My grandmother actually found a 3310 washed up next to the river here. She found out it still worked and gave it to me, and it was my cellphone for years after that. So you could say I got some first-hand experience with this meme.
Somewhere on a boat in the river a man dropped his phone in the water. A fish found it and it still worked underwater so it gave it to its grandson. Then that fish accidentally threw its phone to the shore where your grandmother found it.
Fun fact: back in 2000 a friend of mine was teaching a self-defense class, and had a chapter of sorts on how to use your Nokia phone as a weapon to defend yourself if you get mugged. This is not a joke.
My friend had one of these back in the day, she couldn't open the shell with her stubby fingers so every time she needed to access the battery/SIM card or wanted to change shells, she had to open it the hard way... by throwing it to the floor with considerable force. Not only did her shells withhold the constant abuse, the phone was fully functional for years until it was retired for a newer model.
I used to have a LG Scoop that I had for a few years even when the keyboard broke. I once wrapped sand paper around it and used it as a sanding block. Thing still worked.
Nokia Smartphones are still extremely solid. I dropped my Lumia 635 down a flight of stairs onto a tile floor and it didn't even turn off. kinda wish it did break though, that way i wouldn't be stuck with a Windows Phone anymore.
my iPhone 4s fell out my pocket while training (cycling) with about 50 km/t and got run overe by three cars... the screen and backplate broke but the phone survived
5110 had weak point, shell often snapped on the side of antenna mount. It did not stop working or anything but it really has a weak point compared to 3210 with internal antenna. But hey text messages were old tech when 3310 was new. Even 2110 etc supported SMS. Was it 1610 which was the strange el cheapo GSM without SMS, but 1610i then had the feature even in lowlow end of price range.
@@Karjis It's funny how all these little things were status symbols. The exposed aerial as you say on the 5110, the fact you could only replace the front fascia, and no composer. Having a custom ringtone was a big deal, everyone had to have one, when now most people stick with the default ringtone as it isn't a unique feature anymore. My abiding memory of the 5110 is how the battery and fascia would spectacularly fly off when you dropped it hard, I don't recall the 3210/3310 doing the same, maybe another status thing having to pick bits of your phone up off the floor :D The 3510 was a great phone as well with WAP, which the later 3330 also had (iirc).
@@mcrecordings Yeap well it was clear timeline. I don't know why I wrote this long post that nobody will read but anyway here it is some history of Nokia era from Finnish perspective. First i remember that in my young days there were 8110 / 3110 that was first smaller units after 2110 and related Nokia (and Mobira) 5000-cityman series which were almost like bricks. 5110 was priced down version from 6110 flaqship at the time. It used the same one soft button style as 3110 but OS was more or less the same as 6110 just lacking some business(ish) features (calendar etc..) And yes the fascia was only thing that you could change but all accessories were compatible with 5110/6110 etc. I remember that 3rd party rear cases were available (especially after 6210 launch) for 5110 that you could change to get internal antenna, but those were more or less cheap and not so well built stuff and reception was not that good as antenna was really not designed as it should. Following 5110 there came 3210 with (at least in nordics) with 2-frequency radio chip and both covers changeable. It also had the ringtone composer but more or less the UI was same as in 5110. 3210 was also the first cheap thing to get predictive text message typing and you could add vibration alarm as it was not standard in at least all units. Then story continued with 3310 with slightly modernized UI and snake II (wohoo?). Then 6000 series was separate more business oriented line where no fascia was removable making it slightly lighter and more robust. 6110 / 6150 being basically the same but only that *50 had 2-band radio. 6210 was more or less at the time of 3210 with predictive text messaging. Then came 6310 with 3 frequency radio and bluetooth (!) etc. I am not sure anymore where vibration came into picture as built-in feature. Also there were this strange 6250 shock-proof version being basically 6210 with more robust frame. I remember well that 6310 (i) was marketed as "worldwide" phone as it was basically first unit you could use in Europe and US (three band radio). It is strange as this kind of features were something to look for separately. Anyway it was nice that 5000/6000 series kept the compatibility of chargers and batteries for a long time. You could swap Li-ion or Li-polymer battery from 6310i era to 5110 and got stupidly light phone that kept on going for 3 weeks with single charge and weight was basically half from the original as 5110 originally had quite heavy Ni-MH battery from factory. Then there where 8000-series stuff which are mostly small. I remember well 8810 "zippo" and then 8210 being one of the lightest phones ever.
I had a Nokia 3360 from 2003 until 2015. Had to replace the phone after my network dropped support for it. Three weeks without a recharge. Those were the day.
Holy shit! 12 years of usage! Man. I remember myself that the old phones were built for SURVIVABILITY and not for "Make a game and charge for a button press. Oh also your battery is gone as soon as you turn on your Phone".
lol 3 weeks... Who are you trying to bullshit? You could have at least 3/4 days and with really little use. And by 2003 this phone was already outdated since color screen cellphones were already a thing.
My uncle uses Nokia 3310 as work phone since 2001 and it still is in use today. He even told me that one time he went into some museum in Germany and saw the 3310 on display. Somebody called him so he answered the phone and staff thought he stole the phone from the shelf :D
+Rudi Moreira Probably your phone had a really shitty battery then... My first mobile phone was Nokia 3210 (from 1999) and the battery worked without recharging at least three or four days. Of course you had to avoid phone calls but texting did not drain the battery too much. It was very practical if you travelled somewhere for a weekend and forgot to take your phone charger with you. (But I agree - 3 weeks is too much - old phones could not do that.)
The battery life was practically the same on both. And those batteries were adicted really easy. I don´t need your uncle to confirme what Im telling you, my first cellphone was an ericsson GA628 from 96.
The Nokia 3310 was the first phone I ever owned. I lost it in a fire that burnt down our trailer. Nearly a decade later, I came back to the burn site and found that phone buried in the dirt. After cleaning it off and putting a new battery into it, it still came on.
As stupid children we used to throw these on the football field to see who got it the furthest with most bounces. The worst outcome was that the battery fell out. Stuck it back in and kept going.
I found mine and threw it into the wall to see if the memes were real, concrete wall. Battery fell off, put it back together and still fine. Played Snake after that.
true story :p, after accidentily drowning my new 3310 i took the streght test a step further, pretty ipressive still: th-cam.com/video/EOFX5NYn1Ag/w-d-xo.html and that was after 8 shots with a cross bow :o
Once when I was in Middle School, my friend announced that he had arrived at my house by throwing his Nokia over the house into the back yard where I was hanging out.
Nokia 3310 (and its predecessor - model 3210) was introduced when cell phones started to be much more common. It was the time, when more and more high school (or even middle school) students were able to afford them. So for many of my friends it was "first phone ever". In Poland at the beginning of XXI century owning 3310 was like owning and new iPhone or high-end Android device nowadays. I was using Motorola T205 back then, I simply couldn't afford 3310 in middle school. ;)
My experience too. It was the first phone that i saw any teen owning, the replacable shells took the most of any beating it got. Btw the Ericson "Sharkfin" was the true indestructable phone. The e Was sought after by construction workers long after the stoped beeing made
@Cade They were sold in the USA but the model number’s last 2 digits ended with 90, instead of 10. So the 3310 is known as the 3390 and the 5110 is known as the 5190 in the USA. Using the 3310 and 5110 in the USA will not work since they lack the GSM 1900 antennas needed to work here.
The whole 3000-series is legendary. I'm from Finland and I've personally owned the 3110, the 3210 and the 3310. The two latter ones were built like tanks. They had no external antenna and as you said, were shaped like soapboxes with no straight angles so they would take any impact better than the earlier models.. I think I still have them somewhere and I'm pretty sure they'd boot up just like they did in the late 90's / early 2000s. I broke the plastic screen (well, not the actual screen but the cover) of the 3110 when changing tires to a car and really leaned onto the phone in my pocket.. still worked fine though, but that was "a teenager cracking the screen of their mobile phone" in the 90's, which had to be pretty rare back then. :) Another thing to mention is the awesome battery life - on idle these things would last forever. Screens were small, they had no special sensors, no gps, no wifi, no camera. No instagram or whatsapp or snapchat to keep you occupied. Does anyone else remember the time, when you had to call your friend's house on a landline to see if they were home? And if they weren't, you had basically zero chance of knowing where they are? Unless they were at another friend's house when you kept calling them through. "Oh yeah we came to our place after school to play Shadowrun, wanna join us? We're still rolling character stats.." *nostalgia feedback loop*
You're forgetting the 3410. It proved stronger than the 3310 for me. We literally used to throw these phones as high in the air as we could, compared who could throw the highest, to the 4th story, the 5th story and above. The worst thing that happened to them was the lid coming off which you just put back in and it's good as new.
My old Nokia survived being dropped on the road and immediately lost in the middle of a protest of 100,000 people. A nice protester found it with no shortage of boot marks on it, mailed it back to me, and it still worked.
+Atlas the Champ Maybe this is just me but I would never give that person my family member's address, also, what protest was this? It had to have been huge, hell, the protest to end the Vietnam war was only 100,000 people so I have no idea what protest he was at.
This was my very first phone! I was living in Russia then, this must've been 2001 or 2002. What a legend. Even had some bootleg chrome cover and keypad for it. Held on two charges a week. Space Impact was the shit, too. Not the most durable in my experience - mine died a few hour after some minor water damage. I traversed the most wonderful journey through Nokia phones since then. I had a Nokia 3100 (with that crazy light-up 'game' cover and ridiculous PT-3 external camera), a sports-style 5410, and Symbian-powered 6680 (most powerful phone ever, I swear) and even an N93 for a little bit. Nothing but fond memories! Then the iPhone broke my Nokia streak. I get truly overwhelmed with nostalgia and uncontrollable grief for the phones of that era. Seeing the ads in a mid-2000s magazine could literally bring a tear to my eye. From the 90s to the mid 2000s phone designs took risks, were fun, inspiring and innovative. But most importantly, they were pleasure to use both in terms of hardware and software. Nokia was always at the forefront with their risk-raking, bold and sometimes odd designs. They ranged wildly, from appealing and soft, to hip and colourful, to wildly customisable to sharp and abrasive. In the early 2000s, there were models with a unique, useless yet gratifying quirk - I remember my sister had a 2100 that had a little window on the back cover, to frame a photo. 8910 and the stainless steel 8800 were aimed at the luxury/business market. The 3200 had unique, vertical oval buttons and completely customisable paper designs that could be placed under the translucent covers. 5510 and 3300 were the first qwerty candy bar phones. The thin 8210 was the smallest phone available when it launched. I hold its successor, the 8310, to be one of the most beautiful phones ever produced. There was the buttonless 7280, the 3650 with the rotary dial keypad, the 6800, which bridged the gap between candy bar and the qwery phone, and the 7600, which I struggle to even describe. My new phone's just a black piece of glass. my last three were the same. And the worst thing is that I spend much more time staring at it than I ever did with any of my beloved Nokias.
The new 3310 has practically nothing to do with the original. The name is just a marketing gimmick. However, I hope it's easy to use, works fast, has a long lasting battery and is durable. I'm disappointed that it doesn't have 3G. The would've made it much more useful. I had a brick Nokia recently that only had 2G and using Whatsapp on that was terrible. x(
Well 3G would drain the battery much faster I guess. The point of this whole thing is to bring back nostalgia and crate a new urban legend about a durable battery. Of course that means no, or very minimal modern features.
The new 3310 is designed to work on GSM (2G) networks. Sadly, AT&T has already shut its GSM network down, and VZW is in the process of preparing to do so. They arnt ever coming to the US.
There appears to be a 3G version coming out: www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/nokia-3310-3g-launches-in-australia-targeting-millennials-and-those-seeking-digital-detox/news-story/f8c738c25035047754f5703db87942bc
I still have my old 3315, will certainly be grabbing the re-release especially if its price is right. Grandparents would like it and I wouldn't mind a backup/for when going out in the city device that I don't need to worry about being stolen/damaged.
Fun fact: the famous Nokia ringtone was created by Thomas Dolby, the guy who did "She Blinded Me With Science." I personally owned a 3360 back in 2002. I was a sophomore in high school and I remember having to write an essay for my parents as to why I needed a phone.
The only reason why my 3310 was trashed was because I was a little brat who wanted a new phone and my mom didn’t wanted to pay for that when I had a proper functioning phone so what I did was throwing it down the stares multiple times from the top of the building but only scratches on the cover appeared, then I threw it out the balcony but due to the grass it only got a bit muddy, then I started aiming for the sidewalk and finally a little happened so I tried smashing it from the top floor down to the sidewalk about three times and finally... it still worked but half of the screen was cracked. My mom gave me instead her old Siemens and I immediately regretted my decisions. xD It one of the best phones I’ve owned to this date.
Not kidding. Just found my old 3330 in an old box, where I stored some old tech devices. I was actually looking for an 2,5" PATA drive... whatever. I looked if the NiMH batterie was bulged and was surprised that it wasn't. I was even more surprised that the phone powered on and held on for almost a minute. I charged the battarie and it is still good enough for one and a half days stand by and 10 minutes talking... not bad.
Well, one thing about Ni-MH batteries is that they're non flammable (water+hydroxide based electrolyte), generally don't bulge, are fairly durable and somewhat tolerant of full discharges. That's the one thing they still have over Li-Ion/Li-Po, and it's why I still like them. The modern variants for AA/AAA replacement are like $2 a battery, can take 500-1500 charge cycles, last 2-4 times longer then Alkaline, and cost cents to recharge. :D Eneloop makes great ones, some of the best rechargeable batteries I'v had. Rayovac Recharge are also pretty decent, and their newer ones have just as much capacity as the Eneloop ones. They also provide much more current then Alkaline, so camera flashes power up faster and other power hungry devices perform a bit better, etc.
I am from Croatia and I remerber everyone having one. I remerber when I was on a road trip with my school at least half of people with a phone had a 3310 I had one until I got my Sony Ericsson T230.
I got my start in music with the ringtone composer lol. I also played the games on it a lot since my parents refused to get me any real handheld gaming systems. The 3310 was just such a perfect product for it's time.
Alex Kuhn Actually Cingular is still around. More or less they bought out AT&T around 10 years ago. They had a massive ad campaign re-branding themselves as the new AT&T, and eventually dropped the new part.
Regardless of how more commercially successful the 1110 may have been, it's keyboard membrane would invariably become unstuck from the underlying pushbuttons. After a while the membrane would also bulge out. While it remained perfectly functional even after the defect appeared, I'd say that it prevented the 1110 from coming any close to being a symbol of ruggedness or reliability by far.
I have 3310 myself and the keyboard button plastic part is all cracked inside. It works and looks just like new if phone doesn't have front cover removed. It kinda sucks to know that it's not so good in there.
no... if you ever drop an Artifact with similar Indestructibly on an 3310, like anotehr 3310 ore an Original GameBoy, the flow of time will collaps and the Gates of the Abyss will open. an Chor of Nokia tunes will echo through the World and an army of 3310 Will Rise to bring misfortune to the People that did this heresy to the Holy Artifact only an quest so great that no one ever did finished it can free the world from its doom..... you most destroy an 3310 with an MODERN SMARTPHONE ONLY.
You can still find people using these in Poland. Poland is roughly 5 years behind on technology against the UK, so the Nokia 3310 is still a very viable device. And yes, custom ringtones are still very much a thing of pride.
I think it worked out. If you were to do this in the future it would need a singular focus like this, else it would get a bit overwhelming. It's like a mix of the floppy disk video and LGR Tech Tales.
+Lazy Game Reviews It reminded my of ColdFusTion, in the way it detailed things and presented it, but it still had the LGR feel to it. There's just something nice about that style, and I really liked it. I'l keep watching, and wait till the next video. :D
Here in germany it really was some kind of status symbol, especially for teenagers at that time. I think at some point everyone in my class got one, including me. You could remove some parts of the case and because of that there was some sort of black market selling unofficial casings. I had a blue and neon green back cover with a tiger head, thunderbolts and tribal shit printed on it.
reperealegandirii same. and yes, i used a 3310 a few years ago as my primary phone! i was the only one in the retezat mountains that had service ;) mulțumesc 3310 :P
I remember having one of the US market ones. Back then, the concept of breaking your phone merely by dropping it didn't really exist until the ultra-hip Motorola Razr came out.
That's was my first phone, I had a great time playing Snake and Space Impact, I loved that game so much, also it had a parachute and a bicycle game. Good times!.
3310 was the first cellphone I ever got at the age of 11 and my parents even got a PROTECTIVE RUBBER bumper around it, little did I know that I was practically wearing Kevlar back then
3:26 - The 3310 was my first phone, I later moved to a N95 and kept that for about 6 years before moving onto a sony xperia S which I still have another 6 years later.
My nokia 3310 was dropped from third floor building, not a single scratch and it was working. My nokia 3315 got thrown into a river, and it survived. Nowadays i wont dare to imagine how my oneplus would survive those ordeals.
One time i forgot my small LG cellphone in my jeans in the washing machine and it died, did the same thing with a Nokia months later and it's still running to this very day. But i have no idea where i put it
Smartphones suffer from the old problem of too many functions in one product, and not doing any of them particularly well. Cellphones had actual buttons up into my 20s and then they decided touch screens were adequate, and I've never been satisfied with them ever since. You can't call anything if your hands are wet, if your hands are nasty, if you can't see the screen, etc. A phone should be like a remote control; you should have the buttons memorized and be able to use it blindfolded with one hand tied behind your back. Now I can't even use it without typing in a long pin first just to keep someone from accessing everything important that my phone stores. Don't get me wrong, I've been involved with technology since the Apple II in elementary school, so having a tiny Linux machine with the internet in my pocket is cool and handy, but I would much rather the market make iPod clones (since I don't want Apple) that do everything except the phone, and let me tether that to a standard cellphone for wireless data. That way I could leave the expensive part behind when I don't need it but still be able to call or text.
Wow, BlackBerry 10 OS has some really interesting features, and it's powered by a QNX (Unix-like) core. The Android runtime reminds me of Wine/Crossover, which is a API translating runtime for Windows software on Linux/Mac.
Smartphones are nowhere near as functional as a desktop or even laptop PC. Not only in terms of size and input capability, but also the OS itself. A smartphone or tablet is what you use until you can get back to your real computer.
+FyberOptic But that is what Microsoft wants to do with Windows 10 mobile - have one device that works as both a phone and a desktop PC via a dock. However, considering the low sales of Windows phones, I don't know if it will ever come to fruition...
The 3310 reboot is a big fail... It's just a current Nokia 200-series phone ( www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-230 ) in a different shell that has some design cues from the original 3310. They should've kept the exact shape, size, keypad and even the low-res monochrome screen, just upgrade the internals to equivalent modern technology that uses a lot less power than the original, and use the rest of the internal volume for a huge battery. That thing would've been the perfect survival/trip phone that lasts months with a single charge, costs basically nothing and doesn't mind being dropped or bumped into something. The new 3310 doesn't look rugged at all and it's a lot thinner than the original. On the other hand, now that they modernised the 3310, if it doesn't have at least Whatsapp on it, it's quite useless. It kind of falls between the sweet spots; it's nothing like the simple, spartan original phone, but it doesn't have any modern features people want these days either. It should've been either a proper, super-simple remake or then something with more modern features.
When I was replacing this cell with a newer one I threw it up in the air and snap kicked it. It flew into the ceiling, bounced off and smacked into cement floor blowing up into a bunch of pieces. I put the battery and plastic shell back together and it still worked fine... I kinda agree its nearly indestructible.
It's not that the 3310 was the indestructible phone, only that NOKIA knew how to make robust products. Much like the Nintendo Wii Remotes that could break CRT T.Vs when accidentally thrown while playing Wii Sports, and remain unharmed.
Two weeks without having to reload the battery, nearly unbreakle, a pretty "small" phone back than and pretty much every teenager in germany had one when they came out. The succesors, 3330, I think, was the first one sporting a color screen and this freaking great parachut game. This stuff was so impressive bute sadly Nokia didn't realise the uprising of the smartphones when it needed to.
AH okay, thank you for the correction. I have given away most of my old phones at some point and just saved a 63xy or so for holidays which now is useless with all the micro sim cards.
The market had moved on by then. I had one briefly as a backup phone (UK). But most people wanted the ability to store more texts and a colour screen at least by 2005.
It is amazing just how strong the 3310 is. Arkiologests uncovered a 3310 that King Harrold was using in 1066 in the battle of Hastings. And it only needed a factory reset and a recharge.
In the Netherlands, everyone had the Nokia 3310. There were countless cases you could buy. You could even buy stickers with little LED lights in it, if you stick it on the backside of the phone, it would automatically flicker if you're being called or you call someone else. Of course they worked on other phones as well, but in my memory it started around the time everyone had the Nokia 3310. Hell, I miss the good ol' days. Thanks for the nostalgia and memories❤️
In Argentina we have the same meme but with 1100, my granpa dump his Nokia 1100 in mid 2018 because the goverment would block his number due to changes in technology. It didn't have numbers they were erased by use :P
My first cellphone at age 14 in 2005 was a Sony Ericsson T237, Basically a 3310 looking candy bar, a bit smaller, color TFT screen, Java OS, no camera or anything. I had that thing for maybe 3 years. It STILL powers on. It was an absolute solid brick of a device. I had it on me everywhere. From middle school to my first year of highschool it was with me every day. I used a good chunk of my allowance to prepay for minutes every month and eventually added a $1/day unlimited text option which I used extensively. Pretty sure I got the phone as a birthday present on the condition that I always pay for it myself. It taught me money management and how to pay monthly bills regularly. I have it on a 3d printed mount on my bookshelf, where it will remain forever, occasionally getting a charge every year or so, though its internal 500-ish Mah battery can apparently give an RTG a run for its money on runtime. Fun memories.
I had some friends with 3310's and 3210's. I went for a 3350, which was almost exactly like a 3310 but had dedicated call/hangup buttons instead of the multi button in the middle 👍
Well, those phones were extremely popular at Europe - earlier we've get brilliant Nokia 3210, but it was relatively expensive. 3310 (and later 3330, whitch allows you to have animated "wallpaper" WOAH) was avaiable on every network and so, was way more affordable. When you can't really remember anyone who possesed this, I can hardly tell if any of my friends doesn't have that thing on some point ;). You broke your brand new Motorola with 4096 colours screen, and amazing 640x480px camera? You just buy 3310 for like 5 bucks, those were literally everywhere, including govenment ministries. What may have your attention is joysticks to play snake - i remember seeing one of those for 3210 in some magazine, around 2000, friend of mine was dying to get this :) Other unique thing related was replaceable covers, in every phone store you can just dig in on various covers to custom your own Nokia! Plus 3310 were small, light, and have "no antenna", comparing to typicall phone back in the day. Only phones whitch were so glamorous was flip phones, like those old Motorolas, every girl want one of these. Beauty days, when only way to access internet were going to internet cafes, or connecting via modem, whitch was extremely expensive. So we play outside instead of sitting on Facebook... Oh, I fall into the reviere ;) Sorry for my broken english, and much greetings from Poland. Keep on!
My Dad went through a couple of Nokia phones back in the day. I think it was a 3310 he had which was ran over in a carpark, but the only visible damage was the screen being cracked. The car did the trick since it wouldn't really boot properly, but the screen still lit up if you pressed the power button. I think I still have it lying around somewhere actually.
My Grandma had a 3310 from the early 2000's all the way to her death in 2015 and her first text went something along the lines of “g a as ycs lkkllll er brt" She stopped texting.
Nokia 3310 Was indestructible. Kids plays them football, basketball, throws them like a stone through the field... just one phone lost it's screen which was able to buy for 8pln (around 2,5 dollars). Even nowadays i see some guys who still uses that phone, because of its indestructibility. I have seen only two cellphones that durable as Nokia 3310- nokia 6230 and Samsung solid.
Good phones to still use, I'm talking about the vintage model, not the new release. If you're interested in just voice calls and texting, it works just fine. Unfortunately there are two problems: 1. As times passes, parts for this will get harder to find. Such as batteries and chargers. 2. And this is a major one, some carriers have already started dropping 2G. In my country one already has, so the SIM card won't work at all with these phones. In 5-10 years they will be completely useless as 2G will eventually be completely dropped. You won't even be able to play Snake on them. Unlike newer models, these phones don't work at all without a SIM card. It just says "please insert SIM card" and that's it.
Growing up, I remember my dad having a Nokia. He is a woodworker so dust among other things would get caked into every nook and cranny but the phone still worked no problem. 15 years later and the Icrap 7 he uses now can't handle a gentle breeze let alone dust. He is constantly blowing it out and even then it still sucks. The only benefit that phone has over the Nokia is he can email, look up videos, wood prices, new products, and new catalogs for the stores he visits frequently.
These (and the 3315 which was only a slight update) were massively popular in Australia, because they were available to buy outright and came with pre-paid, no contract mobile service SIM cards. They were the first mobile phone for a lot of teenagers in particular, and they kind of became ubiquitous. I had one, and on one occasion I dropped it down a steep rocky slope. It bounced several times, and landed in a river. It was totally fine after drying out for a couple of days.
The first phone I bought with money saved from gifts and my daily school allowance. So many memories attached to it! It could basically take a beating - thrown, dropped, sat on... and it took everything like a champ. The battery life was amazing as one battery bar can last you more than a day.
I got my first phone in 1998, when I graduated from high school. I upgraded to the Nokia 5190 & loved it. After that, I got the 3390 &, even though I only used it for a couple years, I kept it until it was stolen from my house in 2015 because it was my favorite cell phone. The one I had was exactly like the one you showed, even down to having Cingular as the phone company I had my service through. This video brought back some good memories.
I work for AutoZone and the commercial lines have two of those phones synced up. Never used them personally, but they were fun to see still working and taking the beating.
Interesting, You pronounce Nokia like a native Finn. If it comes so easy, maybe You should consider learning the language =D =D
Haha, thanks! I actually referred to a native Finnish-speaker to try and get it right for this video :)
You seem to take your job quite seriously! Keep up the excellent work
+Peli Mies THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU - jokes aside, what does it mean?
Peli Mies
Oh my God that is terrifying!!! D-:
Why would you tell anyone to lean Finnish, that's just plain mean!
My grandmother actually found a 3310 washed up next to the river here. She found out it still worked and gave it to me, and it was my cellphone for years after that. So you could say I got some first-hand experience with this meme.
MrCowabungaa Dude you got a mermaid's phone
Somewhere on a boat in the river a man dropped his phone in the water. A fish found it and it still worked underwater so it gave it to its grandson. Then that fish accidentally threw its phone to the shore where your grandmother found it.
I would like the comment but there are sixty nine likes
Future geologists will crack open a piece of basalt only to find a fully functional and intact Nokia 3310 inside.
Too bad the new version of it can't handle water, stairs, dogs, cars, even deers.... but water IS the New 3310 killer :i
Fun fact: back in 2000 a friend of mine was teaching a self-defense class, and had a chapter of sorts on how to use your Nokia phone as a weapon to defend yourself if you get mugged.
This is not a joke.
i would love to hear more about that
@@__-eu7wu Nah.
They still do that today but obviously with smartphones instead
@@Gamer-hs9ij Smartphones would never work as a weapon.
This is not a joke because it's not funny. And it's a lie.
My friend had one of these back in the day, she couldn't open the shell with her stubby fingers so every time she needed to access the battery/SIM card or wanted to change shells, she had to open it the hard way... by throwing it to the floor with considerable force. Not only did her shells withhold the constant abuse, the phone was fully functional for years until it was retired for a newer model.
bet she does that with everything else!!
Lmao hell naw
I used to have a LG Scoop that I had for a few years even when the keyboard broke. I once wrapped sand paper around it and used it as a sanding block. Thing still worked.
Well i did this to my old nokias phone everytime when i need to open the back.
That back shell was seriously hard to get open :D I had always trouble with it
Finland makes it's own emoji:
• people in saunas
• a Nokia phone
• *metal headbanger*
Elitedevil he wrote "Finland makes it's own emoji:
- people in saunas
- a Nokia phone
- *metal headbanger* "
He referred to 4:14
Cool country! :)
@Carl Gille you didn't even do r/woooosh right.
@Carl Gille i think its because scandinavian countries like metal xd
I half-expected him to hit the phone with a hammer when he set it down at the very end
Didn't want to break the hammer.
He had learned his lesson.
lol, I'm not the only one
same
yak, dissapointed me he did not
Nokia Smartphones are still extremely solid. I dropped my Lumia 635 down a flight of stairs onto a tile floor and it didn't even turn off.
kinda wish it did break though, that way i wouldn't be stuck with a Windows Phone anymore.
one of my friend had a lumia 635 and it broke inside of a case which was inside of his pant's pocket
my iPhone 4s fell out my pocket while training (cycling) with about 50 km/t and got run overe by three cars... the screen and backplate broke but the phone survived
Freakin' bed falls on my
635 while moving and only screen glass was broke, but whole phone works perfect
Alastair the Wyrmslayer just be glad it didn't bounce and break the floor then you would have insurance to worry about.
But the lumia is a touch screen phone completely different
My 5110 got run over by a tow truck. Don't worry though, the truck was fine.
Tomato Fettuccini what about the nokia
What about the trucks tires?
5110 had weak point, shell often snapped on the side of antenna mount. It did not stop working or anything but it really has a weak point compared to 3210 with internal antenna. But hey text messages were old tech when 3310 was new. Even 2110 etc supported SMS. Was it 1610 which was the strange el cheapo GSM without SMS, but 1610i then had the feature even in lowlow end of price range.
@@Karjis It's funny how all these little things were status symbols. The exposed aerial as you say on the 5110, the fact you could only replace the front fascia, and no composer. Having a custom ringtone was a big deal, everyone had to have one, when now most people stick with the default ringtone as it isn't a unique feature anymore.
My abiding memory of the 5110 is how the battery and fascia would spectacularly fly off when you dropped it hard, I don't recall the 3210/3310 doing the same, maybe another status thing having to pick bits of your phone up off the floor :D The 3510 was a great phone as well with WAP, which the later 3330 also had (iirc).
@@mcrecordings Yeap well it was clear timeline. I don't know why I wrote this long post that nobody will read but anyway here it is some history of Nokia era from Finnish perspective.
First i remember that in my young days there were 8110 / 3110 that was first smaller units after 2110 and related Nokia (and Mobira) 5000-cityman series which were almost like bricks.
5110 was priced down version from 6110 flaqship at the time. It used the same one soft button style as 3110 but OS was more or less the same as 6110 just lacking some business(ish) features (calendar etc..) And yes the fascia was only thing that you could change but all accessories were compatible with 5110/6110 etc. I remember that 3rd party rear cases were available (especially after 6210 launch) for 5110 that you could change to get internal antenna, but those were more or less cheap and not so well built stuff and reception was not that good as antenna was really not designed as it should.
Following 5110 there came 3210 with (at least in nordics) with 2-frequency radio chip and both covers changeable. It also had the ringtone composer but more or less the UI was same as in 5110. 3210 was also the first cheap thing to get predictive text message typing and you could add vibration alarm as it was not standard in at least all units. Then story continued with 3310 with slightly modernized UI and snake II (wohoo?).
Then 6000 series was separate more business oriented line where no fascia was removable making it slightly lighter and more robust. 6110 / 6150 being basically the same but only that *50 had 2-band radio. 6210 was more or less at the time of 3210 with predictive text messaging. Then came 6310 with 3 frequency radio and bluetooth (!) etc. I am not sure anymore where vibration came into picture as built-in feature. Also there were this strange 6250 shock-proof version being basically 6210 with more robust frame. I remember well that 6310 (i) was marketed as "worldwide" phone as it was basically first unit you could use in Europe and US (three band radio). It is strange as this kind of features were something to look for separately.
Anyway it was nice that 5000/6000 series kept the compatibility of chargers and batteries for a long time. You could swap Li-ion or Li-polymer battery from 6310i era to 5110 and got stupidly light phone that kept on going for 3 weeks with single charge and weight was basically half from the original as 5110 originally had quite heavy Ni-MH battery from factory.
Then there where 8000-series stuff which are mostly small. I remember well 8810 "zippo" and then 8210 being one of the lightest phones ever.
I had a Nokia 3360 from 2003 until 2015. Had to replace the phone after my network dropped support for it. Three weeks without a recharge. Those were the day.
Holy shit! 12 years of usage!
Man. I remember myself that the old phones were built for SURVIVABILITY and not for "Make a game and charge for a button press. Oh also your battery is gone as soon as you turn on your Phone".
lol 3 weeks... Who are you trying to bullshit? You could have at least 3/4 days and with really little use. And by 2003 this phone was already outdated since color screen cellphones were already a thing.
My uncle uses Nokia 3310 as work phone since 2001 and it still is in use today. He even told me that one time he went into some museum in Germany and saw the 3310 on display. Somebody called him so he answered the phone and staff thought he stole the phone from the shelf :D
+Rudi Moreira Probably your phone had a really shitty battery then... My first mobile phone was Nokia 3210 (from 1999) and the battery worked without recharging at least three or four days. Of course you had to avoid phone calls but texting did not drain the battery too much. It was very practical if you travelled somewhere for a weekend and forgot to take your phone charger with you. (But I agree - 3 weeks is too much - old phones could not do that.)
The battery life was practically the same on both. And those batteries were adicted really easy. I don´t need your uncle to confirme what Im telling you, my first cellphone was an ericsson GA628 from 96.
Nokia 3310 - the AK47 of phones.
And emo - the Nokia 3310 of music.
AK47 - a nokia 3310 of assault rifles ;)
Would be cool if you too could build a 3310 from scratch, like the AK.
*Steel Beam* You can,
It’ll take a very very long time though.
*searches how to destroy a Nokia 3310 searches how to fix a hydraulic press*
lol
AmazingArends it won't, the blender will break
Bruh that happened in one of the trollface quest games
@@GhalidiusTrident Oh yeah, I remember that as well, I don't recall which one
@@gregoriysharapov1936 it was on internet memes trollface quest lmao
The Nokia 3310 was the first phone I ever owned. I lost it in a fire that burnt down our trailer.
Nearly a decade later, I came back to the burn site and found that phone buried in the dirt. After cleaning it off and putting a new battery into it, it still came on.
i feel ya!
+DC Sweetpea
To quote Cecil Terwilliger: "The joke's not funny and the bid's not sufficient."
+Ashley Spratlin
Ahh, classic Simpsons. We shall miss your humor.
The old Siemens C25 (my first phone) wasn't as lucky. At the end of it's lifecycle it turned off if I flipped it upside down.
Are you serious about that Fire Nokia thing?
No joke, had one of these in Afghanistan in 2009
ProtoMario but proto!
ProtoMario hey it's proto
Nokia = best weapon ever
millions were killed
Did you use them as throwing stars? I'm imagining you hiding in some trees armed with nothing but Nokia phones.
As stupid children we used to throw these on the football field to see who got it the furthest with most bounces. The worst outcome was that the battery fell out. Stuck it back in and kept going.
Hort I kicked it against my locker at break time in school to see how hard it would bounce back.
It survived.
I found mine and threw it into the wall to see if the memes were real, concrete wall.
Battery fell off, put it back together and still fine. Played Snake after that.
true story :p, after accidentily drowning my new 3310 i took the streght test a step further, pretty ipressive still: th-cam.com/video/EOFX5NYn1Ag/w-d-xo.html and that was after 8 shots with a cross bow :o
Once when I was in Middle School, my friend announced that he had arrived at my house by throwing his Nokia over the house into the back yard where I was hanging out.
Ah yes, the 3310 functioning as a communications device as intended.
Nokia 3310 (and its predecessor - model 3210) was introduced when cell phones started to be much more common. It was the time, when more and more high school (or even middle school) students were able to afford them. So for many of my friends it was "first phone ever". In Poland at the beginning of XXI century owning 3310 was like owning and new iPhone or high-end Android device nowadays. I was using Motorola T205 back then, I simply couldn't afford 3310 in middle school. ;)
My experience too. It was the first phone that i saw any teen owning, the replacable shells took the most of any beating it got.
Btw the Ericson "Sharkfin" was the true indestructable phone. The e
Was sought after by construction workers long after the stoped beeing made
I couldn't understand how you hadn't come across a 3310 until you mentioned they weren't sold in USA. They were everywhere in Australia
Also in Brazil... I and everyone else I knew were poor... and even so, everyone had one of these.
They were sold in USA had one when it came out.
@Cade They were sold in the USA but the model number’s last 2 digits ended with 90, instead of 10. So the 3310 is known as the 3390 and the 5110 is known as the 5190 in the USA. Using the 3310 and 5110 in the USA will not work since they lack the GSM 1900 antennas needed to work here.
The whole 3000-series is legendary. I'm from Finland and I've personally owned the 3110, the 3210 and the 3310. The two latter ones were built like tanks. They had no external antenna and as you said, were shaped like soapboxes with no straight angles so they would take any impact better than the earlier models.. I think I still have them somewhere and I'm pretty sure they'd boot up just like they did in the late 90's / early 2000s.
I broke the plastic screen (well, not the actual screen but the cover) of the 3110 when changing tires to a car and really leaned onto the phone in my pocket.. still worked fine though, but that was "a teenager cracking the screen of their mobile phone" in the 90's, which had to be pretty rare back then. :)
Another thing to mention is the awesome battery life - on idle these things would last forever. Screens were small, they had no special sensors, no gps, no wifi, no camera. No instagram or whatsapp or snapchat to keep you occupied.
Does anyone else remember the time, when you had to call your friend's house on a landline to see if they were home? And if they weren't, you had basically zero chance of knowing where they are? Unless they were at another friend's house when you kept calling them through. "Oh yeah we came to our place after school to play Shadowrun, wanna join us? We're still rolling character stats.." *nostalgia feedback loop*
My 3110 is still working :) that was truly indestructible.
3210 was very pleasant to hand model, and the weight distribution made it a handy hammer also!
@@s0ulshot the 3210 was the best phone they did imo. I still have a nokia 3410 such a comfortable phone to text on.
You're forgetting the 3410. It proved stronger than the 3310 for me. We literally used to throw these phones as high in the air as we could, compared who could throw the highest, to the 4th story, the 5th story and above. The worst thing that happened to them was the lid coming off which you just put back in and it's good as new.
still go my 3310. lost the charger though :(
My old Nokia survived being dropped on the road and immediately lost in the middle of a protest of 100,000 people. A nice protester found it with no shortage of boot marks on it, mailed it back to me, and it still worked.
How did they know your address?
@@timmydirtyrat6015 he probably called his family phone numbers that's still in the phone
+Atlas the Champ Maybe this is just me but I would never give that person my family member's address, also, what protest was this? It had to have been huge, hell, the protest to end the Vietnam war was only 100,000 people so I have no idea what protest he was at.
@@timmydirtyrat6015 yeah i have no idea either
+Atlas the Champ I think either the story is exaggerated or just fake.
This was my very first phone! I was living in Russia then, this must've been 2001 or 2002. What a legend. Even had some bootleg chrome cover and keypad for it. Held on two charges a week. Space Impact was the shit, too.
Not the most durable in my experience - mine died a few hour after some minor water damage.
I traversed the most wonderful journey through Nokia phones since then. I had a Nokia 3100 (with that crazy light-up 'game' cover and ridiculous PT-3 external camera), a sports-style 5410, and Symbian-powered 6680 (most powerful phone ever, I swear) and even an N93 for a little bit.
Nothing but fond memories! Then the iPhone broke my Nokia streak.
I get truly overwhelmed with nostalgia and uncontrollable grief for the phones of that era. Seeing the ads in a mid-2000s magazine could literally bring a tear to my eye. From the 90s to the mid 2000s phone designs took risks, were fun, inspiring and innovative. But most importantly, they were pleasure to use both in terms of hardware and software.
Nokia was always at the forefront with their risk-raking, bold and sometimes odd designs. They ranged wildly, from appealing and soft, to hip and colourful, to wildly customisable to sharp and abrasive.
In the early 2000s, there were models with a unique, useless yet gratifying quirk - I remember my sister had a 2100 that had a little window on the back cover, to frame a photo. 8910 and the stainless steel 8800 were aimed at the luxury/business market. The 3200 had unique, vertical oval buttons and completely customisable paper designs that could be placed under the translucent covers. 5510 and 3300 were the first qwerty candy bar phones. The thin 8210 was the smallest phone available when it launched. I hold its successor, the 8310, to be one of the most beautiful phones ever produced. There was the buttonless 7280, the 3650 with the rotary dial keypad, the 6800, which bridged the gap between candy bar and the qwery phone, and the 7600, which I struggle to even describe.
My new phone's just a black piece of glass. my last three were the same.
And the worst thing is that I spend much more time staring at it than I ever did with any of my beloved Nokias.
The design still seems quite appealing in 2019
The Nokia 3310.
Light As A Feather,
Though As A Diamond.
Though as a diamond? Let me laugh because that is just false info. That is also a rude understatement towards the 3310
90s kids' first phone.
@@SilverGamingFI I literally saw it get shot (not firsthand) and the bullet exploded while the Nokia had as much damage as a titanium block.
@@SilverGamingFI have u try it lol
It is true lol
Diamonds are brittle.
The new 3310 has practically nothing to do with the original. The name is just a marketing gimmick. However, I hope it's easy to use, works fast, has a long lasting battery and is durable. I'm disappointed that it doesn't have 3G. The would've made it much more useful. I had a brick Nokia recently that only had 2G and using Whatsapp on that was terrible. x(
Well 3G would drain the battery much faster I guess. The point of this whole thing is to bring back nostalgia and crate a new urban legend about a durable battery. Of course that means no, or very minimal modern features.
The new 3310 is designed to work on GSM (2G) networks. Sadly, AT&T has already shut its GSM network down, and VZW is in the process of preparing to do so. They arnt ever coming to the US.
There appears to be a 3G version coming out:
www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/nokia-3310-3g-launches-in-australia-targeting-millennials-and-those-seeking-digital-detox/news-story/f8c738c25035047754f5703db87942bc
3G for Australia. We loved the 3310, 3315 here. Huge huge sales for years. So they are doing this special for some markets.
I still have my old 3315, will certainly be grabbing the re-release especially if its price is right. Grandparents would like it and I wouldn't mind a backup/for when going out in the city device that I don't need to worry about being stolen/damaged.
Of course the Finnish would make an indestructible phone, what with all those hydraulic presses around.
And how they fucked Russia without help from norway " im also Norse and we dint DO SHIT... "
Fun fact: the famous Nokia ringtone was created by Thomas Dolby, the guy who did "She Blinded Me With Science." I personally owned a 3360 back in 2002. I was a sophomore in high school and I remember having to write an essay for my parents as to why I needed a phone.
How to kill nokia:
Bullet X
Skyscraper X
Car driving 55 X
Toilet flush X
Hammer X
Another Nokia √
salt water.
and removing the battery
I used the Nokia to destroy the Nokia
Even Thanos snap is a NO
Mr Elop
The only reason why my 3310 was trashed was because I was a little brat who wanted a new phone and my mom didn’t wanted to pay for that when I had a proper functioning phone so what I did was throwing it down the stares multiple times from the top of the building but only scratches on the cover appeared, then I threw it out the balcony but due to the grass it only got a bit muddy, then I started aiming for the sidewalk and finally a little happened so I tried smashing it from the top floor down to the sidewalk about three times and finally... it still worked but half of the screen was cracked. My mom gave me instead her old Siemens and I immediately regretted my decisions. xD
It one of the best phones I’ve owned to this date.
Didn't your mom figure out that you trashed your phone on purpose...?
🤣
@@Kev27RS Probably she did, and that's why she gave him an old phone instead of buying new ;)
@@jarlfenrir Might be true 😂
Would love to see you review the N-Gage
RobertCop 2 yeahhhhhh
+RobertCop2 Oh god yes
Yea!!
The legendary taco phone
Same, I had my first time of getting a virus on a mobile phone with it.
"do you want to install commwarrior?" - "sure, why not, it could be a game"
Not kidding. Just found my old 3330 in an old box, where I stored some old tech devices. I was actually looking for an 2,5" PATA drive... whatever. I looked if the NiMH batterie was bulged and was surprised that it wasn't. I was even more surprised that the phone powered on and held on for almost a minute. I charged the battarie and it is still good enough for one and a half days stand by and 10 minutes talking... not bad.
Well, one thing about Ni-MH batteries is that they're non flammable (water+hydroxide based electrolyte), generally don't bulge, are fairly durable and somewhat tolerant of full discharges. That's the one thing they still have over Li-Ion/Li-Po, and it's why I still like them. The modern variants for AA/AAA replacement are like $2 a battery, can take 500-1500 charge cycles, last 2-4 times longer then Alkaline, and cost cents to recharge. :D
Eneloop makes great ones, some of the best rechargeable batteries I'v had. Rayovac Recharge are also pretty decent, and their newer ones have just as much capacity as the Eneloop ones. They also provide much more current then Alkaline, so camera flashes power up faster and other power hungry devices perform a bit better, etc.
The Nokia Phone is not all it's cracked up to be, because Nokia phones don't crack.
I accidentally dropped my Nokia 3210 from the 6th floor balcony just to re-assemble it and continue using it for a few more years.
I remember throwing my 3310 after one of my friends for fun and picking it up like nothing happened. Good old times.
murderer
And the floor was broken
I had one, and everyone I know has owned one.
Incredibly popular in Australia.
Only thing that Australia couldn't kill.
In Middle Europe it was extremly popular as well!
The N4SA Joah same here in Thailand. Everyone had one 3310.
The N4SA Joah same here (Poland)
I am from Croatia and I remerber everyone having one.
I remerber when I was on a road trip with my school at least half of people with a phone had a 3310
I had one until I got my Sony Ericsson T230.
He protec
He attac
But most importantly
...
He connec
Speccial attac:vibrate
He protec
He attac
But most importantly
He call right bac
Those aren't words
@@TheInkPitOx Your mom isn't words
You're right. I'm from Russia and here everyone had a Nokia 3310.
Риану Кивс Nokia - origin of emo subculture.
пиздежь, денег на такую роскошь не хватало
My grandfather had one! But i broke it...
cherry tree You broke it? How??
Sssh.. chuck norris's cousin I guess..
I got my start in music with the ringtone composer lol. I also played the games on it a lot since my parents refused to get me any real handheld gaming systems. The 3310 was just such a perfect product for it's time.
throw this at a friend...
he’s gonna be dead
Remember Cingular?
Well now they're back... in Pog form.
Alex Kuhn Actually Cingular is still around. More or less they bought out AT&T around 10 years ago. They had a massive ad campaign re-branding themselves as the new AT&T, and eventually dropped the new part.
Regardless of how more commercially successful the 1110 may have been, it's keyboard membrane would invariably become unstuck from the underlying pushbuttons. After a while the membrane would also bulge out. While it remained perfectly functional even after the defect appeared, I'd say that it prevented the 1110 from coming any close to being a symbol of ruggedness or reliability by far.
I have 3310 myself and the keyboard button plastic part is all cracked inside. It works and looks just like new if phone doesn't have front cover removed. It kinda sucks to know that it's not so good in there.
legend has it the only thing capable of destroying the phone to rule them all lies within the fires of Mordor
you can destroy a nokia by droping an original gameboy on it.
no... if you ever drop an Artifact with similar Indestructibly on an 3310, like anotehr 3310 ore an Original GameBoy, the flow of time will collaps and the Gates of the Abyss will open. an Chor of Nokia tunes will echo through the World and an army of 3310 Will Rise to bring misfortune to the People that did this heresy to the Holy Artifact only an quest so great that no one ever did finished it can free the world from its doom..... you most destroy an 3310 with an MODERN SMARTPHONE ONLY.
You can still find people using these in Poland. Poland is roughly 5 years behind on technology against the UK, so the Nokia 3310 is still a very viable device. And yes, custom ringtones are still very much a thing of pride.
Everyone loved snake yet I prefered space impact way more. Those were the days...
Man that game was sweet. My phone didn't had it though.
I like the bright color backgrounds in this video!
Thanks!
3310 was EVERYWHERE in the uk! I still have at least one that still works somewhere
Even young kiddos have played one during early 2000s.
i'm from Brazil, and i have one...
I've just bought one; just needed a refurbished battery 🔋 and good 👍 as new!
Very professional presentation. This episode felt very different.
Thank you, was purposely testing some new things here :)
I think it worked out. If you were to do this in the future it would need a singular focus like this, else it would get a bit overwhelming. It's like a mix of the floppy disk video and LGR Tech Tales.
Lazy Game Reviews yeah. almost like it wasn't even Lazy this time.
+Lazy Game Reviews
It reminded my of ColdFusTion, in the way it detailed things and presented it, but it still had the LGR feel to it. There's just something nice about that style, and I really liked it. I'l keep watching, and wait till the next video. :D
The end credits and song were especially noticeable. I really liked it, however.
That ringtone in the beginning killed whatever was left of my eardrums.
Totally worth it.
Love you ❤
Here in germany it really was some kind of status symbol, especially for teenagers at that time. I think at some point everyone in my class got one, including me. You could remove some parts of the case and because of that there was some sort of black market selling unofficial casings. I had a blue and neon green back cover with a tiger head, thunderbolts and tribal shit printed on it.
That Romanian ad/brochure from 1:37-1:43 brought back some good ol' memories, nice find man! :D
Oh yeah, brought me some childhood memories!
I was shocked when i seen my native language in the video.
same here :)
Romanians were nokia people back in the day😀
reperealegandirii same. and yes, i used a 3310 a few years ago as my primary phone! i was the only one in the retezat mountains that had service ;) mulțumesc 3310 :P
I remember having one of the US market ones. Back then, the concept of breaking your phone merely by dropping it didn't really exist until the ultra-hip Motorola Razr came out.
That's was my first phone, I had a great time playing Snake and Space Impact, I loved that game so much, also it had a parachute and a bicycle game.
Good times!.
Mine always exploded in dramatic fashion but went back together and acted like nothing happened every single time
Cingular wireless. Oh God, I feel old.
***** I'm 22 and I still remember ... Hell Time Warner is now spectrum .. I remember when time Warner came out
+Manchac I still have a Bell South pager and it works beautifully 😎
im pretty sure i owed them like 500$ when they dissapeared
You're not old stfu unless you're like 70 years old you're not old
Manchac Southwestern Bell?
If you had a mobile phone in the UK in 2000 it was probably a 3310
I've just bought one!
I had a Nokia 3310 in the 2000's! AND I PLAYED SNAKE ON IT!!!!
Correction: Got to 3:07, realized I actually had a 3390. BUT I PLAYED SNAKE ON IT!!!!
I had a true 3310 (and i played snake on it), it was really common here in Europe...
The reason I watch your videos is that they're a good source of history as well.
the REAL deal Was 3210. it was really f-ing nice. also 16xx models. and my favorit was 6600. symbian ruled.
My dad had a 3310. Ran over it with the tractor and it was fine.
Tyler Miller
RIP tractor
Phew, I was just thinking that the tractor broke
3310 was the first cellphone I ever got at the age of 11 and my parents even got a PROTECTIVE RUBBER bumper around it, little did I know that I was practically wearing Kevlar back then
"was it really all it cracked up to be"
excuse me the nokia 3310 never cracks
I've been enjoying your content for a few years now. I figured this is a good place to say I really enjoy and appreciate your work! Thank you.
3:26 - The 3310 was my first phone, I later moved to a N95 and kept that for about 6 years before moving onto a sony xperia S which I still have another 6 years later.
Oulu, Finland shown! WOO!
Paska kaupunni.
TORILLE
perkele
löyty se eka finski
Torille pirimämmikakulle
lacking woodgrain...
TeFetti Dbrand will hook you up
Perhaps there's a woodgrain faceplate available somewhere?
@Eyal Kalderon Watch my post earlier. ^^
i still use a 6303i as my work phone, right now
almost 10 years old, metal body, insane battery. still available new for 70 bucks.....
My nokia 3310 was dropped from third floor building, not a single scratch and it was working. My nokia 3315 got thrown into a river, and it survived. Nowadays i wont dare to imagine how my oneplus would survive those ordeals.
One time i forgot my small LG cellphone in my jeans in the washing machine and it died, did the same thing with a Nokia months later and it's still running to this very day. But i have no idea where i put it
Smartphones suffer from the old problem of too many functions in one product, and not doing any of them particularly well. Cellphones had actual buttons up into my 20s and then they decided touch screens were adequate, and I've never been satisfied with them ever since. You can't call anything if your hands are wet, if your hands are nasty, if you can't see the screen, etc. A phone should be like a remote control; you should have the buttons memorized and be able to use it blindfolded with one hand tied behind your back. Now I can't even use it without typing in a long pin first just to keep someone from accessing everything important that my phone stores.
Don't get me wrong, I've been involved with technology since the Apple II in elementary school, so having a tiny Linux machine with the internet in my pocket is cool and handy, but I would much rather the market make iPod clones (since I don't want Apple) that do everything except the phone, and let me tether that to a standard cellphone for wireless data. That way I could leave the expensive part behind when I don't need it but still be able to call or text.
Wow, BlackBerry 10 OS has some really interesting features, and it's powered by a QNX (Unix-like) core. The Android runtime reminds me of Wine/Crossover, which is a API translating runtime for Windows software on Linux/Mac.
Smartphones are nowhere near as functional as a desktop or even laptop PC. Not only in terms of size and input capability, but also the OS itself. A smartphone or tablet is what you use until you can get back to your real computer.
If you think a phone is as functional as a desktop PC then you're not speaking for many people.
+FyberOptic But that is what Microsoft wants to do with Windows 10 mobile - have one device that works as both a phone and a desktop PC via a dock. However, considering the low sales of Windows phones, I don't know if it will ever come to fruition...
"Jack of all trades, master of none is often times better than a master of one"
I remember programming custom ringtones for this thing, although it could only hold one custom tone at a time. I recommend “Axel F”
The 3310 reboot is a big fail... It's just a current Nokia 200-series phone ( www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-230 ) in a different shell that has some design cues from the original 3310. They should've kept the exact shape, size, keypad and even the low-res monochrome screen, just upgrade the internals to equivalent modern technology that uses a lot less power than the original, and use the rest of the internal volume for a huge battery. That thing would've been the perfect survival/trip phone that lasts months with a single charge, costs basically nothing and doesn't mind being dropped or bumped into something.
The new 3310 doesn't look rugged at all and it's a lot thinner than the original. On the other hand, now that they modernised the 3310, if it doesn't have at least Whatsapp on it, it's quite useless. It kind of falls between the sweet spots; it's nothing like the simple, spartan original phone, but it doesn't have any modern features people want these days either. It should've been either a proper, super-simple remake or then something with more modern features.
No, it's 6303 2017 edition.
When I was replacing this cell with a newer one I threw it up in the air and snap kicked it. It flew into the ceiling, bounced off and smacked into cement floor blowing up into a bunch of pieces. I put the battery and plastic shell back together and it still worked fine... I kinda agree its nearly indestructible.
After that ringtone, I half expected someone to yell "WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
That was my show!!!
It's not that the 3310 was the indestructible phone, only that NOKIA knew how to make robust products. Much like the Nintendo Wii Remotes that could break CRT T.Vs when accidentally thrown while playing Wii Sports, and remain unharmed.
Josh Zwies
If you want something to survive the nuclear apocalypse: Have Nokia engineers build it :D
And the Nintendo Switch can survive falling from 1,000 feet.
Two weeks without having to reload the battery, nearly unbreakle, a pretty "small" phone back than and pretty much every teenager in germany had one when they came out. The succesors, 3330, I think, was the first one sporting a color screen and this freaking great parachut game. This stuff was so impressive bute sadly Nokia didn't realise the uprising of the smartphones when it needed to.
AH okay, thank you for the correction. I have given away most of my old phones at some point and just saved a 63xy or so for holidays which now is useless with all the micro sim cards.
3310 was EVERYWHERE in the UK when i was younger never saw a 1100
The market had moved on by then. I had one briefly as a backup phone (UK). But most people wanted the ability to store more texts and a colour screen at least by 2005.
Just bought one; a refurbished battery 🔋 and good 👍 as new!
It is amazing just how strong the 3310 is. Arkiologests uncovered a 3310 that King Harrold was using in 1066 in the battle of Hastings. And it only needed a factory reset and a recharge.
In the Netherlands, everyone had the Nokia 3310. There were countless cases you could buy. You could even buy stickers with little LED lights in it, if you stick it on the backside of the phone, it would automatically flicker if you're being called or you call someone else. Of course they worked on other phones as well, but in my memory it started around the time everyone had the Nokia 3310. Hell, I miss the good ol' days. Thanks for the nostalgia and memories❤️
If Nokia 3310 was made a horcrux Voldemort would still be alive
In Argentina we have the same meme but with 1100, my granpa dump his Nokia 1100 in mid 2018 because the goverment would block his number due to changes in technology. It didn't have numbers they were erased by use :P
My cousin had the 1100
I remember going to village in vacation and playing snake all night on my cousin's 1100
Memories ..
My first cellphone at age 14 in 2005 was a Sony Ericsson T237, Basically a 3310 looking candy bar, a bit smaller, color TFT screen, Java OS, no camera or anything. I had that thing for maybe 3 years. It STILL powers on. It was an absolute solid brick of a device. I had it on me everywhere. From middle school to my first year of highschool it was with me every day. I used a good chunk of my allowance to prepay for minutes every month and eventually added a $1/day unlimited text option which I used extensively. Pretty sure I got the phone as a birthday present on the condition that I always pay for it myself. It taught me money management and how to pay monthly bills regularly. I have it on a 3d printed mount on my bookshelf, where it will remain forever, occasionally getting a charge every year or so, though its internal 500-ish Mah battery can apparently give an RTG a run for its money on runtime. Fun memories.
I had some friends with 3310's and 3210's. I went for a 3350, which was almost exactly like a 3310 but had dedicated call/hangup buttons instead of the multi button in the middle 👍
0:04 Intense nostalgia
Well, those phones were extremely popular at Europe - earlier we've get brilliant Nokia 3210, but it was relatively expensive. 3310 (and later 3330, whitch allows you to have animated "wallpaper" WOAH) was avaiable on every network and so, was way more affordable. When you can't really remember anyone who possesed this, I can hardly tell if any of my friends doesn't have that thing on some point ;). You broke your brand new Motorola with 4096 colours screen, and amazing 640x480px camera? You just buy 3310 for like 5 bucks, those were literally everywhere, including govenment ministries.
What may have your attention is joysticks to play snake - i remember seeing one of those for 3210 in some magazine, around 2000, friend of mine was dying to get this :)
Other unique thing related was replaceable covers, in every phone store you can just dig in on various covers to custom your own Nokia! Plus 3310 were small, light, and have "no antenna", comparing to typicall phone back in the day. Only phones whitch were so glamorous was flip phones, like those old Motorolas, every girl want one of these. Beauty days, when only way to access internet were going to internet cafes, or connecting via modem, whitch was extremely expensive. So we play outside instead of sitting on Facebook... Oh, I fall into the reviere ;)
Sorry for my broken english, and much greetings from Poland. Keep on!
Sorry, but in 2003 MySpace come out of the ground!
Man, I hate Facebook, but I hate playing outside during the warm seasons. Fuck me, I guess！
Could someone use a 3310 as a daily phone in 2017?
And I mean a vintage 3310, not a 2017 3310.
Snake > Candy Crush
RetroTechNerd on most network because some networks dropping 2g support
Anything > Candy Crush
I'll do it in 2019, but I have a 3410 not a 3310. Is that compatible for this challenge?
Snake II > PUBG Mobile.
If I was Your Brand New Obsession emo boy, I would've rather record me playing Snake on Nokia 3390 than PUBG Mobile crap.
I remember this phone, but now I don't even know where it is now.
My Dad went through a couple of Nokia phones back in the day. I think it was a 3310 he had which was ran over in a carpark, but the only visible damage was the screen being cracked. The car did the trick since it wouldn't really boot properly, but the screen still lit up if you pressed the power button. I think I still have it lying around somewhere actually.
Blackberry video next? Maybe a Tech Tales episode? Still my favorite phones even though I've caved in and gone Android.
My Grandma had a 3310 from the early 2000's all the way to her death in 2015 and her first text went something along the lines of “g a as ycs lkkllll er brt"
She stopped texting.
Nokia 3310 Was indestructible. Kids plays them football, basketball, throws them like a stone through the field... just one phone lost it's screen which was able to buy for 8pln (around 2,5 dollars). Even nowadays i see some guys who still uses that phone, because of its indestructibility. I have seen only two cellphones that durable as Nokia 3310- nokia 6230 and Samsung solid.
We used to throw around my nokia 2600 instead of a baseball.
Hated that phone, and was a real sony walkman phone fanboy at that point..
Good phones to still use, I'm talking about the vintage model, not the new release. If you're interested in just voice calls and texting, it works just fine. Unfortunately there are two problems: 1. As times passes, parts for this will get harder to find. Such as batteries and chargers. 2. And this is a major one, some carriers have already started dropping 2G. In my country one already has, so the SIM card won't work at all with these phones. In 5-10 years they will be completely useless as 2G will eventually be completely dropped. You won't even be able to play Snake on them. Unlike newer models, these phones don't work at all without a SIM card. It just says "please insert SIM card" and that's it.
Growing up, I remember my dad having a Nokia. He is a woodworker so dust among other things would get caked into every nook and cranny but the phone still worked no problem. 15 years later and the Icrap 7 he uses now can't handle a gentle breeze let alone dust. He is constantly blowing it out and even then it still sucks. The only benefit that phone has over the Nokia is he can email, look up videos, wood prices, new products, and new catalogs for the stores he visits frequently.
it's my cell phone today too
@Sexually Transmitted Disease. it works and it doesn't distract me
I remember my friend throwing his on the asphalt 4 or 5 five times in a row and it got away with only a few scratches
Oulu mainittu torilla tavataan!
These (and the 3315 which was only a slight update) were massively popular in Australia, because they were available to buy outright and came with pre-paid, no contract mobile service SIM cards. They were the first mobile phone for a lot of teenagers in particular, and they kind of became ubiquitous. I had one, and on one occasion I dropped it down a steep rocky slope. It bounced several times, and landed in a river. It was totally fine after drying out for a couple of days.
The first phone I bought with money saved from gifts and my daily school allowance. So many memories attached to it! It could basically take a beating - thrown, dropped, sat on... and it took everything like a champ. The battery life was amazing as one battery bar can last you more than a day.
WTF cingular i totally forgot about that carrier lol
Nextel?
I miss Cingular and alltel
i knew it from NFSU2 since i don't live in the US
Gonna buy about 1 million of those and make a nuclear shelter out of it those things will survive anything
I miss my 3310
I got my first phone in 1998, when I graduated from high school. I upgraded to the Nokia 5190 & loved it. After that, I got the 3390 &, even though I only used it for a couple years, I kept it until it was stolen from my house in 2015 because it was my favorite cell phone. The one I had was exactly like the one you showed, even down to having Cingular as the phone company I had my service through. This video brought back some good memories.
I work for AutoZone and the commercial lines have two of those phones synced up. Never used them personally, but they were fun to see still working and taking the beating.