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Wow, this was a blast from the past! I worked in the 770 design team, and haven't really seen it mentioned anywhere in the past decade. :) Thanks for your review!
I have my 770 right here... I remember puting Android Donut on it once upon a time. I don't see my charge cable, so I'm not sure I'll be able to see how it is currently doing... Oh, just found that too. Says it's charging. Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Internet Tablet OS 2006 edition Version 3.2006.49-2 I think I restored it to normal before I shelved it. Happy to see that it still starts but I suspect the battery is past its prime now. Edit: Okay, I have OS2006, OS2007, and NITdroid on 3 different partitions on the MMC. I'll have to investigate this further when I remember how to select the boot menu.
At the time I was part of the team developing software and hardware for the Nokia Flagship Stores, and I got a unit to play with to see if we could make a remote controller for the stores' screens. It never happened but it was cool to have the unit. Very well built, I gotta say :) My geek friends envied me because I got all the cool Nokia stuff
If it is really true I have to applaud your innovation sir! Sure n800 and N810 with it’s sliding keyboard looked more fancy by today’s standards, but that flip case screen protector thing was ingenious 🎉 simple yet elegant thing to protect the fragile resistive screen and build like a tank
I remember that we had to apply to join the developer program to buy one, I was so happy when mine arrived! I just looked at my photos from then and it looks like I got it in December 2005 (UK).
I had the N800 around the time of the first iPod Touch. That thing was a beast, integrated kickstand, pop-up rotating camera, a web browser that could actually run Flash. I could even make phone calls with Skype. They backported the firmware for that one back to the 770 for the hacker editions of OS 2007 and 2008. It might be why TuxPaint couldn't launch on yours.
I used mine primarily for when Pandora was still free, so we listened to music at the restaurant I worked at. Definitely a impressive upgrade from the 700.
I also had an N800. Paired with a folding Bluetooth keyboard powered by a couple of AAA batteries, that gave me a shell prompt anytime, anywhere, without having to lug around a laptop. Random phone call to kick an Apache? No problem, don't even need to leave the party.
@@priestessofchaos430I did the same setup when I was a Linux sysadmin for a couple universities since they were demanding 10 minute response time and five-nines but couldn't afford to give us laptops.
There is a living successor to this, Maemo evolved into Meego which was later spun off as SailfishOS which still exists today developed in Finland though their main customers are governments and military's for a secure smartphone OS.
while Sailfish is definitely good... no one outside of Jolia (the main developers) wants to port it to other devices... and Jolia themselves are *really* awful.... if you want to unlock their phones' bootloaders, you'll have to pay.
@@jamesbrendan5170 i supported Jolla through social media page, but their effort lacks support but they still operational, i just wish they commercialized the Sailfish OS for free or at least one time payment, because monthly subscription is not my thing for an OS.
Although true the story is a little bit more complicated and deeper than that The Maemo operating system although Linux Debian based, it's UI was the real evolution of Epoc, the Operating System that was powering older Psion PDAs. Epoc became Symbian spanning into different GUI implementations (Nokia's S60, S80 and S90 as well as UIQ) with only one of them (S90) evolving the original Psions GUI as Hildon. The Symbian implementation eventually got cancelled with only the Linux (Maemo) beeing kept in development with Nokia N900 being the last version developed by Nokia. At that point Nokia and Intel were merging their Linux OSes Maemo and Moblin into one called MeeGo. This is where things get complicated as the next Nokia device (the N9) runs MeeGo (Harmattan) only in name, under the hood it is still Maemo (Debian based) and nothing to do with the public source code tree of Meego (that was closer to Intel's Moblin). Additionally Nokia's N9 UI has nothing to do with Hildon which was tablet focused. Apparently Nokia was working on a next gen UI for a linux based smartphone for multiple years but they ended up throwing all efforts in the bin as user testing deemed them too complicated - Nokia's N9 UI was designed and developed in 6 months). The rest is kinda history. Nokia's then CEO Stephen Elop sided with his old Boss (MIcrosoft) so any Linux efforts were cancelled. MeeGo as a core OS died with the Linux Foundation now moving to Tizen and Jolla (at that point a Finish start up company co founded by ex Nokians who worked on the above projects) continued work through Sailfish OS (based on MeeGo now called Mer but not Maemo). Maemo or should I say Hildon UI still lives on though as it was Open Source. You can run an updated community version called Maemo Leste both on the original N900 as well as on a bunch of other devices like the PinePhone. And Jolla with Sailfish although yes in the past they were mainly working with goverments, after the Russia-Ukrane war they had to overcome the trouble of being half owned by Russian investors which had an impact on their business. They managed to change ownership last year but it is a mirracle they are still alive after all the financial problems they went through. For anyone who is really interested in the history of Psion's Epoc, Symbian, Maemo and Meego and their evolution there are some amazing articles written in theregister a... decade ago (search for "Symbian Secret History" & "How Nokia managed to drive its in-house Linux train off the rails") .
I held off on buying my first smartphone for the US launch of the N900, but when they went a good bit sideways (only supported the good data rates on T-Mo who had little coverage in my area) I went with an original Moto Droid instead.
The N900 was my first smartphone, and its still my favorite. Earlier this year I bought one off of ebay and playing with it had been great fun, even if it does show its age. I need to replace the usb port, though. Which I'm nervous about haha
@@DarasEsI resorted to buying an external battery charger for it which prolonged its lifetime by a couple of years. But eventually after like 6 years, it stopped recognizing my SIM.
Now this is a weird synchronicity. Last night I was watching a video randomly recommended to me, where someone reviews hacking scenes in movies. This device was used in one of them and I was interested in finding out more. Then you upload this video.
@@AlexGamingConsole i for real think its actually the case. Sometimes i just talk of something with someone, i dont research anything. And still get ads with said thing i was talking about or related stuff. Really creepy
@@AlexGamingConsole You are not wrong. The other day, I was looking for some music, quite obscure underground music. I looked it up on Discogs. Came on to TH-cam, it was waiting for me on my home page. I guess I need to work on my security because I thought it was tight. Obviously not.
@@eltirick6550 Facebook is notorious for that. Honestly, ditch your smart phone. Get a dumb phone for calls and texts and use a computer for everything else. Disable your microphone and webcam, physically if possible.
I still have that problem today with some retro tech. I see things like this and think "it's so neat relative to the time period!" (And most of my cognizant childhood was in the 1990s, so I've been around computing devices for a long time.) But then, I ask myself, do you really want underpowered, unsupported, ancient hardware that will run horribly at best? (And mostly not support things like modern websites.) I have trouble letting go of things, but I also have a lot of trouble "going back" even to computers and devices that used to be my "daily drivers"...
Nokia was something else during 2000s. I remember reading about this device in the mobile magazines. As a kid I was thinking even if I got device like this I would never know how to use it :D
@@SomeUnremarkableGuy Apple cop... borrow... inspir... was total origan and first at everything way back to Apple I... Basically all Apple "innovation" are predated by somebody/thing years or decade. Apple people talking, in early years before gone full on corpo/marketing/sales, about lessons they taking of other business/peoples failures or successes.
@@iRelevant.47.system.boycott Sometimes they'll even steal from themselves, like when they snubbed the Woz. Say it with me, kids, Steve Jobs was a hack and a fraud!
There's an old Motorola phone that run Linux (actually a whole line of moto phones that run Linux) it was a very interesting, it was a contender against Symbian at the time.
@@Leonard_MT The device has most likely been manufactured by Elcoteq (a Finnish contract manufacturer that went bankrupt in 2010) which opened a manufacturing facility in Estonia in 1992.
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I have the Nokia 6680 that they illustrate in the instructions for linking the phone up via Bluetooth. Was such a great symbian 60 3G handset. I ran ScummVM on it and played all my favourite LucasArts games back in the day. For 2005 it was incredible. In fact I remember flying to Kefalonia for a holiday and border control asked me for my phone and when I gave it to them it turned out they just wanted to take a look at it because it was so nice.
I can not emphasize enough what a game changer this mighty little weird machine was for me when I stumbled across mine at compusa as well. At the time that this device was introduced, “smart” phones were still nascent and the best ones at the time were like WindowsCE based crap, half decent Palm devices or Blackberries. The Nokia BLEW AWAY the browsing experience on anything short of probably the iPhone 4 or maybe the PalmPre given the other thing you didn’t mention which is just how high resolution the pixel density on this thing was for the time. The fit and finish was also deliciously nice to hold. While it was still my hot new toy I carried this little guy everywhere with me and paired it with my otherwise clunky Windows CE or Palm based phones.
@@jstan5802 Stephen Elop was totally a trojan horse sent by Microsoft. His stupid acts brought down Nokia's valuation preparing for Microsoft's purchase of the phone department. I think MeeGo could have actually been something incredible, even to compete with Android. It ran so smooth compared to Symbian. It was what Nokia's phones needed, not WindowsPhone.
This takes me back. I had the N800, N810 and N900! I miss these devices. The N800/810 were also the tablets, but the N900 was an actual Linux phone that was very good. That, more than the other two, I really miss...
@@ianreed9858 It really was. I had that phone for a few years and it served me well. I miss that phone and I wish we could get something like that back. And the keyboard was so good.
If this thing doubled as a PDA I would be buying one asap. I currently use a Palm TX for daily tasks and organiser functions and I love these sorts of devices .. I feel like the palm TX is about as good as it gets with PDAs ... Something like this is such a massive step up! It sucks it's not focussed on being a PDA as well
As a proud N900 owner, I'm so happy that Maemo-Leste project exists. It's a modern community distro of Maemo, based on Devuan, and I was able to easily run some modern Linux apps on my N900, such as a Telegram client. But, of course, it really chokes on anything that needs more than 100mb of RAM.......
Nokia in 2005 was top dog in cell phones, I remember that small Nokia tablet at T Mobile store, it was cool to actually browse the internet on a device, despite being slow, too bad Nokia didn’t focus hard enough on mobile tablets, because they would’ve been ahead of Apple, if Nokia made a better operating system!
I totally got selected to do the Windows 7 House Party. Scored some free copies of Windows 7, and a bunch of weird swag. I still have some of that stuff somewhere.
I still have my Nokia 770 and it still boots up last time I checked a few months ago. I got mine on the early beta program in 2005 and used it for years from mobile sysadmin and even sat nav amongst other things. Absolutely loved it 🙂
I had one, and the follow-up n800 which was somewhat more refined. It really felt like it was the future especially as you could get it online with a phone using Bluetooth in I think PAN mode.
I did this too! Bluetooth tethered it from my Verizon RAZR phone. I laughed at those lame iPhone 1s that couldn’t even run Flash 🤣 In reality even though I was so excited to get it, it was pretty rare for me to find anything this was all that useful for though 😂 it ended up in a drawer, mostly
I had one of those 770’s. How Nokia let its userbase down was they promised to maintain and upkeep with yearly updates. However, when the n800 came out, support for the 770 had dropped with only one major update, and that’s it… support was shortly after, dropped… same applied for the n800 when the n810 came out.
That's pretty misleading. The 770 was upgradeable from OS2005 to OS2006, but was not compatible with later binaries. When the N800 came out on OS2007 they gave us a Hacker Edition update combining the native binaries with the updated libraries and userspace processes from OS2007. When the N810 came out on OS2008 they released another Hacker Edition update, again combining the OS2006 binaries with the latest libraries and userspace processes, which overwhelmed the resources of the 770 and made its use impractical. The N800 was natively capable of running OS2008, but neither it nor the N810 received subsequent updates to Maemo 5 as installed on the N900, a GSM cellular device powered by a new family of TI OMAP SoC.
i still have a working one of these, used to use it to read books, look at live journal while streaming shoutcast streams way back in the day. edit: these are easily hackable, you can add extra swap to get around memory problems and modify the "home" screen.
I remember putting a version of Firefox and TuxPaint on mine. I could also use an SSH client with X forwarding to run a GUI app off a remote Linux system. Tethering via Bluetooth was nice too.
Got mine in a clearance sale back im 2008 and tinkered with it for a while. It was awesome for SCUMMVM. I also remember to have mangled some episodes of The Office into shape, so I could watch something close to a slide show on my daily commute until 2010. The life! It still collects dust here somewhere. I never bother to turn it on anymore, as I remember it rebooting constantly due to RAM starvation.
I still have my n810 and n900. Beasts for their time! I mean I was downloading torrents and taking calls in University all in my pocket when everyone else was using brick phones :D
Wow, Nokia had the Ubuntu Mobile 10-15 years before that. Ngl the "desktop interface" of this distro is quite good and very useful. I wish Android had something like that
The later N810 was fantastic. You could grab tools from Debian at the time and get them to work with not a massive amount of effort. Other than needing to build a portable powered USB hub or power injector, you could run external USB devices for war driving and other fun stuff and the slide out keyboard was very useable.
Interesting device indeed. However the real cuestion is... What is the name of the album of the third cover at 15:50 ? (The one simply named zm, showcased after the album cover of Toshiki Kadomatsu - After 5 Clash and Tatsuro Yamashita - Spacy).
Ah, the legendary Nokia 770! I have one right here. It's like new, works perfectly. Has the original box and accessories and everything. It's for sale if anyone is into vintage gear. :)
17:28 OH. My very old Mp3 player from like 2004 had that file in it too! My guess is that around the early 2000s it was common to just drop ice age trailers on devices, just to have a playable video as a sample in there. I guess.
I had a the successor N800 for several years. Combined with a folding Bluetooth keyboard and the then sparsely available WiFi or tethered from my mobile it was capable on-call support setup for my jobs at the time as a Linux sysadmin for a couple universities. My N800 came with a Nokia branded MiniSD card and adapter. I always wondered why since the device didn't use the format and it was firmly on the way out at the time (MiniSD production ended in 2008.)
I've still got my old Nokia N900 phone that runs Maemo 5 Linux. I got it the week it came out as I really wanted it. It's a chunky phone with a slide out keyboard, 32GB storage, and a MicroSDHC card slot. It's one of the best phones I had before Android really took over. I'll have to get it out and charge it and have a play with it again and hopefully get it back online which might be difficult with my Vodafone WiFi 6 router with all of the security features my router has. The only downside is I can't really use it as a phone now as they are switching off 3G here in the UK, and 2G by the end of 2029.
I have the N800 version, it was my best friend during my trips, incredible wifi voip software, music and internet formthe time the size of a modern smartphone
I have heard its just that at the time Linus himself had a weird obsession with penguins after visiting a zoo and getting nibbled by a little penguin and then decided to make the logo a penguin that was sitting down after having eaten a nice meal
Lordy I remember having one of these, took me days to get software, but used as a pda and email client over cellphone dial up. Used mostly for my mp3s by the end
The background music during the sponsor bit sounds like it should be played on either high end headphones or cheap nuggetphones on a freakish ears on a stick!
I had one of those back in the day. Bought it especially because it ran Linux and mostly used it as a Linux terminal, MSN/AIM/ICQ Client and to play some emulated games.
That was cool! I would've probably categorized it as a Handheld Computing Applianca or something else. (To keep the "Appliance" from -Netpliance- Internet Appliance in there)
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That's great never saw that in the uk. I guess it's the time when we had electronic organizers and Nokia phones were getting internet good already
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Wow, this was a blast from the past! I worked in the 770 design team, and haven't really seen it mentioned anywhere in the past decade. :) Thanks for your review!
I have my 770 right here... I remember puting Android Donut on it once upon a time. I don't see my charge cable, so I'm not sure I'll be able to see how it is currently doing... Oh, just found that too. Says it's charging.
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Internet Tablet OS 2006 edition
Version 3.2006.49-2
I think I restored it to normal before I shelved it. Happy to see that it still starts but I suspect the battery is past its prime now.
Edit:
Okay, I have OS2006, OS2007, and NITdroid on 3 different partitions on the MMC. I'll have to investigate this further when I remember how to select the boot menu.
Hienoa työtä!
At the time I was part of the team developing software and hardware for the Nokia Flagship Stores, and I got a unit to play with to see if we could make a remote controller for the stores' screens. It never happened but it was cool to have the unit. Very well built, I gotta say :)
My geek friends envied me because I got all the cool Nokia stuff
If it is really true I have to applaud your innovation sir! Sure n800 and N810 with it’s sliding keyboard looked more fancy by today’s standards, but that flip case screen protector thing was ingenious 🎉 simple yet elegant thing to protect the fragile resistive screen and build like a tank
I remember that we had to apply to join the developer program to buy one, I was so happy when mine arrived! I just looked at my photos from then and it looks like I got it in December 2005 (UK).
I had the N800 around the time of the first iPod Touch. That thing was a beast, integrated kickstand, pop-up rotating camera, a web browser that could actually run Flash. I could even make phone calls with Skype.
They backported the firmware for that one back to the 770 for the hacker editions of OS 2007 and 2008. It might be why TuxPaint couldn't launch on yours.
Beast is very far fetched
I used mine primarily for when Pandora was still free, so we listened to music at the restaurant I worked at. Definitely a impressive upgrade from the 700.
I also had an N800. Paired with a folding Bluetooth keyboard powered by a couple of AAA batteries, that gave me a shell prompt anytime, anywhere, without having to lug around a laptop. Random phone call to kick an Apache? No problem, don't even need to leave the party.
@@RKingiswhen Pandora was free? It is free to this day never been payed where do they charge for Pandora
@@priestessofchaos430I did the same setup when I was a Linux sysadmin for a couple universities since they were demanding 10 minute response time and five-nines but couldn't afford to give us laptops.
There is a living successor to this, Maemo evolved into Meego which was later spun off as SailfishOS which still exists today developed in Finland though their main customers are governments and military's for a secure smartphone OS.
Good info thanks
while Sailfish is definitely good... no one outside of Jolia (the main developers) wants to port it to other devices... and Jolia themselves are *really* awful.... if you want to unlock their phones' bootloaders, you'll have to pay.
@@jamesbrendan5170 i supported Jolla through social media page, but their effort lacks support but they still operational, i just wish they commercialized the Sailfish OS for free or at least one time payment, because monthly subscription is not my thing for an OS.
Although true the story is a little bit more complicated and deeper than that
The Maemo operating system although Linux Debian based, it's UI was the real evolution of Epoc, the Operating System that was powering older Psion PDAs. Epoc became Symbian spanning into different GUI implementations (Nokia's S60, S80 and S90 as well as UIQ) with only one of them (S90) evolving the original Psions GUI as Hildon.
The Symbian implementation eventually got cancelled with only the Linux (Maemo) beeing kept in development with Nokia N900 being the last version developed by Nokia. At that point Nokia and Intel were merging their Linux OSes Maemo and Moblin into one called MeeGo. This is where things get complicated as the next Nokia device (the N9) runs MeeGo (Harmattan) only in name, under the hood it is still Maemo (Debian based) and nothing to do with the public source code tree of Meego (that was closer to Intel's Moblin). Additionally Nokia's N9 UI has nothing to do with Hildon which was tablet focused. Apparently Nokia was working on a next gen UI for a linux based smartphone for multiple years but they ended up throwing all efforts in the bin as user testing deemed them too complicated - Nokia's N9 UI was designed and developed in 6 months). The rest is kinda history. Nokia's then CEO Stephen Elop sided with his old Boss (MIcrosoft) so any Linux efforts were cancelled. MeeGo as a core OS died with the Linux Foundation now moving to Tizen and Jolla (at that point a Finish start up company co founded by ex Nokians who worked on the above projects) continued work through Sailfish OS (based on MeeGo now called Mer but not Maemo).
Maemo or should I say Hildon UI still lives on though as it was Open Source. You can run an updated community version called Maemo Leste both on the original N900 as well as on a bunch of other devices like the PinePhone. And Jolla with Sailfish although yes in the past they were mainly working with goverments, after the Russia-Ukrane war they had to overcome the trouble of being half owned by Russian investors which had an impact on their business. They managed to change ownership last year but it is a mirracle they are still alive after all the financial problems they went through.
For anyone who is really interested in the history of Psion's Epoc, Symbian, Maemo and Meego and their evolution there are some amazing articles written in theregister a... decade ago (search for "Symbian Secret History" & "How Nokia managed to drive its in-house Linux train off the rails") .
Sailfish OS was bought by Russians, so it's no longer Finnish.
I loved my N900 soo much. Debian on a phone in 2009 was just the best. I ssh'd into uni and from uni to my dorm, so nice.
I held off on buying my first smartphone for the US launch of the N900, but when they went a good bit sideways (only supported the good data rates on T-Mo who had little coverage in my area) I went with an original Moto Droid instead.
I used my n900 up until the USB port fell off
The N900 was my first smartphone, and its still my favorite. Earlier this year I bought one off of ebay and playing with it had been great fun, even if it does show its age. I need to replace the usb port, though. Which I'm nervous about haha
@@DarasEsI resorted to buying an external battery charger for it which prolonged its lifetime by a couple of years. But eventually after like 6 years, it stopped recognizing my SIM.
Now this is a weird synchronicity. Last night I was watching a video randomly recommended to me, where someone reviews hacking scenes in movies. This device was used in one of them and I was interested in finding out more. Then you upload this video.
You get thats not a coincidence right? Your tech literally watches and listens to you. Easiest form and cheapest form of advertising
@@AlexGamingConsole i for real think its actually the case. Sometimes i just talk of something with someone, i dont research anything. And still get ads with said thing i was talking about or related stuff. Really creepy
@@AlexGamingConsole You are not wrong. The other day, I was looking for some music, quite obscure underground music. I looked it up on Discogs. Came on to TH-cam, it was waiting for me on my home page. I guess I need to work on my security because I thought it was tight. Obviously not.
very cool
@@eltirick6550 Facebook is notorious for that. Honestly, ditch your smart phone. Get a dumb phone for calls and texts and use a computer for everything else. Disable your microphone and webcam, physically if possible.
I really wanted one of these in 2005
I really want one now. No need for it, no use for it, I just think it's neat
I still have that problem today with some retro tech. I see things like this and think "it's so neat relative to the time period!" (And most of my cognizant childhood was in the 1990s, so I've been around computing devices for a long time.) But then, I ask myself, do you really want underpowered, unsupported, ancient hardware that will run horribly at best? (And mostly not support things like modern websites.) I have trouble letting go of things, but I also have a lot of trouble "going back" even to computers and devices that used to be my "daily drivers"...
Nokia was something else during 2000s. I remember reading about this device in the mobile magazines. As a kid I was thinking even if I got device like this I would never know how to use it :D
apple pretty much copied everythign they did, from the interfance to the materials and apply aqua to it.
@@Jo21 in which universe that happened?
@@SomeUnremarkableGuy This. Same shit, different wrapping. And they were very good at the wrapping part, more so than the ideas.
@@SomeUnremarkableGuy Apple cop... borrow... inspir... was total origan and first at everything way back to Apple I...
Basically all Apple "innovation" are predated by somebody/thing years or decade. Apple people talking, in early years before gone full on corpo/marketing/sales, about lessons they taking of other business/peoples failures or successes.
@@iRelevant.47.system.boycott Sometimes they'll even steal from themselves, like when they snubbed the Woz. Say it with me, kids, Steve Jobs was a hack and a fraud!
I had the N770, N810, and N900. I loved all of them. They were all far beyond their time.
That little pinguin is going to take over the computer world because of social media.
Real.
Exactly!
And Valve's support
I’m here for it, even though I doubt the market share will drastically change
If that's what you want to think 😂
There's an old Motorola phone that run Linux (actually a whole line of moto phones that run Linux) it was a very interesting, it was a contender against Symbian at the time.
I had a Moto ROKR E2 which ran Linux. It sucked.
i miss physical buttons on tablets and phones. they were so satisfying to use.
1:00 made in Estonia, you don't see these words often
I could be wrong but I remember reading that the Baltic SSRs were quite involved in the Soviet computing industry.
or ever
@@Leonard_MT The device has most likely been manufactured by Elcoteq (a Finnish contract manufacturer that went bankrupt in 2010) which opened a manufacturing facility in Estonia in 1992.
I mean it's a country that's bordering Finland, so why not
it's crazy that 2005 was 20 years ago 😞
And 20 was 2005 years ago!
19 years ago *
I'm to old
Hello Michael MJD It The Mind Of Orin here I’d like to thank you for being one of my role models and inspiring me to be the person I am today I love computers retro tech and especially Windows 7 related stuff I’ve become quite a tech guru because of you and other tech TH-camrs thank you for being one of my role models 😀
I have the Nokia 6680 that they illustrate in the instructions for linking the phone up via Bluetooth. Was such a great symbian 60 3G handset. I ran ScummVM on it and played all my favourite LucasArts games back in the day. For 2005 it was incredible. In fact I remember flying to Kefalonia for a holiday and border control asked me for my phone and when I gave it to them it turned out they just wanted to take a look at it because it was so nice.
Always fun seeing these small little devices.
Little guys series by cathode Ray dude is worth a watch too! Though not all cell phones just smaller niche electronic devices in general
I have a Nokia n810 and the n900. The n900 was such a cool phone at the time.
I can not emphasize enough what a game changer this mighty little weird machine was for me when I stumbled across mine at compusa as well. At the time that this device was introduced, “smart” phones were still nascent and the best ones at the time were like WindowsCE based crap, half decent Palm devices or Blackberries. The Nokia BLEW AWAY the browsing experience on anything short of probably the iPhone 4 or maybe the PalmPre given the other thing you didn’t mention which is just how high resolution the pixel density on this thing was for the time. The fit and finish was also deliciously nice to hold. While it was still my hot new toy I carried this little guy everywhere with me and paired it with my otherwise clunky Windows CE or Palm based phones.
It's a shame instead of pursuing the further development of Maemo/Meego, Nokia instead went with Microsoft
@@jstan5802 Stephen Elop was totally a trojan horse sent by Microsoft. His stupid acts brought down Nokia's valuation preparing for Microsoft's purchase of the phone department. I think MeeGo could have actually been something incredible, even to compete with Android. It ran so smooth compared to Symbian. It was what Nokia's phones needed, not WindowsPhone.
I loved this thing so much, used it until the browser wouldn't work with modern internet. Thank you for this video, such a trip down memory lane!
This takes me back. I had the N800, N810 and N900! I miss these devices. The N800/810 were also the tablets, but the N900 was an actual Linux phone that was very good. That, more than the other two, I really miss...
Yeh, me too. Had the 770 through to the 900. To me, a Linux geek, the 900 was just fantastic.
@@ianreed9858 It really was. I had that phone for a few years and it served me well. I miss that phone and I wish we could get something like that back. And the keyboard was so good.
Well, with keyboard, playing Doom is surely more fun! :)
Need a mouse too!
I have a similar one it was an Nokia n810 with a Debian distro and i found it near a trash bin
Who the hell would throw away such a cool phone 😭
@ it plays doom too so that makes it even cooler
The N810 can even run a Minecraft server, though just barely and it's not really playable
@ never knew lemme try that
@@RetroGamerOG_ exactly!
The division of Nokia that worked on this was called OSSO (the Open Source Software Operations group).
If this thing doubled as a PDA I would be buying one asap. I currently use a Palm TX for daily tasks and organiser functions and I love these sorts of devices .. I feel like the palm TX is about as good as it gets with PDAs ... Something like this is such a massive step up! It sucks it's not focussed on being a PDA as well
As a proud N900 owner, I'm so happy that Maemo-Leste project exists. It's a modern community distro of Maemo, based on Devuan, and I was able to easily run some modern Linux apps on my N900, such as a Telegram client. But, of course, it really chokes on anything that needs more than 100mb of RAM.......
Nokia in 2005 was top dog in cell phones, I remember that small Nokia tablet at T Mobile store, it was cool to actually browse the internet on a device, despite being slow, too bad Nokia didn’t focus hard enough on mobile tablets, because they would’ve been ahead of Apple, if Nokia made a better operating system!
I totally got selected to do the Windows 7 House Party. Scored some free copies of Windows 7, and a bunch of weird swag. I still have some of that stuff somewhere.
Sir.. you have to cover ALL OF THESE MARVELOUS devices from the past.. i love it ❤ thank you so much ❤
The first Nokia-related video! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Michael, if you didnt know: Maemo became Meego and Meego became Jollas Sailfish OS
I still have my Nokia 770 and it still boots up last time I checked a few months ago. I got mine on the early beta program in 2005 and used it for years from mobile sysadmin and even sat nav amongst other things. Absolutely loved it 🙂
I got a 770 off Woot for under $150. Only used it a year or two but was great to mess around with
I didn't expect this to ever be covered in my feed. I have one of these. Awesome!
I had one, and the follow-up n800 which was somewhat more refined. It really felt like it was the future especially as you could get it online with a phone using Bluetooth in I think PAN mode.
I did this too! Bluetooth tethered it from my Verizon RAZR phone. I laughed at those lame iPhone 1s that couldn’t even run Flash 🤣
In reality even though I was so excited to get it, it was pretty rare for me to find anything this was all that useful for though 😂 it ended up in a drawer, mostly
From the start this looks awesome!
your house must be full of all this old stuff you get off ebay
0:26 Did you steal it...?
I think he stole it
He stole it!
I would have too
Fuck, you stole my joke.
I had one of those 770’s. How Nokia let its userbase down was they promised to maintain and upkeep with yearly updates. However, when the n800 came out, support for the 770 had dropped with only one major update, and that’s it… support was shortly after, dropped… same applied for the n800 when the n810 came out.
That's pretty misleading. The 770 was upgradeable from OS2005 to OS2006, but was not compatible with later binaries. When the N800 came out on OS2007 they gave us a Hacker Edition update combining the native binaries with the updated libraries and userspace processes from OS2007. When the N810 came out on OS2008 they released another Hacker Edition update, again combining the OS2006 binaries with the latest libraries and userspace processes, which overwhelmed the resources of the 770 and made its use impractical. The N800 was natively capable of running OS2008, but neither it nor the N810 received subsequent updates to Maemo 5 as installed on the N900, a GSM cellular device powered by a new family of TI OMAP SoC.
i still have a working one of these, used to use it to read books, look at live journal while streaming shoutcast streams way back in the day.
edit: these are easily hackable, you can add extra swap to get around memory problems and modify the "home" screen.
Nokia is thinking way ahead of its time... magnificent.
I loved my n770. I used it a lot for sip calls, internet radio alarm clock and learning what can be done while out and about.
I love these devices, they are mini computers.
I could see the appeal of putting a magnet on the back of this and putting it on your fridge to display recipes and play music or something.
You made me buy one, look what you have done!
I remember putting a version of Firefox and TuxPaint on mine. I could also use an SSH client with X forwarding to run a GUI app off a remote Linux system. Tethering via Bluetooth was nice too.
Got mine in a clearance sale back im 2008 and tinkered with it for a while. It was awesome for SCUMMVM. I also remember to have mangled some episodes of The Office into shape, so I could watch something close to a slide show on my daily commute until 2010. The life!
It still collects dust here somewhere. I never bother to turn it on anymore, as I remember it rebooting constantly due to RAM starvation.
I've used Nokia 800 back in the days. It was Nokia in their prime. Superb Linux gadget for geeks from one of the top manufacturer
I still have my n810 and n900. Beasts for their time! I mean I was downloading torrents and taking calls in University all in my pocket when everyone else was using brick phones :D
That COMP USA Sticker man... got my first capture card there. A Dazzle Platinum
Wow, Nokia had the Ubuntu Mobile 10-15 years before that. Ngl the "desktop interface" of this distro is quite good and very useful. I wish Android had something like that
Man, I kinda miss the interim days of the aughties where mobile device designers were pretty much throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck.
You need the "Nokia Wireless Keyboard" 2005 in order to write and work pretty well.
That style of case is so sick we need to bring that back
15:36 never expected to see that there tho. amazing taste
Oh Nokia my beloved. Just seeing that box design, the Symbian-like system font and icons, oh god how I miss it.
i actually remember that tablet, but i rarely saw those at Best Buy or Circuit City, they are boosting-up that wonderful & nice nostalgia.
I had the N810 and man that thing was so much fun. I think I still have it in storage somewhere.
I had discovered your time lapse music from that dazzle capture card I think or the compaq portable and have loved playing when I open my hp 250 G4
The later N810 was fantastic. You could grab tools from Debian at the time and get them to work with not a massive amount of effort. Other than needing to build a portable powered USB hub or power injector, you could run external USB devices for war driving and other fun stuff and the slide out keyboard was very useable.
These smaller MMC cards are called RS-MMC. Siemens phones (x75 series and the S65) also used them.
Interesting device indeed.
However the real cuestion is... What is the name of the album of the third cover at 15:50 ? (The one simply named zm, showcased after the album cover of Toshiki Kadomatsu - After 5 Clash and Tatsuro Yamashita - Spacy).
Zopilote Machine by The Mountain Goats!
Ah, the legendary Nokia 770!
I have one right here. It's like new, works perfectly. Has the original box and accessories and everything. It's for sale if anyone is into vintage gear. :)
17:28 OH. My very old Mp3 player from like 2004 had that file in it too!
My guess is that around the early 2000s it was common to just drop ice age trailers on devices, just to have a playable video as a sample in there. I guess.
I had a the successor N800 for several years. Combined with a folding Bluetooth keyboard and the then sparsely available WiFi or tethered from my mobile it was capable on-call support setup for my jobs at the time as a Linux sysadmin for a couple universities.
My N800 came with a Nokia branded MiniSD card and adapter. I always wondered why since the device didn't use the format and it was firmly on the way out at the time (MiniSD production ended in 2008.)
2000s... best time, who lived, lived!
Discovering this for the first time for me. Amazing
This looks pretty nice. I would not refuse to try it out
I've still got my old Nokia N900 phone that runs Maemo 5 Linux. I got it the week it came out as I really wanted it. It's a chunky phone with a slide out keyboard, 32GB storage, and a MicroSDHC card slot. It's one of the best phones I had before Android really took over. I'll have to get it out and charge it and have a play with it again and hopefully get it back online which might be difficult with my Vodafone WiFi 6 router with all of the security features my router has. The only downside is I can't really use it as a phone now as they are switching off 3G here in the UK, and 2G by the end of 2029.
I have the N800 version, it was my best friend during my trips, incredible wifi voip software, music and internet formthe time the size of a modern smartphone
I swore I was subscribed to you before, I was mistaken. I watch your videos all the time sooooo **clicks subscribe**
I am always curious about Linux logo like what's the story behind it
I have heard its just that at the time Linus himself had a weird obsession with penguins after visiting a zoo and getting nibbled by a little penguin and then decided to make the logo a penguin that was sitting down after having eaten a nice meal
Wow ! this is a serene and exploring Linux 2005 tablet
와우! 조용하고 탐험적인 Linux 태블릿이었습니다
i've got an 800 series of one of these, i love the little thing.
I’m gonna be entirely honest I’d watch a video of you just going over your music library 😂
00:24 - "Well, it's sitting on the table here, so what do you think I did?"
You stole it! I knew it...
That metal slide is the perfect solution to all the non flip screen retro gaming handhelds having an easy screen protector. Why is this not a thing?!
Sponsor segment got me feeling like a set of freakish ears on a stand, with a pair of hurr-durr-six-hunge-ohs on
I miss devices like this... I loved tinkering on the n810
I had one of the 770s and deeply enjoyed it :D
2:07 I saw the first image of the sponsor and knew not to skip this one.
3:09 This is why I hate being poor.😢
first time i know that this exists was when I'm playing the pimp my ride game on ps2. definitely a nostalgic piece right here.
Love the clippy ornament ❤❤❤❤
7:00 "Which is a very flat stylus" (looks at my S-Pen)
Thanks for the new bedtime video
Lordy I remember having one of these, took me days to get software, but used as a pda and email client over cellphone dial up. Used mostly for my mp3s by the end
Another Michael MJD video,always a good watch.
The background music during the sponsor bit sounds like it should be played on either high end headphones or cheap nuggetphones on a freakish ears on a stick!
I have a 810 still in working conditions and it's still great😊
I had one of those back in the day. Bought it especially because it ran Linux and mostly used it as a Linux terminal, MSN/AIM/ICQ Client and to play some emulated games.
That's great never saw that in the uk. I guess it's the time when we had electronic organizers and Nokia phones were getting internet good already
Never used the N770 but I did pick up a used N800 in like 2010. Got a fair bit of use out of it before smartphones and tablets were really a thing.
The thing was actually way ahead of its time
Loved the clippy on the table
This is actually really cool
That thing has a pretty impressive display for a device with only 64MB of RAM...
Wow, I suddenly want one of these. I find this device very impressive.
They had always futuristic devices but hadn't enough power so they looks slow , Nokia was my favorite for Themes Games & Camera
i was a proud owner of a nokia N810 and i LOVED that thing.
That was cool! I would've probably categorized it as a Handheld Computing Applianca or something else. (To keep the "Appliance" from -Netpliance- Internet Appliance in there)