Blast From The PastNokia 3310

Guess who’s back from the past, Its been 17 years when Nokia launched 3310 which was the best selling phone in 2000.

It was an indestructible phone with a never-ending battery life and more than 126 million units sold around the world.

It’s been a decade since Nokia 3310 faded away from the market. Technology has evolved and we are 17 years down the lane with innovations like 5G network, 4K displays on smartphones, wireless charging and fast finger print sensors, dual cameras on smartphone and what not.

Now, in 2017 Nokia launches the new Nokia 3310 at MWC’17 Barcelona. Spain. It caused a massive hype over Internet, but the real question is will people buy a phone, which has a decade old feature in such fast moving world of technology.

2.4 Inch colored display with QVGA resolution

No Wi-Fi, 2.5G Internet

SD Card Support

40% Lighter body

2MP Camera

SNAKE! 

New Features

10 Feature that will guide you if the new Nokia 3310 deserves a place in your pocket

Battery Life

If you need a phone with never ending battery, Nokia 3310 should be your first preference. It has 1200 mAh battery which Is greater than the parent 3310 and it can give you 22 hours of talk time and month of stand by time. Longer battery life can let you make longer calls without worrying about the battery.

Head Phone Jack

Yes, you heard it right Nokia 3310 sports a head phone jack and you can enjoy your favorite music and radio stations.

SD Card

Nokia 3310 can take up to 32 Gb memory card so that you can upload your data on it such asaudio and pictures and enjoy the media for long hours

Bluetooth

The phone sports Bluetooth 3.0, which can give you connectivity to various devices for data sharing or paring it to Bluetooth speaker or headsets

Camera

Camera is 2 mega-pixel and it can take decent pictures

Web Browsing Although it doesn’t have Wi-Fi, but it supports 2.5G Internet, which can let you browse Internet at places, where Wi-Fi isn’t available such as adventure trips.    

Color Screen

The screen is larger than the parent 3310 and it’s a TFT color screen, which measuresup to 2.4 inches i.e. 240 x 320 pixels

Design It’s a small phone which can be easily gripped in one hand and typing on the physical keys wont be a problem, Nokia ditched the middle enter button and arrow key from the parent 3310 and changed it to a navigation key with enter button resting in between.

SNAKE!  And how can we forget the legendary game, which use to be an addiction is now back with the new phone and this time Game Loft designed the game

Price

Price is cheap for this phone costing at 49 euros/ 52 $ in U.S, which Is not a bad price for a feature phone.

Conclusion This phone will live up to the hype and people would like to

own it as a collection or people might gift them to their young kid or kids might gift it to their grandparents who doesn’t live in the smartphone era. Its is portable and affordable phone with features that really matter in a feature phone.