Finnish company HMD Global, which owns the rights to release devices under the Nokia brand, presented an improved version of the revived mobile phone Nokia 3310, which received support for 3G networks, writes Phone Arena.

The online edition notes that this addition to the phone features will surely please many fans of the original Nokia 3310. In addition, now the phone will be on sale in the US and possibly in Canada, where it has not been available so far due to the small coverage of 2G networks.

Recall that the updated version of the famous phone, presented in late February, received a number of differences from the original model. So, the new phone 3310 became thinner and lighter, received a 2.4-inch color display, a 2-megapixel camera and a microSD card slot. Compared with this version, the 3G version of the phone has received cosmetic design changes. In particular, in the Nokia 3310 3G, the gaps between the numeric keypad buttons.

Sales of the Nokia 3310 3G will begin in mid-October in Australia, and then the phone will appear in other countries. Its cost is 69 euros.

The original mobile phone Nokia 3310 was released in 2000, came to replace the model 3210, which was the first mobile phone without protruding out of the housing antenna. The extremely successful phone was characterized by a solid body, which gave rise to a lot of jokes about its inability. According to statistics published last year, the total sales of Nokia 3310 amounted to more than 126 million devices, which allowed the phone to take the ninth place in the ranking of the best-selling smartphones and mobile phones. In this case, most of the places in front of him in this list are occupied by other models of phones of the Finnish company.