Guy Cocker takes a dose of nostal ia with Nokia’s rebooted 3310. Can this two-decade-old phone live up to the hype? (Don’t worry, it’s ot on it)

ostalgia is a powerful weapon. First Brexit promised to bring our country back, then Donald Trump claimed he’d make America great again. Now Nokia is taking us back to the days when your mobile battery lasted days rather than hours and you could drop it without fear of smashing it to smithereens. But is it all it’s cracked up to be?

The new 3310 might not look identical to its ancestor but you can certainly see the resemblance – and it feels like it’d probably survive an unintended meeting with the floor too. On standby it’ll last a month, or if you can find someone to chat to for long enough it’ll do 22 hours of talktime.

Of course, managing such amazing battery-based feats means there’s a lot that it doesn’t do. There’s no touchscreen, no Wi-fi, no proper app store, and the camera’s only 2MP (although it does have a flash). But it does do Snake.

It also supports dual SIM cards, has a headphone socket (and Bluetooth if you want to use wireless cans instead), plus there’s a microsd slot that will take cards up to 32GB, and an FM radio, so it’s not a terrible for entertainment either. A calendar, notes and contacts will also help you keep up with your smartphone-owning friends.

While the Nokia 3310 certainly isn’t for the Snapchat generation, its Opera browser means you can check Twitter and Facebook etc, plus it automatically optimises pages. That’s just as well, because the 2G connection isn’t going to set any speed records. Still, those Snapchatters never owned the original, so that pull of nostalgia won’t be as strong as it is for us fogies.