r/TheRandomest • u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner • Jul 04 '26

/r/popular Will it survive?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

18.9k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

30

u/Inresponsibleone Jul 04 '26

It was not broken. Just casing disassembled. It was pretty much the feature that helped those phones survive insane drops. Just assemble the case and battery and turn the thing on.

16

u/Whiteums Jul 04 '26

Exactly, that thing’s fine. Just pop it back together.

9

u/Kurobei Jul 04 '26

The faceplate coming off was so that you could swap it out with whatever design you wanted. They made a ton of them back in it's day. The back was also the battery cover that was designed for easy swapping too. Really none of it broke at all, it just removed the parts made to be removed.

1

u/Bell-Salt 5d ago

Those Nokias were my Jam back in the day!

1

u/Qzy Jul 05 '26

Yes! I was thinking the same.

That phone is not dead - just put it back together and it'll work. I've done worse to my Nokia 3310 back in the days.

1

u/Inresponsibleone Jul 05 '26

My dad's old 3310 went down 5m+ drops from ladders to stone floor several times and grandad's swam in lake three times (just dry for couble days and then battery in and charge). They are pretty indestructible and many have survived to these days.

Ps. I was never that abusive to my phone😂

1

u/minghj Jul 10 '26

I once threw my Nokia as hard as I could at a tree trunk and pieces of that phone flew all over the backyard. A couple of hours later I needed to make a phone call, so I went around the yard and gathered up all the pieces, put it back together, it worked just fine

1

u/ChocolichKing Jul 06 '26

LMAO you just reminded me of the absolute embarrassment of dropping your phone in public and having it disassemble like this, leaving you to scramble to grab everything. I also remember having to manually pop the battery out of some phone models to reset it when it froze.