Thank you Michael. Hearing this means more than you might realize, coming from someone who's work I greatly admire. I love your narrative style and honesty. Your support is extremely encouraging.

Hello there Mr Mobile

you should have tried loading gba roms and psx emulation on this device ​@@JanusCycle

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

The Mr Mobile himself!!!!! Wowwwwwwwwww

Speaking of which; I loved my N-Gage QD at the time. It fixed all the design problems of the first hardware version. I got mine for 50 USD with an MMC card that I used to pirate a bunch of the N-gage games. This was before the PSP so being able to play THPS and Tomb Raider on the train was really impressive.

I remember playing One on my hacked Nokia 5700, where I have installed the N-Gage 2.0 launcher, and being blown away by the mobile graphics.

The Symbian OS was amazing for it's time. People pretend like smarthphone's only came out with the Iphone/Android yet they were already there almost 10 years before that.

yeah i still remember playing metal gear solid and assassins creed on my 6120classic with hacked ngage 2.0 launcher

@@mesicek7 I think that a big part of that is a North American bias, where the Symbian smartphones were not as popular as in Europe and Asia, and the Rim Blackberries were the predominant smartphones. Other than that there is also a sense of smartphones meaning multitouch devices and the Iphone being a start of a new era.

Microsoft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" in practical form

Nokia's board and shareholders approving and making those decisions. Ofc they didn't see it coming, because nothing was coming in first place, they all been there in place.

WIndows Mobile was the good one people used, Windows Phone was the one that broke all backwards compatibility, had no apps, and no userbase

@@xmlthegreat wheres the "embrace, extend" part?

​@@kreuner11that part was made popular when Microsoft was trying to develop Java then tried to make proprietary extensions to make sure their version of Java is the only version developers would prefer, hence the Embrace and Extend part. Maybe they forgot to include this during Elop's time.

Omg. 23 models! I didn't have the legendary N95 but I had a N80 (not to be confused with the more recent N8) that my uncle gave me after seeing I was so amazed with it. It was an amazing phone and even though the battery was probably defective and not lasting very long, I loved every moment I had with that phone. Do you have a N80 in your collection? How do you like it?

@@StingnB unfortunately i don't have an N80 :( it is quite similar to my N70 tho, which i really like (but my unit isn't in great condition unfortunately) it's basically the predecessor to the n95 btw also, it seems like that, for whatever reason, they are quite rare here in Italy, and i mainly get phones from flea markets and thrift shops, often for really cheap: i once got a Lumia 630 for 2 Euros!

Nah, that would be the n900.

@@VEC7ORlt n900 had whole new viewpoint to the mobile phones. I aggree with both of you.

@@VEC7ORlt as someone who has been dailying a N900 since May 2011, I agree with this sentiment.

​@@Wasmachinemanit's a shame they're shutting down 3G, end of an era.

the 5700 xpress music is also a contender.

Awesome, we were exploring Nokia N series at the same time.

Two really interesting details that I didn't know, thanks!

As somebody who's been trying to run Mastodon straight from my smartphone, this is certainly an interesting historical goalpost

DA N95 WAS DA GOAT!

I would really like one for it's blackness.

@@JanusCycle I personally like the silver version more. Btw, you can easily debrand your nokia n95 with phoenix (I preder it) or JAF in just a few minutes if you have a windows 7 laptop.

​@@JanusCyclealiexpress and eBay have n95 phones for sale.

​@@ophtalmology have you ever used this software to flash Nokia phones? It still work today? I have some needing sw reflash, one turns on but bootloop. The only time i reflashed Nokia phones was back when the original Nokia tools and servers were working.

@@IsmaelWensder yes, I reflashed my Nokia E66 less than a month ago. The biggest challenge was to find the right firmware because most of the websites hosting it were down, and the programming software can be easily found. Official Nokia software isn’t working, but that is not the problem, Phoenix and JAF will do the job just fine. If you find the necessary firmware you can reinstall it anytime even without connection to the internet.

I was 20, worked at the Nokia factory assembling these N95's and I could afford one.

@@oskar6747 i remember its cost so much :D but some providers like Vodafone,Orange, T-Mobile in my country make offer if you make 2year contract you can get one for 1euro :D i had all N-Nokias and i love them

​@@oskar6747 Where was that, in Finland? I worked in a Foxconn factory in 2008 in Hungary, making lower end phones for Nokia (I remember one particular mp3 player phone being extremely popular at that time). And we made about $225/month (80000 Hungarian Forint). Also I think that was with overtime, but I can't remember that for 100% now. 12 hour long shifts: one daytime shift, then one night time shift, then two days off, and start again. I was there for two months, and if I had to stay any longer I would have gone postal, and set the place on fire, or do something bad. I have absolutely no idea how people can do these kind of jobs without going insane. Also it needless to say none of us had an N95 lol.

@@kosztaz87 It was in Salo. I wasn't a regular hired by Nokia but I worked there for little over a year maybe two at most. All the regulars looked like they hated their lives and were the lowest producing workers there, but on our side we were mostly young and had quite a good atmosphere. The pay was ok. I can't remember the numbers anymore, but maybe 2-3k Eur/month without overtime. Some worked in four shifts and some in five. I think the other had same shift for two or three days and the other for a week. 8h long shifts.

Yaaa I remember the patching what a pain that was

i remember my phone was the only one in the office with a strong signal after storm hit our city

Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this. You reminded me that there was also a mini version of the N97. That was kinda unusual for the time to have that option.

Yeah iPhones didn't get a built in flashlight button till IOS6 iirc

@@JessicaFEREMdid early phone LEDs have a risk of dying early from that i wonder? i don’t remember hearing anything about that but i was a kid at the time

@@davidbowman2001nope, white LEDs were already mature enough by then. The Nokia 1100 even had one. It didn’t get particularly hot like on modern phones so they probably didn’t drive it that hard. It definitely drained the battery though!

yeah, i think later nokia phone came bundle with that (still 3rd party app) but iirc tethering over USB was standard on nokia with symbian but iirc you need a Nokia PC suite for the driver

@@Banom7a Bundle may have been region specific cos I wasnt aware of it. If I remember correctly, the wifi tethering software I was using was Joikuspot for the wifi hotspot, The email client was “Profimail” by Lonely Cat Games, which i still remember for absolutely no reason at all and was better than the built in client. One funny story I remember was, Tomtom made a version of their satnav for nokia S60 but intended you to use it with an external bluetooth GPS. The N95 had built in GPS but it wouldn’t use it, however, one of the software pirate groups back in the day who cracked this software also posted it with some kind of background program to run which would connect the internal GPS to tomtom, and thus the pirate version was better than the official one, so naturally that’s what I was using.

Yeah, I faintly remember this now that u mentioned it. I think we used to make skype calls over it. Probbaly the first phones to be able to do this.

Video calls had been a feature on 3G phones for about 5 years by that point. I recall a news item about the actual first video-calling phone in 2001, or maybe it was 2002. Hardly anyone used it, though, because of the large costs to do a video call over 3G. People preferred to use Skype over wifi on a laptop or PDA, or on the few phones with wifi like this. Even when Apple introduced FaceTime many years later, most people still just used them on wifi for a long time. It wasn’t until mobile carriers stopped charging extra for it, and treated it the same as any other mobile data, that people started to video call on 4G more.

Top tip... It IS just as good as regular composite out. Most camcorders had a 7.5mm headphone jack for composite out. The frames themselves are easy to render given they're only 240x480 per interlaced field. (480i total) 👍😎

I was hoping he'd try it on there.

@@samuelllakaj5439 surely it won't work now, it uses servers to compress webpages, which are most probably down by now

I had one..😂

@@jebu100 Remember the game Metal Bluster...?

And the leadership was stuck in brick phone era.

How so? They released the N95 the same year as the iPhone (that future of the phone market), when switching to touch screen they went with the dated resistive touch technology and decided to stick with Symbian OS for so long it nearly killed the company. When switching OS they weren't even in tune with the market enough to pick Android but instead tried to push a useless Windows phone OS. After making the N95, arguably the best phone of the old world, they literally made every wrong decision they could possibly make.

⁠@@ErikSWEyeah they persisted for too long with Symbian, and in a snap android wiped them away, at least in europe. Had Nokia N95 8GB, 200€ with contract, thought there wouldn’t be any phone more expensive and capable 😀 Few years later switched to first touch, HTC Wildfire, sadly (almoast) never looked back to Nokia, still in the early years I was hoping that they’ll switch to Android to catch the train, but when they did it was too late.

Networks had too much power over phone manufacturers at the time. Because of their business model of giving phones away for 'free' on expensive two year phone contracts. They really screwed us.

I also had an E62 for a while after I lost my imported E61. The lack of WiFi wasn't really a huge problem for me as Cingular had a reasonably priced unlimited data addon by then. However, they both paled in comparison with the E71, which thankfully did have a version with 850/1900/2100 3G in addition to the quad band 2G radio. The E71 really was far and away the best Blackberry form factor phone ever released. The keyboard was an utter delight to type on and it was built like a brick s**thouse. A friend of mine ran over his with his car and then used it to call me and complain about it. The screen was turned to mush and the frame was full of gouges, but it was still perfectly usable for phone calls and even messaging with the screen reader stuff turned on.

​@@JanusCycle glad they look for creative designers ❤

I always wondered why so many Nokia phones didn't had wifi, even when they needed it.

@@JanusCycle Networks were the customers, not us.

He was a trojan horse for Nokia, basically

It's called a hostile take over, After Elopsen was done butchering Nokia he went back to Microsoft right after.

Yes. I don't understand what Nokia executives were thinking. They had pure gold in their hands with the Maemo/Meego and Intel. It would have beaten iOS and Android 100-0. But they decided te sell out to Microsoft and start making Lumia phones which forced even Finnish fanboys to other manufacturers. I never even wanted to try one.

@oskar6747 Windows Phone wasn't bad and the Lumia phones kept the same features, like superior offline navigation and most other symbian apps and the tiles were nice. And it had support for large MicroSD cards. Most android phones at the same price range topped out at 32GB. I had the Lumia 720 and later 830. Both ran without lags, stutters and had 128GB MicroSD cards worth of music. The biggest problem i had with these phones was the lack of games and the web browser was rubbish. Same with the video player, which didn't even support mkv containers with multiple languages, while android phones had third party media players capable of all sorts of codecs, which is important to me as a bi-national person. The camera app was sick tho. Still better than most quadruple "Pro AI Premium" cameras. It had all the settings you want in a digital camera.

@@hyperturbotechnomike I can't say for sure because I never tried one, but I'd guess that camera app, maps and other things that worked were made by Nokia. I think the biggest turnoff for me was Internet Explorer. I would have been so embarrassed to take out a phone in public with a big IE logo. Symbian was never going to be good for a modern touchscreen smartphone. Those xpress music phones were awful, but probably still had a better browser with Opera.

I don't think the N95 has an FM transmitter. But hidden FM TX in phones is a thing and I might have a few brands/models that I can activate this function on. It's a topic I want to explore more.

I had one at the time, and no it didn't. My next phone was an N86, and that one did.

The Xpress Music models apparently sold quite well. I don't know nearly enough about them yet.

@@JanusCycle Nokia 3250, 5700, and the original unreleased 5710 with a similar mechanism would be interesting subjects for a video.

HMD Global could take the design of let's say the Nokia 5310, the red and black color scheme, the media buttons, the rhythmic lights that changes with music and make a touchscreen modern "Nokia" but they only do feature phones nobody want.

I really appreciate hearing this, thank you.

I understand that companies might have some commercial secrets they wish to protect. But otherwise I completely agree. To all companies: Be proud of your legacy and recognize the culture your products have created by releasing this sort of information when you abandon your support.

Someone should get copy of sv5 annabelle firmware to keep it from extinction

ngage 2.0?

I'm glad you kept yours.

I'm somewhat sure that back in the days of the N95 and the first iPhones, the only chipsets that were there would be from Texas Instruments, Broadcom, and Qualcomm, and so on... MediaTek and Exynos weren't there back in early 2010s yet.

@@jamesbrendan5170 At that time, there was also a Nomadik chip by ST-Ericsson, XScale by Intel (before they sold this division to Marvell), Nexperia and Freescale chips by now-NXP. Samsung actually made the CPUs even before the Exynos branding. They were in the iPhones up to 3GS.

lol, glad you enjoyed :)

That was the phone of my dreams, not the stupid Lumias they started making with Microsoft. I still think back about it and what the world would look like if it hadn't been abandoned. It's so sad. I think it was hundred times better than Android at the time. I still follow Jolla and hope they will get somewhere.

cringe ass flag

There was a weird thing going on with the n900, my friend sent one to Nokia because of a security risk that needed to be patched and he didn't get the n900 back. Apparently this happened to several people.

Also, I remember at least the first three iPhones seeming less powerful than the flagship Nokias at least on paper. By just looking at this N95, it has a front camera which iPhones did not have until 2010. I didn't like having no dedicated capture button on those early touch screen phones which didn't have front cams (or of bad quality) because it was basically impossible to take pictures of yourself (weren't called "selfies" yet back then).

I must say I don't regret staying with Sony Ericsson at the time. Possibly because I also had Palm and then an iPod touch. But everything was changing so quickly.

@@JanusCycle heh, changing it was, but by that time I had a feeling of 'I seen it all' and just kinda stopped being interested in the shiniest new toys - to the point that I got my first smartphone very late, loved the size and feel of Samsung U900, but it just got flash corruption at that point, it was time to let go... Smartphones these days? Don't get me started.

..... Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

Same problem with my n95, screen stop working, and no nokia service center available, no parts for the slide

thanks!

I would love to know which Zaurus model you have. There are a couple I would like to make videos about. Feel free to email me if you wish. I enjoy hearing about the kinds of devices that people collect, especially weird Japanese ones :)