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: 2, Insightful) by goodgod43 on Tuesday February 28 2017, @01:20AM (5 children)
As a contractor I would laugh at every time some idiot would lament and cry about dropping their "next" phone off of a roof. My phone would drop and I would just go down the ladder, wipe the dirt off of it, and be on the phone with the architect within a minute. Are you guys really that out of touch with who rugged phones are really for?
(Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday February 28 2017, @02:11AM (3 children)
How is this plastic phone any more rugged than a $10 plastic phone?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @09:39AM (2 children)
Depends on whether or not it's built like a Nokia (apparently this is a brand license, not a new Nokia).
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Tuesday February 28 2017, @03:52PM
Also apparently it's a whole bunch of old Nokia people in a new corp with a brand license (and presumably IP licenses as necessary).
Thought experiment: if a new company has the people from the old company and licenses the brand from the old company, is it now actually the old company? Surely everything else is non-unique and replaceable, maybe the shareholders are new but that is the same in an acquisition. At the end of the day corporations are essentially just groups of people doing something together.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:17PM
There are all kinds of plastic -- some types are incredibly tough. Molding them is more expensive (higher temp, more viscous), as is the feedstock, but for a small thing like a phone it should add very little to the total cost to use a high performance plastic. At least we can hope.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday February 28 2017, @09:28AM
Funny, when in phone-dangerous places we just use the voicecontrol and headsets - you havn't lived until you picked up a phone to be greated with "I'll SMS" just because you forgot that while the speakers are inside the hearing-protection the microphone isn't :)