Nokia 5110 but with Android and full QUERTY keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7VOflsuVS4
Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
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Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd kill for an EV 914. Although I also loved the sound of that little engine.
https://canev.com/products/porsche-914-ev-conversion-kit-wit... https://www.electricclassiccars.co.uk/products/electric-clas...
Now I need to find a 914 with a steering wheel on the right side (because of where I live).
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#23I'm not too well-versed in hardware - is it really that easy to swap out a 2G modem with a 4G modem and have it "just work" without touching the drivers? Even if the baseband/modem chips miraculously do conform perfectly to some I/O protocol at the hardware level despite being multiple generations apart, wouldn't the difference in timings break whatever firmware the Nokia 5110 has, which was expecting only a single very specific hardware configuration? Or is the author planning to also hack the drivers?
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#24around the same time that the original 5110 was getting popular, I bought my first mobile phone, a used Motorola Amio.
It was quite big, with big buttons, and looked somewhat like a walkie talkie. I liked it and used it for about a year, before I got another make of phone.
I searched and found some images that look something like it:
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#25It's such an odd problem from my perspective as someone who doesn't live in a western country! We still have 2G on all carriers and seemingly no plans to shut it down. So, if you want to use an old (GSM) phone, it's a non-issue, you just pop your modern SIM card into it and it just works :)
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#26I would pay for a Nokia 5110 that is exactly like then except for the 4g call/sms part
Well good news for you – Nokia still sells plenty of these kinds of phones (just not in the USA). It’ll be pretty easy to import them from a developing market, on eBay or elsewhere. E.g. see https://www.amazon.in/s?k=nokia
I think what parent meant is that he would be willing to pay good money to anyone who could clone the 5110 to use 4g and keep the same screen.
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#27I'm not too well-versed in hardware - is it really that easy to swap out a 2G modem with a 4G modem and have it "just work" without touching the drivers? Even if the baseband/modem chips miraculously do conform perfectly to some I/O protocol at the hardware level despite being multiple generations apart, wouldn't the difference in timings break whatever firmware the Nokia 5110 has, which was expecting only a single v…
These phones didn't have the modern smartphone architecture where there are separate CPU cores for the user OS and the modem. It's one single CPU core that does both the UI and all the low-level stuff required for communication with the tower. They were going to replace the board that contains that CPU and all the radio circuitry with one they were going to design from scratch around that 4G module.
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#28around the same time that the original 5110 was getting popular, I bought my first mobile phone, a used Motorola Amio. It was quite big, with big buttons, and looked somewhat like a walkie talkie. I liked it and used it for about a year, before I got another make of phone. I searched and found some images that look something like it: https://www.google.com/search?q=motorola+amio+phone
I remember that Motorola, I was opening a student bank account and they offered a free 3 year student railcard (to buy discount tickets), a camera or that motorola - I was just about to get it when the lack of Snake and also the pretty poor contract it came on made me jump for the Railcard.
But still felt wild at the time that they were 'giving away' a mobile phone.
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#29I was hoping to find a part 2, but since part 1 was written over 2 years ago I guess there's not much chance of that...
It was not, infact, easier than he thought.
Re: Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well good news for you – Nokia still sells plenty of these kinds of phones (just not in the USA). It’ll be pretty easy to import them from a developing market, on eBay or elsewhere. E.g. see https://www.amazon.in/s?k=nokia
HMD do sell a few Nokia-branded phones in the US; most of their international range is available on Amazon US. https://www.hmd.com/en_us/nokia-225-4g?sku=16QENL11A04
I've had four HMD phones, two feature and two Android smart phones. The hardware usually feels really good, but all of them have had poor phone quality (even on different carriers). People would tell me if sound like I was underwater or far away from the phone while not using speaker), sometimes it would just drop the audio and I couldn't hear the other person, etc.
I guess I still have nostalgia for some of the late Nokia phones, like the n900 and e72.
My current Android HMD has been fine, but still has call issues (people often don't hear me for like 5-8 seconds when I call them; speak from just randomly stops working during calls).