A feature packed phone
Written: Apr 28 '02 (Updated Apr 28 '02)
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Pros: Good features, durable, stylish.
Cons: Too big and heavy, mediocre reception.
The Bottom Line: A good, durable, feature-packed phone for a reasonable price. Too big and heavy for me though.
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| mgs333's Full Review: Nokia 3390 |
I've had the Nokia 3390 for a little over a year now. I have Cingular as my carrier in the Southern California area.
The phone can be had for free these days if you sign up for a 2 year contract, maybe around $50 if you sign up for a 1 year contract.
The menu and interface are very intuitive and easy to use. My dad has a Motorola V2282 (or similar) and the menu on that phone is extremely difficult and confusing, the Nokia on the other hand has a very logical, easy to use system. There are 11 main menu options
1) Phone Book: to store up to 250 phone numbers/names, as well as one touch dialing (press and hold '3' to dial home instead of dialing the number out, for example), as well as 'voice calling', this is a neat feature even though i rarely use it, what you do is you can record your voice, say for example 'John Smith' and later when you want to call John, you can speak 'John Smith' and the phone will call John automatically, the speech recognition is pretty good, I experimented with varying my tone, accent, speed when voice-dialing and the phone recognized the variants very well. You can also assign different rings to incoming calls from different people. For example, you can assign this ring tone to when your friend #1 is calling so that if you hear that particular ring is ringing you can know it's your friend #1 before you even look at the phone's built-in caller ID.
2) Messages: you can receive and send numeric pages, as well as, text messages and even picture messages with other nokia phones.
3) Call Log: shows a list of your missed calls, received calls (who called), dialed calls (who you called) as well as call timers
4) Profiles: There are different settings you can customize, there is a normal setting, there is a silent setting (which doesn't use an audio ring, but a vibrate ring and the phone doens't make any beeps when you're entering menu choices, it normally beeps when you're entering menu choices) the phone's beeps and rings are volume adjustable from 1 - 5.
5) Settings: various options (security, phone, clock, alarm clock)
6) Forwarding: you can choose to have your calls forwarded to another number (your carrier will charge for this feature though)
7) GAMES!!: Snake 2, Space Impact, Bantumi, and Pairs. All are fun games, my personal favorite is Bantumi.
8) Calculator: A basic 4 function calculator.
9) Calendar: A calendar, you can put in appointments, reminders etc, and have the phone give an alarm alert at a time you choose.
10) composer: you can compose your own ring tones, personally I could not get a decent ring tone out of this, but I never really tried. :)
11) Keyguard: since the 3390 has an open keypad, (no covers to cover the number pads) you can accidentally press the keys when the phone is in your pocket or wherever, so this locks all the keys so that nothing will happen is any of the keys are pressed. to access the phone again, you have to unlock the keys first. even in the locked state, you can still receive calls without having to unlock the keys first.
The phone is durable, I once dropped it on concrete and it still works perfect to this day. The phone at first didn't seem durable though because it's made of plastic, and on my phone, the plastic back cover is not snug, it moves around a little bit.. but it is durable i guess.
The battery life is okay, I averaged about 3-4 days between rechargings. The phone only requires about 2.5 hours to fully charge using the regular charger.
I'm not sure how much of the reception is due to the phone or the carrier so I really can't comment on the PHONE'S reception but overall I would rate my reception as poor to average, especially indoors.
My only real gripe with the phone is that it's too bulky and heavy. You may be thinking 'what, he's calling this phone big and heavy?' but yes, I do think it's too big and heavy. The thickness is 0.8 inches, it's really bulky and noticable when I leave it in my pocket and the phone is 4.3 ounces, it looks heavier than it is, the aforementioned Motorola v22xx phone is much bigger than this phone dimensionally, but this 3390 is actually a little heavier! But that's just me personally, for most people this phone will be just fine in terms of size and weight but make sure to try it before you buy.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 70
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