![]() ![]() And unlike too many Nokia phones before, they're not obsessed with camera specs to the point of ruining the phone altogether. They have at least functional specs, and don't try to mess with Android. The devices are well-designed, as you'd expect from anything named Nokia, and priced pretty competitively. But taken together, the three give Nokia a pretty good starting point for new smartphones. None of the new devices are gunning for Samsung or Apple's place atop the smartphone heap. No word yet on whether they can also play Snake. All three phones run a clean, untouched version of Nougat, the latest version of Android, which HMD says will be true for all Nokia phones going forward. It's been available in China since January, and is now going global. HMD figures some people will buy it as a second phone, a way to get away from the tyranny of your dinging iPhone and buzzing Apple Watch without fully disconnecting.Īt the top of the range there's the $315 Nokia 6 (the numbering scheme seems akin to the BMW 3, 5, and 7 series), which is another all-aluminum device with a 5.5-inch, 1080p screen, and a 16-megapixel camera on the back. It's almost a grocery-store checkout purchase, or something you throw into your In Case of Apocalypse bag and never worry about again. When it launches in Europe, the 3310 will cost 49 Euros, which is about $51. That model's resolution was listed as "five lines." It feels weird that this is worth mentioning, but it has colors now! The handset comes in white, blue, red, and yellow, and its edges round smoothly, more like a polished pebble than a chunky brick. It also has a 2.4-inch, 240x320 screen, which is hilariously small and low-res but still a huge improvement over the original. (My editor suggested the phone should be called the 3311 to signify this, which I think sounds pretty cool.) The new 3310 has a camera, for one thing, a 2-megapixel shooter. The company pulled and tugged and tweaked things a bit. Still, HMD didn't just open up the warehouse doors, grab the old 3310s, and ship 'em to Best Buy. Its battery lasts a month, it has Snake, and it has the Nokia ringtone. The intro was swift: HMD Global CEO Arto Nummela held up the phone and said the only three things that matter. Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company re-launched the phone as a "One More Thing" at its press conference. For their first act, the new owners set about restoring the 3310 to its former glory, while bringing the beloved old phone into the new era. The company now making Nokia phones is HMD Global, a private equity-backed firm created explicitly to make new Nokia phones. At one point the 3310 even made a comeback, in the form of a wonky Windows Phone device with a huge camera bump that didn't exactly excite the buying public. In that time the Nokia brand has been bought, sold, and stripped for parts. It's been almost 17 years since the 3310 first came out. If you didn't own one, you probably knew someone who did. After its launch in 2000, Nokia sold more than 125 million models of its indestructible candybar, turning Snake into a cultural icon and searing that tinkling ringtone permanently into the back of your mind. ![]()
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