Dear HMD, the world is finally ready for the Nokia Communicator
The phone that stole the show at last year's MWC wasn't an Android, didn't have a Samsung badge on it, could barely connect to the internet and didn't have a touchscreen. The relaunched Nokia 3310 traded on one key thing: nostalgia. But it was enough for it to grab most of the headlines, and even see a re-rerelease later that year with souped up "3G" data speeds . That wasn't it though, just a month ago , we finally got the 4G version we presume some people were asking for. This year, Nokia (or, rather, brand-owner HMD) is at it again, reviving the iconic " Banana phone ." But, one day into the show proper, and the chatter about it had faded. I think new-Nokia missed a trick. Instead of rehashing iconic feature phones, it should revive one of Nokia's most prescient franchises: the Communicator. While the 3310 is iconic, it's a 16 years old "dumb" phone, which means that it's not really all that much use to today's ...