Nokia's revived Matrix phone could've been so much cooler

HMD Global's Nokia 8110 4G — a fresh take on the legendary phone best known for its appearance in The Matrix movie — disappointed some fans because it didn't feature the spring-release mechanism on its front cover, as seen in the movie. 

The criticism is somewhat misguided, though, since the original Nokia 8110 was a simple plastic slider that never had the spring-release mechanism. Only the movie version had the spring-release feature for added coolness. 

However (and this will surely add to the confusion over this matter), the new Nokia 8110 4G almost had the spring-release mechanism; Nokia gave up on that design at the last minute.  Read more...