Many of us millennials remember our first phones. If you were born between 1985 and 1990ish, odds are that your first cell phone was a Nokia of some sort. For all of you Gen-Z and Alpha kids out there, see the picture below. Mine, if I recall correctly was the second from the right. The year was 2003. I was a junior in high school and my parents gave it to me for emergencies as I was driving around town to school and work. It was a good phone that did what it was designed to do — make phone calls — and nothing more. I’m not sure if SMS was even a thing at that point, but I never used it if it was. That would come later when I got the venerable 3310 and went off to college.
Notkia: A New Kind of Linux Phone
Notkia: A New Kind of Linux Phone
Notkia: A New Kind of Linux Phone
Many of us millennials remember our first phones. If you were born between 1985 and 1990ish, odds are that your first cell phone was a Nokia of some sort. For all of you Gen-Z and Alpha kids out there, see the picture below. Mine, if I recall correctly was the second from the right. The year was 2003. I was a junior in high school and my parents gave it to me for emergencies as I was driving around town to school and work. It was a good phone that did what it was designed to do — make phone calls — and nothing more. I’m not sure if SMS was even a thing at that point, but I never used it if it was. That would come later when I got the venerable 3310 and went off to college.