The Nokia 3310, has to be the best phone around today.
I had to purchase a new mobile with the final demise of my Ericsson T10s, which just kept on going off by itself, probably because of all the battering it has taken over these last three years.
When I first go the 3310 I was really quite confused with the all the options available and used it for over a month just to make and receive calls.
It was then that I really started to look at all the features this phone gives to its users and since then I have been using it almost to its fullest capabilities.
Lightweight at only 166gms and small in size means you can slip it in anywhere.
You can also change the skin (appearance) in the front and back and this is a great feature especially for showing off a bit.
The functions and features are endless and I’ve tried my best to list as many of them.
Phonebook
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With Search, Add, Erase, Edit, Assign tone, Send b’card, Options, Speed dials, Voice tags.
Assign tone allows you to specify a specific ring tone for each person in your phone book. Send b’card lets you send people’s names / numbers to other people with the same sort of phone. Speed dials set up the 2-9 keys with numbers that you can call just by holding down that key. Voice tags are where you configure your voice dialing. Options just have how you want your numbers displayed, and it tells you how many spaces you’ve used.
Messages
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Obviously for SMS (Short Message Service), which is actually not that short this time, The Nokia 3310 allows your text messages to be 459 characters long, instead of the usual 160 characters. It works by breaking the text messages down upto three parts if you send to a phone that can’t cope with it.
Inputting the text is extremely easy as you only have to press each button once (instead of three or four times as in previous phones) to get a letter.
You have the usual Inbox, Outbox, write and Picture Messages (upto 14). It has some ‘smileys’ that you can edit and insert into any text and some templates, such as ‘Ring me at home’ and some other similar ones.
Chat
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This is a new feature on the Nokia’s and I feel that it is great. It is like being in a chat room with all of the previous messages displayed on the screen. It may cost the same as a normal SMS but it is very efficient and me and my friends think it is a useful thing to have on your phone. This will work with others who have the same phone or more advanced Nokia models.
Call Register
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This is the same as all phones with information such as; dialed numbers, received calls, missed calls things like that.
Tones
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You can change your ring tone, change the volume, change the text message ring, compose your own tunes and set a vibrating alert! You can also specify a screen saver and can download your favourite one from the net and install it into the phone.
You can save 7 new tones on the 3310.
Settings
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As always, allows you to change the settings on your phone, phone, call, and security settings are the three subtitles, and if you break it you can always restore the defaults.
A hint – with the 3310s the ‘Put my language back to English code’ is Menu-6212, a useful thing to know if you get idiots messing with your phone.
Games
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Snake II, Pairs II, Bantumi and Space Impact.
A feature I like is that you can turn the sound off and have all impacts etc set to vibrate!
Calculator
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It’s a calculator with standard / * - + operations…
Reminders
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This is like a little note book, you set an alarm for the time and a little message comes up saying for instance”you’ve got a meeting at so and so time”. Basically it reminds you!
Clock
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Change the date / time, set an alarm clock, also has countdown and stopwatch features.
Profiles
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Has the profiles for the phone; you can change all of them apart from ‘General’ to have a specific ring tone, volume, and text message noise, screen saver and whether or not it vibrates. You can create your own profiles so it is set to your style because it is your phone.
Well I think that covers most of the features.
A far cry from my Ericsson T10s but with this day and age, I’ll probably be writing another opinion, about an ever more advanced phone, at the end of the year.