Was the Nokia 3210 the greatest phone of all time?
by Hannah Jane Parkinson from Technology | The Guardian on (#BTE6)
Endless battery life, colourful fasciae and Snake (obviously) - as Nokia plans a return to the phone market, in praise of its most enduring product: the 3210
Hold the phone - Nokia has announced its return to the mobile (cell) market. The Finnish telecoms giant, which was once the biggest producer of mobile handsets in the world, has agreed with Microsoft to begin designing phones again in 2016.
Microsoft bought the company's faltering mobile phone unit for a5.44bn (4.6bn) in 2013, after declining sales in the face of competition from Apple. But now that Microsoft's chief executive Rajeev Suri has said Nokia is to return, we can't help harking back to its piice de ri(C)sistance: the Nokia 3210. Here's why we loved it.
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