There is always going to be a tendency to over-egg the pudding with new things, to try to make it better, to improve it because you can.In a sense this Nokia 3310 is a bit like the Star Wars Special Edition. Developer Gameloft makes sure you know it’s behind this title with a bold splash screen, a wraparound gameplay area, multiple color themes it’s called Snake, it’s on a Nokia 3310, but it’s nowhere near being the classic game.If the return of T9 for text input is the prefect representation of nostalgia that reminds you exactly of times gone by, Snake is a reminder that you can never capture history if you try to improve it. Moved Themes for Nokia 8110 4G Hi, I feel it would be great to get customizable themes for the 8110. There is a game called Snake on here, but it’s nothing like the 3310 original. I’ll be honest, this is where I feel cheated.

Nokia 3310 (image: Ewan Spence)The other big point that many people raised at the launch was the handset came with Snake, one of the first games to run on a mobile phone. You’re not going to get a full-blown web experience, but with social networks such as Facebook offering low latency minimal data versions, you can just about keep up to date with your friends activities. Nokia 3310 (image: Ewan Spence)In terms of design the new Nokia 3310 isn’t an exact copy of the original 3310. However, it seems like the OS (s30+) doesnt support J2ME, so definitely no third-party java apps. I was hoping for a nostalgic throwback to mobile java apps. It was also my first question that came to mind after the unveiling of the new 3310. That means either the ‘up to four taps’ on key 7 to cycle through the letters p/q/r/s, or to use Nokia’s T9 prediction engine that could work out the work you were trying to type just by pressing the key that had the letter you wanted (so one tap on the 7 could easily be seen as an ’s’ if it fitted the rest of the word pattern). Drop the JAR on, disconnect, go to the file manager on the phone and run it. I lived with Nokias for a long time, and until the touchscreen revolution kicked off the primary input method was through the number pad. I’ve spent some time with the handset ahead of it’s public release next week to find out if the love is justified.Tap-tap ’N’ Tap-tap-tap ’o’t Tap-tap ’k’ Tap-tap-tap ’i’ Tap ’a’.If you want to sum up then inputting text is the best way to do so. It might have been an easy story for journalists to pitch to editors, but the return of the feature phone with the Finnish name on it has captured imaginations around the world. The biggest surprise that came out of this year’s Mobile World Congress event was the love for the Nokia 3310.

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