Nokia’s unsuccessful foray into digital health hardware and services looks like it is finally coming to an end. Today the company announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations to sell the division to Eric Carreel, the co-founder and former chairman of Withings, after both Samsung and Google both reportedly also sniffed around. Withings formed the […]
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Nokia’s revived Matrix phone could’ve been so much cooler
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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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View More Nokia’s revived Matrix phone could’ve been so much coolerThe best tech of Mobile World Congress 2018
Mobile World Congress, the year’s largest mobile show, played out a little differently compared to previous ones.
Samsung returned in full force to announce its Galaxy S9 and S9+, and every other phone maker mostly stepped out of its wayLG, HTC, Moto…
Rating the big smartphone makers at MWC 2018
With that in mind, this seems like the perfect opportunity to take a good look at how the industry’s big names fared at the show. Barring any sort of unforeseen circumstances, here’s a list of this week’s biggest winners and losers. HMD (Nokia): HMD scored a coup for a second year in a row, led by another nod to Nokia’s former successes. This time out, it was a return… Read More
Rating the big smartphone makers at MWC 2018
With that in mind, this seems like the perfect opportunity to take a good look at how the industry’s big names fared at the show. Barring any sort of unforeseen circumstances, here’s a list of this week’s biggest winners and losers. HMD (Nokia): HMD scored a coup for a second year in a row, led by another nod to Nokia’s former successes. This time out, it was a return… Read More
The ‘Matrix phone’ is back and it’s awful…
Nokia surprised people at Mobile World Congress with the release of their 8110 4G phone. The phone is a revamp of the old Nokia 3310, more commonly known as the ‘Matrix phone’ or the ‘banana phone.’ The ‘Matrix phone’ has a 2.4-inch display and a 2-m…
View More The ‘Matrix phone’ is back and it’s awful…Hey Nokia, stop ruining our memories
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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.
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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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KaiOS, a feature phone platform built on the ashes of Firefox OS, adds Facebook, Twitter and Google apps
Mozilla called it a day with Firefox OS for mobile handsets back in 2015 and said it would test the waters for an IoT effort using some of the same technology (and it has). But that hasn’t spelled the complete end for the tech on mobile devices. Quietly, a company called KaiOS, built on a fork of Firefox OS, launched a new version of the OS built specifically for feature phones, and… Read More
Nokia is bringing back the Matrix phone
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When you have a history as long as Nokia, there’s a lot of cool stuff too revive — and HMD Global, the current owner of the Nokia brand, is playing its cards right.
At a press conference in Barcelona on Sunday, the company announced the Nokia 8110 4G — a rehash of the Nokia 8110, also known as the Matrix phone.
For our very young readers, or people who haven’t seen The Matrix (it’s possible that they exist) who might not remember why this is important, we’ll refer you to this video. Read more…
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Nokia unveils its new slate of Android smartphones starting at $85
Nokia — in its newest iteration as a licensed brand of HMD — is a long way off from its glory days, the years when it not only set the pace for innovation in the mobile phone market, but also led it as the world’s biggest handset maker. Today, the company took its latest step in rebuilding itself as it unveiled a slate of Android-powered smartphones — the Nokia 1, the… Read More
HMD/Nokia’s smartphones join Google’s Android One program ‘leading the charge’
Alongside HMD’s big bet on reviving the legendary Nokia brand and business through a licensing deal and a new wave of handsets that it is unveiling today at MWC in Barcelona, the company also announced another interesting piece of news: it has entered a new partnership with Google, where HMD/Nokia is now a leading participant in Google’s Android One — a program where Google… Read More
Nokia 8110’s slider ‘Matrix’ feature phone returns with 4G and a €79 price tag
Nokia’s 8110 — the distinctive ‘candy bar’ feature phone with a slider opening — was once the phone that everyone wanted but no one could afford, made popular through the Matrix film franchise. Now HMD, the company that has the license to make Nokia phones, is hoping for a hit by bringing it back. Today, at MWC in Barcelona, Nokia officially took the wraps off the… Read More