The Nokia 7650 was launched in 2003, with Nokia’s dominant position in the market, and consumers welcomed it with open arms. Equipped with a 0.3-megapixel rear camera with VGA 640×480 resolution and only 16 MB of storage, it cost €600 at launch, (just over €900 today).

It was not the first mobile phone with a camera, an honor that corresponds on the one hand to the Kyocera VP-210 of 1999 with a front camera and on the other to the J-SH04 of Sharp and J-Phone of 2000 with a rear camera, both of Japanese manufacture, but it was the one that democratized digital photography.