When Phones Were Fun – And Nokia Was Crazy
When Phones Were Fun – And Nokia Was Crazy
You remember Nokia for the legendary 3310 that no one could break, or for the Nokia N95 that had all the features (before having-all-the-features was a thing). But you might not remember that, for a few years in the mid-oughts, while The Killers were killing the Billboards and Google was first going public … Nokia was going a little bit crazy.
Yep, it’s time for another episode of When Phones Were Fun – and this time MrMobile’s rose-tinted glasses are focused on some of the strangest mobile devices ever to hit store shelves. From the vase-like Nokia 3650 to the leaf/eyeball/alien artifact Nokia 7600, some of the craziest cellphones of the noughties came straight out of Espoo … and thanks to a generous loan from friend of the channel (and Nokia collector) Martin, those phones spend this entire video under the lenses of Michael Fisher’s stay-at-home studio.
Join me for “When Phones Were Fun” Episode 4: a throwback retro tribute to a time when Nokia’s weird phones helped set the tone for a new generation of smartphones!
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[ABOUT WHEN PHONES WERE FUN – AND NOKIA WAS CRAZY]
This is the fourth in a series of MrMobile episodes exploring the mobile tech world’s most vibrant period in design and experimentation. In “When Phones Were Fun,” Michael Fisher re-reviews cellphones from the golden age of mobile, the decade-long span from the turn of the century to approximately 2009.
When Phones Were Fun: Episode 4 features the Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660, Nokia 7600, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6600, Nokia 7710, and Nokia 7650, all on loan from friend of the channel Martin’s private collection. No company paid a fee or otherwise offered compensation in exchange for this coverage, nor did any company preview or approve this content before publication.
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Nokia 7600 Review [S21 – Archived Link]:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140911165509/http://www.s21.com/nokia-7600.htm
Nokia 7700 [Mobile Gazette]:
https://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-7700.htm
Retro: Nokia 7710 [Mobile Gazette]:
Series 60 and Series 90 Merged [All About Symbian]:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/Series_60_and_90_merged.php
IrDA [PhoneScoop]:
https://www.phonescoop.com/glossary/term.php?gid=409
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I owned a 7650 back in the days. It was horrible as one could have listened to music, but there was no space to put it on and if you went over the stopping point of the slider, you ripped the cable off, which at least in Europe costed more than the phone was worth itself. So I went back to my original 3310 and was happy.
I AM HAVING NOKIA 6260
Am glad that being Indian we had access for all this phones and it was fun. Every new is different from each other. Nokia 6600 was like iPhone, popular everywhere.
Damn this brings back old memories 🥺
You can really tell when you have the latest model. 😍
Great video!
that was my favorite Nokia phone ever *
I remember my unboxing experience " it came with many Goodies*
A TV out cable , stereo headphones , USB data Cable , Nokia Charger , hand strap and microfiber cloth , and a CD with Nokia PC software , Nokia’s Good Old Days 🤩
Had the nokia 6600 back in the days and I still have it in my storage, I can say it was a very nifty phone back in the days. Made my army service very enjoyable 😀
Those times i buy T3 magazines and wishing i could have those on glossy pages. Aarrghhh!
Nokia 6600 was very famous in India, this was like Galaxy S22 ultra of that time. This was the phone which would make any person VVIP, I used to manage a 2nd hand phone of this after 7 years of it launch shows how poor I was and am(might be)
no look texting and reply
Nokia was the best ❤ I wish they’d take more chances nowadays and that they’d still come up with such crazy and fun phones.
Samsung and apple Will next to become a legend while nokia is a fossil..
*NOKIA 6600 THE BEST*
Nokia 3210
I remember my dad owning a Nokia 6600
I definitely thought the shape was funny back then it’s so pudgy
I had a 6600 for years, it was such a beast , survided everything !
dumb phones❤
Nokia N -Gage the gaming phone for serious gamers, even had its own set of game carts, you purchased separately.
NOKIA ruled the phone world 👍🇦🇺
Nokia’s legend is one of a kind, it is a pity that it is no longer there pp recovery from Poland
Hi Sir, do you still have that Nokia 3660?
Nokia are best mobile phones ever made . I still have Lumia series 630 and 850 and work just great but are on Windowd operating system and not Android
Where’s my banana-shaped smartphone? Companies are boring nowadays.
Miss my nokia 6600 that days in college life☺️
Had the 7650 myself in the UK when I was about 16. Needless to say the ability to shoot video (10secs worth), view webpages and boot up Doom on it was absolutely mind blowing to me and my friends. I also had a Samsung P300 (the calculator phone) a few years after that, which although more simple, you’d probably like from a design perspective. I’d love to send you it to review, but a girlfriend lost mine back in 2007.
My dad had a 7600 and I remember this weird cat game on It
So. Much. Variety. Beautiful.
I had the 6620 for over 8 years and worked perfectly like new even after being dropped on concrete multiple times
nokia 6600 😭😭❤️❤️🥺
Can you please do a retro review on the Motorola Flip out MB511 please
Thought it was tony stark doing reviews now. But good review!
sound from single speaker 7710 is the best sound single speaker phone ever made
u nevdr seen the Titanium 8850s?? 😛
I never imagined that cellphones in the US where so boring in the past. I grew up in Mexico and remember seing all these Nokia models as well as Sony Ericsson’s, they were the bomb!
They pioneered smart phones. The 9210 and the 9220 were way ahead of its time. They didn’t know how to make them user friendly. That was the problem. Steve Jobs knew how to bridge the gap.
Nokia hum
Nokia 3210 my 1st phone in dubai. 2003
Time to buy a Nokia 7600. Nothing is stopping me and idgaf.
I really love the Nokia 6600. I have owned lots of them
I love the nostalgia of what Nokia phone have together with its ringtones.
Touch screen killed innovation
Being nostalgic as am watching this video.My first phone was Nokia 1650 and that was the days we were just thinking to have the N 95 series. Time flew.
We had 6600 back in 2006 and it was my first time playing SonicN and Java games.
Jump to 2011 when everyone has Android 2.0, I’m on my way to High School with this as a gift that I asked (6670 and 7610).
I’m playing GBA, Mega Drive, NES and GBC games in there. It was burried deep down in my channel when I had so much fun just taking videos with it. It was like 2011 is my mid days of technology.
Wow I have never heard of RealOne Player for such a really really long time.
Yup nokia from nokia all the best
In the UK, there was a network which did a ridiculous deal for the Nokia 7600, so cheap in fact, we could all buy it without having to ask our parents permission. Loved that phone, even though it took me weeks to get used to the texting
I always chose Nokia over Ericsson(I lived in one of the Nordic countries back then) because of the battery time, a Nokia phone could last you 7-10 days before it needed charging. No other phone brand came even close to that. But then smartphones became a thing(Nobody told Nokia about it, tho) and Nokia refused to step away from Symbian. The rest is history.
my brother had the nokia lumia jesus christ that ringtone
6600 was the bomb man!!!
😭😢 I miss physical keyboards 🤧