![]() ![]() Pressing the button allows for the back to be detached – the grey insert can be removed to customise the picture in the rear. The power button was on the top and the charge port below, with docking charge contacts and 2.5mm socket for a hands-free headset. This was a very smart design choice that made it both customisable but also cheap to maintain – reminds me a bit of what they said about VW Beetles, as you could buy aftermarket phone trim pieces in many shops. ![]() The body has some slight curves to it, with the front and back plastic shells easily removed and replaced (including the silicone button sheet). There were minor changes between models – this one has a slightly improved button layout, a two-tone case colour scheme and a picture window in the back which could be customised, but never was. Such pouches were common to protect the phone from harm, even though the 3350 was no doubt durable, as phones were not particularly cheap unlike nowadays. The phone arrived in what appears to be an aftermarket belt-clip pouch with leather back and clear plastic front. Since the 2G network has long been switched off, it won’t be possible to use the phone anymore (short of emulating a base station at home illegally), so there won’t be any calling. But fortunately, because of a donation from a family friend, I have a Nokia 3350 (a later, WAP-enabled version for Asia-Pacific) in my possession that I can take apart and play with. Unfortunately, I don’t have my GA628 anymore, nor the Siemens A55 eventually I later upgraded to. I always looked upon the others with envy – the 3310 was small, light, didn’t have an unsightly antenna bulge, could do a rudimentary “picture” messaging aside from ASCII-art formatted for its popular multi-line display, had better ring-tones, the unforgettable “Snake II” game and cell broadcast reception in the background that would even tell you the suburb name of the base station you were connected to (channel 050). My GA628 still had a visible stubby antenna, a single-line display and such limited memory that not immediately reading and deleting text messages could cause an out-of-memory condition. Instead, I was lugging around a hand-me-down Ericsson GA628, which the others promptly nicknamed “brick-phone”. All the cool kids had one … but of course, I wasn’t a cool kid. Would you believe, it is now 22 years since the legend was born?īack when the 3310 made its debut, I was entering high school. Virgin Mobile has also tried to promote its TV service in the UK, but even though it had launched a major advertising campaign as well as cut the prices of their TV-enabled handsets, it sold less than 10,000 such phones and customer didn't seem to be very interested in the service.I’m sure everyone remembers the Nokia 3310 – whether it’s because of its legendary status as being so durable that it is often depicted as being indestructible in numerous internet memes, or being such a big best-seller that they even made a somewhat less popular modern “remake”. The offer is available through the Virgin Mobile website, stores as well as several selected retailers including Carphone Warehouse. Nevertheless, something is better than nothing, right? This is what Virgin Mobile has to say: "Want to download the latest music tracks for free directly to your Virgin Mobile 3G handset, from a huge range of artists such as Justin Timberlake, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Muse, The Streets and Gnarls Barkley? Virgin Mobile is giving customers with 3G handsets the opportunity to do just that from 1st March 2007 through to 28th May 2007". They will be able to download a maximum of 25 tracks available from the Virgin Mobile Bites service and only if they are the owners of 3G handsets such as the Sony Ericsson Walkman W850i and newly released W880i or the K800i and K610i Cybershot phones. ![]() There's a catch of course, and customers are limited to a certain number of free tracks. The offer will run for three months, starting from the 1st of March until the 28th of May and will be available for both new and existing customers. The mobile operator is trying to encourage its customers to use its music download service, offered for both contract and prepay, by allowing them to download music for free. Does a free music download service sound tempting? Of course it does, and if you're a Virgin Mobile customer you might just be able to download some free music. ![]()
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