Stefan Mileschin

At MWC 2018, the depth of the Nokia nostalgia revival was strong. The owners of the Nokia band, a company called HMD Global, has revived an old Nokia favorite, as part ot its 'Originals' family of re-imagined Nokia-branded devices. The new Nokia 8110 4G slider resembles Neo’s slider handset from the 1990s, but with a difference in feel and design to match the modern era. As well as black, it also comes available in yellow, and is curved. Welcome back to the Banana Phone.

Before we proceed to the Nokia 8110 4G’s background and hands-on, let us summarize what the Nokia 8110 4G is and what it is not. The reloaded Nokia 8110 4G is an entry-level smartphone, designed to come in at the low end of the market. It is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 205 (two ARM Cortex-A7 cores, Adreno 304 graphics, etc.) outfitted with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of NAND flash storage (expandable using microSD cards). The smartphone has a 2.4” display with a 240×320 resolution, basic imaging capabilities enabled by a 2 MP cam with a flash, and runs an operating system based on the KaiOS (a successor of Mozilla’s Firefox OS). The OS supports HTML5 applications and modern technologies like 4G/LTE, NFC, and others.

Do not expect KaiOS to compete against Android in the mass market segment, but just like its ancestor, KaiOS is aimed at the cheapest smartphones typically designed for emerging markets. So despite the fact that the Nokia 8110 4G is a smartphone that imitates a high-end feature phone from the mid-1990s, it costs like an entry-level smartphone today, feeding a little off of nostalgia.

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