Thanks for the clickbait headline. TL;DR - “custom firmware project resurrects the Nokia N8, transforming it from a drawer-dwelling relic into a functional device.”
…if you can find a network to run it on.
Meanwhile, Sailfish OS - the successor to Nokia’s fully Linux-based mobile OS - is about to release a relatively beefy device that has it preinstalled.
It’s new roms for the Nokia N8 if you still have one. It’s a 2010 phone so no idea if it has 5g or even 4g. Meh. I still have an N9 which is also unusable today because the 3g network here is gone.
Yep. In my country 3G is shutdown. Without 4G and VoLTE you cannot make calls.
They’ve been thinking about doing that here in Finland too, but so much non-phone stuff is using the older networks that while 3G is mostly gone, 2G for calls and texts is still going to be supported to at least 2029.
Systems like the EU mandatory eCall car emergency call thingy.
Kinda makes you wish we had that 5g/4g add-on for older phones
And USB-C. I don’t miss Micro at all!
wow… how many phones did include a mini hdmi port
yeah yeah there are some with DP over USB C now but still
It’s cool to see this happening on non-android devices. I mean, yeah, you could install Android 13 on your 15 year old Galaxy SII right now if you really wanted to, but Android custom ROMS for old devices are rarely worth the trouble IMO; they’re often missing basic functionality and don’t perform great.
This is more interesting from a usability perspective. Granted, you still can’t use it as your main phone, as it doesn’t have 4G.
