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."
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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…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.
Not for North America.
Skill issue. Should’ve chosen EU as spawn.
^/s^
Haha, well I did choose Europe (Ukraine, technically UkSSR) as spawn, but then had to fuck off due to corruption and bleak future opportunities. Talk about fucking irony.
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!
There are thumb-sized adapters for 2 $ around.
wow... how many phones did include a mini hdmi port
yeah yeah there are some with DP over USB C now but still
i have one in my drawer that still works
I miss Nokia. When I was about to get my first Nokia touch phone they killed it off and started producing garbageware low end phones...
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.
Granted, you still can't use it as your main phone, as it doesn't have 4G.
Most places still have 3G and some people use their Android phone only with Wifi.
Most places? Name one
China, still about half of India. About 2 billion people worth. Though less and less. 3G that is, 2G/GSM has wider share.
The battery in mine exploded! By which I mean I found it one day with a big outward bulge in the back. Years after I stopped using it, but still I can't use it for this now. 😭