About Nokia 3310 (2000)
The Nokia 3310 is the phone that outlived its owners' patience — dropped, sat on, run through washing machines, and still asking for a T9 word. Its design language runs on two truths: a pale olive-green monochrome LCD where every glyph is a cluster of dark rectangular pixels split by a hairline lattice, and a rounded navy polycarbonate shell with chunky, satisfying keys.
Nothing here glosses, gradients, or breaks. Type is grid-snapped and low-resolution, Snake winds one blocky segment at a time, and meters read as stacked signal bars. It is austere Finnish utility rendered at 84×48 dots: legible pixels on green glass inside a shell you cannot destroy.
- Origin
- Finland (Nokia — Espoo HQ / Salo factory)
- Era
- 2000–2005 (launched September 2000; 126M+ units sold)
- Key figures
- Frank Nuovo · Jorma Ollila · Taneli Armanto
- Movements
- Scandinavian industrial design · Early mobile UI · Dot-matrix LCD interfaces
Nokia 3310 (2000) design spec
Colors
Typography
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