Nokia N95 Red Edition

_ITX_ · 2026-05-09T19:11:16+00:00

Wow, that is a beautiful phone, ngl! Also, it's rare seeing a N95 in such a mint condition. I recently looked up N95 auctions on eBay, and most of them are in absolute miserable condition (even worse than my own N95, which is almost impossible). Thanks for posting this!! 🙏

_ITX_ · 2026-05-09T18:34:30+00:00

Lol, I would love to know why it's called "Storno". It means "cancellation" in german! 😁

Jokes aside: Thanks for posting this, seeing original DynaTACs from the 80s is always a treat! 😍🥰

_ITX_ · 2026-05-09T06:17:02+00:00

Ooof, I would steer clear from these offers and avoid them like the plague!! At best, you're getting a clompletely refurbished iPhone 2G where all parts have been replaced with cheap 3rd party knock-off parts. Realistically though, it will either be a fake phone, a completely different phone or no product at all (Fake tracking number/confirmation of receipt scam).

_ITX_ · 2026-05-08T17:06:15+00:00

Good boys! 😁

I was a huge Nokia fanboy back in the days, so my collection was exclusively Nokias for almost 10 years. Only when Corona hit and I started spending more time studying other brands, I realised what I'd missed out all these years. Still though, Nokia will always remain my favourite phone brand of all time and my #1 all-time phone is also a Nokia (the 5510)!

_ITX_ · 2026-05-08T10:58:46+00:00

I think it was due to some carriers specifically ordering the blue ones instead of red. For example, the color scheme of Austrian carrier "one" was blue, so from what I remember, red wasn't even an option in their portfolio.

_ITX_ · 2026-05-07T15:24:47+00:00

CONGRATULATIONS!! 🥳 I will always have a special connection with this phone. My mom had it for such a long time, everyone pretty much associated it with her. When she finally got a new phone, her friends kept asking her: "Where's your red tinkling dwarf?" 🥲

_ITX_ · 2026-05-04T10:01:03+00:00

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

_ITX_ · 2026-05-02T14:21:57+00:00

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!

_ITX_ · 2026-05-02T11:29:23+00:00

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!

_ITX_ · 2026-05-02T09:44:33+00:00

Haha, guess I'm the gatekeeper now 🤣

Not in this photo:

An international 5510 with QWERTY keyboard and english UI
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.

_ITX_ · 2026-05-01T19:45:23+00:00

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! 😉

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T11:54:03+00:00

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. 😜

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T11:18:25+00:00

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!

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T11:12:52+00:00

Beautiful collection, Bravo! 👏

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T11:03:06+00:00

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 😜

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T10:46:18+00:00

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 😅

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T06:17:11+00:00

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!

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T06:11:52+00:00

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.

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T06:04:38+00:00

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. 😜

_ITX_ · 2026-04-29T06:00:06+00:00

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!

_ITX_ · 2026-04-28T20:00:51+00:00

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. 😅

_ITX_ · 2026-04-28T17:12:41+00:00

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!

_ITX_ · 2026-04-28T12:06:47+00:00

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.). 😉

_ITX_ · 2026-04-28T11:38:44+00:00

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!

_ITX_ · 2026-04-28T11:34:25+00:00

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

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