Awesome and Classic Nokia Phones!

[princefakhan]

Just found these pictures of Nokia phones with truly awesome design. I didn't even know many of the phones. Gotta say! Nokia was and always will be the most innovative company, be it design or technology.

Why did you even start making touchscreen phones, Nokia. Those were really cool phones back then.

[princefakhan]

Some more...

[princefakhan]

...and finally the last batch I have.

[princefakhan]

and how can one forget the King.

[MINKIN2]

I like that 6108, looks a bit 'star trek' in it's design. :)

[princefakhan]

I like that 6108, looks a bit 'star trek' in it's design. :)

I know right. And look at those features. Man! a stylus. And you can do hand-written text. :D

Let's see what Microsoft does with our beloved Devices and Services. Personally, I don't expect much. I believe Nokia's D&S went full ****** when Stephen Elop became the CEO. Probably because he was not Finnish. meh!

[xanderx]

Jolla did kinda 'rip-off' for its UX icons from 7600 form-factor. I had that phone, BTW. The Nokia's (maybe world's, who knows) second 3G phone, for God's sake, just behind 6650.

[princefakhan]

Huh! well Nokia did fund Jolla, so maybe that is why there was no legal case. Or else these companies are always on the look out for pouncing others for violating there patents and licences. :P

[Kangal]

That Nokia N93 was some awesome phone.

I preferred the Nokia 3315 over the 3310, it had Space Impact and Picture Editor !!
http://cdn9.fonearena.com/photos/albums/nokia/3315/nokia-3315.jpg

Also that lustful phone we called the Nokia 8800:
http://vgphones.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1200x1200/86e39e18ae7aee55dcd5a514dd89bdfb/n/o/nokia-8800-combo.jpg

Other notable devices are:

(some history of vintage smartphones)
IBM Simon ('92) < Nokia 9210 ('00) < Palm Treo 90 ('02)

(some old smartphones)
Nokia 6630 ('04) < Nokia 9500 ('04) < Palm Treo 650 ('04)
iPaq rw6815 ('05) < Mitac A702 ('07) ~ HTC TyTnII ('07) < Moto Cliq ('08)

(some newer smartphones)
iPhone 3G ('08) < Palm Pre ~ BB Torch ~ Moto Droid ~ iPhone 3GS ('09) <
Nokia N900 ~ Nexus One ('10) < HTC EVO 4G ('10) < Galaxy S ('10) <
EPIC 4G ('10) ~ Lumia 820 ~ iPhone 4 ('10) ~ Nokia N9 ('11) <
Samsung Galaxys S2 (2011) < Apple iPhone 4S (2011)

(some superphones)
G-Nexus (2011) ~ Jolla Phone < Lumia 920 ~ LG 4X ~ SGS3 < BB Z10 ~ HTC One X 4G (2012) <
Lumia 1020 (2013) ~ One M7 ~ Xperia Z < Lumia 930 ~ SGS 4 ~ Nexus 5 < LG G2 (2013) <
OPO/1+1 (2014) ~ SGS5 ~ HTC M8 < LG G3 ~ Moto X < iPhone 6 ~ SONY Z3 (2014)

(and finally modern superphones)
- console/desktop performance
- modern software ecosystem
- 3 days battery life

[mscion]

Before my N900 I had an E72. Kinda BB like...

http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/nokia/nokia-e72-00.jpg

[youmeego]

And that meego concept phone from nokia that will never be released.

[peterleinchen]

I loved the 8800.

But still my favourite is the 7110
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Nokia_7110_open.png
wikipedia (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7110)
First S40 and the first to come with a WAP browser (and that scroll wheel)! Still power it on from time to time :)
Oh, would I have kept all those gems ... ;)

What only happened????? :(

[vitaminj]

The best thing Nokia ever did
36810
#facetiousReply

[mscion]

Wonder how many of these phones would be FCC certified in re low enough radiation emission...

[zamorph]

But still my favourite is the 7110
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Nokia_7110_open.png
wikipedia (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_7110)
First S40 and the first to come with a WAP browser (and that scroll wheel)! Still power it on from time to time :)


I had the 7110! It was a cool, nifty gadget of a phone. :) Loved the way one could answer a call with the quick release / slide action / almost shooting out kind of action. And it was in the Matrix, wasn't it?

Looking back, it seems that Nokia was much more innovative than today's cell phone manufacturers.

[peterleinchen]

I had the 7110! It was a cool, nifty gadget of a phone. :) Loved the way one could answer a call with the quick release / slide action / almost shooting out kind of action.
Yes, it was, erm still IS!

And it was in the Matrix, wasn't it?
Nope, that was the 8110. No wap browser, no scroll wheel, no automatic spring slide out (even that was added only for the movie).

Looking back, it seems that Nokia was much more innovative than today's cell phone manufacturers.
That is exactly what I cannot understand. How a company with such good designers/engineers could be driven down. Sometimes it just needs the one wrong CEO decision ? Or they became too big and heavy and slow decision/bureaucracy/demotivation took over?

[endsormeans]

My personal take when looking back at the past...
I don't think it was failure on the part of the corps I mention as much as it was the advent of the stupidphone which brought many good things and companies to the brink ...if not over it.
Nokia ...BB are two good examples...
The initial skirmish initially released interesting product on the unsuspecting public with the publicly stated intent of "all your needs in your pocket"... which has escalated into a deterioration of the latest "shiny"
I think the war has really just begun.
And I think devices like the pyra and like the neo900 are going to blow the lid off things as we know it.
Sure sure...the neo900...it's a small project.
But boy o boy...
I'm just guessing that many of the big boys are watching intently.
Looking at what the device offers... the neo900 essentially offers exactly what the populace originally wanted and needed.
Whether that is relevant or not now to the desire of the the global herd to turn them from consumers back into avid and curious users and innovators ...we'll see.
Not that I'm plugging the neo or anything :D

[thedead1440]

Hmm while memories are always rose-tinted, I can think of many reasons for Nokia's downfall other than the CEO; for example, how many people were ticked off at purchasing the 8210 only for it to be superceded by the 8250 after a few months with the only difference being the blue light and dancing motion while ringing during a call or the 7210 vs 7250 etc...

Nokia, Samsung et al during the feature phone years were specialists of adding one feature while removing another in every new model hence never releasing a "complete" device.

They took bean counting to the extreme hence their fate today...

[From Vertu with Love]

Hmm while memories are always rose-tinted, I can think of many reasons for Nokia's downfall other than the CEO; for example, how many people were ticked off at purchasing the 8210 only for it to be superceded by the 8250 after a few months with the only difference being the blue light and dancing motion while ringing during a call or the 7210 vs 7250 etc...

Nokia, Samsung et al during the feature phone years were specialists of adding one feature while removing another in every new model hence never releasing a "complete" device.

They took bean counting to the extreme hence their fate today...

Also, letting Symbian being pulled at by all angles, and hampering even their expensive phones by putting in extremely weak processors. Form was never an issue, functionality became one.

But hey, Nokia's still around in some form, so it could be a lot worse. And with Nokia no longer making phones, there's space for a lot more newcomers - Sailfish, Ubuntu, Firefox OS and Tizen have all benefitted.

[princefakhan]

Also, letting Symbian being pulled at by all angles, and hampering even their expensive phones by putting in extremely weak processors. Form was never an issue, functionality became one.

But hey, Nokia's still around in some form, so it could be a lot worse. And with Nokia no longer making phones, there's space for a lot more newcomers - Sailfish, Ubuntu, Firefox OS and Tizen have all benefitted.

I agree on the processor hampering but Symbian ran fine on those processors too. Atleast better than any Android at the time of 808 PV. I know because I used it. Used it till last year. But the functionality was the problem. Yeah! Bad Web Browser, not many mainstream apps.

And wrong. Nokia is gonna make phones after 2016. And damn good ones. I'm excited. But there is always hope for the newcomers. Sailfish is a great one, if it could extend its market to other countries.

[juiceme]

And wrong. Nokia is gonna make phones after 2016. And damn good ones. I'm excited. But there is always hope for the newcomers. Sailfish is a great one, if it could extend its market to other countries.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but no.
There's just no money in that business any longer, not for big players.

[pichlo]

We may be in for a surprise. Take Samsung. They were for me always a fridge manufacturer. When I bought my first Samsung phone back in 2001 (or was it 2002?), it was a novelty. A friend even questioned whether Samsung could ever pull that off. Now they have the biggest market share on mobile phones.

[princefakhan]

Haha! Exactly. And I don't like Samsung being on the top even a bit. They don't even do anything in the mobile industry. Just keep releasing a new flagship phone every 6 months.

[From Vertu with Love]

I agree on the processor hampering but Symbian ran fine on those processors too. Atleast better than any Android at the time of 808 PV. I know because I used it. Used it till last year. But the functionality was the problem. Yeah! Bad Web Browser, not many mainstream apps.

And wrong. Nokia is gonna make phones after 2016. And damn good ones. I'm excited. But there is always hope for the newcomers. Sailfish is a great one, if it could extend its market to other countries.

Nokia will license out their name to Foxconn and other Chinese phone manufacturers from 2016 (with their launcher on top). I think the current leadership is burnt out on phones, there's no desire to go back there. They have nothing left of their mobile division - which was a money sink anyway - it all went to Microsoft. The only entry I can realistically see would be a Jolla-like, small team, Android or Meego-esque OS. But them they wouldn't be able to license their name so easily, so the opportunity cost wouldn't be worth it.

As for the 808, I'd expect it to run well on pretty much any processor. For one, look at the screen resolution. Android phones may have been fairly laggy at the time, but I think the Galaxy SIII (which released in the same month) would've run Android fine if it needed to display only 230k pixels, instead of the 921k it actually did.

Anyway, Nokia's actually doing fairly well now. They've adapted before, this is just another change of face.

[juiceme]

Nokia will license out their name to Foxconn and other Chinese phone manufacturers from 2016 (with their launcher on top).

Yes, that is even quite probable. Foxconn will roll out a generic android with the licensed name on the front face.
However it will not be a "Nokia device", just like the tablet isn't.


I think the current leadership is burnt out on phones, there's no desire to go back there. They have nothing left of their mobile division - which was a money sink anyway - it all went to Microsoft. The only entry I can realistically see would be a Jolla-like, small team, Android or Meego-esque OS. But them they wouldn't be able to license their name so easily, so the opportunity cost wouldn't be worth it.

True again. If Nokia went into phones again, it'd have to be in a big way and there just is no possibility for it again. The mobile industry is shaped like that now; there's room at the top for only 1 or 2 players, and some profitability for really small players on the bottom.


As for the 808, I'd expect it to run well on pretty much any processor. For one, look at the screen resolution. Android phones may have been fairly laggy at the time, but I think the Galaxy SIII (which released in the same month) would've run Android fine if it needed to display only 230k pixels, instead of the 921k it actually did.

Anyway, Nokia's actually doing fairly well now. They've adapted before, this is just another change of face.

Indeed. Going into denial is the receipe for disaster and doom, it is important to realize when a segment is turning sour and turn into doing other things.

[princefakhan]

Hmmm. That sounds about right. Nokia needs to rely on Foxconn or other Chinese manufacturers for now. And it sure has to come up with something big to get into the Race again. I mean N1 is a good tablet and a successful one, but they did not release it in any other country yet. Maybe they won't. Cuz the aftermaket service is given by Foxconn and not Nokia.

As for the 808, I don't know if it is just that device or every Symbian device out there. Though, I am still intrigued by it that even now most phones can't handle 1080p videos well. And it was my favorite media device because it ran anything I put in it.

[kureyon]

Nokia, Samsung et al during the feature phone years were specialists of adding one feature while removing another in every new model hence never releasing a "complete" device.

I don't know about Samsung, but Nokia went for "differentiation", so each year they released a bunch of phones which was differentiated by which features were missing. So instead of releasing 2-3 feature complete phones and they released a myriad of feature incomplete phones. This does nothing for their bottom line in terms of the extra product development costs, marketing costs and support costs (and consequently customer goodwill costs). Which meant the only phones that got some support (ie updates, bugfixes etc) were the models that sold the most, which left the owners of the less popular models with a bitter aftertaste.

For a while Nokia even had the bright idea of competing with itself. The phones were split into 2 divisions - one producing "business" phones (the E-series) the other producing "personal" phones (the N-series). The 2 divisions were hugely territorial, stuff developed at one division would not be given to the other. So you ended up with E phones having decent email software but crappy multimedia software and vice-versa EVEN though the software runs fine on both E and N phones. So if you were an E phone owner fed up with the crappy default music/video playback you had to trawl through Nokia's website to see if they had the N-series media player available as a separate download, download it and install it. Unfortunately most users aren't so savvy. Nokia's masterplan at that time was that (they hoped) you would have at least 2 phones - one for work and one for pleasure and hence their stupid tactic of crippling their phones.

[Kangal]

You know Nokia would be doing fine if all they did was to release the OnePlus One 64GB for $349 and relied on Foxconn and Google's Android.

Although, they would have to come up with their own services, and monetize it.

Think of what Xiaomi is doing. They've got competitive flagships on big discount. Barely any brick and mortart stores. And the surprisingly big profits come through the services people are a part of.

Why?
Because there comes a time where the hardware sort of hits a limit, and it plateaus.
Remember when the OG NOTE was revolutionary?
It had a sub-5in display, HD resolution, ICS, largest battery, latest SoC, decent cameraphones.
In 3 years those specs became low-mid range!
In fact, people wouldn't complain too much about them... but poor software or poor services, people will !

And in my opinion, its harder to build software and services than it is to build hardware.
You can always source hardware like:
- Qualcomm for the SoC
- LG for the display
- SONY for the camera
- China for the housing/boxing/accessories
(hell you can even source the software from AOSP, CM Inc, UbuntuPhone, FirefoxOS, webOS, Nemo, Windows, Blackberry etc etc)

[Wikiwide]

You know Nokia would be doing fine if all they did was to release the OnePlus One 64GB for $349 and relied on Foxconn and Google's Android.

Although, they would have to come up with their own services, and monetize it.

Think of what Xiaomi is doing. They've got competitive flagships on big discount. Barely any brick and mortart stores. And the surprisingly big profits come through the services people are a part of.

Why?
Because there comes a time where the hardware sort of hits a limit, and it plateaus.
Remember when the OG NOTE was revolutionary?
It had a sub-5in display, HD resolution, ICS, largest battery, latest SoC, decent cameraphones.
In 3 years those specs became low-mid range!
In fact, people wouldn't complain too much about them... but poor software or poor services, people will !

And in my opinion, its harder to build software and services than it is to build hardware.
You can always source hardware like:
- Qualcomm for the SoC
- LG for the display
- SONY for the camera
- China for the housing/boxing/accessories
(hell you can even source the software from AOSP, CM Inc, UbuntuPhone, FirefoxOS, webOS, Nemo, Windows, Blackberry etc etc)

Hmm... I am curious about WebOS, I dislike systemd inside Nemo, I would not go for closed-source Windows-Blackberry, and FirefoxOS is currently too limited.

Also, I do greatly dislike "generic" hardware. Like, one huge brittle display, and no buttons. Hardware has to be innovative. As in, unusual, comfortable, and adaptable to user's needs.

As I said about Jolla 2: instead of having 1 phone (including screen) + 1 OtherHalf, they should have 1 phone (without screen) + 2 OtherHalves (on different sides of it). Maybe, it would have been a bit bulkier. But, it would have been greatly customizable.

Depending on availability of BlackBerry passport parts (especially capacitive keyboard), and their hardware compatibility with other devices, I might yet try to create chimera phone... Frankly, I do not expect it to be feasible...

Thank you. Best wishes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Per aspera ad astra...

[Kangal]

As I said about Jolla 2: instead of having 1 phone (including screen) + 1 OtherHalf, they should have 1 phone (without screen) + 2 OtherHalves (on different sides of it). Maybe, it would have been a bit bulkier. But, it would have been greatly customizable.



While this sounds like a good idea.
In practice it is not. You are increasing weight, thickness, and lag between screen and device.

On top of that, the screens can't be generic.
They would have to be specially tailored. And this means more time, more money, less units.

If you're interested in something like that, see Google's Project Ara, the modular phone.
I believe cohesive devices and services will (always) win out.
In fact, its done so in may fields... not just in smartphones, eg:
- disposable razors are more common
- cars are built to be disposable and recyclable
- recyclable packaging on many products
- even health corporations want to treat symptoms instead of find cures
- etc etc

It's not the early 1900's where things were made to last : (

[ViBE]

I preferred the Nokia 3315 over the 3310, it had Space Impact and Picture Editor !!

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.

https://i.imgur.com/8rrU5Nf.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1dQtC4R.jpg

[ViBE]

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)

[princefakhan]

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.

[pichlo]

On top of that, the screens can't be generic.

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

[Kangal]

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?

[chenliangchen]

Found a very interesting Nokia prototype today on eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-NOKIA-mobile-phone-unproduced-model-prototype-F5-2005-M-RAL-2-/251895364881?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3aa6223d11).
It has all touch screen and stylus from 2005, but seems running Symbian instead of Maemo.

I am thinking of bidding it. :D

http://www.liangchenchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/57.jpg

http://www.liangchenchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/57-3.jpg

http://www.liangchenchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/57-6.jpg

http://www.liangchenchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/57-5.jpg

http://www.liangchenchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/57-2.jpg

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

[xanderx]

Found a very interesting Nokia prototype today on eBay (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rare-NOKIA-mobile-phone-unproduced-model-prototype-F5-2005-M-RAL-2-/251895364881?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3aa6223d11).
It has all touch screen and stylus from 2005, but seems running Symbian instead of Maemo.

I am thinking of bidding it. :D



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

[chenliangchen]

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

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

[nodevel]

I preferred the Nokia 3315 over the 3310, it had Space Impact and Picture Editor !!

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

[xanderx]

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

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

[chilango]

For me my best phone without touch was the E71. OS integrated VPN, Encryption, usable like USB-Stick and best VoIP-Integration.
The VoIP on the E72 wasn't good integrated like on the E71.
After that my next Phone was the N9 and it is still my Main Phone.
The Jolla is for playing.

I like to have as my next phone like the N9 with the OS or Sailfish with the same functionality and adicional Encryption (best truecrypt), VPN, SRTP/ZRTP, same with Mail (gpg) and all of this OS integrated and not as an adiconal app.

Ok. i'am dreaming

PS: Pentaband, and LTE and ofcourse easy changeable Battery and SD-Card, also like E71

[Kangal]

What about those form-factor models like the Nokia 6500 (or 6288) ??

I mean, the E71 is nice, but some/most of us don't like that Blackberry form factor. Our digits are too big. And those screens are tiny. Having a larger screen, so the keyboard slides out when you need it. Because Nokia phone's didn't need to use the keyboard constantly.

I was always jealous about my brother's Samsung D600.

PS Nice find on that concept phone. It looks halfway like a PSP.

[chilango]

Ok. You god me.

For writing touch is better if you are writing in different languages.
Thatr was a bad point for my on E71.

I writing in spanish so letters like Ññ áúíé
And in german ÄäÖöÜü

that was a little bit complicate on E71 HW-Keyboard

[princefakhan]

Cool! It had sidetalking too.

I am getting devastated the more old phones I see. Huh! There is no design innovation in todays phone. Everyone is ditching the physical buttons. I am glad I have an N900 and can unlock it three ways.

[chenliangchen]

My all-time favourite form-factor.

http://www.simplysymbian.com/wp-content/gallery/Public/Nokia/N93i%20Black%20edition/n.jpg

http://www.simplysymbian.com/wp-content/gallery/Public/Nokia/N93i%20Black%20edition/n2.jpg

http://www.simplysymbian.com/wp-content/gallery/Public/Nokia/N93i%20Black%20edition/slides/n14.jpg

It's a shame that form-factor ditched on 2007, the successor naver came. And why N95 sells much more than N93i. :mad:

When folded like "laptop" it was perfect for playing games. I remember I got the (un)official N-Gage client 2.0 and bought tons of games.

Optical zoom is great even nowadays, and taking picture in a camcorder style is just so cool.

I can control music with the side joystick even when folder is closed. I can see the track info inside the mirror.

So much memory about it. And I miss it.

[nodevel]

My all-time favourite form-factor.

It's a shame that form-factor ditched on 2007, the successor naver came. And why N95 sells much more than N93i. :mad:

When folded like "laptop" it was perfect for playing games. I remember I got the (un)official N-Gage client 2.0 and bought tons of games.

Optical zoom is great even nowadays, and taking picture in a camcorder style is just so cool.

I can control music with the side joystick even when folder is closed. I can see the track info inside the mirror.

So much memory about it. And I miss it.

Having used the Nokia N93i for a few years (after the great Siemens SX1 and before the greater Nokia N900), I'll tell you why:


the keyboard was horrible - the worst keyboard I've ever used. Typing sideways wasn't the worst thing, the quality was the key factor. You never knew if you pressed a key, because there was little to no feedback. Even after months/years of using it, you would accidentaly press the 'Reject call' instead of the tiny 'Backspace' key that was right next to it and you would do it too often to be acceptable. I can remember the rage of losing long texts, just because of the bad design decision. Too bad the 'Reject call' key behavior was changed to 'Close app' instead of the original 'Minimize' from older Symbian versions.
camera cover - sure, optical zoom was nice, but the camera cover was almost useless, as it would fall of (or even break) almost instantly. I remember not using the camera at all in later days, because it was scratched and I didn't want to buy another useless camera cover.
slowliness of the system


Other than that, I must agree that the form factor was interesting and it had quite a few nice things:

the OLED display - it was nice before it stop functioning right after the warranty period
flashlight and the ease of turning it on


Overall, it was quite a bad experience, though. Due to the bad keyboard of the N93i, playing N-Gage games was much more fun on the Siemens SX1 :)

My brother had the N95 at the very same time and I would say it was much more reliable.

[Leinad]

Come on guys... page 5 and no one even mentioned the most classic Nokia phone at all??

This was my first phone ever and nearly everyone had this at the end of the 90s:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Nokia_5110.jpg/220px-Nokia_5110.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110)

[Kangal]

I remember times when that Nokia 5110 would start making my gonads heat up and tingle through the radiation it induced.

Yeah, it certainly would be illegal to sell that with today's greatly reduced/limited range of acceptable radiation levels.

[pichlo]

I remember times when that Nokia 5110 would start making my gonads heat up and tingle through the radiation it induced.

Are you sure it was the radiation and not the sheer awesome sexiness of that phone?

[Kangal]

I can't be too sure.
Though I have been asked several times "is that a Nokia in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?".
*pulls wiener out*
...
...
"Sorry, its the Nokia"

[juiceme]

I remember times when that Nokia 5110 would start making my gonads heat up and tingle through the radiation it induced.

Yeah, it certainly would be illegal to sell that with today's greatly reduced/limited range of acceptable radiation levels.

I tried to google a table or chart that'd show how/if the acceptable SAR levels have changed over the past 15 years but could not find any definite info... Care to share what you know of it?

[sponka]

Come on guys... page 5 and no one even mentioned the most classic Nokia phone at all??

This was my first phone ever and nearly everyone had this at the end of the 90s:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Nokia_5110.jpg/220px-Nokia_5110.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110)

My first phone (broke car and bought prepayed packet with this phone to call tow service) and it's still working. Original battery is replaced with thinner Li-po from 6210i which I also have -- working, but with broken keyboard and it's impossible to type :/

[peterleinchen]

And please do not forget about those way-ahead-of-their-times Communicators! (always wanted to have one but could not afford)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Communicator
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Nokia_9500_RA-2.jpg/200px-Nokia_9500_RA-2.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/As_Time_Goes_By_%28Nokia_9000_Communicator_%26_E7% 29.jpg/300px-As_Time_Goes_By_%28Nokia_9000_Communicator_%26_E7% 29.jpg

[juiceme]

And please do not forget about those way-ahead-of-their-times Communicators! (always wanted to have one but could not afford)

Excellent devices, had them all except the very 1st 9000 :D

[Fatalist]

Come on guys... page 5 and no one even mentioned the most classic Nokia phone at all??

This was my first phone ever and nearly everyone had this at the end of the 90s:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Nokia_5110.jpg/220px-Nokia_5110.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_5110)

Found it recently at home after years and years forgotten in a closet. I decided to charge the battery and to my surprise it worked! I thought about hitting the phone with a Bible.

[princefakhan]

Found it recently at home after years and years forgotten in a closet. I decided to charge the battery and to my surprise it worked! I thought about hitting the phone with a Bible.

Why? Did it have symptoms of Ganglion cyst. :P

BTW, Enjoy!