Well, Nokia 3310 is one of the iconic handsets from the company whichlaunched on 1st September 2000. It gained so much hype in its time due to its high durability that it sold about 126 million units worldwide. Isn’t it amazing? Truly, it was the first phone that came into my family and become a long lasting part of it. I hope you might connect with it too.
Here are the top 10 Facts about Nokia 3310 as below.
- The phone 3310 was developed at the Copenhagen Nokia site in Denmark and unveiled at the “ Don’t be bored. Be totally bored,” event in Germany.
- The boot time of Nokia 3310 was just like a thunderstorm. It took around 8 seconds to boot up to get in the action before you could open the messenger or built-in currency converter.
- Yes! This phone has even saved a life of a soldier.On social media, it is said that a soldier stationed in Afghanistan took a bullet on the chest and surprisingly got saved cause of his 3310. The bullets remained lodged in the phone and the man walked away unharmed.
- The most popular built-in app “ The composer” was a new Add-on feature on the phone where you have to press different buttons or numbers for different sounds so that users could make their own ringtones and learn a little knowledge of music in fun way.
- When the phone Initially hit the market, it costs around $166 USD. I know its strangely high if we look it now. On its reconstruction, it’s available for just $55 USD. But its nowhere innovative or pioneering.
- The Nokia 3310 deserves the tittle of “ Indestructible”. It was tested extremely including being dropped from a height, being crushed by ponderous objects, or being stuck by hammer or vehicles. But it still survived. The toughness gave the inspiration to the HMD Global developing Nokia 800 Tough with military standard complement.
- The Sun newspaper in the United Kingdom shared a story two years back where the person brought the phone 17 years ago on the release year and still using it. The person doesn’t bother about the advancement in technology and remains intact with his favourite Nokia 3310.
- When the iPhone went on sale, it sold in great numbersaround25 Million units. It was only greater until we get to know about the Nokia 3310, which sold around 126 million units making it 400% more than the iphone.
- The 3310 possess the Snake game, the most popular and most played Mobile game of all time. It holds a Guinness world record in 2010 after achieving over 1 billion players.
- The Nokia company were one of the initial phone providers to offer the earlier version of an autocorrect system called predictive text input. By pressing a key gives a bunch of options making messaging easy to use.
We loved everything about the Nostalgic Nokia 3310.
The phone discontinued on 2005.
The newer version model of Nokia 3310 came out on February 14,2017.
It didn’t that go well and let down many of the users and was somewhat a disappointmentover the older model.
I hope you loved the Top ten Facts about the Nokia 3310. Please share your thoughts on this cult phone in the comments section. Also, don’t forget to let us Know about your favourite facts among the others. Good luck !