Reloaded Nokia brings back the 8110 Matrix banana phone Mobile Marketing 2018

Reloaded Nokia brings back the 8110 Matrix banana phone Mobile Marketing 2018

In 1996 the first Nokia 8110 slider "banana" telephone was discharged; after three years it hit the big deal in the hand Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. Quick forward 22 years and the Nokia 8110 has been reloaded. 

The Nokia 8110 was earth shattering in its day as one of the first to include an ergonomic shape, with the slider shooting downtrodden bending tenderly towards your mouth. Be that as it may, it will dependably be associated with that minute when Reeves shoots down the slider getting the telephone to Morpheus before dropping it from the edge of a tall high rise after he has ventured out the window of his office. 

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That is the sort of sentimentality HMD Global, the organization now working the Nokia telephone mark, needs to revive. It prevailing with a year ago's Nokia 3310. Presently it's the ideal opportunity for a somewhat more complex reboot. 

The new Nokia 8110 is still only an element telephone, running a forked adaptation of the dead Firefox OS made by KaiOS that HMD is calling "Shrewd Feature OS", yet it has a couple of things you won't not anticipate from a telephone with a genuine numeric keypad and polycarbonate slider. 

It has 4G, for one. Facebook will likewise be accessible through an application store sooner or later and there will be some type of access to Google's Assistant, Maps and inquiry, and in addition email, messages, Twitter and even Snake. 

"The Nokia 8110 accompanies the craftsmanship you anticipate from a Nokia telephone, conveying sturdiness and unwavering quality as standard,"HMD said. "With a natural and simple to utilize interface, it highlights instinctive material mechanics, with slide to answer and end calls, and in addition an addictive helicopter style turn on its pivot." 

HMD recommends the 8110 is an incredible "end of the week telephone" that gives individuals the "opportunity to turn off, have some good times and unwind in the information that all your cell phone basics are there when you require them". 

Regardless of whether there will be the same number of individuals pulled in the reboot of 1999's coolest telephone as a year ago's 3310 stays to be seen, however the new Nokia 8110 will be accessible in dark or "banana yellow" in May for €79 (£69). 

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