The icon retains its unique look including the sliding mechanism and always sits wonderfully in the hand thanks to the curved design. Riffing on the “banana phone” nickname, Nokia has also released a special Banana Yellow colour in addition to the standard Traditional Black. Last year Nokia re-released a favorite phone, the Nokia 3310, in a new design with better screen and battery life. But it was a 2G phone with limited features and quickly became categorized as ‘festival handset’ or ‘spare to keep in the car’.

Battery Life: The battery life of a cell phone comes from many factors, such as the OS, processor, apps, screen size, display brightness, and so forth. It feels absurdly small by modern standards, and it looks very cheap, with poor viewing angles, particularly beneath bright office lighting. Given time, I’m sure my touchscreen-pampered fingers would regain the knack of pressing physical buttons, but it’s a big adjustment: it took me about two minutes just to log into Facebook for the first time.The extended battery life is certainly appealing, the 4G connectivity that permits voice over LTE and fast data tethering to a tablet will add versatility. It comes with a few pre-installed HTML apps like Twitter and Facebook, plus a handful of games, most of which are demos for boring 2D scrollers. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This phone is no different: it’s built to take on life as you know it – with durable and beautiful materials, great feel, and an ideal balance of performance and battery life.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It comes with a long-lasting battery, so you can talk all day¹, or leave the phone on standby for up to a month². Nokia 110 4G has zoomed-in menus to make everything bigger and easier to navigate, while its Readout feature² turns text to speech to help you along the way. There’s also a bizarre version of Snake in which you can only turn diagonally, which utterly spoils the simplistic joy of the original. Apparently, in Nokia’s survey of Britain’s favourite 90s cultural landmarks, 20% named the original Nokia 8110 as their favourite tech device of the 1990s.The brand produces colored casings for many of their models, commonly yellow, red, black, blue, and white. If you’re accustomed to the instantaneous responses of a modern smartphone, this will probably trip you up a lot at first. On to a few practical points: the removable back snaps on and off with ease, and beneath it are two SIM slots, one standard-sized and one nano. It comes in four distinct colors: Warm Red and Yellow, both with a gloss finish, and Dark Blue and Grey both with a matte finish. The 8810 4G lets you browse the web faster and enjoy all your favourite apps, including the iconic Snake game of yesteryear.

headphone jack; the bundled headphones don’t even sound too terrible, although after five minutes or so I found the plastic buds started to get uncomfortable. All specifications, features and other product information provided are subject to change without notice. Sadly, the spring-loaded slider, which was an exclusive modification for The Matrix, has not made it into the re-release: according to Nokia, it would have made the device too bulky and heavy. That said, I doubt that something like Instagram will be rushing to bring its app over – this isn’t primarily a phone for imaging. Readout feature is available in the following languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Vietnamese and Arabic.After more than 2 decades, the technology has of course been improved, but only comes close to today's minimum standards. Unexpectedly, you have to keep the keyboard cover open while you watch, as closing it shuts down the app – an easily forgotten, and very frustrating, quirk. Powerful battery life - The Qualcomm 205 mobile platform is designed for performance without compromising battery life.