Nokia phones are still kicking around (so are its laptops, weirdly), but the leaked Nokia 300 4G Powerbank is one of the weirder examples of what the company is doing now. HMD’s device isn’t a portable battery, despite the name. But, as its title suggests, it can also be used as one.
Leaked via an X post, the company’s newest features what is, for a T9 keyboard phone, a massive battery. As far as Nokia phones of its type go, it’s also gigantic. The phone resembles the Nokia 235 in appearance, but it’s packing more juice under the casing than you’d expect.
Powerbank on it
According to the leak, the Nokia 300 4G Powerbank includes a 3,750mAh battery. That doesn’t seem like much, by smartphone standards, but this isn’t a smartphone. A typical Nokia feature phone uses a battery capacity of half this. In other words, if you’re not using this one to top up your smart device, it should last for absolute ages.
There’s a 2.4in display planned, plus the usual dumbphone features. An FM radio, an LED torch (which should also last ages with that battery in tow), a faithful 3.5mm jack, and 10W charging should make owning one bearable. Even if you don’t like missing out on smarter features.
Other details of the phone, like launch timing and pricing, aren’t known. Given that this is another Nokia dumbphone, the internal specs are more irrelevant than interesting. Which is handy, because the internals aren’t known either. We’ll keep an eye open for updates, though. Nokia’s return to the feature phone market might make it less susceptible to the current price spikes afflicting pretty much everything else.
