Nokia 8110 4g – Fusion Nepal

HMD Global’s Nokia 8110 4G — a fresh take on the legendary phone best known for its appearance in The Matrix movie — disappointed some fans because it didn’t feature the spring-release mechanism on its front cover, as seen in the movie.

The criticism is somewhat misguided, though, since the original Nokia 8110 was a simple plastic slider that never had the spring-release mechanism. Only the movie version had the spring-release feature for added coolness.

However (and this will surely add to the confusion over this matter), the new Nokia 8110 4G almost had the spring-release mechanism; Nokia gave up on that design at the last minute. Read more…

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At last year’s Mobile World Congress, HMD Global — the current owner of the Nokia brand — played a nostalgia card by launching a rehashed version of the legendary Nokia 3310.

This year, the company’s doing the same with the Nokia 8110, also known as the Matrix phone, or the bananaphone, but the effect is just not the same as the first time around.

I was excited about the revived 8110. After all, it’s the phone that everyone wanted to have, not only because it was Neo’s phone, but also because it was the top phone in Nokia’s lineup, and Nokia phones were the best in the late nineties. And although it may seem normal now, cashing out north of a thousand dollars for a phone in those days was considered…well, if not crazy, then extravagant at the very least. Read more…

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