#NOKIA CANDYBAR PHONE 2016 PLUS#

There’s no doubt that nostalgia is a currency. The device reminds a whole lot of people of the first time they ever had the freedom to walk around with a phone in their pocket. So, why is it making headlines like crazy and generating a mountain of buzz? First, there’s nostalgia. On the surface, the “new” 3310 is a laughably bad device by modern standards. There’s even a web browser if you’re desperate, but considering it tops out at 2G speeds and you’d have to type numerically, you’d better be really desperate to open that thing up. It plays MP3s, holds two SIM cards and has a SD card slot for expanded memory.

#NOKIA CANDYBAR PHONE 2016 PLUS#

It’s small and light, with actual physical buttons, plus a 2.4-inch screen. The phone still sports a few weeks of standby charge and a now mind-boggling 22 hours of talk time, and it even has an updated version of Snake. It takes the style and simplicity of the classic edition and adds a few bells and whistles for the modern age. The updated 3310 is what you’d call a feature phone, with that “feature” being that it makes calls. With Nokia having a tough time in the smartphone era, it’s decided to look the past with a new version of the Nokia 3310 designed to play on your nostalgia for the days when a handset could last three weeks and a phone’s primary purpose was being a phone. Remember the old, unbreakable, candy bar brick of a phone that literally everyone had in the early 2000s? The one that played Snake? That was the Nokia 3310, and the company sold more than 100 million of them.

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