Nokia was a force to be reckoned with in the late 90s and early 2000s. There was no smartphone company that could hold a candle to them, especially with their run of extremely creative feature phones and the early set of Symbian devices.
A lot of those older feature phones hold a special place in our hearts and I think HMD, the company now pulling the Nokia strings, knows this. That's why they've just launched 2024 refreshes for the 230, 5310, and 6310 feature phones.
The Nokia 230 (2024)
The Nokia 230 (2024) is the first of the bunch that we're going to look at, and it looks exactly like a not-too-basic feature phone should, with a numbered keypad, navigation buttons, a screen that's half as big as the phone itself, and aluminum back.
The phone comes packing a 2.8-inch QVGA (320 x 240) display. There are basic cameras on the front and back, and both are 2 MP, each with an LED flash. The phone might be an ode to the past, but you still get Bluetooth 5.0 and a USB Type-C port to charge the removable 1,450 mAh battery. There's a headphone jack too, because of course there is. However, you'll only get 2G network speeds on this.
The phone comes with a mere 16MB of storage and 8MB of RAM (which as ridiculous as it sounds, is how feature phones were back in the day. However, you can push up the storage as high as 32GB with a MicroSD card.
The Nokia 5310 (2024)
Remember the XpressMusic Nokia phones? In a time when the iPod and Walkman devices were the primary forms of listening to music on the go, Nokia's XpressMusic devices brought a trendy combination of phone and portable music player, and the original Nokia 5310 was one of them.
The 5310 (2024) brings a sleek design with a red-accented bar holding physical playback buttons. It's a very eye-catching phone, even as a feature phone in 2024. You'll get a 2.8-inch IPS QVGA display here, with a single 0.3MP camera with a flash on the rear. The battery is also 1,450 mAh and charges via USB Type-C. Just like the 230 (2024), you'll get a headphone jack.
In fact, the phone shares a lot of the features of the 230 (2024), including 16MB of storage, 8MB of RAM, and MicroSD support. However, since this phone is music-focused, you'll get a music player and FM radio app, as well as dual speakers on this one, which explains why there's no selfie cam.
The Nokia 6310 (2024)
When you think of Nokia feature phones, you'll probably think of something that closely resembles what the Nokia 6310 (2024) looks like. It has Nokia's classic design with separate number buttons, with the navigation buttons in a frame that sits around the 2.8-inch IPS QVGA display. HMD calls it a curved display, but I can't see it.
There's a 0.3MP camera and LED flash on the back of the phone, but exquisite nature photography shouldn't be what you expect from a phone this small. The phones share a lot of the same specs, with this one also having a 1,450 mAh battery, Bluetooth 5.0, and USB Type-C. The storage is also the same with 16MB onboard (but expandable) and 8MB of RAM.
You'll get two SIM slots but you'll only be able to hit up to 2G speeds on this (I suppose these are meant to be more accessibly priced, as HMD has released 4G feature phones in the past), though as a device that will primarily be used for calls and texts, that's not going to be extremely noticeable.
