here's mine with 3310 cover. she is 12 old. i have some genuine covers. luckily i found a store and they have a bunch of so i can "dress" her frequently.

btw looks like Nokia will never be the same. they invented. they designed. they released a tons of fine quality products. i still amazed what they did and i'm also a proud N9 user.

but one day a bad company sent 'em a bad boy and they let him destroy their fabulous "playground". that was the worst idea ever in history of humanity. (Elop must die of course)

Well the bad boy was not a Finnish is all I know. And yeah, he was sent from a bad company. :P

I too don't have much hope in Microsoft Mobile. They have only been doing Lumia devices and nothing else. Maybe they are held up because of other MSFT products and services. But hey, that is what will keep them from doing new things.

Tell that to all the PC, graphics card and monitor manufacturers.
Apparently they have been doing it wrong for decades.

No, you don't get what I meant.
If the front of the device is empty/no-screen and just has hooks to place a OtherHalf in for the screen... that means the circuit board, display drivers, everything has to be in the OtherHalfScreen and it has to be specially tailored for the connection.

If you pry open a laptop from Samsung, Toshiba, Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo etc etc... you'll see they all have different internal connectors, but it runs off the same process. There's very little difference in their screens.

There's a very good reason for this, and its mass production. The factories churn out millions of generic screens. They're shipped to OEM warehouses where they go some generic alterations and put together into units.

I'm not saying its impossible. I'm just saying the whole OHS process will add a lot more delays into units. And thus it will add cost and availability issues. Also negative effects like a thicker device, possibly longer screen latency, more fragile device.

What's the gain?
The possibility to change the screen in the future. Not quite important I believe. By the time the screen is burnt out, it will be many years. And by the time you get newer screens, technology would've improved in other areas like the cpu, gpu, ram, flash storage, radios, speakers, etc etc. You might as well just build a new phone from scratch.

I mean imagine having a new updated Jolla phone every 18 months. Wouldn't that be better?

Found a very interesting Nokia prototype today on eBay.
It has all touch screen and stylus from 2005, but seems running Symbian instead of Maemo.

I am thinking of bidding it.











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Edit: Thanks for pointing out this is a 7700. Not so familiar with old touch Nokias...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7700

Thought was unreleased lol. Not familiar with old touch devices at all. Thank you for the info.

I definitely had Space Impact on the Nokia 3310, so it can't be exclusive to 3315. No Picture Editor, though.

You're right, mate. It was never released, got cancelled in summer 2004.