Product Verification: Return of Nokia Banana – WORLD

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S Let's face it: the Nokia 8110 4G is unreasonable, as its name implies. That is why we call it simply banana. It is folded, and it is yellow in our exam sample. Banana is also available in black, but it seems less exciting. An impertinence is banana, because the operation is really clumsy. This suddenly reminds us why we got used to the touch screen so quickly. And what torments we had to endure.

The banana display does not respond to touch, it is only operated by the buttons. And so the banana sends us back decades in the past. If you want to write a text, press the 6 key three times for the letter "o". In fact, the device was in a very similar form before – and exactly 22 years ago. Later, he even had an appearance in the sci-fi movie Matrix. The banana was so cool, and Nokia was once a flagship company.

With the new banana, the owner of the HMD brand tries to address all those who have nostalgic feelings. This could work well for some interested parties beyond the age of 40. Certainly not because of the equipment. The camera of the new banana is not serious, a selfie camera does not exist. The rear camera makes videos in a resolution of only 320 by 240 pixels and photos with two megapixels. However, the original banana did not have any cameras at all. And so you have to say with this camera again and again: after all.

The display, even though it's not tactile, has seen a considerable upgrade. It is colorful and represents more than the original four times thirteen characters On the banana runs a new operating system called KaiOS. This could almost be called a smartphone because it even exists on the phone, even an app store with ten apps, including six games, a weather app and Twitter. After all.

Pre-installed are applications such as email, Internet browser, calendar, calculator, but also YouTube and three very simple graphic demo games. One of them is a kind of Temple Run, where a running figure must avoid obstacles. Even the Google badistant is on the phone. Unfortunately only in English. If you ask him questions, the answer sounds loud and sometimes very softly. There is always a hiccup in the banana. Then he hangs in an application until nothing works. One solution is to restart the phone. The easiest way to do this is to remove the battery for a short time

Fortunately, Google Maps has done it on the banana. During the test, the phone had no problem finding its location. But a real navigation with voice output does not exist, only a route description in list form. Reading e-mails or surfing the Internet is a veritable torment on the banana because the section to be moved is changing very slowly. Sometimes not at all. If there are links to click, a mouse pointer appears. But not always.

After installing Twitter from the store, the mouse pointer was not visible at all. This is only after a phone reboot that he is shown moved with a D-pad. But even then, it was difficult to hit a link and not land on the left or the right. Unfortunately, important apps like Facebook and WhatsApp are still missing. Overall, the new Nokia Banana is a real challenge, but it evokes nostalgic feelings – at the latest when you start the game.

The device looks like plastic, but stands well in the hand because of its flexion. Conversations can be easily accepted by pulling the slider. The internal memory of four gigabytes can be expanded by a microSD card. In addition, two SIM cards can be inserted

The Nokia 8110 4G costs 89 euros. Since the banana does not make you navigate and watch YouTube, the battery of the device lasts forever. It only needs to be charged every few days. The manufacturer mentions a 17-day standby period for the Dual-Sim device. At least this makes banana a big step ahead of other smartphones.