NVIDIA’s keynotes are always big, but few expected the spotlight to shine on a Finnish telecom veteran like Nokia. During the company’s GTC, Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO, announced a partnership that feels like a quiet pivot for the entire industry. With a $1 billion investment in Nokia’s shares, NVIDIA is staking its claim on the networks that will carry the next wave of computing.
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HMD keeps the Nokia spirit alive in surprising ways, such as with the Touch 4G, the company’s most recent return to simpler times. This is based on the old Nokia Asha line, which featured touchscreens and could handle calls, texts, as well as a few apps, all without requiring you to scroll endlessly like modern devices.
In 1999, Nokia was *the* mobile phone giant, and the Nokia 3210, a candy bar phone, was one of the most iconic. Its reputation for being indestructible – stories of surviving crashes, spills and even a car accident – was legendary. But how did Nokia make these almost mythical devices? A rare 1999 factory tour shows the process that produced the 3210 (and 8210).
Okay, brace yourself for the wildest tech prank to hit the internet: a see-through, sci-fi-cool rectangle that lit TikTok ablaze with 26 million views and got everyone dreaming of Nokia’s big comeback. Dubbed the “Nokia Clear Phone,” this shiny, transparent slab had folks losing it over visions of holographic screens and futuristic gadgets. Spoiler alert: it’s a “methaphone”—just a clear acrylic prop shaped like a smartphone, cooked up to mock our screen obsession or maybe just to troll us all for viral kicks.
First announced on September 9, 2004, the Nokia 7280, dubbed the “lipstick phone,” was a bold, stylish mobile phone as part of the company’s “Fashion Phone” line, which also included the 7260 and 7270. Its unique design and unconventional interface made it stand out in an era dominated by flip phones and candy-bar designs.
The Nokia N93 came out on April 25, 2006, and you could buy it starting in July that year for around $480 ($760 in 2025). It was a fancy Symbian smartphone that used Symbian OS v9.1 with an S60 3rd Edition setup. What made it special was its camcorder-like look, with a 2.4-inch screen (240 x 320 pixels) that could twist around, and a big focus on multimedia—especially its camera. It had a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lenses, a 3x optical zoom (new for Nokia), and could record VGA video at 30 frames per second in MPEG-4, which they called “DVD-like” back then.
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When Nokia Lumia 1020 meets iPhone SE 3, you get OceanDepth95028’s NokiApple LumiPhone 1020 SE. Nothing but the shell is left of the Windows Phone 8 device, as it has been replaced with Apple’s A15 Bionic chip, 128GB of storage, and more.
