This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026

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• dparticiple@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for the clickbait headline. TL;DR - “custom firmware project resurrects the Nokia N8, transforming it from a drawer-dwelling relic into a functional device.”

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …if you can find a network to run it on.

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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meanwhile, Sailfish OS - the successor to Nokia’s Linux-based mobile OS - is about to release a relatively beefy device that has it preinstalled.

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    • daq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not for North America.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s new roma for the Nokia N8 if you still have one. It’s a 2010 phone so no idea if it has 5g or even 4g. Meh. I still have an N9 which is also unusable today because the 3g network here is gone.

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep. In my country 3G is shutdown. Without 4G and VoLTE you cannot make calls.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’ve been thinking about doing that here in Finland too, but so much non-phone stuff is using the older networks that while 3G is mostly gone, 2G for calls and texts is still going to be supported to at least 2029.

      Systems like the EU mandatory eCall car emergency call thingy.

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  • Solrac@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kinda makes you wish we had that 5g/4g add-on for older phones

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    • moncharleskey@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And USB-C. I don’t miss Micro at all!

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• OmegaSunkey@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wow… how many phones did include a mini hdmi port

  yeah yeah there are some with DP over USB C now but still

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• texture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i have one in my drawer that still works

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• RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I miss Nokia. When I was about to get my first Nokia touch phone they killed it off and started producing garbageware low end phones…

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s cool to see this happening on non-android devices. I mean, yeah, you can install Android 13 on your 15 year old Galaxy SII right now if you really wanted to, but Android custom ROMS for old devices are rarely worth the trouble IMO; they’re often missing basic functionality and don’t perform great.

  This is more interesting from a usability perspective. Granted, you still can’t use it as your main phone, as it doesn’t have 4G.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Granted, you still can’t use it as your main phone, as it doesn’t have 4G.

    Huh, why not?

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most places? Name one

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• Murdoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The battery in mine exploded! By which I mean I found it one day with a big outward bulge in the back. Years after I stopped using it, but still I can’t use it for this now. 😭

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