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.
Launched a new Death Generator, based on a request by Kitsune86. They wanted a Nokia 3310 generator, but the best I could do was a Nokia 3410... which was close enough for jazz.
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.
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
#Nokia#N900 update: It works, but it's slow. Any UI like #Xfce or #MATE is just too much for the little 600 MHz CPU.
So I'm going to make myself comfortable with a terminal environment. Or rather: I will MAKE myself a terminal environment, because unfortunately there is no good preconfigured terminal "desktop" that just works. I'm going to have to edit a lot of config files...
I wish there was some kind of vintage desktop I could use like... I don't know, #KDE 1? Surely that worked with 256 MB of RAM back then. 🤔
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.
On September 1, 2000, a true legend was born - the Nokia 3310.
The Nokia 3310 wasn't just a phone; it was an icon of resilience. Its sturdy design made it nearly indestructible. You could drop it, toss it, and it would still function flawlessly.
While smartphones have evolved into powerful mini-computers, the Nokia 3310 remains a symbol of simpler times.
I bet every Nokia 3310 still has a 100% battery life
A fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than 40 pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.
Nokia verklagt Amazon und HP wegen Patentverletzung bei Video-Streaming
Amazon Prime Video, Twitch sowie Computer von HP würden Nokias Patente auf Technik für Video-Streaming nutzen. Vor Gericht verlangt Nokia Entschädigung.
#JohnNaughton asks, in The #Guardian, if #Tesla is doing to the car industry what #Apple did to #Nokia. There are several errors in the article (the Tesla Roadster was based on a #Lotus#Elise, not Elite, and the #Toyota#bZ4x is not cheaper than a Tesla. Which is precisely the problem traditional car manufacturers are facing. They can’t build #EVs cheap enough. Even worse, some (like #Ford and @VWGroup) are actually cutting back investment!
Nokia's (well, HMD Global's) new XR21 can survive 100-bar water jets at 80 degrees celsius.
Which is seriously tough, but I'm left wondering who washes their phone that way? Seems excessive, though it would clear off any and all fingerprint gunge, I guess.
In any case, coming to Australia from mid-month at $799. Full details here: