Indestructible Nokia 3310 is the nickname given to Nokia’s 3000 series mobile phones and customer review parodies poking fun at their durability and heavy weight. The joke typically manifests itself in image macros, in which the Nokia phone is shown to be an incredibly powerful or destructive force.
Origin
On December 4th, 2011, a thread titled “The Terminator of cellphones”[3] was submitted to the /r/geek subreddit that featured an image of a Nokia 1100 phone with a caption claiming it could only be destroyed in the fires of Mordor, a fictional volcano in the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. In the thread, Redditor TheBasilisk[4] replied with a link to a photo of a Nokia 3310 naming it “the Witch King,” the chief of the Nazgûl (Ringwraiths).
Nokia 3310
The Nokia 3310 mobile phone was released in the fourth quarter of 2000. It is considered one of the best selling phones of all time, selling 136 million units according to Nokia’s press release[11] from 2005:
If all the Nokia 3310/3330 phones sold were laid end-to-end, the line would stretch from Helsinki, Finland to Santiago, Chile – over 13,500 kilometers.
In other words, this is the God of Phones
Discuss.
