I waited ages to get one well over a month but finally I had saved enough to get one and this I made sure I did. I had owned a 5510 which was a bit more of a Blockia than a Nokia!!!!!
I wanted to upgrade my phone and I wanted it to have one specific feature that I had on my old phone this was the vibrate feature that is very helpful if you can’t hear your phone you will feel it!!
I was going to buy a 8210, but they don’t vibrate, so I set I got a 3310, and with some cash left over from Christmas, so I went straight out and got one.
I’ll briefly mention networks here, mine’s an on a contract with Vodafone and is very useful as I get 50 free messages on a contract and this is usually what I use my phone for., my old phone was pay as go with one2one.
I’ve seen this done in this category before as well, but, I think it’s a good way of approaching the problem of describing the phone, so I’ll do it anyway. I’ll go through each of the menus and their features.
Phonebook
The usual, 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 and voice tags are obviously where you configure your voice dialling. Options just have how you want your numbers displayed, and it tells you how many spaces you’ve used.
Messages
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 into more than one part if you send to a phone that can’t cope with it.
You have the usual Inbox, Outbox, write and Picture Messages (now about 14 instead of its predecessors 3). It has some ‘smileys’ that you can edit and insert into any text and some templates, such as ‘Ring me at home’ and the like.
And of course the predictive text input! How could I forget?
I’m afraid I don’t use it. It’s probably very useful, as you only have to press each button once instead of three or four times to get a letter, but I’m so used to doing it the old way that I can’t change ;)
Chat
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 mates think it is a useful thing to have on your phone.
Call Register
This is the same as all Nokia’s with things like dialled numbers, received calls, missed calls things like that.
Tones
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 in here; a couple of points about these screen savers:
They don’t move, and therefore wouldn’t ‘save’ the screen, but…
You don’t get a burn-in effect on LCD Screens anyway, so, a nice idea as a way of showing a picture over the Operator Logo, but pointless if they were actually designed to mimic the screen savers on computers.
You can save 7 new tones on the 3310, but you could only save one on the 3210, and that’s nice.
Settings
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, it’s Menu-4212 on a Nokia 3210.
Games
Snake II, Pairs II, Bantumi and Space Impact.
Snake ROCKS as always and I can’t really work out the POINT of Bantumi – it seems pretty damn boring. Space Impact is okay, but you’re likely to get RSI with your thumb if you get too addicted to any of these.
A feature I like is that you can turn the sound off and have all impacts etc set to vibrate!
Calculator
It’s a calculator with standard / * - + operations…
Need I say more?
Reminders
This is like a little note book, you set an alarm for the time and a little message comes up saying for instance you are meeting a mate it basically reminds you!!
Clock
Change the date / time, set an alarm clock, also has countdown and stopwatch features.
Profiles
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.
Overall, I am very impressed with this as a phone, I like it’s size, smaller than the 3210, but bigger than the 8210, it has enough weight to be noticed as a phone, and the screen is about the right size.
The phone does of course also come with changable covers for that added bit of customisation.
I struggled, I really did, to find something that I disliked about this phone, and although I couldn’t find anything that I actually didn’t like, I found something that I would have liked it more for, if it has had it.
It now only costs £69.99 in some places on Pay as you Go and this is a great phone for anyone to have.