BTW, proper dumbphones still exist these days. They don’t release flagships every year so there’s little to report on, but they’re being produced and sold.
Many of them even bear the name NOKIA but have little to do with the original.
An important aspect to consider here is the networks - the original 3310 had - at most - 2G.
Most countries are shutting their 2G and 3G networks down these days.
I wonder how that affects telephony capabilties of both old and new dumbphones.
TBH I forgot that I had this discussion elsewhere and I’m about 99% sure that these phones simply become unusable when 2G is shut down, which is why some countries shut down 3G but not 2G. But I don’t remember or understand the technical stuff behind it.
There’s also somehing about these specs that we just call 2G or 3G etc., in reality it’s much more complex.
BTW, proper dumbphones still exist these days. They don’t release flagships every year so there’s little to report on, but they’re being produced and sold.
Many of them even bear the name NOKIA but have little to do with the original.
An important aspect to consider here is the networks - the original 3310 had - at most - 2G.
Most countries are shutting their 2G and 3G networks down these days.
I wonder how that affects telephony capabilties of both old and new dumbphones.
Yeah, that is the right question. I do not care about data, but can we seriously still use voice and text (gsm?) in modern networks?
TBH I forgot that I had this discussion elsewhere and I’m about 99% sure that these phones simply become unusable when 2G is shut down, which is why some countries shut down 3G but not 2G. But I don’t remember or understand the technical stuff behind it.
There’s also somehing about these specs that we just call 2G or 3G etc., in reality it’s much more complex.