Nokia 3310 review: No matter how much you think you want it, you don’t want it
arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com
Not sure if this snarky social commentary is required in a phone review.
> Despite the retro appeal, the Nokia 3310 (buy here) is little more than a Nokia 150 (a basic feature phone that sells for a mere £20) wrapped up in a curved glossy shell and sold for a millennial-gouging £50.
And later:
> It's a spectacularly basic phone that's only good as a backup, or as festival/travelling companion where a week of battery life would be useful. Which would be fine were it not for the fact that Nokia is trying to charge £50 for a phone that should really cost less than £30. The Nokia 150 is, bar the camera and physical design, identical and costs £20. There's even the ultra-basic Nokia 105, which costs a mere £8.
50 might not be that much for a festival phone - until you realize that it's competing with a phone that costs 8.
Unfortunately Whatsapp is not on it, unless someone knows a way to hack an s60 version in there https://www.whatsapp.com/nokia/ - assuming it still can connect to the whatsapp network
I think his main point is, if you really want such a phone, you can have it for much less, even from the same vendor (with the Nokia 150 that goes for 20 instead of 50 bucks).
>mere 1.4MB is user accessible
So Nokia want to remind us floppy disk is still a thing when the original phone was born?
Where can I buy the ZTE Blade A110 for £50?
I've seen it for £69 (Carphone warehouse) or £79 (Argos).
You can even take a punt on devices like the Vodafone Smart First 7, which also runs Android and costs just £20. The Nokia 3310 doesn't even have Wi-Fi.
Whatsapp is probably the only app I could see them adding in.
https://www.engadget.com/2015/03/13/japan-loves-feature-phon...