In Switzerland we got something similar, it's little balls though. It comes packaged in cardboard and you can compost the remains https://www.coffeeb.com/en-ch
Yes! We can finally buy our way out of unnecessary waste, and ultimately climate change, with this new thing that keeps us buying. Just gotta buy the ecological things and everything will be good.
Good to see Keurig try to cut down on plastic waste, but if they really wanted to make an impact, they could open-source the design of the pods so all the alt-cup manufacturers could switch as well. It may be counter-intuitive, but the more options customers have, the more machine sales and goodwill Keurig will create.
Same size as paper ones. Thin, perforated metal. Came in two gradations. Taste-wise, couldn't tell the difference. When opening to clean, it slid off so you could wash it, then compost the coffee as usual.
Pretty handy. But somehow, I managed to dump them away. Went back to paper.
Also interested in a daily dumb phone. Smartphones are... fine... but dumb phones are where it's at. I had to stop using my BlackBerry Torch last year and I literally cried.
The S30 OS, before Nokia collapses, was much better.
Yeah no - you're miss-remembering it. For example you had to delete SMS messages otherwise your mailbox would fill up.
It could only fit 10 messages before it'd run out of space, and once full no messages would be received at all.
Also, the battery life was ten days in standby if you didn't use the phone which was nice but as soon as you started using it... then it only lasted 3 hours. I used to carry two spare batteries in my bag... don't miss those days at all.
Yeah, this would be a novelty and it was SOLID for it's time. But we have come a long way, pretty sure my light switches have more processing power than these phones did. This isn't like your favorite band rebooting, it is a peice of technology that is no longer relevant or even capable of operating on modern networks. The entire hardware will be completely different or it will be a paperweight immediately.
It could only fit 10 messages before it’d run out of space, and once full no messages would be received at all.
You often hear programmers cite zero, one, infinity but fact of the matter is... while most if not all of your code should be capable of that, be blissfully ignorant about any imposed limit because it's going to work whatever you set it to, the application often still should have a limit:
Even if you're not as ludicrously storage-constrained as those old Nokia bricks the data structure you're storing it in is going to have some kind of assumptions about up to what number of elements it's going to be efficient, so in e.g. game programming you write your code, document your assumption in the form of an error or warning thrown if that limit is exceeded, and when the level designers break it you have a look together at the thing and decide whether the limit needs increasing, or the level designers should reign in their use of whatever thingummy is breaking the limit.
Not to mention that just storing an index for an arbitrarily large data structure can take up arbitrary amounts of RAM. Do you really expect me to use variable-sized numbers just so that you can have more than 2^64^ (~1.84×10^19^) messages. Or columns in your spreadsheet, or whatnot.
I'll get one for sure. Always handy to have a long battery lasting cheap phone for on festivals, so I don't have to carry my 1000 euro smartphone which probably won't survive. I'm always super careful with my stuff, never break my screen or lose my phone. Except when I'm on festivals. All I need is WhatsApp so I can find my friends anyeay. This becomes an issue after day 2, so I need to carry battery packs or be offline. And battery packs for 7 days festival is heavy and annoying.
my old phones (going back all the way to the 'real' nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia (only a couple weeks old) with same capacity battery as what's stated in the article for the 'new' one.
If you're in a country where GSM is native it's quite likely that 2G is still available. 3G probably got shut down in the meantime but 2G doesn't need much spectrum and is kept as a baseline compatibility protocol, possibly even mandated by law (because emergency services). It's also perfectly sufficient for voice calls. Internet is... tolerable if all you're doing is browsing wikipedia and doing email. It's easily twice as fast as a 56k modem what are you complaining about.
I’ve still got a 3310 in a drawer, it still turns on, and if I had a SIM card for it would be fully working as the UK still operates a 2G network (for now at least).
There’s even removable fascia plates still for sale on eBay.
The previous reboot was a marketing stunt. The Nokia factory was acquired by Microsoft and the thing they made is actually pretty nice. It supports WhatsApp, maps, snake, etc
They put out 3G and 4G models of the 3210 and 8110 in 2017 and 2018. But yeah it's probably time to refresh as most of the 3G networks have been sunsetted.
The battery is kind of important so any place that could be used for a gimmick is better used for a bigger battery. Back then I don't think anyone cared about battery size. I just charged my phone when it ran out.
A modern smartphone has a screen that's going to break. Those old phones had a block of plastic that was an LCD screen and then some buttons made out of some form of rubbery sponge.
They broke all the time, the point was that you could just put them back together again in 30 seconds. Everything is glued in place now, so when shock happens they rip and snap.
The actual Nokia hasn't been in the mobile phone business for a decade. They sold it all to Microsoft in 2014 with a licence deal for using the Nokia name, and they then sold it to HMD Mobile in 2016. That name deal should expire this year, but they might renew it.
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