Nokia 3310 re-introduced as a colourful curvy candy bar phone

[scaryjim]

... they shouldn't market it as a "reintroduction" of an iconic phone like the 3310, one of which I still have, by the way, which had none of those features, ... The height of it's sophistication was including utilities, like a calculator which, admittedly, was occasionally useful. ...

And several games - including snake and bantumi. Which were a big sell of the 3310 (which I didn't have, but my partner at the time did) and were about as sophisticated and impressive features as you got in 2001. Within the next couple of years pretty much every feature phone got a colour screen, a music player and had a camera; had the 3310 been released in 2003 I'm pretty sure it would've too. What HMD have done is recreated what they think the 3310 would've been had it originally been created with today's technology. Personally, I think they've done a pretty good job.

... If anything this misses a few tricks that might make it sell better. Having a handset that is a slave to a phablet has been done, but I don't think it has been done well. Something like this running Android Watch might be interesting, allowing it to pick up alerts from other computing devices, perform voice recognition searches etc. ...

See, I'd rather go the other way - if I'm going to have to carry two devices, why not a decent feature phone that's good for calls & texts plus messaging apps and social media, with wifi hotspot or bluetooth tethering so I can also carry my small tablet and use that for anything more complicated. If your handset plays slave to a larger phablet device you're going to have the same battery-capacity limits to your connectivity that you have with a phablet anyway.

The real issue with the mobile market nowadays is homogeneity. Nokia's three new android smartphones are almost indistinguishable from every other android smartphone that makes up, what, 90% of the range of devices currently available? At least the 3310 is a bit different.

[peterb]

This model will work great for older folks that can't really handle touch screens quite well.

Why, is that because when you get older, your fingers drop off?

[azrael-]

Why, is that because when you get older, your fingers drop off?

I'm thinking dexterity could become an issue.

[i7Baby]

In Australia, they are turning off 2G by the end of this year. Telstra has already turned it off.

[Lichachron]

Go Nokia! You can also use it to break down doors and stuff