Nokia's 3310 phone has been relaunched nearly 17 years after its debut.
Many consider the original handset iconic because of its popularity and sturdiness. More than 126 million were produced before it was phased out in 2005.
The revamped version will be sold under licence by the Finnish start-up HMD Global, which also unveiled several Nokia-branded Android smartphones.
Quite apart from the nostalgia (I still have my 3310 somewhere), at US$50 and on a pay-as-you-go SIM this would be an awesome travel / beach / emergency phone.
I still have a 3310 that I recently used for a few months after my smartphone died. All it needed was a new battery. Legendary phone. I'm fairly certain I'll be picking one of these up!
Is it as robust as the predecessor? Looks like it is made out of very cheap material which doesn't really potray any traits of durability or strength.
Going to replace my Android handset with this. Made a huge mistake with my latest phone upgrade
Google practically own the air I breathe...
Mobile phones nowadays are absolute garbage (this may very well be an opinion applicable to those born circa 1992) but I miss the days of having a handset that did exactly what it said on the tin with the addition of SMS!
I really think there's a gap in the mobile phone market for something simple yet innovative. This re-release certainly ticks one of those boxes
made with the cheapest of the cheap materials
no 3G so basically only 3rd world country it will work in as at least in the uk we don't have 2G a part from very very rural areas.
looks only kinda like the 3310
using the 3310 name as a selling point
garbage.
made with the cheapest of the cheap materials
no 3G so basically only 3rd world country it will work in as at least in the uk we don't have 2G a part from very very rural areas.
looks only kinda like the 3310
using the 3310 name as a selling point
garbage.
It may be an interesting phone for the price, let's see how sturdy it actually is.
I must have been one of the few people back then that dropped an original 3310 once and the screen broke (the actual LCD inside, not the case) and it was quite expensive (half the phone's cost) to have it repaired. It worked fine and was accidentally dropped many times afterwards, but I still find it funny that I had the exact opposite experience from everybody else.
On the other hand, the predecessor to this phone is usually forgotten these days, but the 3210 actually sold 160 million units vs 126 of the 3310 and even though looking at it from the front doesn't show, it has a more elegant and composed design to it, as the keyboard part is slimmer and then thicker in the screen part vs the more uniform brick style of the 3310.
It also came with Snake and has T9 predictive text and it was also notable for being the first mass market phone with an internal antenna - and that is very noteworthy. It also allowed you to change the fascias, just like the 3310.
I think that the real reason that made the 3310 more famous is that it allows long, concatenated SMS three times the size of a standard one. I don't remember the 3210 having that. That was in practice the big change in a time when using SMS was booming.
Edit: Another probable reason has to do with the fact that it stayed on the market for a long time, enough to see the arrival of affordable phones with colour screens, and at that time it was quite affordable. And thus people remember it more because it was the last phone they had from the monochrome era.
2G is dead as of this year or last year in Australia so it wouldn't even work. Bizarre choice to go with anything older than 3G. Personally I think they should have remade the 3210.
I think this is more for emerging markets/your granny/your kid's first phone/an emergency stand-by sort of thing. Not for those of us who are used to the latest and greatest. For that, see the Nokia 6.
The 5100 series was more iconic IMO. Especially since you could fix almost anything that broke on it for cheap using parts purchased at a mall kiosk. Even out of the 3000 series I always thought the 3510 was superior to the 3310.
Last time I checked my 3310 was still working perfectly. If this new one is as hard to break I'll get one for hiking and all that, as a survival emergency phone.
Why is the original so hard to break? I treated it fairly well tbh.
I read it someware its the exact same type of plastic like the old one
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