Flashback: Nokia's Touch and Type blurred the lines between smart and feature phones
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- AnonD-785804
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- 10 May 2020
potato4k, 10 May 2020LOL. Innovative and look different? How are these innovativ... moreOf course it was innovative. Can use touch & type also in same device. This is innovation and many more innovations they had done in past. In our modern day cell phones can we type without seeing the screen, No!. But you do in any keypad phones without seeing screen. We use to play games like who types faster without seeing the device, while we were young.
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- natraj
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- 10 May 2020
NOKIA (2000-2010) was the Mount Everest...
After so many years of growth Apple and Samsung are still at sea level.
NOKIA use to bring new design, concepts with every new phone unlike today where everyone launching same phone with different name.
We miss the old NOKIA.... Hope u will revive soon
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- Fitbri
- gmx
- 10 May 2020
bob, 10 May 2020i like these phones, just wish they would fit them with hig... moreYeah. They had character and personality. They could reinvent the typical slab of today with something with a bit o originality
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- Anonymous
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- 10 May 2020
I wish they could launch a cheap Nokia phone with a Qwerty keyboard and running Android Go. My mom is using a Nokia 205 and such a phone would be perfect for her to learn how to whatsapp etc.
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- 10 May 2020
Emitchell, 10 May 2020I miss these Nokia featured phones.........they are just to... moreYeah, unlike Nokia's feature phone(s) by HMD these days. I have one of them and... dang, Nokia from the past was even far better when it comes to feature phones.
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- ibaadn7710
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- 10 May 2020
yeah it was excitement pleasure to see that Nokia sign board of touch and type phones in 2010
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- Anonymous
- KgV
- 10 May 2020
One of the best device that I've used to have.
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- Anonymous
- gLT
- 10 May 2020
"Would you want to see the Touch and Type series reborn as a KaiOS phone?"
No. KaiOS should switch to touchscreen only, like Firefox OS.
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- bob
- pr5
- 10 May 2020
i like these phones, just wish they would fit them with high end cams, a modern 64mp sony sensor would be nice (not fishbowl ultrawide). i would probably get one then.
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- gio4bm
- n3y
- 10 May 2020
IT always baffled me that Nokia gave those phone powerful hardware but they still felt slow
and could not multi-task
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- Jestat1780
- sxr
- 10 May 2020
I have this semi smartphone back in the day! Still have it but the keyboard is dead. Thinking of fixing it soon ✌
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- geordie81
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- 10 May 2020
nokia were the kings of smartphone design and innovation at the time, unfortunately they didnt go with the times and stuck with symbian which was one big part of their downfall, their N series phones were miles ahead of the competition at the time, they should have gone to android in the early stages and kept making some devices for symbian users, their transition was too slow, their market share was eradicated pretty much overnight after an initial spike in sales, almost all of these sales then went over to Samsung and Apple, failed attempts at their own OS (in terms of user numbers) led to their collapse, shame really, the N8 was the last phone from nokia that I had, it was a fantastic phone and camera was superb for its time
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- Alex
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- 10 May 2020
>Would you want to see the Touch and Type series reborn
No, I definitely don't. The phone should have either a keypad or a touchscreen, both at once looks like a useless excess. Imho.
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- Anonymous
- fIP
- 10 May 2020
These were the times where a single glance can let you what phone is that
Now, if we cover the branding and camera, hard to tell what phone is it
The design world of smartphone has become so boring lately
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- CompactPhones5ever
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- 10 May 2020
XCIV, 10 May 2020Back when phones looked innovative & different and not ... moreThis 100x, I really miss those times... I understand that there isn't that much room for experimentation these days on the bar smartphones, but at the very least they should bring back the two-stage camera shutter button...
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- 10 May 2020
Had the X3-02 9yrs ago. With the dedicated messaging button, it would take me to the sms app while I'm on a different app. Pressing back would then take me back to my previous app. So somehow I can say there's a bit of multitasking in it LOL. But damn that design was so gorgeous.
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- paintbuckets
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- 10 May 2020
XCIV, 10 May 2020Back when phones looked innovative & different and not ... moreAgreed, miss those days.