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[BBC] Nokia 3310 mobile phone resurrected at MWC 2017

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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.
*Insert Chuck Norris joke here*

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.
 
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the real question is... does it come preloaded with snake?
 
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the real question is... does it come preloaded with snake?
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It also comes with the modern version of the classic game Snake preinstalled.
Yes, yes it does
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Great throw away/emergency phone, right here. I'd get one and just keep it in my vehicle in standby. Never know when it would come in handy.
 
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Going to replace my Android handset with this. Made a huge mistake with my latest phone upgrade
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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
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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.
doesn't seem like it, heck it doesn't even look like the 3310.

what i liked about the 3310 the most is the 2weeks to 1month long battery life.
 
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Disgusting attempt to play on peoples nostalgia

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.
 
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Disgusting attempt to play on peoples nostalgia

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.
Well they did buy the Nokia "brand" for a reason. I don't see what you're so upset about. And at least in Finland it will work jusr fine.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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With that screen size might as well put a touchscreen on it
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disappointed..... so many wrongs with it. its jsut 3310 in name.

no 3G = DOA
it has too many features to be a 3310, just having a camera and color screen feels wrong.
its not a brick like the original 3310.

my ideal 3310 refresh would be the original with bluetooth, wifi tethering and 4G. all other nonsense feature phone features should not in included.
 
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Nothing in the past decade will be as robust as the old 3110
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