How come iOS and Android (except for some specific models) don't allow the alarm to sound with the phone turned off? It seemed like such a necessary feature, and in a way, it allowed you to disconnect, even the most basic s40, Now I have to make sure my battery is charged or that the phone is on so I don't miss my alarm. Symbian and Nokia are amazing.
It makes me genuinely sad to see this level of misinformation from prominent tech journalists in Italy.
I just received this Google Alert for 'Symbian', which pointed me to a recent article on a major Italian site (HDblog.it) about a new nokia/HMD feature phone. In the snippet (visible below), they state:
"...The operating system will once again be S30+, the heir to that Symbian from Nokia's golden age just before the advent of smartphones..."
This is a deep disappointment. It feels like an erasure of mobile history. S30+ is in no way the 'heir' to the complex Symbian OS, that started the smartphone era. It's a low-end, generic platform. It’s disheartening that a tech-focused publication can't even maintain this basic distinction. Symbian deserves a proper memory, not to be conflated with a dumbphone OS.
Hi folks!
I made, with AI assistance, Noks (terrible name, ik. link is the live browser demo), an emulator of the venerable Nokia 3310, a phone that has a special place to the hearts of many here, mine included.
I used Avalonia UI Framework for C# and .NET and targets all of its supported platforms, including WebAssembly.
I made this because 1.) The MAME version (Nokia DCT-3) was sadly still incomplete after years since it was made. 2.) I wanted to play Space Impact authentically and everywhere. and 3.) I wanna push how far my skills can go, together with the latest agents, when it comes to reverse engineering a black-box, sparsely documented firmware and hardware.
I've started by pulling all the docs i can get my hands on old Nokia firmware modding forums, and also the prior work that MAME and Project Blacksphere did for the DCT-3 platform back in the day.
Then did a repeated loop of poking registers, memory, seeing where the firmware stops and back-tracing how me and the clanker can get pass that blocker. I also had to contend with the missing DSP Mask ROM functions that blocked the MAME effort by checking what conditions the firmware asked and responding to its requests accordingly.
Took a couple of months of on-off work but it was all worth it.
All outward facing features are implemented like the LCD, Keys, Sound, Power and RF. including an emulation of a minimal 2G GSM network that interfaces with the DSP/Baseband layer of the phone.
Text and calls were functional from my local tests using a P2P network called Waku but somehow it's broken again on deployment.
It is as fickle of a network as the real one did back in the day ;)
And the configuration panel is also bit of a jank work, UI-wise, but it does the job... for now.
Hope you'll find joy in playing with the emulator as much as i did in making it!
Source code here: https://github.com/jmacato/Noks
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Special shout out to a fellow Nokia emulator dev and friend u/747djr !
This was one of my childhood dream phones along the SE W980, the first time I saw the demo tour for the W707 on YouTube back in 2nd grade, I immediately wanted it. Too bad it was never released. At last, I’ve got my hands on a prototype, and my childhood dream once again came true :)
This prototype might very well be the first ever W707 to ever land in Georgia (the country).
The phone is absolutely stunning, the cover display reminds me of the iPod with its clickwheel.
This is actually the second prototype we bought, this particular prototype in the picture is going to a friend of mine very soon, while my prototype is still with him waiting to be sent to me after a repair.
If you have this particular prototype, or the SE Twiggy, DM me.
The label peeled off that had model and things like that and so I don’t know and that’s why I am asking if anyone might know the model of this particular phone.
I have this Nokia 3330 and it always says "Sim card not usable." I've already tried to unblock it with a code i found online, and that worked (after entering the code, the message "Sim not restricted" came up). But it still says "Sim card not usable." I also tried several Sim cards and none of them worked. Any ideas?
Ever since AT&T decommissioned the 2G towers in 2016 when I was in high school and turned my beloved Sony Ericsson c905 and Nokia n95 into paperweights I've been on a mission to have freedom from the ridiculousness of the planned obsolescence of these companies.
I clawed and fought, imported phones from Japan and Hong Kong, and switched carriers multiple times. All just trying to find a basic phone, or anything that I would consider "cool" like we could 10 years ago. For a good while I had a cell phone home base in my car, acting as a pretty convincing car phone. It was the only basic phone that was halfway decent that had voice over LTE service in my area.
I finally gave up and decided to buy a Sony Experia 1 II about a year ago to use on the consumer cellular network.
Yesterday at about 2:00 p.m. my (ATT WHITELISTED) flagship phone with a 4K display with no trace of perceptible lag, no connectivity issues, and Android 12, suddenly stopped receiving Internet service on the Consumer Cellular network. No warning, no email, no nothing.
When I called to speak with a representative they said that they're phasing out LTE. That it's "no longer a network they can guarantee 100% reliability of all features".
I hadn't gotten over the T-MOBILE 2G shutdown. Now this??
Call me whatever you want. But I will go to my grave more than angry that cell phones have become a basic necessity in 2026, (I can't clock in at work without getting a text. Can't go to concerts without a QR code. Can't buy an atlas to get around at any convenience store... Etc) AND we have no choice of what kind we can use.
This was my favorite phone back in the day and for a long while I was trying to remember what it was. I made a post on here and someone helped identify it for me and I found it on eBay brand new. I figured I couldn’t miss on that so I bought it! It is so much smaller than I remember but I suppose I was a kid back then so it makes sense.
This was my second phone ever. First was a tracphone. After this I got a blackberry and I genuinely regretted getting that and not keeping this cus this was honestly so much cooler. But I wanted to follow a trend. But now we have reunited and I couldn’t be happier.
I recently bought a LG gr500, I had a gutted one when I was younger so I thought it would be cool to get it. Don’t expect anything to work on it and just bought it to have but it does turn on and asks to put in a SIM. I was wondering what a sim card would do for it, I’m in America so no 2/3g but would it take pictures or something if I got one?
Sorry if that’s a dumb question I know nothing about this stuff.
Almost all of the phones still work perfectly! Got these cell phones from various places, mostly family members/friends when switching phones or finding old unused phones in their house, and also places like eBay or Facebook marketplace.
I sometimes upload videos of me testing these phones on my YouTube channel called "si7 MAX" if you're interested in seeing these phones working, planning to test and upload every single one after I can get my GSM and CDMA base stations up and running.
I love its snappy push-to-open button and its theming
Instant Messaging is a symbolic of Millennium era.
Hello, this is my collection of Sony Ericsson, they released 167 different International/Europe models, and i have all 167 of them.
Also, cherry on top:
38 out of 69 Japanese Exclusives
5 out of 7 US Exclusives (Missing T206 and T608)
1 out of 3 China Exclusives (Missing WT18 and W8)
I'm talking about distinct models, not suffix C and A ones.