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in 2018, Nokia finally made a reissue of the 8110, their incredibly distinct 1996 handset with a sliding bottom half which was made famous by its use in the matrix
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but it's a <$100 hyper-low-end offering running KaiOS
Discussion
oh my god someone remembered to make a phone fucking ergonomic, but maybe the joke's on me for using the samsung obelisks for about a decade
I want this because it looks so good and is a nice reimagining of the original phone, and I hate that I want this because it's so utterly useless.
i mean technically it's not useless, it calls, it texts, it has a web browser with an extremely solid rendering engine, it's just way, way below modern standards. which, yeah, i also think makes it a bad buy lol