These days, everyone's on their smartphones. These pieces of technological marvels can do anything you could possibly need; they can access all of the information known to man, they can take selfies, and they can play funny cat videos. But the latest Samsung iGalaxy 5G pales in comparison to the classic Nokia 3310. Don't believe me? Read on.
Oh what's that, your phone battery died in the middle of the day? We charge our smartphones every night, and they still can't last an entire 24 hours. Your smartphone has a power dense battery that could power a lightbulb for six months, but you still can't last a day on your phone. The Nokia had a battery with less than a tenth of the capacity of your smartphone battery, and it managed to go a week on just one charge.
How many times have you seen a phone with a shattered screen or a damaged body? Smartphones are supposed to be convenient, but drop it one foot and suddenly you have a broken phone that could cut your fingers when you try and use it. How is that convenient? The Nokia was literally indestructible. Drop it from six feet? Fine. Throw it on the street in a fit of rage? Unscathed. Attach it to a drone and drop it 900 feet? Still works (true story). Practically nothing you do to that phone can break it.
Smartphones can do anything and everything. They produce a mind-numbing and infinitely satisfying stream of tweets, conversations, useless facts, and memes. This is so addicting that people end up paying more attention to their phone than their friend sitting next to them (who also happens to be looking at their phone). The Nokia doesn't have those distractions; it is just a phone, on which you can call, text, and play "Snake," the greatest game ever created. The Nokia has the essentials, and none of the unnecessary apps that your smartphone has. Trust me, you're better off without "Candy Crush."
As much as smartphones claim to be easy to use, lots of people still find them difficult. Some argue that an iPhone is easy enough for a caveman, but I still get people asking me how to turn the brightness down on their phone. The Nokia isn't complicated - navigation is easy, settings are straightforward, and there's not too much to handle. The phrase “less is more” is true with the Nokia; it has just enough to be useful, without the unnecessary junk.
Your smartphone claims to be customizable. Yes, you can set a different background, but you can't change the phone itself. The phone is a solid, colored piece of metal, and that's all it will ever be - a solid, colored piece of metal that looks like everyone else's solid, colored piece of metal. Sure, you can buy a case and express yourself, but then you are hiding the phone now tucked away underneath. The Nokia, on the other hand, looked sexy as hell, and if you wanted to customize the phone, you just had to pop off the cover and replace it with a different one. People were selling pretty cool-looking covers that didn't destroy the looks of the phone.
The good old Nokia 3310 and its siblings in the 33xx series ruled the cell phone market for five years, a fairly long time in the technology world. Even today, the Nokia phones stand up to the test of time and provide the best phone option out there. In a year and a half, your smartphone will be slow and cluttered, fulfilling its obsolete life cycle. However, the Nokia works just as well as it did in 2000. If you wanted to, you could still use the Nokia today, as you should. The simplicity, durability, and customizability of the phone all make it the greatest phone of all time.
