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Nokia 3310, 'the most reliable phone ever made' is due to be relaunched
The phone was first released in 2000 and some are still going strong
Andrew Griffin 15/02/2017 | 08:11
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The Nokia 3310
Nokia will re-launch the 3310, perhaps the best-loved and most resilient phone
in history.
The new incarnation of the old 3310 will be sold for just €59, and so likely be
pitched as a reliable second phone to people who fondly remember it the first
time around. It will be revealed at Mobile World Congress later this month,
according to leaker Evan Blass who first revealed the details.
It's still possible to buy the 3310 on Amazon, though only through its
marketplace and not directly from the company itself. The Amazon listing
describes a range of features, including a clock, calculator, the ability to
store up to ten reminders and four games: Snake II, Pairs II, Space Impact, and
Bantumi.
Snake was so well-loved that it's currently available for iPhone, Android and
Windows phone users to download.
That collection of features has led to it being branded as perhaps the most
resilient and long-lasting phone ever made. The reputation has let it become
the star of hundreds of memes, and even led people to crush it in a hydraulic
press.
Nokia struggled to bring its brand into the smartphone era and ended up being
sold to Microsoft. But since then it has targeted success by making new
versions of old phones, including the Nokia 215, which costs $29 and lasts for
29 days.
Phones made under the Nokia brand are now sold by HMD Global, a Finnish company
that bought the rights to the name. HMD will reveal other new mobiles – the
Nokia 3, 5 and 6 – at the same MWC event.
Those other new phones wll be more like smartphones, but will retain much of
the same low price.
Independent News Service
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