Regarding the phone as a… phone, this is a normal 128×128 Nokia Series 40 phone. Using the recording line-in port we were even able to record from a CD audio source into AAC format. The FM radio works very well, and was able to receive all the local channels, preset our favorite channels and even record directly to the MMC card. The quality of the headset is not bad, but it’s not that great either: the stereo headset only has one earphone (for safety reasons), which brings the experience down a bit. On the top right of the phone there is a volume button that allows changing the volume of both the loudspeaker (which is of pretty good quality), the earphones and the internal speaker. There are no progress bars when playing a song, but you can easily move from one song to another using the four-way button on the phone which allows for “stop”, “play”, “next song”, and “previous song”, while long presses of the same button can move the playback to a different segment of the same song. In our test the internal player was able to read mp3 tags, but when a song did not have tags in it, the song would show up as blank in the screen, not even the filename would appear instead. The phone comes from the factory with seven 30-second songs as a demo. Pressing the music button again will load a menu with options for music playback, FM radio or switching off the current music. The phone has a “music” button that will automatically start playing the first AAC or mp3 song in a playlist (.pls and. The phone mounts as a USB storage device on any operating system and so you could use the phone as an ordinary storage device! Of course, the main feature of the phone that makes it special is its mp3/aac playback capability, its FM playback and recording capability and its full-fledged keyboard. It comes with a 64 MB MMC card pre-installed but it supports MMC cards up to 1 GB. The phone sports a 128×128 4096 color dual-scan screen and the US version comes in two colors: orange and blue. The Nokia 3300 is a dual band 850 MHz/1900 MHz phone, utilizing the Series 40 user interface (version 1.0), which is Nokia’s home-brewed solution and OS (non-Symbian). The folks at sent us the US edition of the (unlocked) Nokia 3300 mp3 phone - one of the first of its kind - and we put it to test. There’s been a lot of talk lately about how phones with mp3 functionality will inevitably take over the mp3 player market.
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