This was designed for me? I’m INSULTED. - Nokia 3210

The Nokia 3210 was first released 25 years ago (yes, 1999 is 25 years ago 💀), and for some reason, HMD has re-released it due to overwhelming demand(???) Since Linus is the prime demographic for this release, we got it in for him to check out. Will he be sold on this dumbphone's lack of features, or is he sick of "newstalgia"?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Linus is the target
0:25 Port walkthrough and design impressions
2:01 Sponsor - dbrand
2:34 Trying out the camera
3:15 Specs and games
4:17 It's got a radio!
5:07 Making a call, sending texts, more gaming
6:44 Final thoughts
7:02 Outro

[CosmicKangaroo]

HMD was actually founded by Ex-Nokia employees and is also made up of Nokia's former mobile division that was sold to Microsoft that HMD Acquired in 2016. So Nokia is less of a Zombie Brand, and more of a brand that was adopted by its aunt and uncle.

[PrinceAlberts]

We’re overlooking the obvious question here. How many drug dealers and call girls did his school have?

[Repsikka]

4:50 Nokia and HMD Global are both Finnish companies, HMD Global was started by former Nokia executives, so no, Nokia just didn't rent out their brand all willy nilly, also, HMD Global does other than dummy phones, Al though, far from high end.

[arigato]

No one cross-shops this against a used iPhone, Linus.
You're buying one of these because you're adamant on not getting a smartphone.

[RealDaryl]

Predictive T9? No. I remeber having my phone in my pocket, in class and being able to message my friend, with full confidence that I'd unlocked, opened SMS, wrote the message, hit send and picked the right contact. With no predictive T9.

[terrabits]

6:40 "Is it meant to enrage you?"
It certainly won't N-Gage you 😉

[ferdievanschalkwyk]

Someone carrying this phone is about to do one of three things
1. try not to wet their pants (kids)
2. try not to wet their pants (elderly)
3. going to make someone else wet their pants (hitman)

[bush]

This is perfect for a secondary business only phone. I could turn it off after work, not worry about anything and still have my actual smartphone to use. I love this idea and will definitely be getting one

[santtis]

Nokia is still making a lot of things. They just sold the phone business. So it's not a zombie brand.

[adrianomartinez]

this is for:
-kids
-grandpas
-workers
-digital minimalists
-phone addicts

[caliorbustarika]

In addition to the fact that HMD was made by ex-Nokia employees, Nokia also does still exist and is pretty big in telecommunication technology. They have a pretty substantial office in Ottawa, Canada.

[Tadrax]

I'm extremely disappointed in how the team have NOT done their homework on Nokia.... The company is not a zombie brand, they have gone global enterprise level with network infrastructure, mobile networks and cloud network services (to name a few) for many years now. They are one of the global key players in telecommunications, besides Ericsson for example.

[tissot]

Nokia is pretty far from zomby brand. They employe around 90 000 people and are essentially one of the 3 companies (Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson) that control 90% of world's mobile infra. If you are using phone in Western world you are vey likely connected to some Nokia device in the backend.
Nokia has licensed the brand for phone use to HMD that is old Nokia executives and they bought very small share of the company 1-2 years ago. Mother Nokia will never go back to making phones I am sure though.

[IntrepidSpliff]

Check out the floatplane exclusive: 30 minutes of Linus playing snake, UNCUT.

[Kinkajou]

That is the kind of phone kids should have, simple, makes calls and can text, no microtransaction laden games. Children don't need smartphones.

[opfipip]

My questions (that sadly are left unanswered):
- How long does the Battery really last, and how available are replacement batteries?
- How is the sound quality with headphones?
- How is the music app?
- How good can it be used without looking at the screen?
- Does it handle random/shuffled playback of hundreds of mp3 well?
- is it easy to navigate by folder structure **and** mp3 tags?
- How is its sleep behaviour? Can it, similar to some old phones, continue playback while sleeping?

[DarthBoolean]

Calling Linus the target seems really disingenuous when he declared "No NFC" a deal breaker on a budget smart phone a few days ago.

[MrXaniss]

Nokia is one of the biggest global companies for isntalling 5G lines and all that right? they are still a VERY profitable company i think.

[petermuller]

in germany, this costs more around 75 usd converted. also funny how linus says "how can this have double sim etc and my flagship not" as if it wasnt for the absolute greed of companies like every deciscion that has been made by phone manefactures since the smartphone era. who asked for glued in batteries, glued on backs, removal of ir blasters or sim or micro sd or headphone jacks or accessories in the box (which now produces more co2 than it saves because you have to make a seperate order in seperate packaging if you need the brick etc)? no one. looking back, smartphones peaked at the oneplus 7 pro. everything after this has just been a pissing competition between companies who can do the least amount of upgrades and sell it to you for the same (or higher) price next year. thats also why smartphone sales are going down and brands like nokia are on the rise again, phones are the same since at least 6 years and people are starting to get fed up with beeing plugged into the internet 24/7.

[gamebuster]

"Why did we do this!?" "Because they pay us" Aaah my daily job described in two sentences.