Nokia’s New Dumbphone Can Recharge Your Smartphone

Nokia‘s latest retro-style phone comes packing a powerful twist: a built-in power bank mode. The Nokia Charge 300 is pretty much as low-spec a phone as you can buy new in 2026 (and purposefully so), but it also doubles as a bit of a portable toolbox.

The Charge 300’s most standout characteristic is that it may be used as an influence financial institution to cost up different gadgets by way of a 10W USB-C port. It’s not going to blow away your customary standalone energy financial institution—the battery on this factor sits at simply 3,700mAH—nevertheless it’s positively sufficient to make use of for backup energy to cost up your headphones on the go. (And sure, it might give your iPhone just about a full cost should you occurred to be carrying each with you.) And to be honest, that may be a fairly critical battery for a dumbphone; Nokia says it’ll provide you with as much as 37 hours of discuss time or 40 days of standby time.

The cellphone’s additionally packing a brilliant vibrant LED flashlight. This is a real utility cellphone, and the remainder of the specs are simply as little as you would possibly count on from such a tool: a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a QVGA digital camera (i.e., very low-res), a Unisoc SC6531E chipset, 4MB of RAM, and 4MB of inside storage. Don’t count on to be doing a lot besides yapping and clacking out texts on that T9 on this cellphone. It does have a 3.5mm headphone jack, although after all you’ll must load up precise music recordsdata somewhat than logging into streaming providers. The cellphone is accessible in inexperienced and “sandstone” colours and weighs in at 138g.

While extra fashionable corporations like Light are crafting new gadgets that fall someplace between true dumbphones and full-featured smartphones, Nokia is likely one of the few remaining legacy manufacturers to be releasing telephones that basically do hit the far finish of that spectrum. No phrase from Nokia but on when this one could be accessible stateside; it’s at present solely accessible within the Phillipines for 1,990 pesos (about $32).