It's 2017 and the Nokia Brick Phone Is BACK
I remember my first cell phone. It was a grey and black Motorola flip phone, a hand-me-down from my mom given to me only because we moved and I had to start walking by myself to get to school (The Lovely Bones had just come out, it was a weird time). It was programmed with just her and my dad’s numbers and my friends thought it was the coolest. I hated it. Because it wasn’t a Nokia brick phone. I wanted a brick phone!
Do you care? It's relevant, I promise. That's because almost seventeen years later, HMD Global, the company that bought Nokia and will now create and manufacture its new phones, is bringing the brick phone back.
The company announced the return of the 3310 (the phone’s official name) on Sunday after news of the phone’s revival was leaked earlier this month.
There’s not much known about the new version of the phone, which originally sold an astounding 125 million models in 2000. According to Arto Nummela, the CEO of HMD Global, the 2017 3310 will be similar where it matters the most. He told the Mobile World Congress on Sunday the phone’s battery will last a month (!) and that it will have Snake and the Nokia ringtone before walking offstage, WIRED reports. It's also expected to remain as motherfucking indestructible as it was the first time around.
The site also notes the phone will have a bare-bones web browser and will feature a better camera. The brick’ll still be teeny tiny, but it’ll have rounded edges and will come in colors this time around! When it is commercially available (it’s launching first in Europe, though when exactly is TBD), it’ll sell for only 49 Euros, or about $51*.
*...so you can buy two of them and give one to your parents as cell phone karma.
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