SO Nokia is once again bringing back an old design of the 8110, an actually believe it or not, Unreleased design; The now infamous banana phone!
(It takes its name and inspiration from the classic slider which shot to stardom in the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix, as in the film the slider was modified to be spring loaded)
"That is the kind of nostalgia HMD Global, the company now operating the Nokia phone brand, wants to rekindle. It succeeded with last year’s Nokia 3310. Now it’s time for a slightly more sophisticated reboot.
The new Nokia 8110 is still just a feature phone, running a forked version of the dead Firefox OS created by KaiOS that HMD is calling “Smart Feature OS”, but it has a few things you might not expect from a phone with a real numeric keypad and polycarbonate slider"
- It’s got 4G
- Facebook will also be available through an app store at some point and there will be some form of access to Google’s Assistant, Maps and search, as well as email, texts, Twitter and of course Snake.
I mean the company wants to revive its profits with a little cheeky bit of nostalgia based marketing and I say good for them, the silhouette is a classic design and I may even cop just to see the tactile differences between this and the original design.
but
what I think is the most interesting is the fact that the immensely improved design of 4G implication could actually make this phone a useful tool, perhaps a useable portable 4G hotspot? Other applications could be designed for this new found improved phone that could actually cement this phone into a solid spot in our "modern" society.
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PHOTO AND SOME SOURCE MATERIAL COURTESY OF THE GUARDIAN: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/26/nokia-brings-8110-matrix-banana-phone
