The new Nokia 3310 is a niche product which has generated a lot of interest, but what is the point of it exactly?
Many of the tech websites have stated reasons for or against buying one.
As a long term Nokia fan, I'm interested - but I cant see myself buying one.
For a start, Nokia churned out some really great phones ten years ago which were much, much better than the new Nokia 3310. These older Nokia phones were better specced and certainly looked a great deal better than the garish, blocky and generally ugly New Nokia 3310.
I could moan about the inability to do pretty much everything other than make calls and (slowly) send texts using the new Nokia 3310, but we all know that's not the point of this phone.
For me, the lack of any real web browser, no satellite navigation and token 2mp camera are the deal breakers. Nokia had these in their feature phones ten years ago, so why bother with the borderline cute monstrosity which is the new 3310?
It's not even as of feature phones ever went away: Alcatel and Doro have basic handsets available from virtually every mobile retailer in the UK, and some of these handsets are far better specced than the new 3310, so apart from a bit of a nostalgic talking point (for the hipsters), the new Nokia 3310 is pretty pointless.
One of the main reasons that I ditched my Nokia Symbian series 60 phone in 2011 was that I'd had enough of trying to sync and maintain my contacts and calendar - losing this feature by switching to a basic feature phone just seems like a waste of the last six years.
I'm still not 100% happy with Android, but Windows Phone is dead (and increasingly horrible to use), so there aren't really any other viable options.
Sorry Nokia. This isn't the comeback that I've been waiting for.
