I’ve had the pleasure of spending the last week or so getting to know the new Nokia 3310, the company’s latest feature phone designed in the spirit of the much beloved original 3310 from the turn of the millennium. Originally I had planned to relive my nostalgia for my first mobile phones, the Siemens A55, Nokia 3410 and my beloved Sony Ericsson K750i. Unfortunately, I encountered a number of niggles, setbacks, and outright roadblocks that made spending a week with the device much more difficult that I’d first thought.
My experience ended up being a frustrating one, and as much as there is to like about the new Nokia 3310, over the course of the week I’ve remembered just how much phones have changed over the past decade. So I’d like to share a few of my observations with you.
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Right out of the box, getting started with the Nokia 3310 harkened back to a much more primitive experience. There’s no easily accessible SIM tray here, you have to pop-off the back cover, pry out the battery, and insert a micro-SIM, not a nano-SIM. Fortunately I had an extender around to make my active SIM fit. This was part of buying a new smartphone even a few years ago, when removable batteries were still a thing, and it’s quite a fun for me to take the thing apart to get it working, but others may not enjoy it as much.
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It’s been a while since I’ve had to break out a micro rather than nano SIM card.
Without a Google account, I’d forgotten that I had no way of quickly retrieving contacts.
I’d also completely forgotten that I don’t have contacts saved on ...
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