MaxCom Classic MM330 3G

Technical specifications

Final update of my reviews of this phone from September 6, 2021, and January 5, 2022

So ultimately, after two years of using the phone, I am disappointed with this model. Why?

Mainly due to the low battery capacity (only 1000 milliampere-hours). It was indeed able to last a week, but only in standby mode. In talk or music listening mode, it discharged too quickly. In the last months of using this phone to talk to a friend (as long as I was at home), I had to connect the phone to the charger. To listen to music or talk on this phone outdoors, you must either have several fully charged power banks with you or constantly find public chargers. And for some reason, while traveling by train, the phone discharged faster than in other situations.

The second reason for my dissatisfaction with this phone is its music playback capabilities. To be able to listen to music from the music player application, music files had to be uploaded to a special, dedicated folder, which I have not encountered either in phones used before this model or in the Nokia 5310, which currently replaces this phone. Additionally, the capabilities for listening to music from the file manager were also quite limited. You cannot completely mute the file being played, nor can you fast forward the track during playback this way (I was accustomed to this feature by the predecessor of this phone, the MyPhone Halo Q Plus).

The third reason is the lack of an option to block unwanted numbers. Unfortunately, in the era of ubiquitous telemarketers who persistently harass you, I cannot afford a phone that does not have such a function, mainly because I cannot get stressed, and the same unknown number calling every day caused me significant agitation.

The fourth reason is the sticking keyboard. Sometimes I pressed one button dozens of times in a row with no reaction, and sometimes... I pressed it once, and the phone read it as pressing that button twice in a row within milliseconds, which often led to so-called accidental clicks (once, as a result of one of these accidental clicks, I sent my friend an empty SMS message).

And finally, the fifth reason is the inability to set your own SMS ringtone; I had to use the standard one, and I had become accustomed to my own ringtone, which I had used continuously since 2007, when I had a Sony Ericsson W200i (for that phone, this ringtone was one of the ones included by default).

But there were also a few positives about this phone:
1. Large phone screen.
2. Large buttons.
3. Good camera - for the capabilities of feature phones - (as much as 5 megapixels, which puts this model on par with mid-range smartphones).

Evaluating the overall satisfaction with this phone, I rate it very poorly. I was more dissatisfied only with the Samsung GT-S5611 phone, which I used in 2015-2019. It was the first time that I received a defective charger in the set with a factory-new phone.