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Let’s all just calm down for a second and stop hyperventilating over the fact that there’s a semi-exciting Nokia phone for the first time in a decade.

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Because, really, who is the new Nokia 3310 actually for? You? Your gran? Technology hipsters?

One thing’s for sure, it’s probably too expensive to be a ‘burner’ for minor-league drug dealers at £40-ish – you can get plenty of phones for £20 or less.

And while it’s lovely to see the classic design riding again – reminding us of an era where teenagers could blast out messages on numerical keypads at really alarming speeds – the hardware’s a bit weird.




Like, the Nokia 3310 never had a camera – so why bother including a rubbish no-flash two-megapixel one on the new revival model?

If you post a two-megapixel image on Facebook, people will be asking you if you’re OK.

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And it doesn’t have 3G, never mind 4G, so we can’t imagine that the built-in Opera web browser will be seeing much use either.

And sure, it has Snake – but it’s not the Snake we remember, and frankly we’re a bit suspicious of this new, colourful version.

Fact is, Nokia has been making cheapie phones running its Series 30 operating system for years – and no one’s been interested.

Should the fact that it looks vaguely like a phone we all liked 17 years ago change that?

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