Old meets new: the classic Nokia 3310 reimagined as a modern-day Lumia smartphone.
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Do you remember your first phone? For many of us it will have been a Nokia or Ericsson -- but what would classic phones like the Nokia 3310 and Ericsson T28 look like if they were made today?
Cast your mind back through the mists of time, to an era before the , before , before . Hard to picture, I know, but pierce the veil of nostalgia and you'll no doubt remember the Ericsson T28, a flip phone with a distinctive aerial introduced in 1999 that was at one point the best-selling mobile phone in the US. The Nokia 3310 debuted the following year, replacing the equally iconic 3210. With Snake 2 built-in, the curvy 3310 went on to sell 126 million units worldwide.
A revamped Nokia 3310 in signature Lumia colour.
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And now German site has brought these classic phones bang up-to-date, reimagining the Nokia 3310 with Windows Phone on board -- complete with a monster 41-megapixel PureView camera -- and the Ericsson T28 with Android on its instantly-recognisable monochrome green screen.
The Ericsson T28 reimagined with Android inside.
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Nokia was until a few short years ago the biggest mobile phone company in the world. Even after the iPhone transformed the phone market by making smartphones mainstream,
Oakley Hatchet, Nokia managed to hold the crown largely thanks to all the feature phones it sold in emerging markets like India and Africa.
But as smartphones got cheaper and feature phones started to become obsolete, Samsung overtook Nokia by offering its Galaxy range of phones in all shapes and sizes -- and at prices to suit any pocket.