I kind of dropped out of the Nokia world once they switched to Maemo. Used to develop stuff for Symbian, Flash, and WAP, but then rode that 3650 all the way into Android on a Nexus One.
I get that this one is more of a tech demo for large format transflective. If they made it a color screen, at a decent resolution, that could be interesting… but outdoor use also means they need to ruggedize it a bit, hm.
Oh man you missed the pinacle of Nokias phones. The possibilities of the N900 where endless back then. Emulators, IR Blaster, High Quality Camera (for back then), all the Linux software, free Wifi everywhere (Because everybody still used WEP and the N900 would crack the password in like 20 seconds) and so much more.
The transreflective screen 800x480 worked incredibly well. Low power and still very good visibility, only in bright sunlight the colors were washed out. I always wondered why they never used this technology in modern devices.
Then the N9 which lacked some features, but was so handsome and user friendly.
It had an OLED but also the Clear Black technology which prevented the screen from reflecting to much sunlight, making it readable in the sun even though it had much lower brightness than todays OLEDs.
Sadly all this was killed by Elop who came from Microsoft and tried to push Windows phone, slowly downgrading the amazing hardware till Nokias phone branch was dead.
Not really new. It’s basically LCD without backlight. So, higher resolution GBC / GBA alike screen.
LCD + optional backlight + mirror.
Reminds me of my old Nokia 3650… no smartphone has come close to it in daylight readability for over 20 years.
Or the N900 which even had fluid animations and scrolling which this company still seems to struggle with
It had a transflective screen too??
I kind of dropped out of the Nokia world once they switched to Maemo. Used to develop stuff for Symbian, Flash, and WAP, but then rode that 3650 all the way into Android on a Nexus One.
I get that this one is more of a tech demo for large format transflective. If they made it a color screen, at a decent resolution, that could be interesting… but outdoor use also means they need to ruggedize it a bit, hm.
Oh man you missed the pinacle of Nokias phones. The possibilities of the N900 where endless back then. Emulators, IR Blaster, High Quality Camera (for back then), all the Linux software, free Wifi everywhere (Because everybody still used WEP and the N900 would crack the password in like 20 seconds) and so much more. The transreflective screen 800x480 worked incredibly well. Low power and still very good visibility, only in bright sunlight the colors were washed out. I always wondered why they never used this technology in modern devices.
Then the N9 which lacked some features, but was so handsome and user friendly. It had an OLED but also the Clear Black technology which prevented the screen from reflecting to much sunlight, making it readable in the sun even though it had much lower brightness than todays OLEDs.
Sadly all this was killed by Elop who came from Microsoft and tried to push Windows phone, slowly downgrading the amazing hardware till Nokias phone branch was dead.