I imported one of these from the US and haven't been disappointed really. The size and weight are the biggest pluses, the lack of an English User Manual and the mediocre reception (for Nokia) are the minuses. It is certainly robust and well made (typical Nokia) and would suit the person wanting a small, lightweight phone with no-nonsense features. The Chinese - English dictionary? Just the thing if you get lost in the heart of Chinatown one day!! I would rate it a 7 out of 10.
I bought one yesterday (in Shanghai) for 1400 yuan (around USD 150?), and was initially quite pleased. That was until I actually tried to use it. First of all, there's no English manual in the box, and there's none to be found online. It didn't bother me since the "31" lead me to believe that the OS would be the same as for the 3100, my old phone. Well, it's not. This is a phone geared for the Chinese market - and Chinese language users. This means that whereas the display should be able to display more characters on-screen than the 3100, it doesn't. The T9 dictionary is more similar to that used by (sony) Ericsson than on the Nokias I've used before. The keys don't feel as nice as Nokia keys are supposed to (but nowhere as bad as the 3108 or 7110). I'm also slightly worried about the quality of the hinge since it feels cheap. On the plus side, it IS a small phone, has an OK colour screen, good polyphonic sound and actually looks quite nice. I'd probably go for the 3100 instead, which is considerably cheaper (830-860 yuan), and is another contender in the Cheap and Basic phone category - phones which are meant to be used as phones and not as PDAs.
| General | |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 / Gsm 1900 |
| Announced | 2004, 4q |
| Status | Available |
Size | |
| Dimensions | 79.9 X 41.6 X 20.8 Mm |
| Weight | 80 G |
Display | |
| Type | 65k Colors |
| Size | 128 X 160 Pixels |
| - Second External Display (96 X 64 Pixels), 4096 Colors - Wallpaper And Animated Screensavers - Downloadable Screensavers | |
| Ringtones | |
| Type | Polyphonic (40 Channels) |
| Customization | Download, |
| Vibration | Yes |
Memory | |
| Phonebook | 500 Entries |
| Call Records | 10 Dialed, 10 Received, 10 Missed Calls |
| Card Slot | No |
| - 1000 Short Messagies - 1.3 Mb Shared Memory | |
Data | |
| Gprs | Class 10 (4+1/3+2 Slots), 32 - 48 Kbps |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | No |
Usb | |
| Features | |
| Messaging | Sms, Mms |
| Browser | Wap, Xhtml |
| Games | Yes + Downloadable |
| Colors | Gold, Red, Blue |
| Camera | No |
| - T9 - Chinese-english Dictionary (20 000 Words) - Calendar - Calculator - Stopwatch | |
Battery | |
| Standard Battery, Li-ion 720 Mah | |
| Stand-by | Up To 200 H |
| Talk Time | Up To 4 H |
