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Welcome to May 2017, where the most talked-about phone in the UK isn’t a flagship, but a reboot of a legend. The Nokia 3310 (2017) is a technical exercise in nostalgia and simplicity, designed by HMD Global to recapture the magic of the original brick. At just 79g, it is a lightweight, rounded, and …
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Nokia Lumia 520
Welcome to the spring of 2013, where Nokia has just achieved a minor miracle in the UK budget market. The Lumia 520 is a colorful, pocketable entry into the Windows Phone 8 world that has become an overnight sensation. It is a compact, 124g handset with a removable polycarbonate back available in vi…
Nokia Lumia 920
It is late 2012, and Nokia has just released a handset that feels like it was milled from a solid block of the future. The Lumia 920 is the flagship for Windows Phone 8, and it is a technical heavyweight in every sense of the word. At 185g, it is noticeably ‘chunky,’ but that mass is the result of p…
Nokia Lumia 800
Welcome to November 2011, and the ‘Shotgun Marriage’ between Nokia and Microsoft has finally produced its first offspring. The Nokia Lumia 800 is the most important phone in the Finnish giant’s history, a ‘do or die’ device designed to rescue them from the ‘burning platform’ of Symbian. In the UK, i…
Nokia N8
It is October 2010, and Nokia has just released its ‘last stand’ for the Symbian empire. The Nokia N8 is a technical masterpiece trapped in a software time capsule. In an era of plastic slabs, the N8 is a refreshing outlier, milled from a single block of anodised aluminium with glass-reinforced plas…
Nokia 5800
Welcome to the end of 2008, and Nokia has finally entered the touchscreen arena with a handset that the UK press has immediately dubbed the ‘Tube.’ The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a critical moment for the Finnish giant; it is their first mass-market touch device and the first to run the touch-optimis…
Nokia N95
Welcome to March 2007, and Nokia has just released the ‘Computer 2.0.’ The N95 is the absolute zenith of the pre-touchscreen era, a device so packed with technology that it feels like the engineers in Finland were simply trying to see if they could break the laws of physics. It is a ‘dual-slider’; s…
Nokia 6300
Welcome to the beginning of 2007, where Nokia has just released a phone so fundamentally right that it has effectively become the ‘uniform’ for the British middle class. The Nokia 6300 is not a technical ‘Godzilla’ like the N95; instead, it is a masterclass in understated, premium industrial design.…
Nokia N70
It is late 2005, and Nokia has just launched the ‘Nseries’ with the N70, a handset designed to remind everyone that if they want a real smartphone, they have to come to Finland. It is the spiritual successor to the 6680 and currently the smallest 3G smartphone on the market, packing the power of a d…
Nokia 1110
It is mid-2005, and while the rest of the world is obsessing over megapixels and 3G video calls that nobody actually wants to make, Nokia has released the 1110—a phone that looks like it was designed for a minimalist cult or a very stylish toddler. This is the entry-level king, the ‘phone for people…