It is early 2004, and Nokia has just delivered the 6230—a phone so comprehensively capable that it feels like the engineers in Espoo were trying to win a bet. While the 6310i was the king of the boardroom, the 6230 is the emperor of the high street, the office, and the gym all at once. It is a class…
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Nokia N-Gage
It is October 2003, and Nokia has decided to declare war on Nintendo. If you’ve stepped into a Carphone Warehouse lately, you’ve likely seen the N-Gage taking pride of place in a plastic display case, looking less like a mobile phone and more like a high-tech Cornish pasty. For the princely sum of £…
Nokia 1100
It is late 2003, and while the tech-elite are preening over their colour screens and camera lenses that take photos of what appear to be smudged ghosts, Nokia has quietly released the 1100. If you walked into a Carphone Warehouse today, you might overlook it in favour of the shiny Samsung flips, but…
Nokia 6600
The ‘Fat Phone’ has arrived in the UK, and it’s here to tell you that your PDA is obsolete. Launched in October 2003, the Nokia 6600 is a significant technical milestone; it is the most advanced Series 60 device Nokia has ever produced. It’s a chunky, soap-bar shaped beast that feels substantial in …
Nokia 3510i
While the 7650 is for the tech elite, the 3510i is the phone that’s bringing colour and “the internet” to the rest of us. Launched in late 2002, it’s a brilliant mid-range worker that replaces the monochrome 3510. It’s got a 4,096-colour display that makes the menus look vibrant, even if the 96 x 65…
Nokia 7650
It is June 2002, and Nokia has just released a device that feels like it fell off the back of a spaceship. The 7650 is a landmark for three reasons: it’s the first Nokia with a built-in camera, the first with a colour screen, and the first to run the Symbian OS (Series 60), making it a “smartphone” …
Nokia 6310i
While everyone else is chasing colour screens and cameras that take photos resembling a bag of flour, Nokia has quietly released the 6310i, a phone so fundamentally perfect that some people will still be using it in 2026. Launched in early 2002, it is the refined “i” version of the 6310, and it is t…
Nokia 8310
If the 8210 was for the fashionistas, the 8310 is for the fashionistas who’ve just been promoted to middle management. Launched in late 2001, it’s Nokia’s first Series 40 phone to feature GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), which is a fancy way of saying the internet is now “always on” and you don’…
Nokia 3330
Nokia has pulled a classic “S” move here, taking the 3310—the phone that effectively conquered the planet—and giving it a modest internal facelift. Released in early 2001, the 3330 is identical to the 3310 on the outside, save for the “Pebble” grey cover it usually ships with, but the real changes a…
Nokia 3310
It is September 2000, and if you aren’t currently trying to beat your mate’s high score on Snake II, you’ve clearly missed the cultural memo of the millennium. The Nokia 3310 has arrived to replace the already legendary 3210, and while it looks like a slightly smoother, more rounded version of its p…