The Nokia 3310 is small, stylish and sophisticated. I’ve had mine for around 3 months now and find it very easy to use with a logical menu system:
Phone Book – The phone book can store up to 200 entries, it also offers voice activated dialling (which actually works well, I thought I’d always be calling the wrong person!) and speed dialling. Another useful feature is being able to assign different ring tones to different callers so you can tell who’s calling without having to look at the screen.
Messages – As well as the basic SMS functions you can store message templates and smiley faces. The predictive text input function is very useful once you’ve figured out how to use it, it took me a while but the key is in the * key!
Chat – This allows you to have a chat conversation with others on the same screen.
Call Register – Tells you your missed calls, recent dialled numbers and call durations – very useful when you are trying to figure out how many free minutes you have left!
Tones – The Nokia 3310 offers 42 ring tones (7 of which you can choose yourself by downloading from the internet or by using the composer function). You can also choose to have vibrating alert and can personalise your phone further still by having a screensaver.
Settings – Okay, this is all the dull stuff like security codes, which are again very useful if you leave your phone lying around or you are forever losing it.
Call Divert – This gives you the option to divert calls when they are not answered or you have no signal, again useful as people can leave a message if they can’t get through.
Games – Okay, back to the fun stuff now! There are 4 games on the phone, Snake 2, Pairs 2, Bantumi and Space Impact. If you are really good at these then you can register with Club Nokia and send your high scores in to see your ranking.
Calculator – Well, what can I say…..it does your sums for you! It also has a foreign currency converter…useful for all you travellers out there!
Reminders – Just like a personal organiser, you can set an alarm to remind you of things.
Clock – Features an alarm clock (with a snooze function), a stopwatch and a countdown timer.
Profiles – This is where you can change the phone to silent, discreet, loud or personalise your settings.
The phone can be personalised further still by changing the operator logo (orange, vodafone and cellnet are just plain boring!) as well as by using express on covers, if you want to talk into a bottle of bud then that’s your choice!
So, all in all, the Nokia 3310 is a good buy, it’s definitely more than just a mobile phone! Talk and standby times are good but playing games does tend to drain the battery. It’s quick to charge (1 hour) so providing you have your charger to hand this isn’t a problem.