Cheap shitty knockoff reboots of a product are not newsworthy or even post worthy.
Is my opinion unpopular?
I love my Nokia dumbphone. Great for when I wanna leave my iPhone behind.
Just get an old one, they still work lol
(note: they might not work for making calls I dunno)
Dunno, the HMD’s reboots aren’t good.
From a hardware point of view, they feel good,
but the software sucks.The S30 OS, before Nokia collapses, was much better.
The S30 OS, before Nokia collapses, was much better.
Yeah no - you’re miss-remembering it. For example you had to delete SMS messages otherwise your mailbox would fill up.
It could only fit 10 messages before it’d run out of space, and once full no messages would be received at all.
Also, the battery life was ten days in standby if you didn’t use the phone which was nice but as soon as you started using it… then it only lasted 3 hours. I used to carry two spare batteries in my bag… don’t miss those days at all.
That’s not a software issue. That’s all hardware limitations.
Yeah, this would be a novelty and it was SOLID for it’s time. But we have come a long way, pretty sure my light switches have more processing power than these phones did. This isn’t like your favorite band rebooting, it is a peice of technology that is no longer relevant or even capable of operating on modern networks. The entire hardware will be completely different or it will be a paperweight immediately.
Another reboot?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I miss the designs. Nokia, sony, Motorola…. All trying stuff.
We gave up a lot to carry these black mirrors around.
Are you sure you don’t just want another camera stuck to the back? Maybe you have one too many external ports?
Close, I had an 8210, my very first cell phone. Loved that little guy.
I don’t think it will sell much.
All I need are Signal, maps, Plex, and the ability to Dev on the device 🙏
I just want my side sliding keyboard…
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
