One of the most popular phones ever is making a comeback. The Nokia 3210 appears again, with a nice retro appearance but of course some new functions. Just not too modern, it is not a smartphone.
You would almost forget how absurdly popular Nokia’s phones were in their heyday. When the mobile phone first really broke through, you had a Nokia, a Motorola, a Nokia or a Nokia. The Nokia 3210 was released in 1999 and sold more than 160 million times. It wasn’t until the iPhone 5S that an iPhone that was more popular appeared.
This year the Nokia 3210 celebrates its 25th anniversary and so the device is back, just like other Nokias in recent years developed by HMD. The design of the device is slightly more modern: no square black-and-white screen, but a more elongated color screen. But the bottom half of the phone is unmistakably Nokia, with a numeric keypad and stripe-shaped selection buttons.
Great options and an even better price
The 3210 is available in black and in the delicious ’00s colors Scuba Blue and Y2K Gold: a blue and yellow that indeed look a bit retro. Some more modern functions have been added, modern for the 3210 anyway. A camera, but one of only 2 megapixels. And a flashlight, you didn’t have that before.
The phone of course has Snake, the most indispensable game of the beginning of this millennium. And apps? There are none, even though the phone does have 4G. This allows you to use some Cloud Apps for the weather, the news and, strangely enough, YouTube Shorts. But apart from that, this should above all be a phone that doesn’t keep you endlessly distracted.
In any case, the price is also old-fashioned low: you can order the Nokia 3210 from HMD for just 79 euros.
