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The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake (www.techradar.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] Zehzin 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Just get an old one, they still work lol

(note: they might not work for making calls I dunno)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

If you're in a country where GSM is native it's quite likely that 2G is still available. 3G probably got shut down in the meantime but 2G doesn't need much spectrum and is kept as a baseline compatibility protocol, possibly even mandated by law (because emergency services). It's also perfectly sufficient for voice calls. Internet is... tolerable if all you're doing is browsing wikipedia and doing email. It's easily twice as fast as a 56k modem what are you complaining about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If possible, bookmark http://68k.news/ and http://frogfind.com/ on those phones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ha! If only. They at most had WAP browsers and noone was using them because you paid like five bucks per transferred byte.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If we're referring to such old phones, the only WAP site I know is the test from Nostalgia Nerd. From this video [YouTube]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

From this video [YouTube]

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] unphazed 1 points 5 months ago

Ah my us robotics 28k modem... it sang a sweet song to prepare me for the bloodshed of TF and Painkeep.

[–] LordWiggle 5 points 5 months ago

To call someone you need to have friends. Who needs friends when you have snake?

[–] thehatfox 3 points 5 months ago

I’ve still got a 3310 in a drawer, it still turns on, and if I had a SIM card for it would be fully working as the UK still operates a 2G network (for now at least).

There’s even removable fascia plates still for sale on eBay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But do you have a fitting charger?

[–] Zehzin 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hundreds in a box somewhere

[–] HappycamperNZ 9 points 5 months ago

dads everywhere

I fucking knew it

[–] gaael 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you need a charger for? We'll all be dead long before the battery is done /j

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was really nice to just charge like once a week though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

my old phones (going back all the way to the 'real' nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia (only a couple weeks old) with same capacity battery as what's stated in the article for the 'new' one.