Bond’s bag of tricks: the gadgets of No Time To Die

The authentic Nokia 3310 was launched in 2000, six years earlier than the Craig period started. A cult basic dumbphone with a particular silhouette, we will image a hipster undercover agent coveting its lumpen utilitarian aesthetic in the similar tongue-in-cheek approach an artist struts alongside Margate seafront exhibiting off their ratty previous pair of Crocs.
Bond himself would have little truck with post-ironic normcore posturing, however there are loads of sensible causes for him to make use of the 3310: its epic battery life (260 hours of discuss time!), brick-like construct high quality and the incontrovertible fact that it ran on Series 20, an working system that may be rather a lot much less prone to cyber-attack than the Android OS employed by at present’s Nokia smartphones. For a undercover agent, it’s in all probability smarter to make use of a dumbphone.
The 2017 reissue of the Nokia 3310 (which is almost definitely the telephone we truly see in the movie) additionally runs on an older non-smartphone OS, though it does have Bluetooth, a Micro USB port and a a lot much less spectacular battery life (about 22 hours of discuss time).