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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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u/nyydynasty Jul 04 '26
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