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I was hoping for literally the old Nokias with modern batteries and bigger memories. Surely the entire point of these was for people who wanted a feature- rathe
by gaius 10y ago
I was hoping for literally the old Nokias with modern batteries and bigger memories. Surely the entire point of these was for people who wanted a feature- rather than a smartphone?
- pavlov 10y agoWell, Nokia/Microsoft has been making those for years. This new one has been branded 3310 to bank on some assumed nostalgia, but it's just a direct continuation of recent devices like the Nokia 105: https://www.cnet.com/products/nokia-105-2015/preview/ https://www.cnet.com/products/nokia-105-2015/preview/ The Series 30+ operating system on these devices is kind of weird. It's basically a generic clone of the old familiar Nokia Series 30/40 phone UI, but made by MediaTek instead of Nokia itself. I guess what happened is that the internal featurephone OS teams were terminated when Microsoft acquired the business, and they just picked up the closest replacement from the Chinese clone masters at MediaTek.
- onli 10y agoBut does the OS matter much for a feature phone? One does not even really want to write mails with that, those are phones too call someone, write a text, maybe listen to some music (radio) and play some snake. A basic OS might just be okay for that. Now, the atrocity that was the OS for the Nokia Asha phones, that is a completely different story.
- rjsw 10y agoI bought a Nokia 130 late last year and am really happy with it. I just wanted a small dual-sim phone, don't need any other features than the ones it provides.
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