7 Nokia 3310 Features You'll Wish Your High-End Smartphone Had

The second coming isn't nigh, it's already happened. No, we're not talking about Jesus,

but the return of the most iconic mobile phone of all time, the beloved Nokia 3310. A device that defined a generation and then some, this little brick of plastic and circuitry is one of the best-selling phones in history, and the only device anyone around at the turn of the millennium wanted to own. Now, 17 long years since its namesake was first introduced, and 13 years after it was removed from production lines, the Nokia 3310 is back. Its specs sheet might be small and its abilities understated, but that doesn't mean this handset couldn't teach your current smartphone powerhouse a thing or two. If the following Nokia 3310 features were on the likes of the iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7, we wouldn't get so excited about our annual upgrade rolling around.The Nokia 3310's battery life is a thing of legend. Capable of going weeks between power-ups, charging this thing was a novelty rather than a chore. You could fall into a coma, wake up, recover and you'd still not needed to have connected this magical little machine to the mains. With the new model offering similar month-long staying power (on standby, there's 22 hours of continuous talk time), it's only a reminder of how our need for nightly smartphone charges is a modern-day nightmare.The days of black-and-white smartphones might be over, but the additional colour schemes on offer still tend to be on the safe side. Despite their painfully bad names like "Striking Black", "Prestige Gold" and "Really Blue" – all genuine smartphone colours – phones just don't pack the attention-grabbing punch they used to. If silver, gold or the pinkish tones of whatever rose gold is supposed to be aren't for you, there's very little choice in the high-end handset space. That's why we want the new 3310's face-meltingly bright fluorescent yellow paint job to be a compulsory option on all future phones, just like the building site hi-vis that clearly inspired it.When it comes to smartphones, you get what you pay for, but there's no escaping that the new Nokia 3310 is still ridiculously cheap. With a €49 asking price (UK pricing is still TBC), you could get 23 of these for the price of one 128GB iPhone 7 Plus. Sure, the likes of Apple and Samsung throw in a few (read loads) more features, but can you really put a price on all the positive emotions the 3310 drags up? from: popularmechanics.com