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The next Nokia phone might not be a smartphone, as new industry rumors suggest the iconic Nokia 3650 is getting rebooted this year.

What about the ‘new’ Nokia 3310?

HMD Global, the current owner of the Nokia Mobile brand, has been rebooting popular feature phones from the Finnish manufacturer since 2017. Its first attempt at doing so was also its most successful, by far. This shouldn’t be surprising, given how that move brought back the beloved Nokia 3310. The meme-level status this phone enjoyed has also been fueling its sales. While it’s unlikely that a new Nokia 3650 could mirror that kind of success, HMD management previously went on record to claim the company isn’t done remaking its classics just yet.

As for the original device, the Nokia 3650 debuted in 2003, aka the VGA mobile camera era. While its design wasn’t as iconic as that of the Nokia 3310 or some of the later rivals, the look of the phone is hardly set in stone. The same goes for its feature set, so assuming this rumor is legitimate, you can at the very least expect a capable browser, 4G LTE connectivity, and excellent battery life. The Nokia 3650 reboot would follow HMD’s attempts at revisiting the Nokia 8110, 2720, 5310, and 6300, on top of the aforementioned 3310.

Source: NokiaMob.net

Nokia si continuing its feature phone experiment with not one, but two such devices at once. The company behind the current Nokia Mobile brand today announced the Nokia 6300 4G and the Nokia 8000 4G, a device tandem aimed at consumers looking for a backup phone in case of an emergency, or those who aren’t thrilled with the privacy sacrifices using contemporary Android and iOS smartphones requires.

To that effect, the new pair of Nokia feature phones will be hoping to provide users with a glimpse of an alternate reality in which we never truly moved beyond J2ME devices, functionality wise.

While some might find that limiting, others could find the straightforward list of the duo’s capabilities to be refreshingly liberating.

Especially in the sub-$100 price segment that’s nearly unheard of in this day and age. Speaking of which, the Nokia 6300 4G and the Nokia 8000 4G will be sold at approximately $59 and $99, respectively. HMD Global intends to release these feature phones internationally over the course of the next several weeks.

The new handsets hence appear to be functional successors to the Nokia 3310 (2017) that the company released to excellent market response over three years ago.

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Well, this didn’t take long: HMD Global officially confirmed that its value-first Nokia 5.4 mid-ranger is on its way to the U.S.

How far do $250 go in the 2021 smartphone market?

In fact, you can already pre-order the Nokia 5.4 from Amazon, priced at $249.99. You can choose between two color options – Dusk and Polar Night. Regardless of your preferred finish, it’s hard to imagine a more efficient way to spend $250 toward a smartphone in 2021. The Nokia 5.4 boasts a 6.39 HD+ LCD panel with a discreet punch-hole camera on the front and a monstrously versatile quad-camera setup on the back. The latter system is capable of putting out 48-megapixel images that should serve you well no matter the lighting conditions. Beneath this full-screen exterior beats the heart of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 662, still one of the most popular mid-range chips on the market.

Between support for on-device neural processing, two-day battery life, a promise of three years’ worth of Android security upgrades, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of flash memory, and an extremely aggressive price tag, the Nokia 5.4 is legitimately threatening to top every smartphone value chart from now until summer. Finally, given how HMD’s devices have been running a near-stock version of Android since Microsoft offloaded Nokia Mobile half a decade ago, this smartphone might as well be a homage to the iconic Google Nexus range.

Source: Nokia.com

Finnish telecom manufacturer and service provider Nokia Corp. netted a cool $14.1 million from NASA. And in this instance, that “cool” label applies tenfold, becaus the project in question was about bringing 4G LTE to the Moon, of all places.

Not bad for some chump change, right?

At least the marketing value Nokia is deriving from this initiative will probably at the very least match, if not easily surpass that service fee NASA agreed to foot. The endeavor is being handled by Nokia’s U.S. arm, itself a member of the Artemis program which NASA previously introduced with the goal of achieving humanity’s triumphant return to the moon by 2024. In addition to sending the first woman astronaut to Earth’s largest satellite.

The Artemis program is what prompted the need for launching an LTE network on the moon happened in the first place. Seeing how the first 21st century moon landing humanity undertakes will surely have to be live-streamed in high definition. Which is where Nokia’s 4G network equipment and expertise come into play. The current plan is to begin a remote installation with a custom-built lunar hopper in about two years from now.

The late 2022 window will depend not just on Nokia’s prep work, but also on Intuitive Machines’ ability to hit their deadlines , as that is the company NASA contracted to manufacture the aforementioned spacecraft.

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