r/vintagemobilephones

found these oldies in storage and they still work!

side note, does anyone know how to transfer files from the m320? i found some childhood photos that i'd like to move to my phone but can't figure it out ;-;

I really wish I could get this phone working and get the pictures off somehow

It’s a lightweight weather application designed for old Java phones like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, and even some BlackBerry devices. Features: Real-time weather City search Low data usage Fast on old feature phones Simple keypad-friendly UI I know J2ME is basically dead now, but I still enjoy developing for old devices and wanted to see how far I could push modern web APIs on classic phones. Surprisingly, it actually works pretty well on real hardware. Would anyone here still use something like this on their old phones?

https://u.ua/d/xF9V76m/

Hi to everyone!

Some weeks ago I started using again my dear Nokia 3410.

I'd like to set up a dial-up WAP gateway but unfortunately all the WAP related part is bricked as well as the Java menu. (minute 3 of the video) I also have lost the cool "Munkiki" original J2ME Nokia game. It happened many years ago (more than ten), after having installed some java games. But it could be spurious correlation, not causation.

Finally, yesterday Space Impact died (!?!). What is happening to my 3410?

Was this kind of problems common? What could be the cause? Is it a problem of the firmware or the user memory? What is the relation between Java and WAP? (I'm sure they stopped working at the same time)

NHM-2

V 05.42

04-08-03

I suspect it's not easy to fix... by the way I'd like to build a F-BUS/M-BUS cable (impossible to find...) to enable the Netmonitor, perhaps there could be some way to fix it by connecting it to a pc?

Thanks :)

I tried installing quite a few, but most of them failed because they showed a certificate error. I want themes like the N95 and E5. Please give me some theme links.

Still don't have an orange sim card but it's lovely piece to open and close repeatedly

Here is my newly acquired Philips Twist. The Twist was a DCS1800 version of the Philips Diga, which brought minor design improvements whilst also lowering its launch price. Specifically, it introduced Accept/Reject Call buttons (instead of the Power/C Diga had) in an effort to further simplify the user experience, modernized the overall design and most significantly dropped the (optional) keypad sliding cover. Although it seems abroad it wasn’t as popular as its GSM900 sibling, in Greece it became a major hit, thanks to being available through our biggest carrier, Cosmote (which coincidentally was the only one that supported DCS1800).

Initially, I wanted to purchase the Philips Diga (since it was my father’s first ever phone back in 1997). However, when I found this Twist in its box with all its accessories and in perfect condition, I was fairly certain that I could make it work (even after some repairs). So, I decided to buy it; and I wasn’t wrong. I recelled the battery with brand new Toshiba 950mah AAA cells (stock ones were only 600mah), recreated the BMS board from scratch (as the original was built upon a sketchy flex cable that disintegrated into thin air due to heavy corrosion) and the phone fired up immediately. It now works and charges perfectly, getting easily through the day even with many calls.

A note for anyone looking to purchase a Diga/Twist: they sadly demand an active SIM Card in order to enter the Menu. If your SIM gets rejected from the network, the phone will always show an “IMSI Failed!” message and power off. In case 2G has been shut down in your area, this shouldn’t be an issue, since no tower will be close to actively reject your connection request.

This Twist is the first Philips phone in my collection; so, it’ll definitely hold a special place among my other “bricks”!

We all know Siemens took a big step in SL45 / SL42 series. (In 1998-2002, Siemens mobile in Greater China market used a different model name system. So we got 6688 / 6686 / 6688i / 6686i, instead of int'l SL45 / SL42 / SL45i / SL42i.) SL45 (6688) series are the the most usable and playable music phones during the monochrome era, compared with any competitors: Nokia 5510, Samsung M100 series and Sony CMD-MZ5.

However when color-screen phones replaced monochrome-screen phones, and loudspeaker music playback also became a standard feature on mobile phones, Siemens fell behind. For many years, Siemens’ color-screen feature phones still did not include MP3 playback. Only the Symbian or Windows Powered SX-series smartphones had music playback, but in the early to mid-2000s, smartphones were clearly not yet the mainstream choice in the market. (And SX1 is still expensive on used market today…)

So which model is the first COLOUR screen FEATURE phone with music playback feature by Siemens? Of course, just this CX75 released in August 2005. This is also the first time for me to experience a Siemens handset.

Although it was positioned as a sub-flagship model, it was already at least a year later than comparable products from Nokia or Motorola. It was officially launched in Hong Kong region in August 2005, by which time BenQ-Siemens was only one or two months away from replacing the old Siemens Mobile. As for the flagship-positioned S75, which added an ATI Imageon display chip, it seems to have been officially launched only after BenQ-Siemens had been established, though it was still using a Siemens single-brand.

In mainland China, both CX75 and S75 were not officially released. They could only be found in China from gray markets that time. This situation seemed to appear because of the orderless transition from Siemens Mobile to BenQ-Siemens. The last models released officially by old Siemens Mobile in China seems to be C75 and CF110. Later models even with a classic Siemens logo are distributed by BenQ, such as A31 and AF51. (CN-spec AL21 used BenQ-Siemens logo instead)

The silver CX75 here is a PROTOTYPE, with an official "China" labelled firmware. Maybe the developing teams of Siemens Mobile wanted to bring it to mainland China officially at first, but they didn't really achieve it. And the black one is a retailed unit for Vodafone in Europe. It's flashed with a third-party Chinese firmware, and according to the software version labelling, this firmware is based on "RUSSIAN Retail" version.

In my sight CX75 looks "cooler" than Nokia 6230 series. But its system software is a bit old-fashioned, almost remaining the same as the last generation S65, while the another part of 75 generation, S75 and SL75, used a much newer UI, with different time and date displaying position and also other extra features.

It is said that the CX75’s sound quality was not very good, and was even inferior to that of the SL45 (6688) series. However, I do not have an SL45 (6688) series handset, let alone the earphones used by Siemens phones, so I cannot verify this by myself. As for the GSM network receiving, I'll only test it maybe tomorrow because the coverage is too limited these days.

For some reason, Siemens phones after 2002 became extremely conservative in terms of functional iteration. Ironically, the earliest four-color GSM phones had already been introduced by Siemens in 1997–1999 with the S10 / S25 series (In China S1088 / S2588, but S10 Active remained the original model name). Yet Siemens was also quite late in launching color-screen phones that were “truly usable,” namely the S55 / S56 / S57 around late 2002 to early 2003.

This conservatism prevented Siemens from ever again reaching the level of popularity enjoyed by Nokia and Motorola. Korean manufacturers may even have done a better job in terms of built-in handset features, although they were inferior to European manufacturers in hardware consistency and system openness. (Here, “European manufacturers” also includes Motorola’s German division and the int'l Sony Ericsson.)

We would have to wait until 2006 before seeing QVGA screens and the smaller microSD card format on Siemens-technology GSM 2G phones (the CX75 was still using RS-MMC). But by then, it was already the BenQ-Siemens era.

Is beautifull phone and most Small devices for nokia