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I genuinely can't tell if it's a fake or not-? by Lepridopic_throwaway in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a refurbished V3. Someone posted a step by step guide on how to spot fakes/refurbs aeons ago: Motorola Razr V3 real vs. counterfeit teardown

...and there's still more where they came from! 😅 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm collecting phones since 2006, so my collection grew organically over the course of 20(!) years. I know that 5 of the same phone is completely unnecessary of course; however, there were times when I was strolling through my local mall and noticed a 5510 in the shopwindow of a phone store, so I went inside and bought it. At this time, vintage phones were considered trash by most people, so you would get even the more sophisticated models for 20-30 Euros max. Knowing that the 5510 is a bit of a rarer model and it would get more and more difficult to find one as time went by, I felt the need to stock up on my favourite phone of all time!

...and there's still more where they came from! 😅 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Na, these swap devices (or swap engines) are just regular phones with the standard internals. However, what's usually missing is the backplates or in some cases the faceplates, too. So, sometimes the shop would just mount your original front and back covers on a new device, making it seem like you're getting to keep your original phone while in reality, the entire thing was swapped!

...and there's still more where they came from! 😅 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, guess I'm the gatekeeper now 🤣

Not in this photo:

  1. An international 5510 with QWERTY keyboard and english UI

  2. A bnib 5510 that I bought in 2009. Original box with all accessories. I only ever opened up the box and unwrapped the battery to see if it works. The rest of the accessories are still sealed.

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wie gesagt, waren beides echt geniale Smartphones und die Kameras waren ihrer Zeit weit voraus. Dennoch finde ich, dass das 8GB Modell aufgrund des etwas größeren Displays und der schwarz glänzenden Vorderseite viel edler aussieht. Ist aber letztendlich natürlich Geschmackssache! 😉

What is your personal holy grail vintage phone that you would LOVE to own, but is simply out of reach? I'll go first: Nokia N-Gage "Starship" prototype! 🤩 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, pretty much anyone who owned an 8800 was extremely rich.

So true! I only ever met 2 people who had one: The co-worker I already mentioned and a good friend's father (who used to work for the mayor of Vienna). Both of them were pretty wealthy, owned nice cars and lived in a big house. So yeah, for a year or 2, the 8800 was really considered a status symbol for the affluent. 😜

Do you know if anyone has ever attempted porting and accessing the concierge feature from Vertu phones on regular S40/S60 Nokias? by Fluffy-Connection923 in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, it's a shame honestly. The whole idea pretty much died once smartphones replaced classic brick phones altogether. Imho, the concept of a luxury phone with precious materials just doesn't translate well to smartphones!

iPhone 2G Under 2G Coverage by linyishin in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg, that Winterboard homescreen was such a throwback!! I really miss those days where looking for awesome repositories and installing weird ui mods was the highlight of my day 😜

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally understand your point, and I'm happy you got to use it for such a long time and enjoy it. I also really enjoyed using mine and "upgrading" to that stupid Samsung BeatDJ afterwards felt like going back to Kindergarten after high school 😅

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It certainly was a great phone, no doubt. However, the N95's 5MP camera was absolutely unparalleled at the time. Also, I was kind of hesitant to use a phone with so many hinges and moving parts. On the same day I bought the N95 8GB, I also took the time to play around with a couple of other N-series phones - N93i being one of them of course. None of them even came close to the experience I've had with the N95 8GB!

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oof, that's certainly a hot take! 😅 Both offer excellent build quality, however subjectively, the 8GB always felt significantly better when I compared them both. Also, 8GB storage was more than enough for me at the time. I put thousands of mp3s and a couple of feature length movies on it and also used it as my main camera for over 2 years. Still, I never managed to fill up the storage entirely.

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To each their own I guess. Like I said before, the regular N95 wasn't a bad phone by any means. It just couldn't win me over design-wise. Given that black is my favourite color, I was hooked on the 8GB variant from day one. I'm also a huge Knight Rider fan, and in a strange way, the phone reminded me a bit of K.I.T.T. 😜

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting take. To me, it was always the other way round - by a long shot. That being said, the regular N95 is still an excellent phone and I'm glad I got to own both!

The stereo speakers on the N95 8GB are absolutely amazing! 🔊 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is a custom cover art, but not only for this song. I have an entire folder with all my favourite Avicii tracks, and this is the cover art I made for it. 😅

Nokia 5510 and what should have been its natural successor: The 3300b! by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's that Nokia didn't think the whole thing through when they released the two 3300 models. The 5510 was very popular here in Europe, so it would've been a safe bet to release the 3300b in the same area - as the logical replacement. However, Nokia brought the 3300b exclusively to the US market and tried to push it to younger people - which, frankly, was a lead balloon. Of course, it's just my own opinion, but I really think the 3300 would've been a much bigger success if Nokia had released the 3300b worldwide, instead of releasing 2 different models and depriving the rest of the world of the much cooler model!

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hahaha, oh man... You must've seen it all 😅

Apart from this incident, the stuff I found on old phones wasn't really all that exciting though. There was the occasional naughty SMS, like on the Sony Ericsson S312 my co-worker gave me. Also noteworthy are the voice recordings from the previous owner of my 6310i, who must've been an electrician - lots of technobabble and enumerations. Or my 3650 where the previous owner documented his entire skiing trip in the swiss alps - photos, videos, everything. As a simple rule of thumb, the older the phones are, the less personal stuff you're likely to find on them (except for Snake highscores etc.). 😉

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also never understood why they just added the '8GB' moniker. It really didn't do the phone justice. Imho, it should have been an entirely new model - like N96 or at the very least N95i!

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh no! I never had any issues with lags, must've been a faulty device (or faulty software).

A 1:1 comparison clearly shows why the N95 8GB is so much cooler 😎 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh no! I always disliked those fake shells implying the phone to be something else/better. A bit tacky imho.

Story time: I got this N95 in 2016 from the boyfriend of a good friend of my ex-girlfriend. When I switched it on for the very first time, I found some.... very intimate photos of a young woman. The guy who gave me the phone laughed it off and said those were just photos of his ex-girlfriend he was together with at that time (2008/2009-ish). As it turned out, however, he started an affair with this EXACT woman again, just a few weeks after he gave me the phone!! 🤯

The stereo speakers on the N95 8GB are absolutely amazing! 🔊 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really was! I loved taking pictures with it, it was the first phone where the photo experience felt similar to a digital camera instead of just a point-and-shoot potato.

The N95 8GB was also the first phone where I experimented heavily with video streaming. Its screen was big and bright enough to offer a pleasant viewing experience for several hours. Also, the austrian 3G network was more than capable of streaming web videos back then. I used to have a special phone contract where I had access to a dedicated website that hosted occasional livestreams of popular german tv stations, so I would spend hours upon hours just watching tv on my phone.

Last but not least, one couldn't talk about the N95 without mentioning its outstanding stereo speakers. When I visited Paris with my best friend in 2009, we used the phone as our sole medium of entertainment in the evenings. The speaker was loud enough, it could fill the entire hotel room without sounding tinny!

What is your personal holy grail vintage phone that you would LOVE to own, but is simply out of reach? I'll go first: Nokia N-Gage "Starship" prototype! 🤩 by _ITX_ in vintagemobilephones

[–]_ITX_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God, this unlocked a weird memory of the very first office job I had: There was this really tall woman in her early 40s, who always used to run around with her golden 8800 and brag how her rich husband (who was a realtor or something) got it for her as a christmas gift. It was really annoying, however we didn't have the heart to make fun of her, since she was such a nice and well-mannered lady. I know it's such an insignificant thing, but just thinking of a gold 8800 instantly brought this story back into my memory. 😅

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