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42 points

Wasn’t it already rebooted not so long ago?

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22 points

Sure was. Seems all Nokia can do now is make middling Android phones or try to cash in on nostalgia.

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24 points

It’s not just nostalgia. I absolutely want a phone I can throw at a wall and put back together without it costing me money.

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26 points

Yea, but the modern ones aren’t like that. No company would make the mistake of making a high quality durable product these days. No profit in that.

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A modern smartphone has a screen that’s going to break. Those old phones had a block of plastic that was an LCD screen and then some buttons made out of some form of rubbery sponge.

They broke all the time, the point was that you could just put them back together again in 30 seconds. Everything is glued in place now, so when shock happens they rip and snap.

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31 points

This isn’t Nokia. It’s HMD. They just paid to be allowed to slap the “Nokia” label on their devices and shape them like those old Nokia phones.

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The actual Nokia hasn’t been in the mobile phone business for a decade. They sold it all to Microsoft in 2014 with a licence deal for using the Nokia name, and they then sold it to HMD Mobile in 2016. That name deal should expire this year, but they might renew it.

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Yeah, but the 3G networks are pretty much all gone, and iirc even the 4G reboots didn’t support a ton of LTE bands.

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9 points

Different model.

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