HMD Global has slowly been bringing its resurrected version of the iconic Nokia 3310 to the modern age. The company first released a basic 2G version that really could only do calls and text, then came a 3G model (that included support for US networks), and now, per earlier rumors, it’s finally getting a proper LTE variant, via Pocket Lint.
There’s now an LTE version of the Nokia 3310
Kiss your battery life goodbye, though
Kiss your battery life goodbye, though
The new device follows in the footsteps of the 3310 and 3310 3G as the creatively named Nokia 3310 4G, and it shares a virtually identical design to its predecessors. For now, the phone has only been announced for China in partnership with carrier China Mobile.
Only five hours of talk time on LTE
While the hardware may look the same, HMD Global has revamped the software, swapping the Java-based OS of the earlier 3310 models for YunOS, a forked version of Android developed by Alibaba. There’s support for VoLTE HD calls and the option to use the 3310 as a portable Wi-Fi hot spot, too.
Unfortunately, those features come at a serious cost to battery life, which drops from an estimated 15 hours of talk time for 2G calls to just five hours on LTE.
There’s no price or release date yet for the 3310 4G, nor is there any word on if it’ll be released in markets other than China, but we’ll presumably find out more soon at Mobile World Congress.
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