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Old-school mobiles make comeback with consumers paying top dollar for Nokia brick phones NETWORK WRITERS, WIRES AFP MAY 26, 2014 2:15PM SHARE 21 Nokia Lumia under hammer test1:47 Play video A Nokia Lumia 900 is put to the test of being hammered on with nails and more. AUTOPLAYON OFF Back in time ... handsets like the Nokia 3310 allow just basic text messaging and phone calls. Source: News Limited Nokia Lumia under hammer test Back in time ... handsets like the Nokia... THEY fit in a pocket, have batteries that last all week and are almost indestructible: old-school Nokias, Ericssons and Motorolas are making a comeback as consumers tire of fragile and overly-wired smartphones. LEAKED LETTER: Is this the end of Nokia? With no apps, video calls or smiley faces, handsets like the Nokia 3310 or the Motorola StarTec 130 allow just basic text messaging and phone calls. But demand for them is growing, according to reports out of Europe, where some of these second-hand models are fetching prices as high as 1000 euros ($1500) a piece. The Nokia brick ... tired of your smartphone’s low battery life? You can always go back to using a trusty Nokia 3310 - but it will cost you. Source: News Limited “Some people don’t blink at the prices, we have models at more than 1000 euros. The high prices are due to the difficulty in finding those models, which were limited editions in their time,” said Djassem Haddad, who started the site vintagemobile.fr in 2009. Haddad had been eyeing a niche market, but since last year, sales have taken off, he said. Over the past two to three years, he has sold some 10,000 handsets, “with a real acceleration from the beginning of 2013”. “The ageing population is looking for simpler phones, while other consumers want a second cheap phone,” he said. Niche market ... old-school Motorola phones are also proving popular. Source: News Corp Australia Among the top-sellers on the website is the Nokia 8210, with a tiny monochrome screen and plastic buttons, at $90. Ironically, the trend is just starting as the telecommunications industry consigns such handsets to the recycling bins, hailing smartphones as the way ahead. Finnish giant Nokia, which was undisputedly the biggest mobile phone company before the advent of Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy, offloaded its handset division to Microsoft this year after failing to catch the smartphone wave. But it was probably also the supposedly irreversible switch towards the smartphone that has given the old school phone an unexpected boost. And I found my old sckool toys. I find my 3310 in a bit...hahaha

Feeling nostalgic, anyone knows where to get below shoes ? Walked around heartland interchages, did not see any ... 1. Carefree-brand mid-cut 2. Double Coin brand

all the rich GTR/Fellali/Lampogini owner/driver all coming out liao this week

Woman BMW driver tells lorry driver 'You never go school' http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg..._go_school.html Typical elitist behavior and looking down on others... :angry: :angry:

Manage to snap this rare babe at Lavender.. Brings back memories when my teacher used to drive one of this..

SINGAPORE: On persecution paranoia and press freedom Government minister reiterates government's view of accurate reporting and mass media as a nation-building partner The Straits Times Thursday, July 3, 2008 By Jeremy Au Yeong For over 15 minutes during an hour-long dialogue yesterday, Secondary 3 student Jarret Huang went toe-to-toe with Dr Vivian Balakrishnan on press freedom and freedom of expression. At the session in Raffles Institution -- marked by sharp questions -- the 15-year-old's exchange with the Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister was the highlight of the morning. A good-humoured exchange about persecution drew the most laughs. Asked if he had been persecuted for publications or views he had put online, the youngster replied: 'I don't upload things on the Internet, sir.' As for whether he ever felt persecuted for anything he said or wrote, he said: 'Not legally, sir.' The teen added: 'The sense of persecution is not a reactive measure in my situation but rather it is a pre-emptive measure taken such that certain things which are deemed incorrect cannot be said in certain situations.' It was then Dr Balakrishnan's turn to draw the laughs as he said: 'Let's translate that into normal English.' But laughter aside, the minister said there was a serious point he was getting at: 'There is a certain almost paranoia which I'm trying to overcome here... Nobody in Singapore has been persecuted for saying the truth. Nobody is going to be persecuted for saying what he believes in and standing up for it.' He added: 'But if what you say is false, if what you say is motivated by malice, if your intention is to inflame religious and racial tensions, if you are a threat to the country, don't you think something should be done?' Dr Balakrishnan, who was second minister of information, communications and the arts until earlier this year, also responded to Jarret's questions on freedom of the press. Earlier in the exchange, he had asked the teen what was the one law he would change if he were a minister. The teen's answer: 'Press freedom.' Responding, the minister outlined the Government's attitude: 'The most important attribute is that we want accurate reporting. Because, if the journalists are just writing fiction and are just writing glowing portraits of me that nobody believes, then it is pointless. 'Our attitude towards the press in Singapore is that they are partners in nation-building. 'Our mass media also understand our key vulnerabilities and our hopes and dreams and are, therefore, partners in their construction. 'But they are not the mouthpiece of the Government and they are not there to give a one-sided view.' He also noted that if the traditional press loses credibility, people would go to the new media. 'There are very few national newspapers with as broad a coverage and obsessive attention to detail and accuracy as our mainstream media,' he said. 'So don't berate ourselves and our journalists too much. That's not fair to them. 'In fact, then you have to ask yourself, what is there to hide? The second question is, even if there is something being hidden, can it be hidden in this new world?' Date Posted: 7/3/2008 tat's all they can handle.... kids. no working adults or opposition members. tsk tsk. looking at this, i worried for singapore.

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