Iconic Feature Phone Nokia 3310 Coming Back this Month, VentureBeat Says (venturebeat.com) 95
The iconic Nokia 3310 feature phone is all set for a return, according to a report. VentureBeat adds: HMD Global Oy, the Finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to market phones under the storied Nokia brand, is planning to announce four such handsets at Mobile World Congress later this month, according to a person briefed on the company's plans. Known primarily for its plentiful battery life and nearly indestructible build, the 3310 was released at the turn of the millennium as a replacement to the also-popular 3210.
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A phone with pussy and tits would sell so well!
Also it's only fair - the women have had vibration in theirs for decades!
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God. Has Slashdot descended to this? Get a life.
I'm nothing but a man; no matter how brilliant my ideas may be.
Anyway, I assume what you mean is to "get a wife", I've tried but they don't want me!!
(I even got stuff which vibrates for the object in question but of course I should had understand that in this day and age with smartphones and learning machines even that is too simple.)
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There is only one reason that I will not be buying one of these. That is because, when they were out originally I bought several and they still work fine including most of the original batteries (though the life isn't so good any more). Would recommend to a friend. I used to use them as sports phones so it's not like they didn't regularly get dropped and abused.
Not Even Kidding (Score:2)
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I can see having one of these in the car or RV, with a cheapie prepaid SIM card that might need a small top-off every few months. Definitely worth having.
I do miss the $15 prepaid candybar Nokia phone. Only did basic texts and phone... but it worked well, and Nokia's UI for the feature phones is unmatched.
Re:Not Even Kidding (Score:4, Insightful)
Basic text and phone and nothing else is EXACTLY what I want for the phone that is used for text message verification in online banking. Zero chance of catching any malware.
Re:Not Even Kidding (Score:5, Informative)
"Zero chance of catching any malware."
I had an old Nokia 3310, bought at an auction for $3. Did a ROM dump, it's got gov't loaded firmware on it, it used to belong to a well-known Memphis drug dealer.
So much for that zero chance.
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Police auction. You learn who had what and where it came from, as required by law.
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And yet I'm going to become VP of one of California's oldest non-profits within a year. *yawn*
Go play with yourself some more. Real people are talking and discussing things.
Bet you didn't know shit about the hidden debug feature in the 3310, did you?
Shit's been known about since like 2003, too.
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Shitty job that pays on average $250/hr and where my office is primarily mother nature?
You must not do a lot of mining, let alone leave your desk chair enough to have even come up with such a thought.
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Too bad you hae no ability to discern real life from your own fantasy of me having no life.
Meanwhile, as I hold a $30,000 ruby in my fucking hands... [imgur.com]
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Got a 3310?
1. Turn the phones power on and get to the normal screen where you can enter phone numbers.
2. Enter into the phone the following sequence:
" *3001#12345# "
You're now in your phone's debug mode. You can turn on the Field Test function, which will give you all the data from cell towers nearby, including the ones police use to spy on you or surreptitiously update your phone firmware.
Which is how I found out it was backdoored by the gov't. You learn pretty quickly what the carrier tower names are, and
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"I thought you said you found government loaded firmware by doing a ROM dump."
Wouldn't have known to do the ROM dump until I learned that the phone was not connecting to a Cricket tower when it's on a Cricket service.
Nice to know your logic is a failure like most everyone else around here.
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Looks like someone below just busted your ass wide open. Another AC, at that.
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I do miss the $15 prepaid candybar Nokia phone. Only did basic texts and phone... but it worked well, and Nokia's UI for the feature phones is unmatched.
Cheap prepaid plans at $3/month or less can still be found: http://www.cellguru.net/prepai... [cellguru.net]
There are even some cheap unlimited plans without data for $20 or less: http://www.prepaidphonenews.co... [prepaidphonenews.com]
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I have a $20 a year plan, not in the US, I can't use it much but don't want too either, it just lets me be contactable, and make the occasional phone call. 1 minute a month is enough for anybody right? ok it enough for me but I am strange.
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The cheapest we have in the USA from a major carrier (t-mobile) is $36 a year and includes 30 minutes a month. There are a few cheaper options from resellers if you never actually use your phone. We also have an interesting feature that even a "disconnected" phone can still call 911, our police/fire/emergency number. Not sure if other countries do something like that or not.
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Americans are so backwards.
I had some visiting back in the 2000's that were amazed phones had caller ID and could send pictures !
They also couldnt understand why a phone could receive texts/calls even when disconnected.
Still, its to be expected considering the punitive system they live under.
A lot of our problems come from our shear size and our low population density in some areas and even though people rarely leave their home town, they expect their phone to work flawlessly in an area larger than Europe. Our 911 system for instance are all mostly independent system in each city. Our carriers have to spend a tremendous amount of money building out towers and then upgrading those towers and interfacing with the local system. Our other issue is that our landline system was so good. A lot of
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Have you ever used one of those? I have. Never again.
The Noka 3310 (although the 1100 is superior) is the most usable cellphone ever made.
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Perfect for taking into the USA. No 'SmartPhone' features for the DHS etc goons to demand passwords to Facebook etc.
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Unverified info from a smaller European operator: transition to LTE is the goal, 3G will be gone mid-term. 2G will stay for a long time because too much deployed (mainly IoT, phones don't live very long anyway) equipment is not LTE-capable.
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Really what they need to do is make it look as much as possible like a TV remote, because ass-dials just aren't funny enough anymore.
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Hey there are people who resort to packing in order to get a bigger bulge.
Updated? (Score:2)
Hopefully these will have something better than a WAP browser? maybe a 3390 version for the US?
Oh, probably not intended for the US.
In the USA? (Score:2)
Just asking because the specs on this say its a GSM phone. And my poor old Motorola Razr V3 was recently abandoned by AT&T. Because it's not 3G or better.
I miss my old Nokia (Score:4, Interesting)
I had a 7110. Great phone, eternal standby (seriously, you charged it once a week and it had no problem retaining that power) and back then that spring-mechanism was just way too cool.
Only thing that bothered me, and that eventually broke, was that antenna stub. Without that it would have been the perfect phone. Very rugged, near indestructible (except for that damn antenna) and that spring mechanism worked for a surprisingly long time...
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I had the 5110... everything you love about the 7110 but no spring so even less failure chances and the standby/talktime was unbelivable.
I have always wished... (Score:4, Insightful)
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I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. --Bjarne Stroustrup
On behalf of all C++ developers past, present and future it's called karma. And you have a very long way to go to break even.
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perfect for protesters! (Score:2)
The cops can't take your info from it (because it holds none) and it's great for breaking windows! ;)
tethering (Score:2)
A dumb phone with 4G wifi hotspot functionality may be my ideal device. It's not clear from the article if that'll be supported, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if it was.
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A dumb phone with 4G wifi hotspot functionality may be my ideal device. It's not clear from the article if that'll be supported, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if it was.
I asked for this years ago. When they first started coming out with smart phones, I was annoyed that I couldn't just pick my tablet/ipod of choice and tether it to my phone of choice. A smartphone is still inferior to a dumb phone for placing calls. There are obviously people that want an all in one so they don't have to carry two devices but having the flexibility of detaching your cellular service from your screen of choice would be awesome.
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Maybe you have a different definition of dumb phone than I do but what good is 4G on a dumb phone?
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No need to come back. Old one is stills works fine (Score:1)
RTFA? no - AdBlock blocking blocking (Score:2)
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Is it blocking the ad blocking that AdBlock tries to implement? So you have ads? Or is it blocking people who were trying to block AdBlock? Which means you are back to no ads? Too many negations, cannot parse!
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Is it blocking the ad blocking that AdBlock tries to implement? So you have ads? Or is it blocking people who were trying to block AdBlock? Which means you are back to no ads? Too many negations, cannot parse!
Careful - App guy will show up!
n900? (Score:2)
Ok.. how about a updated version of this? :)