I hate how Microsoft sent a new CEO to Nokia, who then tanked the company, got them bought by Microsoft, and then was rehired in another role by Microsoft.
What makes it even worse is that they couldn’t even keep Nokia going once they did their takeover.
I’m still furious about the whole thing.
Me too. I always thought of Nokia as genuine innovator’s delivery good products. Not fantastic products. But good products with CONSUMERS in mind and their usage habits, rather than designing phones around optimizing selling us things.
I still have my 3310, but lost the charger. So I don’t know if it is still working.
My children now use what is basically a cheap 3310 copy (also from Nokia, no internet).
but lost the charger - Hey, I’m in the UK but I have a drawer full of Nokia chargers if you need one! ( I keep them to impress the ladies, along with my collection of IKEA Allen keys…)
Lol thanks. But I am in Germany. :)
It could always be used to level a foundation.
I’m more of a Space Impact guy
Does it have a replaceable battery and can I still use it as a murder weapon and place a call afterwards? Asking for a friend
I couldn’t find details on this particular model, but all Nokia dumbphones released so far have easily removeable batteries and can be used as a murder weapon in a pinch.
I just want my side sliding keyboard…
I don’t think it will sell much.
I’ll get one for sure. Always handy to have a long battery lasting cheap phone for on festivals, so I don’t have to carry my 1000 euro smartphone which probably won’t survive. I’m always super careful with my stuff, never break my screen or lose my phone. Except when I’m on festivals. All I need is WhatsApp so I can find my friends anyeay. This becomes an issue after day 2, so I need to carry battery packs or be offline. And battery packs for 7 days festival is heavy and annoying.
It will be good when we don’t have access to powerpoint. WhatsApp is a must and wondering if it can support the small screen.
it will probably run kaios, so yes
Eeh, they already did it with nokia 3310 and 8110 in 2018.
So I guess it still seems worth it.As a sidenote, what the fuck, that was 6 years ago?
Right? I still have my brick and it still works fine… even after seeing how high I could throw it.
Hopefully with hackable firmware!
Close, I had an 8210, my very first cell phone. Loved that little guy.
Just get an old one, they still work lol
(note: they might not work for making calls I dunno)
To call someone you need to have friends. Who needs friends when you have snake?
If you’re in a country where GSM is native it’s quite likely that 2G is still available. 3G probably got shut down in the meantime but 2G doesn’t need much spectrum and is kept as a baseline compatibility protocol, possibly even mandated by law (because emergency services). It’s also perfectly sufficient for voice calls. Internet is… tolerable if all you’re doing is browsing wikipedia and doing email. It’s easily twice as fast as a 56k modem what are you complaining about.
If possible, bookmark http://68k.news/ and http://frogfind.com/ on those phones.
Ha! If only. They at most had WAP browsers and noone was using them because you paid like five bucks per transferred byte.
If we’re referring to such old phones, the only WAP site I know is the test from Nostalgia Nerd. From this video [YouTube]
I’ve still got a 3310 in a drawer, it still turns on, and if I had a SIM card for it would be fully working as the UK still operates a 2G network (for now at least).
There’s even removable fascia plates still for sale on eBay.
But do you have a fitting charger?
Hundreds in a box somewhere
dads everywhere
I fucking knew it
What do you need a charger for? We’ll all be dead long before the battery is done /j
I was really nice to just charge like once a week though…
my old phones (going back all the way to the ‘real’ nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia (only a couple weeks old) with same capacity battery as what’s stated in the article for the ‘new’ one.
If the SIM standard didn’t change every few years, presumably for the same reason CPU pin-count changes ($$$), this might be a great phone for international travel, protests/marches and such.
As for Snake: meh, it’s fun, but it’s easy enough to code for yourself… Angela Yu’s “100 Days of Code” taught me that. ;)
Dunno, the HMD’s reboots aren’t good.
From a hardware point of view, they feel good,
but the software sucks.The S30 OS, before Nokia collapses, was much better.
The S30 OS, before Nokia collapses, was much better.
Yeah no - you’re miss-remembering it. For example you had to delete SMS messages otherwise your mailbox would fill up.
It could only fit 10 messages before it’d run out of space, and once full no messages would be received at all.
Also, the battery life was ten days in standby if you didn’t use the phone which was nice but as soon as you started using it… then it only lasted 3 hours. I used to carry two spare batteries in my bag… don’t miss those days at all.
It could only fit 10 messages before it’d run out of space, and once full no messages would be received at all.
You often hear programmers cite zero, one, infinity but fact of the matter is… while most if not all of your code should be capable of that, be blissfully ignorant about any imposed limit because it’s going to work whatever you set it to, the application often still should have a limit:
Even if you’re not as ludicrously storage-constrained as those old Nokia bricks the data structure you’re storing it in is going to have some kind of assumptions about up to what number of elements it’s going to be efficient, so in e.g. game programming you write your code, document your assumption in the form of an error or warning thrown if that limit is exceeded, and when the level designers break it you have a look together at the thing and decide whether the limit needs increasing, or the level designers should reign in their use of whatever thingummy is breaking the limit.
Not to mention that just storing an index for an arbitrarily large data structure can take up arbitrary amounts of RAM. Do you really expect me to use variable-sized numbers just so that you can have more than 264 (~1.84×1019) messages. Or columns in your spreadsheet, or whatnot.
That’s not a software issue. That’s all hardware limitations.
Yeah, this would be a novelty and it was SOLID for it’s time. But we have come a long way, pretty sure my light switches have more processing power than these phones did. This isn’t like your favorite band rebooting, it is a peice of technology that is no longer relevant or even capable of operating on modern networks. The entire hardware will be completely different or it will be a paperweight immediately.
Very exciting to see, I’ve been thinking of getting a daily driver dumb phone for a while now. Any news on US support?
Also interested in a daily dumb phone. Smartphones are… fine… but dumb phones are where it’s at. I had to stop using my BlackBerry Torch last year and I literally cried.
Another reboot?
That’s what I thought. They have already relaunched 3310 few years back.
An easy cashgrab, perhaps?
The previous reboot was a marketing stunt. The Nokia factory was acquired by Microsoft and the thing they made is actually pretty nice. It supports WhatsApp, maps, snake, etc
The problem is the previous one only has 2G, and the 2G networks will soon be shut down, hence why they’re making a 4G version.
They put out 3G and 4G models of the 3210 and 8110 in 2017 and 2018. But yeah it’s probably time to refresh as most of the 3G networks have been sunsetted.
I love my Nokia dumbphone. Great for when I wanna leave my iPhone behind.
And I will bet money that the reboot is going to a cheaper shitier version of the original.
Running buggy laggy unsupported KaiOS at that.
Imagine if Nokia had risen from the dead and continued the N900 line.
How cool a Maemo PDA would be now with all the spying sloppily made crap around.
