Forget smartphones – the Nokia 3310 is still the mobile of the future | Samira Ahmed
It was like a trip to Q's lab for this particular journalistic James Bond. Back in 2000, it was day one at Channel 4 News and I was sent to the dark and windowless garage across the road to sign a chit and be issued with the latest hi-tech kit: silver, slim but reassuringly solid, with a weight to enable it be used, if necessary, to bludgeon a Spectre assassin; Bluetooth option. What the hell was Bluetooth anyway, Q? And a charger. Ah, that battery life. More on that later. Like Bond I never bothered reading a manual. The Nokia 3310 could be worked out on the go by instinct alone. The so-called "candy bar" shape fitted so reassuringly into a pocket. Unlike James Bond's Beretta it's never jammed on me or frozen mid-sentence like an iPhone.
Related: Nokia 3310, beloved and 'indestructible' mobile phone, 'to be reborn'
Continue reading...