Nokia through the years: The best and worst phones, in pictures

(Pocket-lint) - Nokia made a superb instrumentality successful 2016 and started competing amongst the large boys with its Android phones. Although the caller phones mightiness not beryllium the rock-solid, meme-worthy 3310, it's inactive imaginable to accidental that owning a Nokia telephone is thing to beryllium arrogant of.

HMD Global is down the revitalisation, utilizing the Nokia branding connected smartphones from entry-level to flagship devices. And it is utilizing immoderate of the practice of the telephone manufacturer's past arsenic inspiration.

That's wherefore we've handpicked immoderate of our favourite Nokia mobile phones from the past fewer decades. We've besides chucked successful immoderate stinkers too.

So present are the champion and, frankly, worst and weirdest Nokia handsets we each remember. 

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Nokia Mobira Talkman (1985)

From 1985 to 1992, Nokia manufactured the Mobira Talkman enactment of crazy-large compartment phones you could transportation with you (if your arms were beardown capable to assistance the monolithic block/suitcase attached to the phone).

It mightiness look similar a monster, but this was the commencement of things to come. 

Nokia Cityman (1987)

The Cityman was 1 of the archetypal compact phones. It became celebrated successful 1987 erstwhile Mikhail Gorbachev, then-president of the Soviet Union, utilized a Cityman 900 to telephone Moscow during a property conference.

Nokia 1011 (1993)

The 1011 is celebrated for being the archetypal mass-produced GSM phone. Again, not overmuch to look at, but phones had surely travel a agelong mode from their chunky origins. 

Nokia 8110 (1996)

The 8110 gained notoriety arsenic being the archetypal telephone with a slider signifier factor, but the design's salient curvature earned it the nickname "banana phone".

It was besides fashionable astatine the clip owed to an quality successful the hands of Keanu Reeves successful The Matrix. 

Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996)

The 9000 Communicator was a messaging telephone and the archetypal telephone nether the Communicator series. It is celebrated for being utilized by histrion Val Kilmer successful the remake of The Saint arsenic good arsenic by actors Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock successful the movie Bad Company.

Nokia 5110 (1998)

The 5110 was made with business-consumers successful mind, though it's astir remembered contiguous for being 1 of the archetypal phones to diagnostic an addictive crippled called Snake.

Nokia 3210 (1999)

The 3210 was notable due to the fact that it introduced the thought of colourful, interchangeable covers. There are claims implicit 160 cardinal units were sold, making it 1 of the astir fashionable and palmy phones successful history.

Nokia 7110 (1999)

The 7110 is nick-named "The Swordfish Phone" due to the fact that it was utilized by histrion John Travolta successful the movie Swordfish. It was besides the archetypal mobile telephone to travel with a WAP browser.

Nokia 8210 (1999)

The 8210 was the smallest and lightest Nokia mobile telephone disposable erstwhile it launched and came with colourful, interchangeable covers.

Nokia 3310 (2000)

Perhaps the astir iconic of each Nokia handsets, the 3310 was the telephone that truly took the interchangeable covers craze to all-new levels. It was besides a hardy instrumentality - we cognize arsenic we accidentally lobbed a just fewer of them crossed car parks and down streets, but they continued to work.

Nokia 6310 (2001)

Business types loved the 6310 and 6310i (and the akin looking 6210 earlier them). It was much nonrecreational looking than the 3310, but inactive offered a grade of customisation successful an interchangeable sheet astatine the bottom. The "i" mentation added a backlit surface and tri-band connectivity.

Nokia 7650 (2001)

The 7650 was the archetypal Nokia smartphone with Symbian OS.

Nokia 5510 (2001)

The 5510 featured a afloat QWERTY keyboard and a integer euphony player. It adjacent had 64 MB representation for storing audio files. Tonnes of room, right? (Sarcasm.) This telephone appeared during the epoch erstwhile much carnal buttons was a bully things. 

Nokia N-Gage (2002)

The N-Gage was Nokia's effort to triumph implicit GameBoy users. It was a gaming instrumentality and mobile telephone successful one, though gamers scoffed astatine the telephone and described it arsenic looking similar a taco.

Nokia 3600/3650 (2002)

The 3600/3650 was besides the archetypal telephone successful North America with an integrated camera. It was besides antithetic owed to its circular keypad.

Nokia 6800 (2002)

The 6800 was marketed arsenic a messaging telephone due to the fact that of its antithetic fold-out QWERTY keyboard. Anyone would deliberation Nokia had an obsession with carnal buttons astatine this point. 

Nokia 5100 (2002)

The 5100 was a rugged instrumentality with a rubber casing and built-in FM stereo. Despite being designed to beryllium rugged, it wouldn't regenerate the 3310 successful people's memories arsenic the strongest telephone ever produced. 

Nokia 3300 (2003)

The 3300 was marketed arsenic euphony playing telephone but besides featured a QWERTY keyboard.

Nokia 7600 (2004)

The 7600 had a teardrop signifier factor. It was aimed astatine the manner marketplace and featured interchangeable covers. Another successful a enactment of quirky shaped phones from Nokia that showed the institution wasn't acrophobic to innovate and bash things differently. 

Nokia 7280 (2004)

The 7280 was besides called the "lipstick" phone. Announced arsenic portion of Nokia's Fashion Phone line, it had black, achromatic and reddish styling arsenic good arsenic a surface that transformed it into a mirror. Weirdly futuristic looking and surely different antithetic smartphone. 

Nokia 7710 (2005)

The 7710 was a smartphone wide known arsenic being Nokia's archetypal instrumentality with a touchscreen. 

Nokia N90 (2005)

The N90 was different telephone nether the N-series but stood retired for its swivel plan that transformed into 4 antithetic modes.

Nokia 8800 (2005)

The 8800 was a slider phone. It was antithetic successful that it had a stainless-steel lodging and a scratch-resistant screen.

Nokia 1100 (2005)

The 1100 was a basal GSM mobile phone. Nokia claimed successful 2011 that the telephone was erstwhile owned by 250 cardinal people, making it the world’s astir fashionable telephone astatine that time.

Nokia 3250 (2005)

The 3250 was a unsocial mobile telephone that featured a twist design, accepted telephone keypad, camera, and dedicated euphony power keys.

Nokia 6280 (2005)

The 6280 was different 3G mobile phone. It had a descent signifier origin and 2.2-inch colour TFT screen.

Nokia N70 (2005)

The N70 was a 3G mobile phone. It was announced arsenic portion of Nokia's marque caller enactment of N-series multimedia phones. We thought it was a feature-packed telephone for definite but wondered astir the deficiency of QWERTY keyboard. 

Nokia 5300 (2006)

The 5300 was reportedly the astir fashionable (in regards to the fig of units sold) of each the XpressMusic phones, a enactment of Nokia phones that was designed for euphony playback.

Nokia N81 (2007)

The N81 was marketed arsenic a mobile gaming instrumentality - akin to the 2003 N-Gage - and was notable for being the lone N-Gage 2.0 instrumentality with peculiar gaming keys.

Nokia N95 (2007)

Coming with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G connectivity, the Nokia N95 was a genuinely "smart" telephone for its day. The artillery took immoderate bashing however, acknowledgment to each the tech crammed inside, and it needed charging often.

Nokia 1280 (2010)

Despite a wide request for everything smart, Nokia went up with this affordable ultrabasic dual-band GSM mobile phone... successful 2010.

Nokia 808 Pureview (2012)

The 808 was Nokia's past Symbian-powered smartphone. It was besides the archetypal telephone to diagnostic Nokia's PureView Pro technology.

Nokia Lumia 1020 (2013)

Described arsenic a Windows Phone 8-powered cameraphone, the 1020 notably featured a PureView Pro camera with a 41-megapixel representation sensor. It was besides the past Nokia telephone made earlier Microsoft announced it would get Nokia's telephone business.

Nokia 3310 (2017)

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And this is the caller Nokia 3310, arsenic launched successful 2017. It is besides a elemental diagnostic phone, alternatively than a smartphone, but has a afloat colour surface and is overmuch slimmer than the original. There's adjacent a caller 4G upgrade disposable too.

Nokia 9 PureView (2019)

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The Nokia 9 PureView is bonkers - it has five cameras aimed astatine delivering a precise unsocial camera solution. That came astir acknowledgment to a close collaboration with Light, who produced a 16-camera device, the L16. But the Nokia 9 PureView is appealing for different reasons too, not slightest of which is simply a overmuch much palatable terms erstwhile compared with different flagships being released successful 2019. 

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Nokia 5.3 (2020)

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The Nokia 5.3 continued the company's inclination of creating precise bully mid-range and budgets phones packed with features astatine a tenable price. 

Nokia XR20 (2021)

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The Nokia XR20 is an absorbing rugged telephone and 1 that the institution claims is the toughest it's ever made. Yes, that means it's stronger than the classical Nokia 3310 arsenic well. 

Not rather built for those connected a gathering site, but surely bully capable that the mean idiosyncratic won't person to worry. 

Writing by Maggie Tillman and Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 24 October 2014.