Student's delight (Nokia 3210)

Member Name: Alternum

Product:	Nokia 3210
Date:	21/11/00 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: Small, sleek, slender

Disadvantages: Everyone else has got one

Almost everyone I know has got one of these (it's a student thing - you can pick them up for free almost everywhere now as long as you go on a contract). So what can I tell you that you probably don't know already?

Well, this you will know already, but it'd be a poor opinion without it.. it's an extremely slender, generally well-put together, small, fairly light phone. The aerial is built in so you don't have to worry about it catching on bits of clothing, and the facias are interchangeable! Unfortunately, they cost at least £10 each, so you won't be doing that too often unless you use £50 notes as matches.

I can't tell you much about reception, since it depends on the network, but it hasn't failed me very badly yet. But there are many other features on the phone - the ubiquitous games, compose-your-own-ringtone, not to mention the generally very useful but sometimes highly irritating predictive text input that (supposedly) makes it quicker to write text messages.

What has been happening though is that the sim card seems to have been contacting very poorly with the insides of the phone - a number of times when I have switched it on it doesn't appear to know there's a sim card inside. Apparently though giving the phone a quick wrench solves the problem.. this cannot be a good thing!

I realise that the more technologically minded amongst you will deride me for not having had the back off the phone and looked inside, but I'd rather not break it. And for someone who doesn't know a great deal about the things, it is very disconcerting to have it apparently randomly cease to work every now and again.

So there! It is, generally, a very good little phone. It does everything you ask it to, and sometimes more. I just hope my problems are merely teething ones..

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