There’s also two sim card slots, if you’re the type who wants to have multiple numbers for one phone. Not too many phones have that feature these days. The phone is built for adventure with IP65 compliance, a reflective screen with Gorilla glass, a dedicated location sharing button (texting your location as a GPS text to an interested follower), and an SOS button.

Just don’t worry that all of this will take away from the phone’s main purpose which is talking and texting. If you feel you’ve seen the name ‘Nokia’ too many times in this list, just imagine going into a phone shop in the late 90s when the brand truly dominated. The 3310 is perhaps the most iconic of that spate of market leaders, and it has now been revived twice, in 2017 and 2019. None operated by a touchscreen, of course, though Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & 4G LTE are on offer. The keys are, just about, operable wearing gloves, and while texting is pretty hard work (as for any ‘dumb’ phone), the apps well behaved on the Qualcomm 8905 Dual-Core 1.3GHzProcessor. I’d choose text msg, phone, calendar, notes, directions (walking, public transit, bike and driving), music (either Spotify, pandora or Apple Music) and a podcast or audible app. The Cat B35 is a seriously rugged phone which should easily survive anything you can put it throughWe have been scanning these smartphones for more than 2 years. We have probably dealt with more products and accessories than almost any team on the planet, so we understand each and every possible aspect of these items. Simpler phones are surging in popularity as more of us shun the expectation of constant connectivity. Global sales of feature phones are rising faster than smartphones, and the search experts over at SEMrush recently found that Google searches for dumb phones rose by 89% between 2018 and 2021. As it stands, it's worth noting that demand for the original Light Phone seems to be outstripping supply, so you may struggle to actually find one up for sale. To store photos and music on the phone, you’ll need to buy a MicroSD memory card. We’ve noted which options have a storage card slot in our roundup. Network connectivity

If, like me, the original Nokia 3310 represented your first phone, then this new device is probably closer to how you remember your second or third device in terms of features. The whole thing feels very 2008 – not that that’s a bad thing, it’s just quite a step up from the original 3310. Not so great for the nostalgia factor, but in general we're talking about improvements, not criticisms.Green Zones – Camera-enabled smartphones, tablets and laptops are allowed to be brought in. You can’t take unauthorised photos or videos. You haven’t mentioned Mudita Pure ( https://mudita.com/products/pure/) – a classic minimalist mobile phone with an E Ink display. If battery life is important to you then this little gem will keep you going from dusk til dawn, and a little more. To be fair, it’s exactly the phone you’d expect a company best known for its tractors and bulldozers, and could probably survive being run over by one too. For those who work in an industrial setting or simply find themselves out and about in the great outdoors a lot, that ruggedness could definitely come in handy. The B30 is a pared down version of the B35, but it's probably the purest expression of what a basic phone should be

The new Nokia 3310 wins this one by a country mile. On standby, you'll get 3-4 days out of the Light Phone, 7-10 days on the Alba Flip, and somewhere between 21-25 on the Nokia 8110. The 3310 will last for 31 days on standby. Despite the phone itself feeling a little less robust than the original, the battery life is still as long as you remember. Longer, in fact. The original 3310’s battery would last about a week; this new incarnation is ready to party for a full month. You read that right: 31 days. Oh the joy!Nokia may just be a brand name nowadays, but it is still one associated with quality. So if you’re just looking for a simple handset that can take calls, read (but not compose too many) texts, and even browse YouTube and Facebook, then this elegant and relatively up-to-date flip phone is a good choice. (That’s watch YouTube – the camera only takes stills). A silent successor to Nokia’s relaunched 3310 (which only supported a 3G network), although slightly less curvy and attractive is the Nokia 225. This is a cheap, but capable minimalist phone running on 4G.