Could Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy flagships learn a thing or two from “dumb” Nokia phones?
Could Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy flagships learn a thing or two from “dumb” Nokia phones?
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The smartphone is smarter than me, not just much and certainly not all the time. The smartphone allows me to connect, messages, take pictures of 50 million pixels and record stunning video. The phone can guide me across a foreign city, and it can translate things for me, and it can (try) to organize and enhance my daily life with a group of sensors, warnings, suggestions, and AI, however. Like "stupid" Nokia phones that are about to disappear from the market. Can smartphones learn something or two about being a great device from their "stupid" ancestors? Can smartphones become smarter by honoring and inspiring them from their ancestors?
It is not a coincidence that "stupid" phones - also known as feature phones - are now in my mind. Recently, there was this news that Nokia and HMD (the company that bought the license for the Nokia brand in 2016) may be likely to be Do not renew their partnership. This means that the year 2025 may turn to last year, which was struck by the new Nokia brand phones. As it was reported on the last day, Nokia is likely to release five new phones, which should be updated 2025 versions of well -known devices.
It will be a strange world that comes in 2026 - a world where Nokia phones are not available, along with those that were reselling by aviation and plural devices.
For example, the 2025 version of Nokia 5710XA may see, update in the form of a new port-instead of the horrific USB Micro Micro, may get USB-C.
Have you ever seen Nokia 5710xa (Xpressaudio)? no? Well, commit me. It is a phone that has a pair of earphones hidden in the back panels ... and the condition of the body until you recharge the headphones:
Credit image - Nokia
Luxury things. Not luxurious on the way iPhone 17 Air or Galaxy S25 Edge will be once embodied (it is expected that these two high -end phones are later in 2025), but in the sense of the unique and bold tool.
Many Nokia phones have not only been unique and bold for decades - some of them are really ventured away from land lands, and are characterized by some of the most strange and unconventional designs ever in mobile technology.
Let's take a trip below the memory lane and check some of the Nokia-Monsters. These are all models of the pre-HMD era. "The original" Nokia. And while we are in that, let's get stuck if these ancient signatures can inspire regular smartphones (and a little boring, to say that it is Frank) that can be imagined in any way.
Nokia 6800: QWERTY experience
Nokia 6810 and 6800 with their keyboard unveiled. | Credit image - PRDUSER, Wikipedia
This is an ordinary phone at first sight and when it does not reveal. Oh, but it is not folding we are talking about here. It's just Nokia 6800 that had a QWERTY keyboard hidden with her sleeves. This feature allowed sending emails - there was no WhatsApp at the time - in a breeze. Its somewhat looks like a mid -transformation transformer.
If FLIP (AAA AA CLAMSHEL) is inspired by this, we will end up almost something to the French loaf of the screen: Super Tall and Very narrow. Now that you came to think about it, this may be useful to double the smart car dashboard screen. This should be innocent.
Nokia 7600: let W, T and F come to mind
Credit image - ShritWod, Wikipedia
This is radical, and it should be in the Museum of Modern Arts. the Nokia 7600 looks as if the development of the phone had made a mistake and aborted in the middle of the road. I do not say that with lack of respect, it is not similar to the "traditional" cell phone. It has a screen in the middle of the square, but the incomplete cutting structure, buttons on the left and to the right of the screen. There is a huge Home button in general, the design throws any consistency outside the window.
I looked at a distance of 20 miles, this phone looks modern. It is a type of square, and it has a small screen in the middle ... and this is related to it. I am happy that we have crossed the Nokia 7600 design.
Nokia 7280: Where is the phone?
Credit Image - Pål Berge, Wikipedia
This is "lipstick" Nokia 7280 phone. There is no traditional keyboard, only several camouflaged buttons in the body, a slim screen and a rotor direction to interact with (such as the user iPod). This phone is partial, partial, but it reminds me of nomatics today. Except that it does not reveal a larger shape factor.
Perhaps you can write down folding materials in the future from this one and offer another layer of bending to resemble the lipstick structure in 7280. To happen, we need some of the really unnecessary display panels that can be folded to the degree of liquid.
Nokia 3650: The designer left the building, land and solar system
Credit image
We cannot collect such a list without Nokia 3650, which can cause epilepsy if it stare for a long time. Perhaps this is the defense mechanism.
The buttons 1-9 are placed on these buttons in a circular pattern (such as on the ancient analog phone at home, if you are large enough to remember them) at the bottom of the phone. There are a lot of empty spaces and a full galaxy of different switches to complicate your mind further.
It seems really shocking to the unconstructive eye, but I think that if someone hates working with touch screens can benefit from a smartphone inspired by the Nokia 3650 design. Just imagine that: a material keyboard at the bottom (perhaps not with this particular design, but still) and a medium screen to another to see things clearly.
Nokia N93: a lot of capabilities
AffemitWaffe, Wikipedia
Well, listen to me - what if Nokia N93 was born again, just in a folding structure in the modern era?
If the huge camera section is left as in the upper part (or at the bottom) of this potential device, it allows the use of a more advanced lens without limits. It will have more physically elements to achieve better details, and better gathering capabilities, and this will lead to a better end conclusion. Not to mention the huge sensor that can be there!
One of the big defects is the weight balance, because the camera section will be really heavy.
It's a forest there
Today, almost all smartphones appear as they are - especially looking at them from the foreground. Yes, there are things like insomnia edges, dynamic island, selfie puncture cameras, quad -curved shows, but they are similar from all over the room. Perhaps, just, the back panel is slightly different from the next person's phone, but not a big difference.
The same cannot be said about devices-and many Nokia tools (and other old brands). She is bold, she is beautiful (in her own way), she is really varied. It is missed.
The smartphone is smarter than me, not just much and certainly not all the time. The smartphone allows me to connect, messages, take pictures of 50 million pixels and record stunning video. The phone can guide me across a foreign city, and it can translate things for me, and it can (try) to organize and enhance my daily life with a group of sensors, warnings, suggestions, and AI, however. Like “stupid” Nokia phones that are about to disappear from the market. Can smartphones learn something or two about being a great device from their “stupid” ancestors? Can smartphones become smarter by honoring and inspiring them from their ancestors?
It is not a coincidence that “stupid” phones – also known as feature phones – are now in my mind. Recently, there was this news that Nokia and HMD (the company that bought the license for the Nokia brand in 2016) may be likely to be Do not renew their partnership. This means that the year 2025 may turn to last year, which was struck by the new Nokia brand phones. As it was reported on the last day, Nokia is likely to release five new phones, which should be updated 2025 versions of well -known devices.
It will be a strange world that comes in 2026 – a world where Nokia phones are not available, along with those that were reselling by aviation and plural devices.
For example, the 2025 version of Nokia 5710XA may see, update in the form of a new port-instead of the horrific USB Micro Micro, may get USB-C.
Have you ever seen Nokia 5710xa (Xpressaudio)? no? Well, commit me. It is a phone that has a pair of earphones hidden in the back panels … and the condition of the body until you recharge the headphones:
Credit image – Nokia
Luxury things. Not luxurious on the way iPhone 17 Air or Galaxy S25 Edge will be once embodied (it is expected that these two high -end phones are later in 2025), but in the sense of the unique and bold tool.
Many Nokia phones have not only been unique and bold for decades – some of them are really ventured away from land lands, and are characterized by some of the most strange and unconventional designs ever in mobile technology.
Let’s take a trip below the memory lane and check some of the Nokia-Monsters. These are all models of the pre-HMD era. “The original” Nokia. And while we are in that, let’s get stuck if these ancient signatures can inspire regular smartphones (and a little boring, to say that it is Frank) that can be imagined in any way.
Nokia 6800: QWERTY experience
Nokia 6810 and 6800 with their keyboard unveiled. | Credit image – PRDUSER, Wikipedia
This is an ordinary phone at first sight and when it does not reveal. Oh, but it is not folding we are talking about here. It’s just Nokia 6800 that had a QWERTY keyboard hidden with her sleeves. This feature allowed sending emails – there was no WhatsApp at the time – in a breeze. Its somewhat looks like a mid -transformation transformer.
If FLIP (AAA AA CLAMSHEL) is inspired by this, we will end up almost something to the French loaf of the screen: Super Tall and Very narrow. Now that you came to think about it, this may be useful to double the smart car dashboard screen. This should be innocent.
Nokia 7600: let W, T and F come to mind
Credit image – ShritWod, Wikipedia
This is radical, and it should be in the Museum of Modern Arts. the Nokia 7600 looks as if the development of the phone had made a mistake and aborted in the middle of the road. I do not say that with lack of respect, it is not similar to the “traditional” cell phone. It has a screen in the middle of the square, but the incomplete cutting structure, buttons on the left and to the right of the screen. There is a huge Home button in general, the design throws any consistency outside the window.
I looked at a distance of 20 miles, this phone looks modern. It is a type of square, and it has a small screen in the middle … and this is related to it. I am happy that we have crossed the Nokia 7600 design.
Nokia 7280: Where is the phone?
Credit Image – Pål Berge, Wikipedia
This is “lipstick” Nokia 7280 phone. There is no traditional keyboard, only several camouflaged buttons in the body, a slim screen and a rotor direction to interact with (such as the user iPod). This phone is partial, partial, but it reminds me of nomatics today. Except that it does not reveal a larger shape factor.
Perhaps you can write down folding materials in the future from this one and offer another layer of bending to resemble the lipstick structure in 7280. To happen, we need some of the really unnecessary display panels that can be folded to the degree of liquid.
Nokia 3650: The designer left the building, land and solar system
Credit image
We cannot collect such a list without Nokia 3650, which can cause epilepsy if it stare for a long time. Perhaps this is the defense mechanism.
The buttons 1-9 are placed on these buttons in a circular pattern (such as on the ancient analog phone at home, if you are large enough to remember them) at the bottom of the phone. There are a lot of empty spaces and a full galaxy of different switches to complicate your mind further.
It seems really shocking to the unconstructive eye, but I think that if someone hates working with touch screens can benefit from a smartphone inspired by the Nokia 3650 design. Just imagine that: a material keyboard at the bottom (perhaps not with this particular design, but still) and a medium screen to another to see things clearly.
Nokia N93: a lot of capabilities
AffemitWaffe, Wikipedia
Well, listen to me – what if Nokia N93 was born again, just in a folding structure in the modern era?
If the huge camera section is left as in the upper part (or at the bottom) of this potential device, it allows the use of a more advanced lens without limits. It will have more physically elements to achieve better details, and better gathering capabilities, and this will lead to a better end conclusion. Not to mention the huge sensor that can be there!
One of the big defects is the weight balance, because the camera section will be really heavy.
It’s a forest there
Today, almost all smartphones appear as they are – especially looking at them from the foreground. Yes, there are things like insomnia edges, dynamic island, selfie puncture cameras, quad -curved shows, but they are similar from all over the room. Perhaps, just, the back panel is slightly different from the next person’s phone, but not a big difference.
The same cannot be said about devices-and many Nokia tools (and other old brands). She is bold, she is beautiful (in her own way), she is really varied. It is missed.
