Endless battery life, colourful fascias and Snake (obviously) – as Nokia plans a return to the phone market, in praise of its most enduring product: the 3210

Hold the phone – Nokia has announced its return to the mobile (cell) market. The Finnish telecoms giant, which was once the biggest producer of mobile handsets in the world, has agreed with Microsoft to begin designing phones again in 2016.

Microsoft bought the company’s faltering mobile phone unit for €5.44bn (£4.6bn) in 2013, after declining sales in the face of competition from Apple. But now that Microsoft’s chief executive Rajeev Suri has said Nokia is to return, we can’t help harking back to its pièce de résistance: the Nokia 3210. Here’s why we loved it.

Just put on a jacket I last wore at a wedding in 2001 and found a Nokia 3210 in the pocket. It still has 2 bars of battery left