The ecological impact, data protection, or the vintage aspect of GSM may push some people to switch to mobiles from another time. Since January 1, 2022, your fixed and mobile Internet bills even include the carbon footprint related to your connection. Try to take a look at the evolution of your energy consumption! Are retro phones relevant? The French Electronic Communications Regulatory Authority estimated that digital data transfer accounts for 2% of greenhouse gas emissions and this figure could rise to 7% by 2050. Indeed, returning to a "dumbphone" is a more responsible move for the environment than buying a smartphone that contains components which are getting increasingly rare without any recycling effort. If you are like Christopher, some people might be tempted to abandon the smartphone because of personal data collection concerns, others might be enticed by their conscience to keep the planet green. Hence, there's no need to worry about that.
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The question of operating system obsolescence does not even arise on old phones because at the time of their release, Android and iOS did not even exist. Unless you are looking for a rare handset like the Motorola Aura which was released in 2008 and sold for an insane 4-digit amount on, you will easily find a phone for less than $50 on the same site. The price of retro mobile handsets also remains well below those of our current smartphones. Would you trade your iPhone for a Nokia 3310 in 2022? / © NextPit by Irina Efremova
Christopher confided, however, that he sometimes takes his iPhone X with him when he goes out. "I use it as an iPod and a camera, if I want to perform in-depth research or manage my emails, I mainly do so from my computer." If his Nokia is no longer in working condition as far as the battery is concerned, it still performs well since he only needs to recharge it "once every four days".
"I was a bit fed up with the impact of GAFAM on my daily life," he insisted. More out of a concern for disconnection than nostalgia, he says he found an alternative here "to wasted hours of achieving nothing" on his old iPhone. The same is true for video game fans, and nostalgia for their first video game experiences has prompted some manufacturers to replicate their old consoles such as the SNES Classic Mini, which Nintendo sold more than 5 million units in less than a year after its release in 2017.Īfter reclaiming our interiors, could the objects of the past find a place in our pockets? Could our old mobiles also adapt to our ultra-connected lives? That's what my friend Christopher thinks, as he can't let go of his Nokia 3310 which he found intact at a flea market nearly a year ago. Some music lovers connected to Spotify, Apple Music or Deezer can spend hours looking for vinyl records.
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With Nokia 8810, the well known brand wanted to go back to the basic phones root in 2018 / © NextPit by Irina EfremovaĪs we can see from the music or video game industry, objects from the past end up finding a place on our shelves and TV sets. In the age of constant, unlimited connectivity, some are choosing to go back to basics. In 2021, Huawei estimated that a single user transferred an average of 1.5 GB of data per day on their smartphone alone. In just two decades, our phones have changed so much. Back then, Google was a search engine which was still available on Internet Explorer and Chrome didn't exist. 20 years ago, all the mobiles on the planet were struggling to reach 100 GB of data consumption daily. I'm talking about the early 2000s, when a small amount of data flowed through our mobiles. Our phones had become a way to assert our similarities, individualities, and differences.īack then, our phones weren't really smart WhatsApp and Instagram didn't exist. We were sending messages via MSN while Facebook was only starting to attract American college kids.
You also would probably remember the Snake game on Nokia, your classmate's latest flip phone, number of hours spent looking for an interchangeable case from a physical store. This object entered our daily life with just a few taps on the keypad, allowing us to remain in touch with our loved ones near and far, to play games on a small screen in monochrome, and especially fooling around with strong vibrations and polyphonic sounds of the latest American Idol hit. If you are like me and were born before the year 2000, you will surely remember your first cell phone as a GSM handset.
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