Nokia 3390- The cheap overacheiving phone
Written: Feb 22 '02
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Pros: Cute styling, good games, great clarity (voicestream), personalization options
Cons: Somewhat flimsy casing and buttons, internal antenna does not pay off in low reception areas
The Bottom Line: The Nokia 3390 is by far the cutest phone on the market, and by proportionate size, even better than the 8290.
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| dehge's Full Review: Nokia 3390 |
The Nokia 3390 is a great phone. GREAT. Small enough to slip in my pocket, not as tiny as some others, but thats alright. Styling to make some friends ooh and ahh with the Matrix-style sliding faceplate I have equipped on the phone's already nice looking casing.
I have this phone on Voicestream service in the New York Tri-State area with a near-unlimited family time plan, so I use this phone a lot even when I'm right next to my own home land-line. When there is a strong field of top reception, the clarity is amazing. I'm astonished that people on the other end ask me about certain sounds from my environment that I can barely hear. In a few cell areas, I get the echoing that I'm sure is commonly associated with many other phones. Although, I was disappointed, at a bar mitzvah, my phone did not any service in the area so I asked a friend who had a StarTAC and was angry to find that the quality on her phone was quite loud, clear, and strong compared to mine. So for clarity and reception, this phone is right there on the average mark.
The feature list is unbearably long. Ones like Picture Messaging, calculator, ringtone composer are ones I don't find myself ever needing, unless I'm bored and another form of entertainment cannot be purchased :). While the amount of features is exceeding "basic", it lacks PC connectivity and a web browser- functions I could play with on a regular basis. There are endless ways to call someone using this phone. Holding almost any numeric key will in turn call a number from the phone book, as will constantly clicking the Navi button, as will any direction arrow pushed will scroll through a list of dialed calls, or the phone book. In here, voice dialing seems redundant as I feel more comfortable dialing numbers even with them in phone book. (Although I will say the voice dialing is quite accurate).
One pet peeve of mine is that in this phone book, you are unable to look at a number without dialing it. Therefore, I am forced to go into edit mode to view the digits so that I may call that number using a land line.
The screen is backlit by 4 green LEDs located on the bottom side. They keys are also lit, but that makes it hard to read the keys in daylight (typing messages).
Charge time is very minimal. This is the first Nokia I've owned and for some reason I had the crazy idea that the battery would go for a week or slightly less without charge- well maybe it's just my phone thats the exception. Most of the time I can get away at 3-4 days with pure standby time.
All controls are nicely placed (layout resembles 5100 series), and it feels very nice in the hand.
All in all it's an outstanding entry phone.
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Amount Paid (US$): 30
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