Throwback to the golden days 📞✨ Unser Autor hat sein iPhone gegen die Neuauflage des Nokia 3210 getauscht – kein Touchscreen, keine Apps und eine Kamera, die ein Picasso-Gemälde wie ein 8-Bit-Bild aussehen lässt – Spaß, so schlimm ist sie nun auch wieder nicht! 😂📸
Wer erinnert sich noch an Snake und die unzerstörbare Batterie?
Okay, this is a long shot, but maybe someone can help.
I've got a Nokia phone with KaiOS on it (Firefox OS offshoot). It's utter garbage and I would like to switch to a new one.
The one problem is that there's a lot of WhatsApp chats on there that I would like to keep, mostly for sentimental purposes. And since this is a niche OS with a WhatsApp implementation developed specifically for that phone, which lacks all but the most basic features (no WhatsApp web, no calls, no file transfer, and crucially no backups), if I just took the SIM out and stuck it into my new phone, I'd lose all that.
Does anyone have experience with that sort of situation, or with KaiOS in general, and could give me some pointers about manually scraping that data off the phone? I don't have high hopes, but perhaps someone out there knows something.
I have an Android (and Nokia/HMD) question. After updating to Android 14 my Nokia G42 5G lost AAC codec over Bluetooth support, which downgraded some of my headphones as they are falling back to SBC (more noticeable on some headphones than others and these are without aptX* support, which is still working fine). Developer Options doesn't change it. Has anyone else seen this? I already factory defaulted the phone and recently updated to the April 2024 patch with no change.
@fasnix oooh I wanted one of those intex #sailfish phones so badly! I would check the forums — https://forum.sailfishos.org/ This group inherited the same community of diehard Meego Harmattan fans that kept the #Nokia#N9 alive for ages, including rescripting firmware etc.
Also tagging @flypig and @piggz (unrelated, despite pigs in usernames, hmm) in case they have info or pointers.
Someone mentioned old Nokias here and it reminded of the Java 2 Mobile era or the early 2000s.
So I had to dig up backups of old games I made before I had gray hair. Thankfully I had saved GIFs which are a bit easier to see than .jad/jar files over here.
Nokia 3410 - 96x64 pixels mono
Nokia 7210 - 128x128 pixels color
Cela faisait plusieurs années que cela me trottait dans la tête et le mois dernier, j'ai franchi le pas en achetant un "dumb phone". Le Nokia 2660 flip 4G pour être plus précis. L'idée est, comme vous vous en doutez, que je sois moins dépendant du smartphone. Je commence à l'utiliser en week-end et tout se passe étonnamment bien. Pourtant, j'avais beaucoup d'appréhension notamment la saisie de texte en T9 mais là aussi, ça se passe étrangement bien. 1/2 #Nokia#dumbphone#dependancenumerique
Mikko 1 (1972) was the first computer designed and produced by Nokia. It's far more obscure than it should be (I find no mentions on the Fediverse), so let me hype it up a little.
The picture shows a Mikko-based cashier terminal. Several hundreds of Mikkos were produced, mostly for this type of use. The computer itself is the box behind the keyboard unit, so it's quite small for a pre-microprocessor minicomputer. The CPU takes up four of the 10×15 cm² circuit boards. The most complex ICs are 4-bit full adders (7483).
At the heart of the machine is a microcode ROM of 256×16 bits that controls a very minimal CPU core (that lacks things like right bitshift). The name "Mikko" stands for "microcomputer", where "micro" refers to the microcode rather than a microprocessor. The design is quirky in many ways, but it manages to fulfill the requirement of a shoebox-sized computer that is as powerful as a PDP-8.
12-bit word, 4096 words of address space, 5 MHz clock (each micro-instruction eats up 10 clock cycles). A detailed technical overview is available at a collector's blog (in Finnish).
Android 14 changed the color of the low battery icon from red to white.
Recently, for some reason, I've stopped getting "Battery low" notifications at very low percents...but I still get them at 30% & 25% (I have it set to start at 30%).
...so now I rarely notice when my phone is about to die. This has interrupted me on so many occasions.
My hatred of Android has been growing exponentially lately.
@scops@KeksKopf I’ve had no problem connecting to Bluetooth or any peripherals.
I run Rockpool to connect to my Pebble smartwatch. Heritage software from the #Nokia#N9 Maemo days. Zero problems, works great with the Rebel.io Pebble firmware.
HMD Global's emphasising its own brand rather than "Nokia" for smartphones -- and I reckon that's a smart idea if it wants to attract a wider crowd of phone buyers.
What does 'being online' mean to you?
In the 90's, it meant #dialup modems and all the noise and slowness that came with it.
In the early 2000's it meant HSDPA via my #Nokia phone over IrDA or Pop Port, at varying speeds from 9600 baud, to around 42 Kbit.
Later, DSL.
These days it's anything, but in my head, I'm not 'online' unless I'm in a browser.
It's a weird psychological thing I think, because in the 90's, after dialing up, you'd open a browser to do well, most things. Fewer email clients and things existed as programs back then, at least that I had access to, so 'The Internet' was such a purposeful action you had to take.
These days with always on connections, it's just there, and it's part and parcel of what we do, but if I actively stop and think about it, 'online' will always mean browser.
Obviously even this post is 'online' and I know that in my head, but it doesn't compute in the same way.
To some of you born after a certain point, this likely makes no sense at all.
I got a Nokia 2780 Flip phone as our "home phone" for around the house and for my kid to bring with him in situations where we might be separated. It's very satisfying to use! Physical buttons, T9 texting, and it even has a rudimentary Google Maps app. 3 days of battery life, to boot. It runs KaiOS. Great call quality, signal strength, and that pleasant Nokia ringtone.
Can any of the modern devices wake you up if they run out of battery? Some Nokia phones could wake you up if you ran out of battery, it still was running in some very low power mode and was still able to run a wake-up alarm in the morning. It was a very basic beeping noise but it worked.
I know for sure iPad fails at that very easily. I missed an alarm when it ran some update automatically at night.
I hate sounding like the old guy in the room when I say things like "phone design used to be more fun". I mean, I AM the old guy in the room, but I hate SOUNDING like the old guy complaining about new tech.
Frosted gradients. Laser etched glossy. Bold primary color polycarb. Metal and leather. Different form factors and features... Sigh...
When I met my father in-law during Christmas of 2008, I had a #Nokia with BeyoCBS which was I guess the much cheaper version of NKFB Reader. At the time, I showed him how (air-quotes) 'Easy' it was for a blind person to read stuff. He handed me a bottle of wine and it took me perhaps three goes before I got anything meaningful out of it. Every year or two I try to find something else to show him. This year with the introduction of #BeMyAI and Seeing AI doing what it does, will be interesting. Though he's not very tech-savvy himself, he's always curious to see how I do what I do as the years progress, and this year I think will likely blow his mind. I thought reading anything on a phone in 2008 was great, but it's not a patch on how fast and also much more accurate, things can be these days.