It feels like an odd time to bring back “When Phones Were Fun.”
After all, 2020 has been one of the most interesting years in mobile tech history: Motorola finally achieved a proper reboot of its iconic RAZR; Samsung built the best foldable ever with its Galaxy Z Fold 2; and even LG got in on the fun with a radical rehash of its VX9400, the LG Wing. As I said in my review of the latter: “phones are indeed fun again!”
But something tells me that, whatever social feeds might exist thirteen years from now, not many of those phones will inspire the kind of love-fest that 2007’s Nokia N95 does. With a bevy of firsts encapsulated within an iconic dual-slider design, the Nokia N95 wasn’t just the ultimate smartphone … it was also, in many ways, the last of its kind.
Join me for a look back at the Nokia N95-3, and stay tuned to the end of the video for an exclusive look at HMD Global’s Nokia N95 reboot … that never was! MrMobile’s “When Phones Were Fun” is back in business.
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[ABOUT WHEN PHONES WERE FUN – NOKIA N95]
This is the ninth in a series of MrMobile videos exploring the mobile tech world’s most vibrant period in design and experimentation. In “When Phones Were Fun,” Michael Fisher re-reviews cellphones from the golden age of mobile, the decade-long span from the turn of the century to approximately 2009.
When Phones Were Fun: Episode 9 features a Nokia N95-3 retail unit on loan from Ricky Cadden and a (non-functional) prototype N95 reboot reference unit on loan from HMD Global. No company paid a fee or otherwise offered compensation in exchange for this coverage, nor did any company preview or approve this content before publication.
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Lightsaber App for Nokia N95 [Ricky Cadden]:
Lightsaber Unleashed iPhone App Review [AppStoreReview]:
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