Nokia 3310 luxury edition launched; Guess the price!

So, fed up as we – the customers – are with the plateauing smartphone, we’d gladly take any vague promise of a nostalgia trip to simpler times – especially so if that promise comes from a brand we’ve known for years – Nokia. However, there is a slight ray of hope for these users if we are to believe fresh reports coming in from the other side of the planet.

Nokia finally launched the nostalgic feature phone, the 3310 at the MWC 2017 and the world is going gaga about it.

As Gadget 360 notes, cellular networks in Canada and U.S. do not operate on those frequencies, which means that the new 3310 will be practically useless in these markets. “We will source all our products from India”.

HMD Global Executive in Charge of Sales in Africa, Patrick Henchie told Adom News all four handsets will be released simultaneously across the globe, including Africa. If you judge by yardsticks of the 2000s, the new Nokia 3310 may become a victim of its own image.

At the launch event in Barcelona last week, HMD Global portrayed the phone as “detox phone” – meaning a phone that will help one keep off digitally-intrusive mediums such as Internet.

While not confirmed by hmd – the makers of the all-new Nokia 3310 and smartphones announced at Mobile World Congress, Telstra CEO Andy Penn seems confident this hot little property will head to Aussie shores. However, since then its try to get back its brand by making new versions of the phones. The phone has basic features like a web browser, voice recorder, and an FM radio, as well as a 2-megapixel camera.

Nokia made the questionable decision to keep the original 3310’s dated 2G compatibility, instead of upgrading it to something more 2017, like 4G or LTE. Well, it might also make a fun paperweight for people in the USA who have fond memories of their first mobile phone (if they’re old enough to have had a cell phone before the days of the smartphone). Just a quarter (26%) of consumers remembered seeing messaging that other Nokia smartphones would be launched, although this increased to a third (33%) among 18-34 year olds.