Nokia‘s latest retro-style phone comes packing a powerful twist: a built-in power bank mode. The Nokia Charge 300 is pretty much as low-spec a phone as you can buy new in 2026 (and purposefully so), but it also doubles as a bit of a portable toolbox.
The Charge 300’s most standout feature is that it can be used as a power bank to charge up other devices via a 10W USB-C port. It’s not going to blow away your standard standalone power bank—the battery in this thing sits at just 3,700mAH—but it’s definitely enough to use for backup power to charge up your headphones on the go. (And yes, it could give your iPhone pretty much a full charge if you happened to be carrying both with you.) And to be fair, that is a pretty serious battery for a dumbphone; Nokia says it’ll give you up to 37 hours of talk time or 40 days of standby time.
The phone’s also packing a super bright LED flashlight. This is a true utility phone, and the rest of the specs are just as low as you might expect from such a device: a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, a QVGA camera (i.e., very low-res), a Unisoc SC6531E chipset, 4MB of RAM, and 4MB of internal storage. Don’t expect to be doing much except yapping and clacking out texts on that T9 on this phone. It does have a 3.5mm headphone jack, though of course you’ll need to load up actual music files rather than logging into streaming services. The phone is available in green and “sandstone” colors and weighs in at 138g.
While more modern companies like Light are crafting new devices that fall somewhere between true dumbphones and full-featured smartphones, Nokia is one of the few remaining legacy brands to be releasing phones that really do hit the far end of that spectrum. No word from Nokia yet on when this one might be available stateside; it’s currently only available in the Phillipines for 1,990 pesos (about $32).
