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.
Adding USB-C charging to an old Nokia 3310 is possible, just not very practical, since it involves opening up the handset. If that isn’t an issue, then you’ll be happy to know that the USB-C port has been integrated with a small plastic adapter that enables it to sit in place of the original phone’s charge port module, making the mod plug-and-play.
Nokia fanatic Wences Palau Fernandez from Barcelona, Spain now holds the Guinness World Record title for ‘world’s largest collection of mobile phones’. He currently possesses 3,615 unique mobile phone models that date all the way back to the Nokia Talkman 600 TACS from 1991.
