Nokia 3300

This Review is based on the American version of the Nokia 3300 with a full key board.

The Nokia 3300 mobile phone is a good show off at first, and it's fun to have for the first few weeks, but it does have a tendency of getting dull incredibly fast. Its greatest flaw is the sound. It could definitely have a lot more, and the way the headphones are connected to the cell phone makes it very possible, in fact, most likely that you will accidentally move your hand one inch on the phone and unplug the cable, which means it's not a very good phone to use headphones with either. It would be if it had bluetooth, but it does not.

However, a very handy feature, and probably one hidden from anyone, is the fact that you could connect the cellphone to the computer through a USB, and with the ability that you can add more memory, you can use the cell phone as a flash drive (like I have done. I am a high school student, and I take everything school related, on the cell phone everywhere with me), though the cable is a bit of a problem to carry around, and it's tricky to plug into the computer, as you are left turning from one side to the other trying it to make it go in. It sometimes takes a little while to figure out you were doing it correctly in the first place.

Overall, the phone is very poor, though may I add in the plus side? It has incredible resistance to impact. It has fallen countless times on the pavement, and one time from pretty high, as I tried to grab it but ended up launching it up, making it fall about 6 feet, and the phone still worked perfectly fine, and it has fallen many times, which is something that the new phones may not do. In a way, it's like a classic car; you can let it overheat and still drive it several miles until a rest stop; unlike a modern car that overheats and stops immediately, the phone looks like a classic phone after a while, and it becomes a classic in your eyes. It is so reliable that you cannot seem to get rid of it. I have a Sony Ericsson s710a, which is unable to contain the memory the Nokia holds (only 128Mb max), but I still have the Nokia when I have to take my work with me. Unfortunately, this actually annoys me because the phone never breaks, but at the same time it annoys me because it is so reliable.

I would still not recommend anyone to buy the phone though, as you cannot use headphones with the phone, and I have already broken 6 handsfree kit's, because where you think you could plug a normal set of headphones for the music, it will not fit.

The Nokia 3300 is a good tidy mobile phone, mp3 player is gr8, although the amount of songs it holds depends on the memory card which it comes with. (standard is 32mb) The radio is pretty good although using the headphones are annoying if its in your pocket it can come out and disrupt your listening of the radio and mp3 player.

I got this Nokia 3300 mobile phone for xmas. I was very exited and for the first few days loved it. The mp3 on it is brilliant but then after about 4 weeks i had problems. When i tried to switch the mp3 on, the phone would turn off and then come on again by itself without asking me for a pin. So i took the phone back to the link and they said it had to be sent for repairs. Apparantly there was other problems with the phone as well as the mp3 player not working and it had to be sent to nokia. It took 5 weeks to be repaired by which time i demamded for my money back. afterwards i went out and brought a samsung p400 which is a much better phone and it works like a dream. I do not recommend this phone to anyone as although it is cheap, at only £100 it is unreliable

The Nokia 3300 is great if you want something new and flashy. Great for gaming, music and keeping in touch with mates. There is nothing bad I can say about it.

The Nokia 3300 mobile phone has polyphonic ringtones

colour screen

mp3 player

64 mb memnory card for music

radio

handsfree supplied

data cable supplied to connect from pc to the phone to transfer mp3 files

recording lead supplied to record from another recording device

easy and quick to put mp3s from pc to phonelarge 4.5mb memory for graphics and sms/mms

decent picture quality at 128x128 pixels with 4,096 colours

good phone for games

cheap price at £100

good value for money

gprs

music drains the battery

size although alot smaller than the N-GAGE

heavy 107g's

no infered

no bluetooth

I got this Nokia 3300 mobile phone in late January and I still love it today.(I usually get bored of a new phone after a week). This is a good phone for me because I like music, I have become bored from the camera. When I am alone I like to dance a little so, this phone is the one for me. Anyway,,, huge 64mb memory which can be doubled. That means you can carry less than 60 songs on this device, which is impressingly much. The transfer from the pc is easy, well after a while. The radio quality is good. The format sucks, cause it doesnt look very buisnessy... The battery time is stupid sometimes, I always have to recharge. When I get a call, i get confused because I have trouble clicking the answer button which is in the middle of the phone. Otherwise this phone is really good. Its 4096 colors are enough for viewing pictures etc. I just want to say that this phone is cool.. If you wanna rock, that is..

The Nokia 3300 is an amazing phone with looks you could only dream about, mp3 player, 4 way keypad and voice dailing. The bad things are it has no composer, infrared or bluetooth!

The Nokia 3300 IS a 'with it' phone with un-phonelike extras. I can download between 12 and 16 tracks from my pc to the built in mp3 player. There is also an FM radio installed, 4 x colour games which you can play, lose pathetically, then tell everyone and his cat how brill you are, in remarkable clarity! (hands up those that are cringing!).I'ts polyphonic, has a good GPRS wap browser, and you can even download short (very) movie clips to it!.

Oh yes, i forgot to say that you can make phone calls on it.

However, visually, it looks like one of Keith Richards kidneys, and its a begger to get used to using as the buttons are all round the wrong way. For the phone to be any good, you need to be a pc owner to fill up the mp3 player, and the radio reception where i live is questionable. the headphones that are supplied with it need to be used to listen to the radio, and although the music player will play without them being attatched, you don't get the sound quality, so the phones (scuse the pun) are essential equipment. They're a real pain when driving too, and it's definitely not recommended. Good idea, crud concept!!!!

The Nokia 3300 is a great phone the bad thing is you can't hear when people are trying to call you.

Shaped like a handheld sega or gameboy, the Nokia 3300 has some great features. a full mp3 player (including an equalizer), a radio, and built in recorder. even if you don't have a computer, you can still record directly from cd players etc via an adapter. much of the features like colour screen, changeable facias et al are on the 7210, and the games you can get are usually compatible on both phones, so my upgrade between the two was not as painful as i had predicted. backing up games/applications, ringtones and mp3's won't be a problem, but images are not compatible. so what this phone needs is an application which allows files to be data transferred directly to/from the internal memory (you should be given the choice of destination/source be it the mmc card or internal memory. there is a rumour that nokia may be releasing a camera attachment for the 3300 next year, so i'm keeping my eyes peeled. using the phone is easy, it's software/operating system is not in anyway different from my ex-7210. i prefer the 3300 over the n-gage for two reasons: 1) the 3300 is smaller and can be held as you would a 7210 to make a call, the n-gage is awkward as the speaker is on the thin back plate (2) who wants to pay £30 for a game and disable the mp3? not me. the 3300 isn't brilliant, but it's not rubbish either. for the most part, it does the job for me.