The user interface itself is definitely a throw-back though. The Nokia 3310 screen boasts a whopping 84×48 pixel monochrome area. There are four buttons serving as a d-pad, and two as action buttons.
Projects involving Conway’s Game of Life and utilizing a Nokia 3310 screen are quite popular with electronics hobbyists. [Droky] put these two together and went one step further by adding ...
The Nokia 3310, BlackBerry 5810 ... influenced the trend towards big-screen smartphones for content consumption. These days, it's pretty tough to tell apart one phone from another.