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hedidwot ,

Cheap shitty knockoff reboots of a product are not newsworthy or even post worthy.

Is my opinion unpopular?

Brewchin ,
@Brewchin@lemmy.world avatar

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. ;)

redcalcium ,

I'm more of a Space Impact guy

TacoThrash3r ,
@TacoThrash3r@sh.itjust.works avatar

I just want my side sliding keyboard...

TheGrandNagus , (edited )

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. It's insane they got away with such blatant market manipulation. Microsoft is untouchable.

FunnyUsername ,
@FunnyUsername@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Pacmanlives ,

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

emergencyfood ,

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.

bitwolf ,

All I need are Signal, maps, Plex, and the ability to Dev on the device 🙏

lauha ,

Maps, lol!

Coreidan ,

And I will bet money that the reboot is going to a cheaper shitier version of the original.

rottingleaf ,

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.

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

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).

chiliedogg ,

It could always be used to level a foundation.

Codandchips ,
@Codandchips@lemmy.world avatar

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...)

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

Lol thanks. But I am in Germany. :)

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Wasn't it already rebooted not so long ago?

Aggravationstation ,

Sure was. Seems all Nokia can do now is make middling Android phones or try to cash in on nostalgia.

z00s ,

It's not just nostalgia. I absolutely want a phone I can throw at a wall and put back together without it costing me money.

Aggravationstation ,

Yea, but the modern ones aren't like that. No company would make the mistake of making a high quality durable product these days. No profit in that.

rottingleaf ,

There would be profit if there were actual competition. But the industry nowadays is eerily similar to geopolitics.

echodot ,

A modern smartphone has a screen that's going to break. Those old phones had a block of plastic that was an LCD screen and then some buttons made out of some form of rubbery sponge.

They broke all the time, the point was that you could just put them back together again in 30 seconds. Everything is glued in place now, so when shock happens they rip and snap.

mbirth ,

This isn’t Nokia. It’s HMD. They just paid to be allowed to slap the “Nokia” label on their devices and shape them like those old Nokia phones.

JohnEdwa ,
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz avatar

The actual Nokia hasn't been in the mobile phone business for a decade. They sold it all to Microsoft in 2014 with a licence deal for using the Nokia name, and they then sold it to HMD Mobile in 2016. That name deal should expire this year, but they might renew it.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Yeah, but the 3G networks are pretty much all gone, and iirc even the 4G reboots didn't support a ton of LTE bands.

Bezier ,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

Different model.

doublejay1999 ,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

I miss the designs. Nokia, sony, Motorola…. All trying stuff.

We gave up a lot to carry these black mirrors around.

Plopp ,

And as a bonus, they (at least the Nokias and Ericssons) could be used as weapons.

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

Are you sure you don't just want another camera stuck to the back? Maybe you have one too many external ports?

Chadus_Maximus ,

The battery is kind of important so any place that could be used for a gimmick is better used for a bigger battery. Back then I don't think anyone cared about battery size. I just charged my phone when it ran out.

doublejay1999 ,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

Cos batteries lasted about a week before they had to power 5” super bright LCDs

Boomkop3 ,

Another reboot?

TheBat ,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

That's what I thought. They have already relaunched 3310 few years back.

nossaquesapao ,

An easy cashgrab, perhaps?

Boomkop3 ,

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

LaggyKar ,
@LaggyKar@programming.dev avatar

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.

Evilcoleslaw ,

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.

Daqu ,

Please make a new 8910

Zehzin ,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

Just get an old one, they still work lol

(note: they might not work for making calls I dunno)

RecluseRamble ,

But do you have a fitting charger?

Zehzin ,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

Hundreds in a box somewhere

HappycamperNZ ,

dads everywhere

I fucking knew it

gaael ,

What do you need a charger for? We'll all be dead long before the battery is done /j

RecluseRamble ,

I was really nice to just charge like once a week though...

ares35 ,
@ares35@kbin.social avatar

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.

barsoap ,

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.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If possible, bookmark http://68k.news/ and http://frogfind.com/ on those phones.

barsoap ,

Ha! If only. They at most had WAP browsers and noone was using them because you paid like five bucks per transferred byte.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If we're referring to such old phones, the only WAP site I know is the test from Nostalgia Nerd. From this video [YouTube]

unphazed ,

Ah my us robotics 28k modem... it sang a sweet song to prepare me for the bloodshed of TF and Painkeep.

LordWiggle ,
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

To call someone you need to have friends. Who needs friends when you have snake?

thehatfox ,
@thehatfox@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Murdoc ,

Close, I had an 8210, my very first cell phone. Loved that little guy.

ace_garp ,
@ace_garp@lemmy.world avatar

8210, the smallest andnd not as robust as the 33.

I had a 6310, supposed business phone, which was a great all-rounder. Only downside was it had the outline of a dick.

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