I used to have a Nokia N8. They will not do an initial charge off USB, it must use the DC jack on the bottom. After it boots, I think I do remember it being USB charging capable however, albeit slowly. They were actually very nice phones, and the camera was freakin amazing on them. Even recorded video in full stereo. (720p I believe).
We’ve really been spoiled by modern USB charging. Even in 2012 it was still kind of a crapshoot. But today it’s reliable af and you’ll probably get at least 10-20% in 10 minutes. When he tries old devices that need a barrel jack to revive them, or just only gives 5-10 minutes instead of 2 hours for 90s or early 00s stuff to wake up, I get mildly sad 😅
the n8 screen is oled. and it can cast FM waves. i remember my brother listening to his music from his old car's radio (no Bluetooth no aux just fm from the phone. that was sick)
I used to be a Lumia user and I'm still sad Windows Phone died the way it did. The phones were well designed and well made, especially my 830, holy it was sexy. The system was well designed, functioned smooth and looked great, just a shame that there was no software support and microsoft was generally a mess handling it.
If it was windows 7 based instead of windows 8 I could see it having stuck around but I don't know anyone who liked the change to the tiles windows 8 and higher do like how these phones have
@@ClassicRedEye Bang on the money, owned a Lumia 640, MAN that phone was amazing, and tbh it still to this day works for me as a backup phone, GOD I loved that phone, best phone I've ever had, and the keyboard was the icing on the cake, even the tiles feature was great. The ONLY reason I had to get a new phone was the app support, there were just no apps for it 😥
The 950XL is amazing. Can even run Desktop Windows 11 if you want. And for deeply discharged devices, keep em plugged into a low power brick, like 1A (those old apple bricks work). Then monitor them for an hour, most of em will spring right back up.
The first Kindle Fire had a similar issue, if it got too dead, it didn't like to come back, and you'd have to leave it plugged in for a hot minute, then unplug it, push the button to turn it on, then plug it back in for it to actually start taking the charge, or some convoluted crap like that. Don't miss those days.
@@BorislavVeselinov The archive being a completely separate channel was sorta clunky at times and the complete seasons were difficult to navigate, so i think this was the best solution
@@BorislavVeselinov To be fair it's easier to just have them on Wade's channel so I'm very happy about this, the archive is good and all but it means remembering another channel name and where I left off.
I worked for a phone company from 2011-2015, and the pack in earbuds from the Lumia 610 were my favourite pack in buds from any phone we ever sold. Wish I could find another pair, for nostalgia if nothing else.
I had one of the first Nokia he looked at, here. Or, something incredibly close to it; it's actually sitting like, twelve feet away, even if I haven't used it in 10 years. It served me well for quite a while.
I used to know a girl in eighth grade, who was an absolute Windows Phone super fan. She was sure it would be huge and it was her favorite OS, to the point when she got grounded she would have to use an iPhone. That was genuinely a punishment for her and she hated it every time.
There are dozens of us! Dozens! To this day I still use Square Home to make my Android home screen kinda look like a Windows phone. I still think M$'s Metro/"tiles" approach is a good alternative to the icon/widget phone UI.
Of all the phones I've had, the Lumia 920 might still be my favourite. No phone since has felt anywhere near as premium. A truly wonderful piece of industrial design.
had the lumia 920 taking a break from android and loved it, such a shame google was able to kill off windowsphone though by withholding the apps everyone used because it was such a nice experience and I'd love to see how a windowsphone foldable would have worked.
I still have my 920 in a drawer somewhere. It still works fine but nothing is supported so it's just a good looking, good feeling brick with a screen. 😕
@@Sabretoothsquirrelyou can basically turn it into a desktop, with a mess of adapters you can plug in peripherals(keyboard screen nouse) and legit use it, not that you'd ecer want to but it's a cool project
I know this is super old and you probably arent going back through your old videos but a huge selling point for a lot of the "higher end" nokia windows phones was (A) fantastic cameras for the time (B) Oled screens, i had the windows phone with the gianr camera on it and i STILL to this day 2024 use it as a point and shoot camera because the images it puts out are fantastic
They were the first with the always-on stuff since oled allowed that. People were "wtf how? your phone is on, draining your battery" and I was like "nah, it can do that with minimal battery usage" lol
I havent seen anybody talk about this but an extremely clutch thing about this channel is that its very watchable on shitty internet. the bright lighting and tight closeup of anything important makes these an especially easy 480p watch
Hey, I bought a Lumia 620 for my mum in 2014. I even rocked it myself as a backup phone in 2018. Man, that thing was downright decent, and among early '10s budget phones, the camera may as well have been a DSLR. Shame it was let down by app support.
My favorite meme about Windows will always be the BSOD that says "Windows is face fucking your PC! Please don't turn off the computer, we're having a good time."
I actually had one of these phones for a long time in the past. Despite bad app support, it was actually a nice experience. They were built like absolute bricks.
oh man I loved my Nokia 800! the lack of 3rd party apps sucked hard but the phone itself rocked. There's decent odds you might've bought my old one depending on when this video was made, my old man sold a bunch of our old phones a few years ago and my Nokia died the same way, just stopped pulling power one day
The 800 was actually my first phone I ever got as a kid, god I loved it so much, being able to play games like Angry Birds and Bad Piggies and earning xbox achievements on them is literally a core memory for me.
my brother bought an n8 and my mom used it until whatsapp stopped being supported i love the n8, why can't more phones have a data input with charging enabled, a barrel power plug that's just for charging, an HDMI out and of course, an OS that honestly, really good yes, i like symbyan, because it's stable and reminds me of the times that Android wasn't a shitty sandboxed everything experience after Android11 I'd love to play asphalt 6 again on this phone, and also the camera, it's REALLY good, it's a 13 yr old camera, but it's still rlly good
Man, can you believe Google didn't give them TH-cam? Honestly, Windows Phone always felt forward thinking in some regards (much like the Zune), but lacked proper execution and a sort of determination that would force Google to kneel. Nowadays they're all obsolete, even the killer 1020, with the 42 MP camera, the best one Windows got and the best one we had for years. Honestly if Wade gets a 1020, he could probably give the OS a fair shake in all honesty.
Two of these phones was actually my phones when I was high in school. N8's symbian sadly got super bogged down and slow with time, while my 920 chugged along so we'll until my dad sold it after I moved on to android.
I remember gifting my mother a Lumia 532 back in 2015 (this phone was labeled "Microsoft" instead of "Nokia"). It was an entry level phone (I was broke AF and i still managed to buy it for her). It was her first smartphone and the experience was great at the time. Everything ran smooth (at a time when Budget Android phones were reaaally slow). It had a front camera (albeit not a good one) and I figured the lack of apps wasn't really a problem for my mother, as she just used instant messaging, social networks and browsed the internet. She LOVED the phone and kept it until the battery could barely hold any charge.
I have all of these, and some more windows phones. I don't care what anyone says. Nokia Windows phones were the best phones I've had the pleasure of using. I love my 950, still running without issue. Cracked screen and mobo, i was able to repair both of them in minutes without anything but the part and a screwdriver. Still things in android which are behind Windows Phone. Microsoft is truly the king of killing good things.
My first ever phone was a nokia lumia hand me down from my mom. She used to work as a supply manager for one of Nokia's suppliers, and so she got a really nice one. And it was absolutely amazing for the time. It felt absolutely solid, and had what I'm sure was an early oled screen.
This video brings back so many memories, my first "real" smartphone was a Nokia and man when you pulled that bad boy out of the box nothing could have prepared you for the loading time, Rest In Peace windows mobile you will not be missed
My first cell phone was the Lumia 635, a successor to the 620! I was 11 and it was $60, so a good first phone for parents to pick up. Not a bad phone, lasted 2 years before I upgraded, and even then, the main issue was the battery going downhill. The app support was terrible so I usually had to use my iPad for a lot of things tho.
My father actually unironically owned a Lumia in wonderful neon orange, it was by microsoft itself if i remember correctly, but the battery went sad, he also had a nokia smartphone from 2009 or 2010, not sure which year, and I found an old sd card that was in there with his music and games, one of those was made in flash and i was able to open its sfw, however it needs an internet connection to work, so the game doesnt work anymore sadly
My old phone was a lumia 521 and I loved that phone. I understand why people didn’t like them, even I wished it was more compatible with certain things, but it was a great phone for a while. And in traditional Nokia fashion, that thing didn’t want to break in the slightest.
Oh man nostalgia. I remember being so excited for the Lumia 800. First smartphone I had, and it was a real dense chunky guy! Nifty blue color; fantastic keyboard feedback; and the Windows Phone OS worked really well for my phone use habits. Wouldn't mind returning to this style of phone once I'm able to turn my S22 Ultra into a pure portable media/game machine.
I used Lumias exclusively from 2014 to 2020 when I "upgraded" to a Pixel 4a (that was the worst phone I ever used) and now I rock a Sony Xperia 1 Iv to see if it was Android that caused me to hate my Pixel that ran like poo. Turns out, it was entirely the Pixel's fault. I had a Lumia 635 from 2014 to 2016, when I upgraded to a Lumia 650. Its display connector on the motherboard borked sometime in 2019 and I used a hand-me-down Samsung for a few months before getting a second 650. And I stayed on that sinking ship even after the ship had officially sunk in 2020. Still have my 635 and 650 too, just like my old iPods that I used at the time as well (because nobody was developing for Windows Phone, the jerks). Occasionally I dig them out just to keep the batteries from setting my room on fire and it always makes me happy. I miss it to bits but I refuse to let it die because I use a Windows Phone launcher and changed my volume slider to also resemble Windows Phone. In 2024. Microsoft bring it back.
Oh and also Apple's "3D Touch" (that was just Force Touch from the Apple Watch), yeah there was the Nokia McLaren concept that ACTUALLY lived up to the 3D part of that name. Literally the coolest thing I've ever seen in a phone.
my first smartphone was a nokia lumia 520, absolutely loved the thing, up until it decided to forget where the OS was one night, still miss the dedicated 2 stage camera button
I think you need some dumbest dumb charger to try and kickstart the dead ones back to life, because a smart dingus will just see that it's dead and will go "nope, it's gone, forget it" while a dumb dingus might just try to pump the power in anyway. Not to mention that at least some of these nokias use a dedicated barrel jack charging port and might not happily accept power on usb, at least not when they're completely dead.
I had both a Nokia N8 and a lumia 920 and they were both some of the best phones I've ever had. Back in 2010 I had the n8 hooked up to a monitor keyboard and mouse to watch TH-cam
the N8 was my first smartphone. I freaking loooooved this phone.10 years later tho it copped some batt abuse in storage and i can no longer use it but i dailied it for a few years before my dad shelved it and forgot it
I loved my windows phones. especially windows phone 10 looked great and i miss it dearly. But when i started studying and i couldnt use the uni's internet, i had to get a new phone. Im still very sad :(
I must add, I had the Nokia 8 (not the n8) and it was legitimately a fantastic phone. It was the cleanest android you could get at the time and it was awesome. Built like a brick (true to the Nokia legacy) and held charge like a battery warrior.
I gamed more on Windows phones (MMOs and stuff) than I do on my Android now (just emulators essentially). I had 4 5(somethings) going at once playing one game, it was wonderful. I made so many friends. God that was 10+ years ago...
I had a 630 back in the day, aside from the lack of any software they ran great and had a long ass battery life, for the £100 it cost 13 year old me had a great time using it. Plus the audio player app was really good
You need to wait ages before it starts working. I had an N8, found it yesterday again and waited about 5 minutes before it fired back up. It's fun to use it now.
I had a blue N8 when it was new. My friend at that time had a green one. His gf used to say that we look like "special needs" brothers whose parents bought same phones for us not to be jealous of one another, but in different colours so we don't mix 'em up. We were in our early 20s, I guess. Tbh, N8s earbuds are pretty damn nice. I liked it much more than Senny's CX.
I feel like for the second phone you just did not plug in the Micro USB fully (probably unused and still had a working hold-downs which are harder to push in first couple of times). U usually do not see the metal plug when it's in - but in the video, on both shots you could see half of the metal plug part. Edit: Third phone seems like the same issue. Unless I remember microusb wrong after all this time :D
Oh how I miss Nokia's whole vibes back when they did their own things. Had a few of the HMD Global licensed android phones until my current phone and they served me well at least (but the 2017 Nokia 6 was such a higher quality phone than the 5.4 I had after)
Looks like they all have shutter buttons, which is something I really want on a phone. I find it so much easier to take photos when my thumb isn't obscuring part of the screen. That and a headphone jack.
My mom had a Lumia 1020 and an N95 back in the day. Honestly the best phones I’ve ever used along with my old Blackberry Passport. Modern phones are obviously super refined and powerful but they just aren’t as cool.
I actually had a Nokia 800 and I’d see this as such a bug now but as a dodgy teen it did a thing where if it died while the torch was on. It would just remain as a torch for about 1-2 hours. Nothing else. Just a torch and when your in places you shouldn’t be doing things you ‘shouldn’t’ do it was a bloody lifesaver.
Nokia was bought back to its founder many years ago. They still makes phones, not good phones, but they are trying to make them completly made in Europe with the care, that provides fairphone.
I loved the N8, it has a Symbian OS but the camera was great on it. I loved the clock that really tell the time, it was in words ;-) In some older shops you still can change that battery so it could work. The app store is gone so you can't install anything on it anymore, well other than some java apps you already have. The best feature on this phone was the FM transmitter! You could listen to the radio but also send to your in car stereo. It was mono and only had a couple of meters but it worked. You could make phonecalls that way, and anyone next to you could listen in ;-) That HDMI was more like screen mirroring, so your phone on a 32inch LCD screen ;-) I still like that phone.
tech tip: they will work, all you have to do is boost the battery to over 3.2volts then it will charge and work, this applies to most cellphones that don't turn on with charger .
I still have an iPhone 4s and a windows phone that is even older and a 2010 iMac and a windows laptop and I can use either of the Windows products to get online today and the apple products do not function because they were made unusable by apple. I will never purchase another iPhone because of apples policy to make it obsolete before its time but still use my older apple computers via Linux .
Nokia N8 i do not think it can be chardged with the micro usb, but with the small charger that has the pin type port, the microusb is just for data i think and low voltage
the second nokia, that you liked. My dad had one. Honestly not a bad phone. One big problem was windows. If it came with android, updates would be being better, syncing with other phones would have being better and the Life of the phone would have being better. He was sold a dead product early on. But in the end, it did what it supposed to do. Make calls and do SMS. with rare camera use. I made him spend a lil more on a Samsung A series phone so he can keep up with people and not worry about compatibility issues.
I had a Lumina 620 and an N8 back in the day. Both were fantastic phones. I even upgraded from my iPhone to the N8 because it was such a great phone. I remember it had a great camera (probably because of the Carl Zeiss lens) and you could use it as an FM radio station. Also the mini HDMI port was sometimes quite handy. Even though my Lumina 620 was just a company phone, I preferred it over my iPhone 5, which was my personal phone at the time. If Microsoft had improved app compatibility, I think they would still be making Windows phones today. Windows phones were so easy to use once fully set up and I even preferred it over iOS. After the 620, I had a 640 as a company phone until it was replaced by an iPhone X because I accidentally ran over it.
You wanna know my favorite phone days/phones~ HTC. Back when they were with Beats Audio and even CAME with a pair of Beats brand new. Still all this time later my favorite phone of all time was my HTC Droid DNA if anyone remembers that beast. The HTC One M7, M8 etc came out after and as much as I loved those too, the Droid DNA was just my favorite hands down boy. Music sounded better than any iphone and Galaxy I've ever had since. (Same as you I recently got bored & sick of iphones and switched to the s22U, glad as fuck I did still)
my dad had that second one and that thing is a BEAST it's smashed to bits and still "works" and it's kinda sad with how poorly made everything is nowadays
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This is enough content for few months, thanks wade for making these videos public
Did he say this in a prior announcement?
@@shanthoshamadhavan2631 He posted about it yesterday
@@shanthoshamadhavan2631check Dankpods community updates
@@shanthoshamadhavan2631 he did
@@shanthoshamadhavan2631yep. I was confused too cause i took a break from him
I used to have a Nokia N8. They will not do an initial charge off USB, it must use the DC jack on the bottom. After it boots, I think I do remember it being USB charging capable however, albeit slowly. They were actually very nice phones, and the camera was freakin amazing on them. Even recorded video in full stereo. (720p I believe).
I hope he gives it another chance, that was my dream phone back then that I never got a chance to use
We’ve really been spoiled by modern USB charging. Even in 2012 it was still kind of a crapshoot. But today it’s reliable af and you’ll probably get at least 10-20% in 10 minutes.
When he tries old devices that need a barrel jack to revive them, or just only gives 5-10 minutes instead of 2 hours for 90s or early 00s stuff to wake up, I get mildly sad 😅
N8 I r8 8/8
Unironically considering getting one for when this phone dies
@@heggy_69 They do run on Symbian just fyi but I had so much fun toying with it
Nokia N8 and N9 are still some of my absolute favourite phones. they did what i needed and were built solid
N9 is a legend
The N9 is amazing. I had a black one in the day, and recently got my hands on a unicorn White N9. One of the best phones ever made. @@mopsless
n8 camera was god tier
the n8 screen is oled. and it can cast FM waves. i remember my brother listening to his music from his old car's radio (no Bluetooth no aux just fm from the phone. that was sick)
probably a damaged charging port or board, happens to all good phones 😔
Lmao he's using the USB port for the first boot, he should've used the barrel jack at the bottom... It's probably working.
That FM radio thing must've been so cool back in the day, to me it still is!
I used to be a Lumia user and I'm still sad Windows Phone died the way it did. The phones were well designed and well made, especially my 830, holy it was sexy. The system was well designed, functioned smooth and looked great, just a shame that there was no software support and microsoft was generally a mess handling it.
If it was windows 7 based instead of windows 8 I could see it having stuck around but I don't know anyone who liked the change to the tiles windows 8 and higher do like how these phones have
I think everyone that owned Windows phone come to the same agreement. I had a Lumia 920 and that phone was amazing.
@@ClassicRedEye Bang on the money, owned a Lumia 640, MAN that phone was amazing, and tbh it still to this day works for me as a backup phone, GOD I loved that phone, best phone I've ever had, and the keyboard was the icing on the cake, even the tiles feature was great. The ONLY reason I had to get a new phone was the app support, there were just no apps for it 😥
@MihkelKukk yeah soon as youtube canned their support for you pipe I think it was called and Facebook it was over.
My parents got me the lumia the month Windows stopped supporting it lmao, lovely phone but not a single windows app worked pfff
The 950XL is amazing. Can even run Desktop Windows 11 if you want. And for deeply discharged devices, keep em plugged into a low power brick, like 1A (those old apple bricks work). Then monitor them for an hour, most of em will spring right back up.
The first Kindle Fire had a similar issue, if it got too dead, it didn't like to come back, and you'd have to leave it plugged in for a hot minute, then unplug it, push the button to turn it on, then plug it back in for it to actually start taking the charge, or some convoluted crap like that. Don't miss those days.
This tbh
Gosh I love the early Nokia mobile phones. It's just a vibe, doesn't matter if there aren't any features.
I think if I needed a work phone Nokia would still be my first choice. Don't need expensive shit on a work phone, the ol' reliable will do just fine.
@@JRTO_ I respect that.
OK zoomer
Thank you for making all the After Shows Public :D you deserve all the views and engagement they have and will earn!
The Archive already made them public. The complete seasons' videos already made them public. But good on Wade for making them public as well.
@@BorislavVeselinov The archive being a completely separate channel was sorta clunky at times and the complete seasons were difficult to navigate, so i think this was the best solution
@@BorislavVeselinovthis chain of events shouldn’t be forgotten either. Props to The Archive
@@BorislavVeselinov To be fair it's easier to just have them on Wade's channel so I'm very happy about this, the archive is good and all but it means remembering another channel name and where I left off.
I wanna nokia.
I worked for a phone company from 2011-2015, and the pack in earbuds from the Lumia 610 were my favourite pack in buds from any phone we ever sold. Wish I could find another pair, for nostalgia if nothing else.
your best bet is amazon at this point which sucks, I completely agree with you they were so good for the price and everything
You didn't even rip the batteries out and jump them. I'd love to see a five year old iPhone turn on without any battery maintaining.
I had one of the first Nokia he looked at, here. Or, something incredibly close to it; it's actually sitting like, twelve feet away, even if I haven't used it in 10 years. It served me well for quite a while.
I used to know a girl in eighth grade, who was an absolute Windows Phone super fan. She was sure it would be huge and it was her favorite OS, to the point when she got grounded she would have to use an iPhone. That was genuinely a punishment for her and she hated it every time.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
To this day I still use Square Home to make my Android home screen kinda look like a Windows phone. I still think M$'s Metro/"tiles" approach is a good alternative to the icon/widget phone UI.
Of all the phones I've had, the Lumia 920 might still be my favourite.
No phone since has felt anywhere near as premium. A truly wonderful piece of industrial design.
I had the N8, possibly one of my favourite phones of all time. I really loved that thing, it had a nice camera for the time too
had the lumia 920 taking a break from android and loved it, such a shame google was able to kill off windowsphone though by withholding the apps everyone used because it was such a nice experience and I'd love to see how a windowsphone foldable would have worked.
I still have my 920 in a drawer somewhere. It still works fine but nothing is supported so it's just a good looking, good feeling brick with a screen. 😕
@@SabretoothsquirrelYou can run windows on ARM
@@Sabretoothsquirrelyou can basically turn it into a desktop, with a mess of adapters you can plug in peripherals(keyboard screen nouse) and legit use it, not that you'd ecer want to but it's a cool project
@@SmD-ff5xd Hehe, maybe a project for the long dark winter
I know this is super old and you probably arent going back through your old videos but a huge selling point for a lot of the "higher end" nokia windows phones was (A) fantastic cameras for the time (B) Oled screens, i had the windows phone with the gianr camera on it and i STILL to this day 2024 use it as a point and shoot camera because the images it puts out are fantastic
An addition for anyone that cares the oleds looked fantastic at first but they had burn in issues
They were the first with the always-on stuff since oled allowed that. People were "wtf how? your phone is on, draining your battery" and I was like "nah, it can do that with minimal battery usage" lol
The 1020 I have still makes better pictures then my One Plus 8T Pro
1:52 villager
I havent seen anybody talk about this but an extremely clutch thing about this channel is that its very watchable on shitty internet. the bright lighting and tight closeup of anything important makes these an especially easy 480p watch
Hey, I bought a Lumia 620 for my mum in 2014. I even rocked it myself as a backup phone in 2018. Man, that thing was downright decent, and among early '10s budget phones, the camera may as well have been a DSLR. Shame it was let down by app support.
My favorite meme about Windows will always be the BSOD that says
"Windows is face fucking your PC! Please don't turn off the computer, we're having a good time."
I LOVED my lumia 800. It was indestructible and was so smooth. It was in a lake for 10 minutes and after 30 minutes in the sun, it was good as new
I have a Nokia N9, which became the 800 after Microsoft happened. Feels amazing in the hand and meego was such a cool OS
I actually had one of these phones for a long time in the past. Despite bad app support, it was actually a nice experience. They were built like absolute bricks.
oh man I loved my Nokia 800! the lack of 3rd party apps sucked hard but the phone itself rocked. There's decent odds you might've bought my old one depending on when this video was made, my old man sold a bunch of our old phones a few years ago and my Nokia died the same way, just stopped pulling power one day
The 800 was actually my first phone I ever got as a kid, god I loved it so much, being able to play games like Angry Birds and Bad Piggies and earning xbox achievements on them is literally a core memory for me.
my brother bought an n8 and my mom used it until whatsapp stopped being supported
i love the n8, why can't more phones have a data input with charging enabled, a barrel power plug that's just for charging, an HDMI out and of course, an OS that honestly, really good
yes, i like symbyan, because it's stable and reminds me of the times that Android wasn't a shitty sandboxed everything experience after Android11
I'd love to play asphalt 6 again on this phone, and also the camera, it's REALLY good, it's a 13 yr old camera, but it's still rlly good
Man, can you believe Google didn't give them TH-cam?
Honestly, Windows Phone always felt forward thinking in some regards (much like the Zune), but lacked proper execution and a sort of determination that would force Google to kneel. Nowadays they're all obsolete, even the killer 1020, with the 42 MP camera, the best one Windows got and the best one we had for years. Honestly if Wade gets a 1020, he could probably give the OS a fair shake in all honesty.
Two of these phones was actually my phones when I was high in school. N8's symbian sadly got super bogged down and slow with time, while my 920 chugged along so we'll until my dad sold it after I moved on to android.
I remember gifting my mother a Lumia 532 back in 2015 (this phone was labeled "Microsoft" instead of "Nokia"). It was an entry level phone (I was broke AF and i still managed to buy it for her). It was her first smartphone and the experience was great at the time. Everything ran smooth (at a time when Budget Android phones were reaaally slow).
It had a front camera (albeit not a good one) and I figured the lack of apps wasn't really a problem for my mother, as she just used instant messaging, social networks and browsed the internet.
She LOVED the phone and kept it until the battery could barely hold any charge.
I have all of these, and some more windows phones.
I don't care what anyone says. Nokia Windows phones were the best phones I've had the pleasure of using.
I love my 950, still running without issue. Cracked screen and mobo, i was able to repair both of them in minutes without anything but the part and a screwdriver. Still things in android which are behind Windows Phone.
Microsoft is truly the king of killing good things.
I had an N8 and that phone was an absolute unit, all metal body, and a really good camera for the time. I miss those times...
My first ever phone was a nokia lumia hand me down from my mom. She used to work as a supply manager for one of Nokia's suppliers, and so she got a really nice one.
And it was absolutely amazing for the time. It felt absolutely solid, and had what I'm sure was an early oled screen.
I miss that era of smart phone, perfect size.
happy new years, got a pair of hifiman arya stealth to start off the year. can't wait for more of you and frank
As a broke American between gainful employment sources I appreciate you dropping all this premium content xoxo dankpoops happy New year
I had a Lumia 710 when it first came out and was one of my favorite phones ever. The key boards really were next level.
This video brings back so many memories, my first "real" smartphone was a Nokia and man when you pulled that bad boy out of the box nothing could have prepared you for the loading time, Rest In Peace windows mobile you will not be missed
Seeing these phones now compared to when i was a kid, brings back so much nostalgia
I wish they get more recognition and people start making revival projects just like other retro products
My first cell phone was the Lumia 635, a successor to the 620! I was 11 and it was $60, so a good first phone for parents to pick up. Not a bad phone, lasted 2 years before I upgraded, and even then, the main issue was the battery going downhill. The app support was terrible so I usually had to use my iPad for a lot of things tho.
I can't believe you didn't try the charger from the box at 6:17 man! Older Nokia's notoriously used micro usb for data only!!
The one in there was their old school mini needle barrel jack charger
I actually love the little door on the charging port, saves dust and other junk getting in there and ruining it
My father actually unironically owned a Lumia in wonderful neon orange, it was by microsoft itself if i remember correctly, but the battery went sad, he also had a nokia smartphone from 2009 or 2010, not sure which year, and I found an old sd card that was in there with his music and games, one of those was made in flash and i was able to open its sfw, however it needs an internet connection to work, so the game doesnt work anymore sadly
My old phone was a lumia 521 and I loved that phone. I understand why people didn’t like them, even I wished it was more compatible with certain things, but it was a great phone for a while. And in traditional Nokia fashion, that thing didn’t want to break in the slightest.
Oh man nostalgia. I remember being so excited for the Lumia 800. First smartphone I had, and it was a real dense chunky guy! Nifty blue color; fantastic keyboard feedback; and the Windows Phone OS worked really well for my phone use habits.
Wouldn't mind returning to this style of phone once I'm able to turn my S22 Ultra into a pure portable media/game machine.
That 620 is my first windows phone and I still have it on my drawer. Great phone, it can stand anything you throw at it, physically.
Happy New year Dank, thanks for all the videos across last year
So glad he's releasing these to the public instead of letting them go to waste
I used Lumias exclusively from 2014 to 2020 when I "upgraded" to a Pixel 4a (that was the worst phone I ever used) and now I rock a Sony Xperia 1 Iv to see if it was Android that caused me to hate my Pixel that ran like poo. Turns out, it was entirely the Pixel's fault.
I had a Lumia 635 from 2014 to 2016, when I upgraded to a Lumia 650. Its display connector on the motherboard borked sometime in 2019 and I used a hand-me-down Samsung for a few months before getting a second 650. And I stayed on that sinking ship even after the ship had officially sunk in 2020.
Still have my 635 and 650 too, just like my old iPods that I used at the time as well (because nobody was developing for Windows Phone, the jerks). Occasionally I dig them out just to keep the batteries from setting my room on fire and it always makes me happy.
I miss it to bits but I refuse to let it die because I use a Windows Phone launcher and changed my volume slider to also resemble Windows Phone. In 2024.
Microsoft bring it back.
Oh and also Apple's "3D Touch" (that was just Force Touch from the Apple Watch), yeah there was the Nokia McLaren concept that ACTUALLY lived up to the 3D part of that name. Literally the coolest thing I've ever seen in a phone.
my first smartphone was a nokia lumia 520, absolutely loved the thing, up until it decided to forget where the OS was one night, still miss the dedicated 2 stage camera button
"2010 was a long time ago"
Why must you hurt me like that?
awww to bad, i heard the N8 was suprisingly great and too way ahead of it's time. why won't you turn on goddamnit😭
Nokia Lumia 1020 and 920/930 were my dream flagship phones in my teen years.
I think you need some dumbest dumb charger to try and kickstart the dead ones back to life, because a smart dingus will just see that it's dead and will go "nope, it's gone, forget it" while a dumb dingus might just try to pump the power in anyway. Not to mention that at least some of these nokias use a dedicated barrel jack charging port and might not happily accept power on usb, at least not when they're completely dead.
I believe you have to charge the N8 using the old Nokia barrel jack charger, the americana flavoured ones on the box.
I had both a Nokia N8 and a lumia 920 and they were both some of the best phones I've ever had. Back in 2010 I had the n8 hooked up to a monitor keyboard and mouse to watch TH-cam
Why is this a thing? Why am i enjoying this? Please keep em coming!🎉
playing games on my mum's lumia 800 went crazy back in the day
i like that the windows mobile thing gives you a persistent emergency call button, a lot more obvious than the iphone or android one
the N8 was my first smartphone. I freaking loooooved this phone.10 years later tho it copped some batt abuse in storage and i can no longer use it but i dailied it for a few years before my dad shelved it and forgot it
I loved my windows phones. especially windows phone 10 looked great and i miss it dearly. But when i started studying and i couldnt use the uni's internet, i had to get a new phone. Im still very sad :(
N95 and n82 were amazing. I remember running quake 1 on those
I must add, I had the Nokia 8 (not the n8) and it was legitimately a fantastic phone. It was the cleanest android you could get at the time and it was awesome. Built like a brick (true to the Nokia legacy) and held charge like a battery warrior.
Yoooo, he’s alive
I gamed more on Windows phones (MMOs and stuff) than I do on my Android now (just emulators essentially). I had 4 5(somethings) going at once playing one game, it was wonderful. I made so many friends. God that was 10+ years ago...
That N8 is absolutely a legendary one
The n8 has its own pin charger. Mum used to have one. The micro-USB doesn't charge the phone.
I had a 630 back in the day, aside from the lack of any software they ran great and had a long ass battery life, for the £100 it cost 13 year old me had a great time using it. Plus the audio player app was really good
Love watching 177 new dankpods video in a day
damn i miss my lumia it was so good back then ui was smooth and we take dark mode for granted today
i think i might get the funi funi after show subscription because i love dankpod man and i love his drums and the awesomesauce, frank.
he's not doing aftershows or patreon anymore, best way to support him now is through his floatplane.
@@Charismakat yeah, i will do that.
this was a certified hood classic
You need to wait ages before it starts working. I had an N8, found it yesterday again and waited about 5 minutes before it fired back up. It's fun to use it now.
I had a blue N8 when it was new. My friend at that time had a green one. His gf used to say that we look like "special needs" brothers whose parents bought same phones for us not to be jealous of one another, but in different colours so we don't mix 'em up. We were in our early 20s, I guess.
Tbh, N8s earbuds are pretty damn nice. I liked it much more than Senny's CX.
I use to rock a Lumia 650 and by far my only problem was camera quality and painful lack of third party software support. The thing was amazing.
I remember that the Nokia N8 costed $400 when it came out, and this was a flagship phone at this price point.
Just for full comparison, $400 in 2010 dollars is worth $580 in 2023 dollars
@@Inkinhart I included the inflation, it was $400 in today's dollar.
I feel like for the second phone you just did not plug in the Micro USB fully (probably unused and still had a working hold-downs which are harder to push in first couple of times).
U usually do not see the metal plug when it's in - but in the video, on both shots you could see half of the metal plug part.
Edit: Third phone seems like the same issue. Unless I remember microusb wrong after all this time :D
some connectors were longer than others
Oh how I miss Nokia's whole vibes back when they did their own things. Had a few of the HMD Global licensed android phones until my current phone and they served me well at least (but the 2017 Nokia 6 was such a higher quality phone than the 5.4 I had after)
My mom used to have the N8 and it was one of the best Nokias ever! But I also loved my N95
Looks like they all have shutter buttons, which is something I really want on a phone. I find it so much easier to take photos when my thumb isn't obscuring part of the screen. That and a headphone jack.
My dad had a Nokia n8, I love it and the design.
My mom had a Lumia 1020 and an N95 back in the day. Honestly the best phones I’ve ever used along with my old Blackberry Passport. Modern phones are obviously super refined and powerful but they just aren’t as cool.
Woah, blast from the past with some of these phones
The build quality on the Lumia phones was so nice.
My Nokia N900 (running a full Linux kernel out of the box with Maemo) was my favorite phone I have ever had.
I actually had a Nokia 800 and I’d see this as such a bug now but as a dodgy teen it did a thing where if it died while the torch was on. It would just remain as a torch for about 1-2 hours. Nothing else. Just a torch and when your in places you shouldn’t be doing things you ‘shouldn’t’ do it was a bloody lifesaver.
Got excited from the thumbnail thinking he had gotten the N9... dissapointed to see it was the 800
The thin pin wire in the N8 box was the charger I guess. Try that?
Nokia was bought back to its founder many years ago. They still makes phones, not good phones, but they are trying to make them completly made in Europe with the care, that provides fairphone.
I loved the N8, it has a Symbian OS but the camera was great on it. I loved the clock that really tell the time, it was in words ;-) In some older shops you still can change that battery so it could work. The app store is gone so you can't install anything on it anymore, well other than some java apps you already have. The best feature on this phone was the FM transmitter! You could listen to the radio but also send to your in car stereo. It was mono and only had a couple of meters but it worked. You could make phonecalls that way, and anyone next to you could listen in ;-) That HDMI was more like screen mirroring, so your phone on a 32inch LCD screen ;-) I still like that phone.
tech tip: they will work, all you have to do is boost the battery to over 3.2volts then it will charge and work, this applies to most cellphones that don't turn on with charger .
I still have an iPhone 4s and a windows phone that is even older and a 2010 iMac and a windows laptop and I can use either of the Windows products to get online today and the apple products do not function because they were made unusable by apple.
I will never purchase another iPhone because of apples policy to make it obsolete before its time but still use my older apple computers via Linux .
Nokia N8 i do not think it can be chardged with the micro usb, but with the small charger that has the pin type port, the microusb is just for data i think and low voltage
the second nokia, that you liked. My dad had one. Honestly not a bad phone. One big problem was windows. If it came with android, updates would be being better, syncing with other phones would have being better and the Life of the phone would have being better. He was sold a dead product early on. But in the end, it did what it supposed to do. Make calls and do SMS. with rare camera use. I made him spend a lil more on a Samsung A series phone so he can keep up with people and not worry about compatibility issues.
I had a Lumina 620 and an N8 back in the day. Both were fantastic phones. I even upgraded from my iPhone to the N8 because it was such a great phone. I remember it had a great camera (probably because of the Carl Zeiss lens) and you could use it as an FM radio station. Also the mini HDMI port was sometimes quite handy. Even though my Lumina 620 was just a company phone, I preferred it over my iPhone 5, which was my personal phone at the time. If Microsoft had improved app compatibility, I think they would still be making Windows phones today. Windows phones were so easy to use once fully set up and I even preferred it over iOS. After the 620, I had a 640 as a company phone until it was replaced by an iPhone X because I accidentally ran over it.
I had a Lumia 620. Was really good back in the day
When I was a kid the N8 was my dream phone for a while
You wanna know my favorite phone days/phones~ HTC.
Back when they were with Beats Audio and even CAME with a pair of Beats brand new. Still all this time later my favorite phone of all time was my HTC Droid DNA if anyone remembers that beast. The HTC One M7, M8 etc came out after and as much as I loved those too, the Droid DNA was just my favorite hands down boy. Music sounded better than any iphone and Galaxy I've ever had since. (Same as you I recently got bored & sick of iphones and switched to the s22U, glad as fuck I did still)
as a person who used to own a windows phone, I gotta say, I didn't rly mind it. was fun to try at least.
my dad had that second one and that thing is a BEAST it's smashed to bits and still "works" and it's kinda sad with how poorly made everything is nowadays