New Nokia 3310: can it act as a hotspot?

[kirk13]

Ok,so I'm excited by the new Nokia 3310: no touch screen,no smart nonsense,AND it's got snake!

But,and this was the reason I went to a smart(ish) phone,can it act as a wifi hotspot?

[Smashie]

Ok,so I'm excited by the new Nokia 3310: no touch screen,no smart nonsense,AND it's got snake!

But,and this was the reason I went to a smart(ish) phone,can it act as a wifi hotspot?

Careful there mate, I like it as well, BUT it's only a 2G phone. Most of the UK providers are starting to switch off their 2G networks.

[Sazabi]

Furthermore, even the review of Snake has been disappointing; the type of Symbian OS they based this phone off of still has had issues that haven't been corrected, according to reports on Reddit.

I was looking forward to the phone, but like Smashie said, even if they come out with a US-capable version, it not being 3G makes the phone a paperweight. :/

[kirk13]

Ok,so I'm excited by the new Nokia 3310: no touch screen,no smart nonsense,AND it's got snake!

But,and this was the reason I went to a smart(ish) phone,can it act as a wifi hotspot?

Careful there mate, I like it as well, BUT it's only a 2G phone. Most of the UK providers are starting to switch off their 2G networks.

So,and excuse my being dumb,but that means all dumb phones will be toast?

[Smashie]

Ok,so I'm excited by the new Nokia 3310: no touch screen,no smart nonsense,AND it's got snake!

But,and this was the reason I went to a smart(ish) phone,can it act as a wifi hotspot?

Careful there mate, I like it as well, BUT it's only a 2G phone. Most of the UK providers are starting to switch off their 2G networks.

So,and excuse my being dumb,but that means all dumb phones will be toast?

Pretty much

[kirk13]

Ok,so I'm excited by the new Nokia 3310: no touch screen,no smart nonsense,AND it's got snake!

But,and this was the reason I went to a smart(ish) phone,can it act as a wifi hotspot?

Careful there mate, I like it as well, BUT it's only a 2G phone. Most of the UK providers are starting to switch off their 2G networks.

So,and excuse my being dumb,but that means all dumb phones will be toast?

Pretty much

  b*%#$¥ds!

[Smashie]

Ok,so I'm excited by the new Nokia 3310: no touch screen,no smart nonsense,AND it's got snake!

But,and this was the reason I went to a smart(ish) phone,can it act as a wifi hotspot?

Careful there mate, I like it as well, BUT it's only a 2G phone. Most of the UK providers are starting to switch off their 2G networks.

So,and excuse my being dumb,but that means all dumb phones will be toast?

Pretty much

  b*%#$¥ds!

That's 'progress' I guess

[AimlessWanderer]

Ok,so I'm excited by the new Nokia 3310: no touch screen,no smart nonsense,AND it's got snake!

But,and this was the reason I went to a smart(ish) phone,can it act as a wifi hotspot?

Careful there mate, I like it as well, BUT it's only a 2G phone. Most of the UK providers are starting to switch off their 2G networks.

So,and excuse my being dumb,but that means all dumb phones will be toast?

Pretty much

  b*%#$¥ds!

+1 

I'm currently using Blackberry as it's the only one I have a modicum of trust for, but since their new OS is now incorporating (being infested with) Google, options for me are getting extremely limited. Smurf knows what the smurf I'm going to do when it's time to renew my contract

[Sazabi]

It's just annoying that there are few/no dumbphone manufacturers that are 3G enabled; despite the market penetration, you'd think between the US and the UK, we'd be sizable-enough markets to warrant salable products. :/

[AimlessWanderer]

It's just annoying that there are few/no dumbphone manufacturers that are 3G enabled; despite the market penetration, you'd think between the US and the UK, we'd be sizable-enough markets to warrant salable products. :/

They're trying to sell us the products that they instead of the products we actually want to own. They want us to buy apps we don't need, and to generate smurf loads of meta data for them to sell. Gone are the days when the phone was the commodity, now it's us that are the commodity. But don't get me started......

 

[magentus]

It's just annoying that there are few/no dumbphone manufacturers that are 3G enabled; despite the market penetration, you'd think between the US and the UK, we'd be sizable-enough markets to warrant salable products. :/

They're trying to sell us the products that they instead of the products we actually want to own. They want us to buy apps we don't need, and to generate smurf loads of meta data for them to sell. Gone are the days when the phone was the commodity, now it's us that are the commodity. But don't get me started......

 

Right there with you 50. I went to a crappy work conference the other week where they were genuinley excited about our residents (many elderly and frail) using the amazon echo voice activated system as an alarm instead of the perfectly good bespoke system we currently operate.

I pointed out that the amazon/google/apple systems are purely tools for data mining and selling goods but they looked at me like I was starkers (I wasn't, I checked  ). The pace of change is getting ridiculous too.  When will we learn that technology can't fix everything?

I'm off for a cuppa. 

p.s - great article in the Guardian about the 'internet of things'. Spells out the issues very clearly:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/internet-of-things-smart-home-smart-city

[AimlessWanderer]

It's just annoying that there are few/no dumbphone manufacturers that are 3G enabled; despite the market penetration, you'd think between the US and the UK, we'd be sizable-enough markets to warrant salable products. :/

They're trying to sell us the products that they instead of the products we actually want to own. They want us to buy apps we don't need, and to generate smurf loads of meta data for them to sell. Gone are the days when the phone was the commodity, now it's us that are the commodity. But don't get me started......

 

Right there with you 50. I went to a crappy work conference the other week where they were genuinley excited about our residents (many elderly and frail) using the amazon echo voice activated system as an alarm instead of the perfectly good bespoke system we currently operate.

I pointed out that the amazon/google/apple systems are purely tools for data mining and selling goods but they looked at me like I was starkers (I wasn't, I checked  ). The pace of change is getting ridiculous too.  When will we learn that technology can't fix everything?

I'm off for a cuppa. 

p.s - great article in the Guardian about the 'internet of things'. Spells out the issues very clearly:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/internet-of-things-smart-home-smart-city

Yup. It galls me that we have to keep upgrading our devices and connectivity method, at ever increasing cost, not so that we can access information better, but that we generate and surrender our meta data more efficiently. We have to pay our money so that the hidden programs nicking our data function effectively, and if we don't, we can't use our devices. It smurfing stinks!

What we need is some brave innovator bringing to market phones and tablets and computers, which have all the standard functions that most people need, but which completely blocks out all the hidden data mining stuff. Give the consumer the opportunity to walk away from this growing exploitation, and take the digital world back to being about our convenience, and stop turning consumers into the product.

[magentus]

It's just annoying that there are few/no dumbphone manufacturers that are 3G enabled; despite the market penetration, you'd think between the US and the UK, we'd be sizable-enough markets to warrant salable products. :/

They're trying to sell us the products that they instead of the products we actually want to own. They want us to buy apps we don't need, and to generate smurf loads of meta data for them to sell. Gone are the days when the phone was the commodity, now it's us that are the commodity. But don't get me started......

 

Right there with you 50. I went to a crappy work conference the other week where they were genuinley excited about our residents (many elderly and frail) using the amazon echo voice activated system as an alarm instead of the perfectly good bespoke system we currently operate.

I pointed out that the amazon/google/apple systems are purely tools for data mining and selling goods but they looked at me like I was starkers (I wasn't, I checked  ). The pace of change is getting ridiculous too.  When will we learn that technology can't fix everything?

I'm off for a cuppa. 

p.s - great article in the Guardian about the 'internet of things'. Spells out the issues very clearly:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/internet-of-things-smart-home-smart-city

Yup. It galls me that we have to keep upgrading our devices and connectivity method, at ever increasing cost, not so that we can access information better, but that we generate and surrender our meta data more efficiently. We have to pay our money so that the hidden programs nicking our data function effectively, and if we don't, we can't use our devices. It smurfing stinks!

What we need is some brave innovator bringing to market phones and tablets and computers, which have all the standard functions that most people need, but which completely blocks out all the hidden data mining stuff. Give the consumer the opportunity to walk away from this growing exploitation, and take the digital world back to being about our convenience, and stop turning consumers into the product.

Yes!

If you don't know what the product is, it's you.

[Whoey]

http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_3310_(2017)-8597.php

seems to say no WLAN, so that would pretty much completely rule out hotspot.

[pomsbz]

It's just annoying that there are few/no dumbphone manufacturers that are 3G enabled; despite the market penetration, you'd think between the US and the UK, we'd be sizable-enough markets to warrant salable products. :/

They're trying to sell us the products that they instead of the products we actually want to own. They want us to buy apps we don't need, and to generate smurf loads of meta data for them to sell. Gone are the days when the phone was the commodity, now it's us that are the commodity. But don't get me started......

 

No kidding but the dominoes keep falling.