HMD is relaunching the iconic Nokia 3310 phone:
Nokia has sold 126 million of its original 3310 phone since it was first introduced back in September, 2000. It was a time before the iPhone, and Nokia ruled with popular handsets that let you play simple games like Snake. Now the 3310 is making a nostalgic return in the form of a more modern variant, thanks to Nokia-branded phone maker HMD. Like its predecessor, it will still be called the Nokia 3310, but this time it's running Nokia's Series 30+ software, with a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a 2-megapixel camera, and even a microSD slot.
The original Nokia 3310's battery had a 900 or 1000 mAh capacity depending on the model. This one has a 1200 mAh battery, but supposedly allows 22 hours of talk time, ten times that of the original. The new version weighs 79.6 grams, versus 133 grams for the original.
The price for this throwback? 49 euros.
Here's a lot of pictures of the device.
(Score: 4, Informative) by corey on Monday February 27 2017, @09:51PM (2 children)
As much coverage this is getting in the media, it's only 2.5G, meaning in Australia (and a lot of other countries), it's pretty much unusable as the telcos are shutting down the 2G networks.
Shame, I'd be interested in one if it just had a 3G radio.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @01:46AM
Europe plans to shut down 3G ealier than 2G, as elevators, alarms and other industrial things (M2M, machine to machine) depend on 2G for things like emergencies or normal operations.
(Score: 2, Informative) by claywar on Tuesday February 28 2017, @02:04AM
In the US, AT&T killed their support for GSM at the beginning of this year to begin to refarm those bands. T-Mobile is still active, but at least in my area, you'll only get lucky on PCS bands.