The legendary Nokia 3310 is returning to market

[Bouzoo]

32 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

oh no this is going to happen again

You mean the police will be in danger again? Or actually everyone this was aimed at. 

 

[dizmo]

3 minutes ago, potoooooooo said:

I doubt it will sell any better there, there are a lot more commodity phones there and a lot of people who would want/could afford a phone would just go for a cheap smartphone.

 

It's major selling point in first world countries is nostalgia and mindshare. Neither of those exist in third world countries for nokia.

However most people in first world countries won't buy it because it's a feature phone and very, very few people buy those these days. It'd be foolish to market it to first world countries. They'll carry on marketing it to third and second world.

[ThinkWithPortals]

2 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

 

 

I wouldn't want to be within fifty feet of a flying 3310. One of those moving at speed could probably crack a skull.

 

That or it'd achieve critical density, collapse in on itself and go supernova, and then Earth would be swallowed by the black hole that was once a Nokia.

[Dackzy]

1 minute ago, Bouzoo said:

You mean the police will be in danger again? Or actually everyone this was aimed at. 

The person that wields such a powerful weapon just needs to throw it at the direction of their target and when it hits the ground it will create a big hole that will eliminate the enemy.

[Starelementpoke]

The real question is, when will LMG review it.

[ThinkWithPortals]

18 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

The real question is, when will LMG review it.

Good point. @nicklmg, is a review on one of these likely?

 

And apologies if you don't handle review stuff, I didn't want to tag Linus and Slick as well for fear of appearing spammy.

[nicklmg]

2 hours ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Good point. @nicklmg, is a review on one of these likely?

 

And apologies if you don't handle review stuff, I didn't want to tag Linus and Slick as well for fear of appearing spammy.

We're trying to get our hands on a few different Nokia phones. No promises.

[Thaldor]

Do people acctually understand that the dumbphones acctually have the good batterylife because they don't have all the features of the smartphones? The biggest parts that consume power in phones are the OLED screen and many connections (WLAN, 2G/3G/4G, GPS, BT) and only by using all black themes and shutting down any unneeded connections you can make a huge difference in batterylife.

 

I acctually look forward to this and probably end up buying one. Just because my 3330 (3310 with WAP for por... "internet" articles) was probably the best phone for hiking (before it fell into a lake) and that with modern battery technologies would be just excelent as camping/hiking phone and I wouldn't need to carry all that extra weight from batterypacks.

[ace_cheaply]

Looks like Snake is back on the menu, boys. 

[JohnnyCorporalTech]

3 hours ago, Dackzy said:

oh no this is going to happen again

Yeah you will probably have to pass a background check to make sure you are not a terrorist.

[Thiback]

On 15/02/2017 at 0:28 PM, XenosTech said:

A week ??? The hell were you doing ? I lasted a month on a single charge.... heck I forgot the phone at school over summer and came back in september and it still had 2 bars

I'm talking about smartphones here. A battery lasting a week in a modern smartphone would be much much better than the average crappy autonomy of nowadays devices (which usually last 2 to 3 days before needing to hug the wall again).
I know mobiles phones like the 3310 are near impossible to drain before a month. I'm only wishing for a smartphone that takes a page from the good old days mobiles' book autonomy-wise.

[XenosTech]

20 minutes ago, Thiback said:

I'm talking about smartphones here. A battery lasting a week in a modern smartphone would be much much better than the average crappy autonomy of nowadays devices (which usually last 2 to 3 days before needing to hug the wall again).
I know mobiles phones like the 3310 are near impossible to drain before a month. I'm only wishing for a smartphone that takes a page from the good old days mobiles' book autonomy-wise.

For that to happen the whole market would have to pull an Apple and compromise on the screen to gain more battery life.

[79wjd]

3 hours ago, XenosTech said:

For that to happen the whole market would have to pull an Apple and compromise on the screen to gain more battery life.

That or go back to 1990s "brick"-cell phone design.

[XenosTech]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

That or go back to 1990s "brick"-cell phone design.

At least those would be used as hammers back in the day when you were short a hammer.

[Scotter97]

If I am not mistaken, some 2G networks have already been abondoned or phased out.  Will this phone operate on 3G and/or 4G?

[steve-kon]

I just wish they would do something like an N-Gage too. I miss the Pathway to Glory game, it's the best till date when it comes to TBS(imo).

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Oh for the love of GabeN !   How can you mess up a legend this bad?

 

 

Yup, this is it, the new 3310 ...

 

Guess I'll stick with my '00 one. 

[Bouzoo]

Imo it's absolutely ugly. And what is that new attrocity called Snake?

 

[ashypanda]

i think it looks pretty neat, but kinda sucks that it's use in western countries will be limited as it's only 900/1800Mhz, and countries are switching off their old 2G bands.

Hands on. 

 

[goodtofufriday]

Literally looks like a 99cent toy

[ThinkWithPortals]

1 hour ago, Captain Chaos said:

 

45 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

 

52 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

 

...that is one ugly phone. Nokia, how did you manage to screw up a design that's nearly two decades old? It's a classic, and now you've made it look like a toy.

 

 

 

[MrDynamicMan]

On 2/15/2017 at 10:05 PM, Daring said:

So, you want thinner phones with shit battery life? Got it! 

> kappa 

 

what is this wizardry.

 

[kappa] 

[LAwLz]

What the hell did they do!?

1) That looks ugly as fuck. Why is it not a brick?

2) What the hell did they do to snake? That's not snake II.

3) Why does it have a color screen?

4) Why does it have a camera!?

 

 

This is a disgrace to the 3310 name. Just call it the 3315 or something if you're not going to make it an actual 3310.

[Bouzoo]

2 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

2) What the hell did they do to snake? That's not snake II.

3) Why does it have a color screen?

4) Why does it have a camera!?

Sadly, now that I think about it, they never said it would be Snake 2, only Snake. 

It was announced it would be an upgrade with colored screen, and honestly I don't see a problem with these small upgrades, as well as camera for that matter, but that abomination is not 3310. 

[daniielrp]

13 hours ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

...that is one ugly phone. Nokia, how did you manage to screw up a design that's nearly two decades old? It's a classic, and now you've made it look like a toy.

 

 

 

To be fair, I don't think "Nokia" had much to do with this - Nokia (the company) were ruined by Microsoft. This was made by HMD who are licensing the Nokia brand.

 

But I agree. It's ugly and useless. You can get much better phones cheaper. This looks like it was clearly made for hipsters who probably never even had an original 3310.