Mobile Phone Reviews

The Samsung B3310 is an innovative, quirky looking handset which is trying to compete with the many other cheap mobile phones on the market, usually as a pay as you go option.

The most striking feature of the B3310 is its unorthodox shape and design, with a vertical number pad straddling the left hand side of the screen. The fonts, too, are not what are usually found on the latest mobile phones, with a handwritten, child like style being chosen as the default setting.

The Samsung B3310 does have a full QWERTY keyboard, though, which slides out from underneath the vertical number pad for easy typing. A large D pad is also present on the front of the phone, making for quick navigation. However, this large D pad does limit the size of the screen, which is small enough to make reading long texts and emails a chore.

The music player on the Samsung B3310 is very basic, while the lack of a standard 3.5 mm input for headphones means that users have to either buy an adaptor or use the low quality earphones which come as standard.

Although this budget mobile phone is easy to use, with social networking and email options especially easy to set up and operate, the small screen, strange design and low quality 2-megapixel camera leave it lagging behind its rivals. It is still a nice cheap and cheerful alternative for those who are just looking for a very basic handset, though.