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Cheap shitty knockoff reboots of a product are not newsworthy or even post worthy.
Is my opinion unpopular?
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. ;)
I'm more of a Space Impact guy
I just want my side sliding keyboard...
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.
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.
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
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.
All I need are Signal, maps, Plex, and the ability to Dev on the device 🙏
Maps, lol!
And I will bet money that the reboot is going to a cheaper shitier version of the original.
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.
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).
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...)
Lol thanks. But I am in Germany. :)
It could always be used to level a foundation.
Wasn't it already rebooted not so long ago?
Different model.
Yeah, but the 3G networks are pretty much all gone, and iirc even the 4G reboots didn't support a ton of LTE bands.
Sure was. Seems all Nokia can do now is make middling Android phones or try to cash in on nostalgia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There would be profit if there were actual competition. But the industry nowadays is eerily similar to geopolitics.
