Fun & Games Menu

As the title says, this menu holds the more fun of the phone's features. The T310 has customizable themes. You can pick and choose any web safe color, background pictures, desktop pictures, and menu bar pictures. Unfortunately the T310 doesn't have a built-in theme editor. But you can create themes on a computer and transfer them to the T310 via data cable, or infrared.

As for pictures, you can set 101 x 80 px backgrounds pictures to the phone. Additionally, you can add 93 x 62 px pictures to the contacts. The contact picture will pop up every time the person calls you. All pictures are gif files that use a special 256 color safe palette. One thing we would have liked to see is the ability to change the desktop picture (Picture behind the icon menu). The only way to change it is by changing it in a theme.

While the T310 has the same 256 colors as the T68i and T300, it is slightly brighter and sharper. However, it's no match against 65,000 color phones or even 4,096 colors. Even though the T310 is supposed to be an entry level phone, most color phones are at least 4,096 colors nowadays. We were pretty disappointed by the T310 screen. If the screen is really important to you consider looking at Samsung or Nokia.

Composer lets you make monophonic ring tones on your T310. Nothing really exciting here. Just choose the note and the duration and see what you can make. You're better off finding polyphonic ring tones online and transferring them to your T310.

The T310 improves on the T300 by adding more simultaneous instruments for a total of 32. The 32 voice polyphonic ring tone rings much louder than the T300 and sounds beautiful.

As for games, Minigolf lets you play a game of 18 holes. Choose the direction you want to putt in, and the power. Then just let it rip. Ace of Spades is a typical card game. While Deep Abyss is a jump and run game similar to Super Mario Bros. Collect all the coins to advance to the next level. Lastly, the most anticipated game of them all, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. Play as a skate boarder, going through levels pulling crazy tricks. Granted it's not the full game, its still pretty good. You'll have plenty of hours of entertainment.

Another great thing about the T310 is the ability to download and install other games on your phone. When you get tired of your old games, just delete them and download new ones. A word of warning, many of the good games are coded by 3rd party programmers. So expect to pay a couple dollars for the full versions.

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