Why don't Nokia make phones anymore?

blue5000 · 08-04-2015 01:14PM #1

Well maybe they do, with google or some other conglomerate. But you know what I mean, iphones are all fine and dandy until you drop it from waist height and then you have a €185 repair bill, whereas with a nokia you could drop it from 3 stories up and it would still work.

Texting these days is a PIA, did they deliberately make it awkward so we would just call everyone instead?

What about battery life? Nokia could go for 3 or 4 days without charging, these days we'd be doing well to get 24 hrs out of an iphone.

Rant over, am I the only one who misses the old nokias?

everlast75 · 08-04-2015 01:17PM

"Before before. You're living in the past Marge - quit living in the past!"

super_furry · 08-04-2015 01:18PM

They do in a manner of speaking. Microsoft bought them so pretty much any Windows phone you buy now is a Nokia.

murpho999 · 08-04-2015 01:19PM

Nokia phones is now owned by Microsoft so you won't see their phones anymore apart from the Lumia AFAIK.

hfallada · 08-04-2015 01:20PM

Low resoultion LED uses very little power and having a tiny screen helps(most car radios have a better screen than most old Nokias). Plus there was no data or Wifi on old phones,meaning the battery lasted a lot longer. We also didnt use over phones that much back then. I easily use my phone about 4 hours a day and I dont even make calls on it.

Guy:Incognito · 08-04-2015 01:22PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Well maybe they do, with google or some other conglomerate. But you know what I mean, iphones are all fine and dandy until you drop it from waist height and then you have a €185 repair bill, whereas with a nokia you could drop it from 3 stories up and it would still work.

Texting these days is a PIA, did they deliberately make it awkward so we would just call everyone instead?

What about battery life? Nokia could go for 3 or 4 days without charging, these days we'd be doing well to get 24 hrs out of an iphone.

Rant over, am I the only one who misses the old nokias?

Ah yes, Nokia, that plucky little one man company that has operated out of a garage all these years.

BTW, "nokias" didnt have long battery lives etc, "phones" did (and still do, you can buy non smart phones) All the manufacturers made similar phones, then they moved on when people wanted more.

Duggy747 · 08-04-2015 01:22PM

Microsoft put an end to the Nokia brand you know and love, they're just weren't performing as good in the market against other brands for the past few years.

An iPhone (or most smartphones) have a ton of features and high quality screens that drink battery life. An old Nokia would last days because it had feck all draining it and we didn't use phones nowhere near as much as we do nowadays.

AndyBoBandy · 08-04-2015 01:22PM

blue5000 wrote: »

What about battery life? Nokia could go for 3 or 4 days without charging

Don't you mean 3-4 weeks?

for about 11 years (1999-2010) I always had the latest Nokia phones before switching to iPhone, and some of them would go 2 weeks+ on a full charge!

(Incidentally in 5 years of being an iPhone owner (3GS, 4, 5 & 6), I've never broken a screen once.

super_furry · 08-04-2015 01:25PM

In fairness your comparing the battery life in a very basic phone to that on a powerful pocket computer and entertainment device that happens to have a built-in phone.

K4t · 08-04-2015 01:26PM

I've never owned a smartphone but the best mobile phone I ever had possessed a flashlight; invaluable in tight situations, and while having sex in the dark.

AndyBoBandy · 08-04-2015 01:34PM

K4t wrote: »

the best mobile phone I ever had possessed a flashlight; invaluable in tight situations, and while having sex in the dark.

and you always had the vibrate function available to finish the job off in emergency situations.

caff · 08-04-2015 01:38PM

http://www.doro.ie/products/Mobile-phones-and-accessories/ or maybe http://www.catphones.com/en-gb/phones/

LDN_Irish · 08-04-2015 01:38PM

You can get a Samsung for 10 euro in Tesco that will do all the things the old Nokia did just as well. Except Snake, which is a shame.

Adamantium · 08-04-2015 01:59PM

The 3310 is the mortal enemy of planned obsolescence.

Dr Strangelove and how I learned to love the 3310.

Stevek101 · 08-04-2015 02:05PM

http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phone/215/

Adamantium · 08-04-2015 02:10PM

I remember back in 2003 I was trekking through wartorn Baghdad when a stray 50 calibre sniper bullet hit me directly in the chest. Luckily I had my Nokia 3310 in my breast pocket, which deflected the bullet and blew up a tank.

A few years later, whilst on a business trip to Paris I decided to visit the Eiffel Tower. Whilst raising my phone into the air to try and attain signal (I was on Tesco Mobile) a 20m wide meteor happened to strike me directly. Luckily the meteor completely disintegrated upon contact with my trusty 3310, earning me the Légion d'Honneur.

Slightly embarrassingly, I have dropped my phone once or twice. I seem to remember once on holiday in Haiti in 2010, and again visiting Fukushima in 2011.

This phone has served me very well, and still does to this day.

Peregrine · 08-04-2015 02:12PM

K4t wrote: »

I've never owned a smartphone but the best mobile phone I ever had possessed a flashlight; invaluable in tight situations, and while having sex in the dark.

Pretty much every smartphone has a flashlight.

Hande hoche! · 08-04-2015 02:22PM

I'm still using a Nokia. This one:

http://www.wired.com/2013/08/nokias-nicest-dumbphon/

nokia69 · 08-04-2015 02:26PM

I still use a nokia

I switch between a 3210 and a 3410

LDN_Irish · 08-04-2015 02:35PM

nokia69 wrote: »

I still use a nokia

I switch between a 3210 and a 3410

I was wondering when you'd turn up. The 3210 was a beast but the 3310 was my fave phone of the Noughties.

Outkast_IRE · 08-04-2015 02:38PM

If you want to text quickly then blackberry is your only choice, with a real keyboard.

nokia69 · 08-04-2015 03:22PM

LDN_Irish wrote: »

I was wondering when you'd turn up. The 3210 was a beast but the 3310 was my fave phone of the Noughties.

yeah I had one a while ago but lost it :mad:

still plenty of them on ebay

jjbrien · 08-04-2015 03:27PM

Still on the market a quick search of Caprphone Warehouse found me these

http://www.carphonewarehouse.ie/action/searchsite/nokia/1

08-04-2015 03:56PM

Still use a Nokia.

Do a lot of outdoor sports, trail running etc. If I am gonna fall into a boghole, I wanna take about €30 of technology, with no important info, down with me.

El Weirdo · 08-04-2015 04:08PM

blue5000 wrote: »

...Texting these days is a PIA...

If you're a moron, maybe. It's way easier to text nowadays.

And with smartphones you have a qwerty keyboard so no excuse for txtspk.

Seve OB · 08-04-2015 04:12PM

LDN_Irish wrote: »

You can get a Samsung for 10 euro in Tesco that will do all the things the old Nokia did just as well. Except Snake, which is a shame.

All is not lost my friend

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dsd164.snake97

the_barfly1 · 08-04-2015 04:16PM

Adamantium wrote: »

I remember back in 2003 I was trekking through wartorn Baghdad when a stray 50 calibre sniper bullet hit me directly in the chest. Luckily I had my Nokia 3310 in my breast pocket, which deflected the bullet and blew up a tank.

A few years later, whilst on a business trip to Paris I decided to visit the Eiffel Tower. Whilst raising my phone into the air to try and attain signal (I was on Tesco Mobile) a 20m wide meteor happened to strike me directly. Luckily the meteor completely disintegrated upon contact with my trusty 3310, earning me the Légion d'Honneur.

Slightly embarrassingly, I have dropped my phone once or twice. I seem to remember once on holiday in Haiti in 2010, and again visiting Fukushima in 2011.

This phone has served me very well, and still does to this day.

I made a real life lol to this. You win the internet.

TrustedApple · 08-04-2015 04:17PM

Crazy thing i was reading about the sale of nokia to Microsoft is that nokia can start making phones again EG smart phones they can still sell there old school ones with no fancy apps.

In the next year so expect to see Android based phones from nokia

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/21/cheer_up_europeans_nokia_can_make_mobes_again_in_18_months/

Link to said proof

DivingDuck · 08-04-2015 04:27PM

Comparing the old Nokias with modern smartphones is like comparing a stick and a hoop with Monopoly. More parts mean more opportunities for things to go wrong. Smaller parts often mean diminished structural strength. You put up with the compromise for the increased capability.

Today's phones are less hardy because the materials necessary to deliver large, full-colour, high-res screens, tens of GB of memory, wifi and 4G, and app/game capability, are more fragile, and the knock-on effect of damage is greater. Battery life is lower because the device requires more power to do all these things and also because, as pointed out already, people use their phones more now.

I have a "dumb phone" (although I hate that term) I use occasionally when I am going somewhere I think my iPhone might get lost/stolen/dropped or when I need really long battery life and only the ability to make/take calls. Useful as it is to have the backup, I could never go back. Texting on those old phones was a nightmare for me, and not having the internet in my pocket is a real drag.

08-04-2015 04:30PM

DivingDuck wrote: »

I have a "dumb phone" (although I hate that term) I use occasionally when I am going somewhere I think my iPhone might get lost/stolen/dropped or when I need really long battery life and only the ability to make/take calls.

Are they called "feature phones" or something like that?

DivingDuck · 08-04-2015 04:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Are they called "feature phones" or something like that?

That's the sales term, although I'm not sure that's any better.

The only real feature of them is decent battery life-- and the fact that if you get robbed, your attacker will probably feel so sorry for you that he'll give you money.

Why don't Nokia make phones anymore?

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