place that you will find yourself visiting very often. This is where you check your memory usage, installed software, phone settings etc. It's just like your Windows' system panel.

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