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Why was the Nokia 3210 so popular?
There were 160 million of them in the wild in 1999, according toWikipedia.
The old Nokia 3210 (above right) next to a teaser of HMD’s remake, which will launch soon
But it was also one of the first mainstream phones that didn’t have an external antenna.
The design was apparently inspired by bothCasioG-Shock watches and theSonyWalkman, which explains its utilitarian looks.