2024-04-15 10:21:07
You remember? The people who had the Nokia 3220 They took the party wherever they went, thanks to four powerful LED lights on the sides.
Before Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi dominated the mobile market, Nokia was the company that sold the most cell phones in the world. During its ‘golden era’, this legendary Finnish brand developed truly innovative phones that stood out for having an unusual design. One of the most remembered was the Nokia 3220, popularly known as the ‘Nokia nightclub’. Because?
What were the features of the Nokia 3220?
In 2004, three years before Apple launched the first iPhone, Nokia presented this phone that was a complete boom among young people due to two details in particular. First because you could exchange its casing, which was available in different colors. Second because it had four LED lights (two on each side) that turned on and off to the rhythm of the music you were listening to.
The ‘Nokia disco’, which weighed only 86 grams, had the following dimensions: 104.5 mm high, 44.2 mm wide and 18.7 mm thick. Likewise, it had a 128 x 128 pixel TFT screen, 3 MB internal memory and a VGA camera (640 x 480 pixel resolution) that could also record QCIF videos (176 x 144 pixel resolution).
Although it did not have Bluetooth, FM radio, or infrared connectivity, the Nokia 3220 did have other interesting features for the time such as an 850 mAh lithium-ion battery that could last up to 240 hours (in standby mode). Finally, this cell phone also came with several pre-installed games that gave many hours of fun to those who had it.
What happened to the Nokia 3220?
For several years, the Nokia 3220 was a resounding sales success; However, with the arrival of smartphones, basic cell phones gradually disappeared from the market. Between May and June 2007, the Finnish company decided to stop manufacturing them and by the end of 2018, it had already stopped being sold officially, that is, it became a discontinued product.
Currently, it is very difficult to find a new and sealed ‘Nokia disco’, the majority sold on the internet (on sites such as Ebay, Amazon, Mercado Libre, among similar ones) are second-hand products. Believe it or not, there are many people who are encouraged to buy them, as they consider them a precious collector’s item.
Does the Nokia brand still exist?
In 2014, Nokia was bought by Microsoft and they began releasing phones that used Windows Phone as the operating system. Unfortunately, this software was not attractive to users (because it was reminiscent of Windows 8), who preferred to buy cell phones with Android. Two years later, in 2016, Bill Gates’ company sold the brand to another Finnish manufacturer called HMD Global.