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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 28 2017, @06:22AM
Well, not this phone in particular as it's dead in the water in the U.S. without 3G support, but not everyone wants a smartphone. I tried switching my mother to a smartphone a couple of years ago, figuring it would grow on her. She absolutely hated it... mostly because she refused to learn how to use it. Now my mother... she's a luddite. Anything invented after the '80s is either a mystery to her or useless to her, and in either case she doesn't want to learn how to use it as it "should just work like it always did." To her, a phone is a phone is a phone. I learned my lesson and switched her back to a basic clamshell phone several months later. My father plans on retiring later this year. He needed a smartphone for work, but when he retires he plans on switching back to a basic clamshell phone as well. Unlike my mother, he's not a luddite, but he just doesn't want to be bothered with constant e-mail notifications and news alerts and other inanities that a smartphone brings.