The View | Welcome back Nokia, Kodak, vinyl, and even book shops (remember them?)
How wonderful to see the return of the age-old adage: ‘simple is good’. Anyone who believes that book reading or eating are mere matters of utility deserves considerable sympathy
Vindication is a dish best served as often as possible.
So expect no apologies from this quarter for returning to the subject of mobile telephony just three months since last writing about my deep affection for a very simple mobile phone called the Samsung Anycall.
Apparently the message that simple is good has also been received by HMD, the Finnish company which bought the rights to Nokia mobile phones and is planning to re-launch the classic Nokia 3310 at a time when makers of infinitely more sophisticated smartphones are grappling with where to go from here.
Nokia sold more than 100 million of these phones that were famous for indestructability, long battery life, compactness, ease of use and yes, sheer quality. I only went over to the Anycall after my much loved Nokia’s screen was fractured in a motorcycle accident, the rest of the phone survived this somewhat traumatic event but there was no screen replacement to be found here in Hong Kong and I was much mocked for even trying to find one.
It’s great news that the Nokia phone is coming back...Kodak is planning to revive its 35mm Ektachrome film, killed of in 2012... then there is the burgeoning boom in vinyl records
Anyway, it’s great news that the Nokia phone is coming back, presumably at the kind of modest price currently attached to the Anycall. It will almost certainly sell well.