[plainOldText]

I was talking to a friend, and I was making more or less the same points.

Also, a phone has now become an indispensable tool for the modern man, a tool which augments your capabilities and allows you to expand them via new software.

There are plenty of cheap Android phones to choose from, that give you a better camera, proper connectivity, and a worldwide app ecosystem; with the new Nokia 3310 on the other hand, you get a 2G, 2 Megapixel camera, 2 inch screen phone with no software ecosystem. To me this seems like a no brainer.

[pjmlp]

Many people don't care about software, they just want to make phone calls, send SMSs and take an ocasional picture.

[plainOldText]

They might not care about software per se, but they do care about having access to information, education, communication and getting things done faster and better; and networked software enables people to do these things. Provided one has no other computational devices, carrying a dumb phone in this day and age is tantamount to bringing a knife to a gun fight.

[pjmlp]

Not everyone feels like that.

[smackfu]

They don't want Facebook?

[lovich]

I'll assume you are being serious. Many people don't use or want facebook. The only reason it's still on my phone is because I've been too lazy to figure out how to delete the pre-installed applications

[JD557]

Most Nokia series 30+ do come with Facebook, though. That's probably also the case with other feature phones / social apps.

[pjmlp]

Why should they? Not everyone likes Facebook or any other social web sites.