MWC 2017: Nokia Announces Withings Rebrand and Nokia 3310 Reboot

[Bart Kela]

The important thing to know about the 3310 is it will not work in the US.

I looked at Nokia's phone page and apparently none of their feature phones will operate in the USA since they are all dual-band GSM 900/1800 MHz phones and most of them are 2G.

AT&T pulled the plug on the their legacy 2G GSM network at the end of last year. I have two old handsets that will no longer register using an MVNO's SIM that uses the AT&T network.

 

[nt5672]

And Nokia's were one of the best regarding reception, where others drops call Nokia's always had sufficient signal.
Their Hardware were second to none.

Their radio hardware was second to none. The phone UI/screen sucked.

 

[Rommelnoodles]

As well as the rebranding, the Withings CEO said the company would release a redesigned Health Mate app later this year that will bring an "improved user experience" and new data sharing features. Nokia is also set to launch a new Patient Care program similar to Apple's Healthkit that will allow patients to share data medical doctors.

I'm hoping they don't exclude HealthKit during this rebranding. I bought almost all there health related items because it works with health kit.

 

[mejsric]

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Its really not a big deal charging why does everyone moan about it, charge it over night of get portable charger

What? backup phone to be charge every night, is okey with you?
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31 hours of stand by time and 22 hours of talk time. And yet, it's still a pocketable phone. I would love to have those numbers for my iPhone 7. Obviously there are trade off's.

Up to 31 days stand by time. Days not hours.

http://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-3310

 

[Evangelion]

Just a clarification: Nokia that bought Withings and Nokia that makes the 3310 are two different things. The "Withings-Nokia" is the company we all know. They sold their cell-phone business to Microsoft and then bought Withings. Their biggest business right now is network-equipment.

The company making the new 3310 is a totally unrelated company called HMD that has been set up by bunch of ex-Nokia engineers. They licensed the Nokia brand from the actual company for use in cell-phones.