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Nokia-3310

Back before the iPhone was a gleam in Apple'southward centre, Nokia was the smartphone vendor everyone was trying to beat out. For over a decade, Nokia dominated the smartphone and feature telephone markets — and one of the devices that cemented its position equally an early on leader in the jail cell phone industry was the Nokia 3310. At present HMD Global, the company that manufacturers devices for Nokia, will refresh the device for MWC 2022 with the same candybar design, according to Evan Blass at VentureBeat.

At first glance, the Nokia 3310 doesn't expect similar the kind of device anyone would care about in 2022. The original telephone launched in 2000 with features like an 84×48 monochrome screen, games like Ophidian II, a calculator, a stop watch, and a reminder role. The 3310 could shop seven custom ringtones, and supported SMS messages of up to 459 characters. In 2022, these "features" are then basic they could practically be integrated into a toaster. (Please don't -Ed).

Does a feature phone make any kind of sense in 2022? I'd argue that it does, in sure cases, and depending on how Nokia designs the device. The Nokia 3310 was legendary for its durability, and has been known to survive near every type of abuse nosotros have a name for. It wouldn't entirely surprise me if NASA tossed a few of them outside an airlock of the International Infinite Station and so retrieved fully functional hardware from the bottom of the Atlantic a few years later. The Nokia 3310 was an accented tank.

Cyrus 3310

You tin can tell this is Photoshopped. The wall is nonetheless standing.

The pull a fast one on for Nokia will be balancing nostalgia, form gene, and capability. If you wanted to put a college-resolution display on the former Nokia, you might too want to go far a bit bigger — but not to the point that the phone loses its legendary immovability. It's an interesting balancing act, and we'll be curious to see what they roll out.

HMD Global is as well launching several other Android devices at MWC this year. The Nokia 6 (five.5-inch brandish, 1080p, Snapdragon 430, 4GB of RAM), the Nokia v (5.2-inch brandish, 720p, Snapdragon 430 and 2GB of RAM) and the Nokia 3 — a device we don't know much near yet, but that Nokia plans to sell for €149 (roughly $158). The visitor is hoping that these low-finish devices will spur demand for its products, helping it re-enter the phone marketplace after disastrous business decisions and Microsoft's buyout effectively killed its product lines. Hopefully the new 3310 will build on what made the onetime one great, contain intelligently conceived updates, and act as a low-cost cellular option for people who demand a solid, rugged device with long bombardment life more than they need a whiz-bang gadget with all the bells and whistles.