We take a step back in time and test the super-cool new Nokia 8210
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBack in the late 1990s and early 2000s I ran a mobile phone shop. That was the absolute heyday of the mobile handset. It was the days before smartphones came along and devices became contextually dull, smartphone designers were, relatively speaking, going a bit mad.
Obscure keypad designs, replaceable housings, recordable ringtones, and even moving parts became faddy trends. But, at least for a short while, the best phones to be seen with were the smallest.
And there was one phone that was ahead of this short-lived game; the Nokia 8210. I can remember first getting my hands on one and marveling at its tiny dimensions, in a frame that still packed in some - at the time - cutting edge features.
Unlike its rival, Motorola's V.3688 flip phone, it had a great menu layout, a top-notch display and even a few games. Well, Nokia has relaunched this genuine icon of the mad days of mobile phones, and brought back the 8210 - only this time with a few thoroughly modern twists.
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