Anyone who was fortunate enough to own a Mobile Handset back in the early 2000, would surely remember the masterpiece Nokia 3310. Name the ultimate Heavyweight Champion, the Indestructible, the Lord of the Mobiles, Nokia 3310 was a phone that brings back happy and oft time hilarious memories from the days gone by. So to salute this astounding phone, we bring to you the 15 most incredible things that this Mobile Phones had that we sorely miss today.
1. ROCK SOLID PHONE, LITERALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE
You could have dropped it down the stairs or thrown it at a great distance and there wouldn’t even be a scratch on it. Its unparalleled durability would ensure that it survives the fall easily on its own maybe even from heaven. Maybe a free fall from a building or being rammed by a car, or dropped 10,000 times it would have literally taken a bullet for you if it had to.
2. YOU COULD READ THE DISPLAY SCREEN IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT WITHOUT A SQUINT OR COVERING YOUR SCREEN WITH YOUR HAND TO READ IT.
It didn’t have fancy display panel. No touch-screen. But you could read your text without squinting and glaring in sunlight. This phone’s monochrome low power LCD display was immune to direct sunlight. Plus its classic Black and White graphic display was still one of the most loved display.
3. BATTERY THAT COULD POWER AN ENTIRE CITY FOR A DECADE
You are planning to go on a long trip, just charge it to 100 percent and be rest assured that you’ll never miss a call, even if you forget the power adapter. With this phone you never had to worry about charging, because you knew it would never die on you, even if you did. The concept of running out of battery did not exist back then.
4. WEAPON OF CHOICE
Who needed a pepper spray when you had this phone? One could actually use this phone as a handy weapon to keep the ruffian’s away in time of desperate situation or use it to knock off the opponent during a scuffle.
5. SCREEN GUARDS WERE ALIEN FOR THE GREAT NOKIA 3310
What’s that? This phone didn’t need a screen guard to keep it safe from all the accidental events, it was virtually indestructible. The screen was perhaps stronger than the great wall of China itself.
6. CHANGEABLE STYLISH COVERS FROM FASHION RAMPS AND FANCY CHARMS
It came with changeable front and back covers. So you could just change the entire look of the phone to match your mood and style. Put your phone in a heap of phones and you could easily pick yours even without looking at them. No accidental exchange of phones with your partner or siblings. And of course fancy phone charms added to the style quotient of this phone.
7. IT HAD THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD - THE SNAKE GAME
This phone came pre-loaded with the coolest game of all time. The snake game only required your thumb to navigate and play. This means you had your other hand free to do whatever you wanted to. Maybe hold your sandwich during break, hold your smoke or even use it for scratching. Not to forget you could also opt for Bantumi or Space Impact games in case you needed a break from the snake game.
8. EXCUSE ME! WHAT DID YOU SAY WHAT SIM?
Micro SIM, Nano SIM? Oh what the hell! With this phone it was as simple as buy a SIM, insert and use as compared to newer phones where you have to stand in long queues at the phone gallery and wait for your turn to get the Micro, Nano SIM.
10. WHAT ?? NO INTERNET??
Text messages or Voice calls were the only 2 medium of communication.
You didn’t had to worry about replying to long, annoying emails from your boss, no software update needed or auto-correct to make things worse. No internet meant you were far away from messengers like Whatsapp which allows your friends and parents to track your last seen status and catch you when you are lying.
You didn’t had to worry about replying to long, annoying emails from your boss, no software update needed or auto-correct to make things worse. No internet meant you were far away from messengers like Whatsapp which allows your friends and parents to track your last seen status and catch you when you are lying.
11. EACH MESSAGE WAS A SURPRISE
With ‘Message Received’ flashing on your phone screen when a new message was delivered to your inbox was a surprise element that created excitement and curiosity as to who must have sent the message, maybe it’s him, maybe it’s her…maybe it’s someone else.
12. PHONE WARRANTY WHAT’S THAT?
Phone warranties were the last thing you would need if you were using one of the Nokia brick phones. Treat it the way you want, the phone would never give up on you.
13. THEY WOULD EASILY FIT IN THE POCKET OF YOUR JEANS
Today carrying a loaf sized phone in your pocket all the time is very inconvenient and not good for your future generations as well. Nokia phone used to be small device that just slided anywhere in your pocket no matter how much the space and still leave enough space for your car keys, money and other things.
14. REMEMBER YOUR TYPING SPEED?
Remember how people used to appreciate you for your speedy typing on the keypad. No one used to beat you and competitions were held amongst friends to see who typed the fastest. At times the race was with the phone itself to type the word before it auto inserted or suggested next letter to type.
15. EVERYONE GOT A CHANCE TO PLAY ‘MOZART’ WITH THE TONE COMPOSER
With Nokia’s tone composer, everyone got an opportunity to create their own ringtones on the composer. While some did fairly well, others stuck themselves to the default Nokia ringtone.
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