Nokia Mobile 3310 3G - Red - RETIRED

I have been using this phone as my main cell phone for 9 months. I was formerly an Android user, and wanted to get away from smartphones. Overall, I've been very happy with this phone. The ringer is loud, speakerphone is loud, and call quality is solid. Besides phone calls, I do some texting. I find the T9 texting with predictive text to be fairly quick, once you get the hang of it (sometimes VERY quick!). Sure, it's not as fast overall as a smartphone keyboard, but I like that, because it makes me not want to text all the time! In my life, I want texting to be limited to short messages conveying important information, such as "traffic - running 15 minutes late." I don't want to carry on long, involved conversations via texting. I prefer to talk on the phone for that. I like some of the other features of the phone, and find them quite usable. The mp3 player is fine, and even supports a playlist. I've used it on many morning hikes (I put a 2GB card in the phone and carry plenty of songs), and have often used bluetooth to connect the phone to bluetooth speakers and car stereos. The sound quality is great. My only complaint would be that the interface is slow inside the mp3 player. That might be because I am using an external card with many songs - I'm not sure. I sometimes use the stopwatch, countdown timer, basic calculator, and flashlight. They are all solid. I didn't expect the camera to be great, and it's not. But it has come in handy a number of times when I was in a store and wanted to take a picture of a product or product label for later research. If the lighting is bad, however, it's hard to get a shot that isn't blurry. Even good shots don't look great on the little phone screen, but when I upload them to a computer using a usb cable (very simple to do) they look much better. Here's what I wish was better about the phone: (1) When texting, I wish there was a way to save words in a custom dictionary. For example, if I want to spell an ethnic name, I can't use predictive text - I have to choose one letter at a time. And then the next time I want to use that name, I have to do the same thing again. I wish I could save the name in a custom dictionary that the phone would later use as part of predictive text. (2) There is no notepad type app. Yes, the keypad would make typing long notes impractical, but it would be handy to be able to save some simple notes on the phone. I end up texting myself, which isn't ideal. (3) The phone "times out" very quickly, turning the screen off while I am pausing to think. For me that means when I press a button to turn it back on, I am at the lock screen. I like a lock screen to prevent" butt dialing," but I wish I could increase the time before the screen turns off. (4) There is no way to remove the bloatware games, which I have no use for. Despite those limitations, I'm very glad I bought the phone. It does what I need it to do, is well constructed, and doesn't use much battery. I didn't mention the 3G data support, because I can't get it to work on my cell company's network in my city. This is the network's fault, though, not the phone's. But I don't need the data features, anyway. Consider your needs and expectations carefully! As for me, I would buy this phone again.

Are you tired of smartphones? Well, this one is a fantastic compromise. Mind you, it's a pricey thing, as it's a novelty product after all, but all the things it does, it does great: by being just a phone and nothing more. --System UI--- If you're like me, and are only familiar with Windows Phone, Android and Nokia's old Symbian OS, the new user interface would take a bit of time getting used to. It's not because it's difficult to use, it's a really simple interface designed to be user friendly. Rather, it's because I had to adjust to the interface because of how relatively simple it is. Anything that's important to the practicality of a phone is provided to you in as few clicks as possible, and that's pretty awesome. WARNING, there's no Wifi. --Battery Life---- It's great. It's really great. You wouldn't have to charge this phone for upwards of a week. I really missed that. With heavy usage, it obviously goes down, but being such a simple phone, heavy usage is likely not going to be a thing. ---For those of you buying this for Nostalgia feelings--- This phone isn't going to cut it for you. The changes to the software and features, as well as the size and make of the phone (it's so thin and light) is not going to activate any kind of nostalgia you had for the original save for wondering why phones can't go back to buttons anymore. To sum up, the phone is strong, the screen vibrant and decently lit, the battery life is fantastic and you don't have to worry about bugs, being constantly connected to online noise (social networks and otherwise) or malware. The phone is very much of the Nokia quality, and for anyone who just wants a phone, or want to give someone the gift of just a phone, it's worth every penny.

It is not possible to believe that the Nokia TA-1036-C 3310 3G Factory Unlocked Phone is as bad as it is by mistake. The only possible reason for this phone is to wipe out any hope for a decent simple cell phone and thereby promote the sales of more expensive models. It may be that this is an ok emergency phone, but I am not that impressed with battery life. If this is your reason to own, make sure it is off and not just screen display off. The original Nokia 933 was one of the best cell phones ever made. Good battery life, even if you had occasional cell phone calls. The keyboard was the old 12 button type but the keys were reasonably large. Bottom line, it was a good phone. It did everything I wanted a cell to do and very little that I did not want a phone to do – and had good battery life. When I first read Nokia was reintroducing a 933 variant my thirst for this old beauty overcame my read of the cautionary reviews. My mistake. The screen: is slightly larger and has more pixels per inch. So what? It is still too small for any purpose. You get to see a tiny picture that may be what you thought you were aiming at, but until you move it to a larger screen it could be your shoe with a blob of paint next to it. Because the screen is slightly larger, the keys are proportionally smaller. The lettering on the keys are nearly invisible, esp in medium lighting. This is critical because the screen is unreadable in good lighting. Again because the keys are small it is very easy to hit things like the delete button unintentionally. OTOH it is very hard to delete, for example a message while you are reading it. In fact the overall organization of functions makes no obvious sense. Even the organization of the ‘aps” on the Ap view is counterproductive. The screen clicks off, locking the key pad fairly quickly even if you are a tad slow between keystroke. This can make it hard to copy or read information from the screen to another person or to a note pad. Butt Dialing OTOH the locked key pad automatically allows certain keys to be pressed. For example 911. Even if it takes you 10 hours to key in all three numbers the key pad will not go blank. It will also accept 191 and other like variations, but the idea is when you use the Nokia you have limited time before lock out, but your ‘191’ emergency can take 10 hours to unfold. You are always good to butt dial. Since the screen is too small for pictures: Why so much bloatware? Bloat ware that cannot be removed. Around the net there is some indication about ways to remove this bloat ware, but I think these are for earlier versions. Pretending you do want to fiddle with this … Stuff, not only is the screen small the internet connection is slow. 3 G . Tiny, slow loading pictures, what a fun way to shop/play/burn up battery life! Perhaps peculiar to my provider, the default settings for text messages do not allow the loading of any attachments. My provider was very patient with me first on line and then via phone, but I still cannot see attachments, .mms or anything of the like. I was very happy with my old flip phone and would be just as happy going back to one like it. As I see credit card companies, insurance companies and even state licenses going to phone displays over hard copy, I know I will eventually have to go the way of the oversized, over complicated only coincidentally a cell phone. Until then I will make sure everyone knows that the Nokia TA-1036-C 3310 3G Factory Unlocked Phone is terrible.

I bought this phone to do a partial digital detox, wanting to reduce my reliance on my iPhone. Pros: lack of constant notifications, long battery life, fits well in the hand, it works well enough as a phone, and snake is surprisingly decent Notable limitations: * No physical volume buttons - It takes holding the # key, unlocking the phone, and them using the d-pad to change the volume. I miss being able to just quickly switch to vibrate or turn the volume up. * Took a while to get used to the buttons - the upper left and upper right are actually two buttons (the top and bottom halves have different functions), and the d-pad in the middle is awkward to use. I've got pretty small hands, and I still find myself having to use my nails to avoid accidentally navigating/clicking. Makes me wish the trackball from the Blackberry Curve. * No emoji support - while I knew typing on the thing would be worse than on a smartphone, getting text messages where I'd just see boxes made trying to guess what the other person was saying a bit interesting. Not an issue if the people you text with don't send you messages that are just emoji :P * Low res screen - I didn't think about how often people send me various pictures and what not, but there's no way to zoom in on images or anything, so you can only see it in 240 x 320 glory * Import issues - looks like the only way to import contacts is from an Android device. I happened to have one around, but when I did the import, I only got some of my contacts. Not sure what the limit was or what didn't import, but even at almost 3 weeks, I'm still getting messages from stragglers that I haven't saved the contact info * Long text messages don't display properly - These often only show one line, and I have to go back to the main menu and back in or some other voodoo to try and see the whole message. I've even got some messages that only show on the preview screen and not the conversation view. * There's only ~32 MB or so of internal storage available. Not a huge deal, and it's got a microSD slot, but surprised me as I thought I'd copy some of the podcasts I listed to it then realized I couldn't do so. It's amazing the little things you miss - the lack of automatic brightness adjustment has become pretty noticeable when I groggily reach to the phone to check what time it is, and then am blinded by the display that's way too bright in the dark. As for the digital detox, I ended up still carrying my iPhone and using wifi for various functionality. Using the 3310 definitely curtailed my reliance on it, and I've gone through and disabled most of the notifications. Also helped me build a better mental map for walking/driving instead of an over-reliance on GPS based navigation. On the other hand, I'm looking forward to again having a keyboard and autocorrect, calendar, email, ability to use ride-share and car-share, two-factor authenticator, etc.

I received the phone quickly and in good condition. The phone is okay for someone with reasonable expectations from a feature phone, but the model name was just marketing playing on people's nostalgia. The original 3310 was pretty much indestructible, yet this one feels like it will break if you drop it... and you can easily drop it because its material is very slippery! The UX is okay for what it is. While it is a bit of a throwback to older Nokia Series-40 UI, it's not a throwback to the 3310 but to later phones like the 3100. I was kind of disappointed that, other than the Nokia Tune, there were no remakes of classic Nokia ringtones from the original 3310 days. The feature to import contacts from an Android phone makes a huge mess, running first and last names together, and creating multiple contact entries for single contacts with multiple numbers. Depending on how many contacts you need to import to the phone, it may be best for you to enter them manually provided you can still type on a T9 phone keypad. Speaking of keypads, this 3310 has a decent 12-key phone keypad, but the buttons that hold the Call/End keys together with UI softkeys are a bit on the mushy side, and the directional pad will irritate everybody except little kids; it isn't good for big and/or long fingers. Picture quality of the camera is mediocre, but I wasn't expecting much from a 2-megapixel camera. One thing it does well is taking selfies. I didn't have to pose in front of a mirror and got a few selfies, all framed properly on the first try. Shutter speed is extremely slow! When you press the button to take the photo and hear the shutter sound, you still need to hold the phone steady for over one extra second, if you expect to get a usable photo. People are knocking down the Snake game because it isn't true to the original, but as someone who had a phone from the original 3310 series, it didn't have the original Snake game either, it had Snake 2 which is what the modern 3310's Snake game reminds me of. I would rather take off review points for all the other bloatware and game demos you cannot uninstall. As a feature phone with (InsertRandomNameHere), I would've given it four stars but as a phone that dares to carry the legacy of the Nokia 3310 brand, this one falls short.

I purchased the Nokia 3310 3G about half a year ago because I wanted to see if I could survive without taking my smartphone everywhere. And I have grown to love it since then. This phone is very boring, and that is probably the best complement I could give it. I have found no temptation whatsoever to pull it out and scroll through social media or read the news as I was waiting in line or having a conversation, which forces me to live in the real world. It's great for phone calls and texting, and not much else. The battery life lasts many times longer than my smartphone did, as well. Obviously, the camera on this device is capable of taking a photo for reference or remembering something, but it would not be a good idea to use it for any artistic purposes as it is of rather low quality. I have found that this has helped me to enjoy beautiful sunsets and scenery without worrying about trying to get a good picture to share. The signal reception on this phone seems to be about as good as any other phone I have used, and it has not really been a problem. The physical design is relatively sturdy, and I have not had any major problems with it (although the plastic back has gotten scratched up from daily use). It is much smaller than a smartphone, and it fits in my hand or pocket easily. The user interface doesn't seem to just be a copy of cheap phones from the past decade; I believe it is actually much better designed for ease of use and quickly accessing important options, and I think it looks rather nice. (It also doesn't split long text messages like old dumbphones used to, which is great.) Altogether, I would highly recommend this phone to anyone who is looking for an alternative to a smartphone.

If you are here looking for a simple phone, then you will like this one. It has a long battery life, sends calls and text messages, and even has a primative internet browser. Dump the smart phone and go back to the simple life! Another reviewer pointed out that it does not have T9 text predicition, but that is false! It DOES have T9 for texting, called "predictive text". You have to hold down the # key while sending someone a message to enable it, and it can be toggled on/off by pressing the # key repeatedly. I have this phone with Mint Mobile in Southern California. I popped in the Mint SIM card and it worked almost instantly! (after 2-3 minutes of loading). I didn't have to adjust any data settings or anything like that. The one con is the lack of group messaging. If somehow you get drawn into a group message, then you will receive text messagea from each individual person as if they are direct messaging you, even though that person is just sending it to the group chat. It could have potentially awkward repercussions involving extended family members or your girlfriend's relatives.

I've been using the Nokia 5310 expressmusic since 2010 or earlier. I really like this phone but they stopped making it a long time ago, it's getting harder to find and I was excited to try this 3310 reissue. I'm a big fan of Nokia, non-smart, bar-style phones with 0 through 9 buttons rather than a touch screen. First I'll say what I liked about the 3310 reissue. The music player works well. Easy to use and sounds good with or without headphones. I liked that it has a flashlight. It's an attractive phone. I got it in yellow and It was appealing. Here's what I did not like. It did not have T-9 predictive text. I've become accustomed to that and it's really easy to use. It's possible to text very fast with T-9 once you get the hang of it. For those who don't know what T-9 predictive text is, it means rather than push each number the amount of times to correspond to the letter you want (example push 7 four times for S), you just push the number once and the phone guesses the word. If it's not the right word you push * for more choices. It works great. I would of been willing to put up with that, if the calendar wasn't so limited. Here's what I mean: I put in one month worth of my schedule, and then the phone would not allow me to put anything else in. I never ran into this problem with the 5310. I get my work schedule 2 months at a time, and I have other things I need to keep track of as well. I rely on my phone for this. I'd much rather Nokia get rid of all the games that I'll never use, and give me an unlimited calendar. I returned this phone within 12 hrs of delivery. I took the time to write this review, because I'd like Nokia to fix these problems. If they did I'd buy this phone again. Or let me know if they have a similar phone with the features I need. Thank you.

I have very bad experience. Ever since got Nokia 3310 mobile. From that day till today whenever someone calling me then the mobile switched off and when I press their button it doesn't work. Then I have to take out the battery and I put the mobile battery in it again, then by doing this the mobile starts working. No Need Thanks because i am disheart

Lo compre hace 2 años, y me ha funcionado, muy resistente, con el tiempo se alenta el telefono, tiene buena señal (telcel), lo puedes conectar a tu auto con bluetooth, y audifonos bluetooth sin problemas, solo que si es tardado vincularlo al dispositivo, en mi caso a veces que saco el chip, se desconfigura la hora y fecha, y aveces cuando saco la bateria igual. Pero la vdd buen telefeno. Si tiene carga el telefono y lo apagas, y tienes una alarma programada aun asi suena la alarma, (estando apagado). Lo cargo 1 vez a la semana.

It says battery lasts standby for 24 days, but actually it lasts only for one week. Everything else looks great. But battery is not as expected

Mi mamá siempre se negó a usar un celular, pero ante la falla de su línea fija (gracias Telmex!) ya no tuvo de otra; y ante la adicción a likes y demás, tenía razón! El único requerimiento era que fuera muy sencillo. Mis propios requerimientos eran que fuera confiable, durable y con una pila que durara más que los "smartphones". A pesar de representar un regreso al pasado, es un teléfono bonito, práctico y que parece funcionar bien. Sorpresa: enviar mensajes de texto presionando varias veces en el teclado numérico genera menos errores que escribir en una pantalla... Acerca de la confiabilidad y durabilidad, ya veremos, pero de entrada no tendría porque quedar obsoleto a los dos años con las actualizaciones de sistema... Dado que no hay mucho que actualizar. El color es más "coral" o sea un rosa anaranjado, que rojo, hubiera sido mejor que con detalles en gris claro o blanco que en imitación metal plateado, pero es un detalle. Lo bueno es que con ese color es menos probable que se pierda. El siguiente modelo "4g" sería hasta más práctico cuando salga, si se atiene a la promesa de compartir la conexión a Internet con otros dispositivos y permitir el uso de apps y mapas.

Es un celular con el cual puedes usar face book y twitter pero en un entorno que la verdad no dan ganas de usarlos. El telefono es super delgado y pequeño en comparacion con todos los smartphone actuales. Si estas pensando en comprar uno es por que solo lo usaras para llamadas y mensajes. Funciona con cualquier compañia y la verdad me convencio para el uso de dia a dia. El smartphone que tengo solo lo checo en las noches para saber si hay algo importante en el whatsapp pero casi nunca es asi. Me gusta por que no me estorba en la bolsa del pantalon y por que no me distraigo viendolo a cada rato. LO RECOMIENDO 100% Llego a tiempo y en el color indicado. Es 3G y usa Nano Chip. Se puede conectar al auto ya que cuenta con Blue. Las fotos pues son basicas y el vido igual La interfas es rapida y pronto le agarras el ritmo para escribir tiene funcion predictiva (muy util). Si te sobran unos pesos ya no lo encontraras en un precio mas bajo. Estaba en Coopel en linea en 800 pero ya no