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I don't know what kind of nokia your talking about but I use a 12 year old nokia feature phone, works fine, very robust, had countless drops, onto countless sur

by tomxor 3y ago

I don't know what kind of nokia your talking about but I use a 12 year old nokia feature phone, works fine, very robust, had countless drops, onto countless surfaces, often gets smushed when I go rock climbing and forget it's in my pocket. The battery is barely working but I still get 4 or 5 days charge on it. I will have to upgrade soon to a 4G version because the 3G bands are getting repurposed in the UK over the next few years. Otherwise I would have kept going with it. Thankfully HMD still make the ones that run the S3 OS... which is immediately obvious when they actually bother quoting standby time in the specs; the KaiOS ones are basically just a worse android phone with all the same power drain issues and not enough compute or utility to justify it.

mmcnl 3y ago
I'm talking about the Nokia 3310.
- tomxor 3y ago
  If you mean the original one I wouldn't argue, I had one of those and remember how heavy and chonky they were, and how they would instantly explode whenever dropped... The modern ones aren't like that and I suspect are actually far more robust despite the myths of old, because the density of modern feature phones are generally so low and the electronics are so much smaller with more room for casing that it's very hard for them to damage themselves. That's probably true of all feature phones, but the problem is most of them are painful to use because of terrible software, nokia's S30+ is far from ideal, but it's not absolute crap for basic functionality either. That said, I wouldn't recommend the new 3310, because it's only 2G which isn't going to give you very good call quality or network coverage globally, better to go with any of the 4G S30+ based phones for longevity. Just avoid KaiOS because it defeats the purpose of a feature phone by trashing battery and giving you smartphone features, and apparently it's like the worst android preloaded dumpster fire you can imagine. I'm probably going to replace mine with this one eventually: https://www.hmd.com/en_gb/nokia-225-4g/specs?sku=16QENB01A06 https://www.hmd.com/en_gb/nokia-225-4g/specs?sku=16QENB01A06

by tomxor 3y ago

mmcnl 3y ago

I'm talking about the Nokia 3310.

tomxor 3y ago
If you mean the original one I wouldn't argue, I had one of those and remember how heavy and chonky they were, and how they would instantly explode whenever dropped... The modern ones aren't like that and I suspect are actually far more robust despite the myths of old, because the density of modern feature phones are generally so low and the electronics are so much smaller with more room for casing that it's very hard for them to damage themselves. That's probably true of all feature phones, but the problem is most of them are painful to use because of terrible software, nokia's S30+ is far from ideal, but it's not absolute crap for basic functionality either. That said, I wouldn't recommend the new 3310, because it's only 2G which isn't going to give you very good call quality or network coverage globally, better to go with any of the 4G S30+ based phones for longevity. Just avoid KaiOS because it defeats the purpose of a feature phone by trashing battery and giving you smartphone features, and apparently it's like the worst android preloaded dumpster fire you can imagine. I'm probably going to replace mine with this one eventually: https://www.hmd.com/en_gb/nokia-225-4g/specs?sku=16QENB01A06 https://www.hmd.com/en_gb/nokia-225-4g/specs?sku=16QENB01A06