The craftsman turned the Nokia 1680 into a mini-computer on Linux

Old Nokia phones are known to last forever, so enthusiasts will continue to use them in every possible way for a long time to come.

Member of the Hackaday community under the pseudonym RemuNotMoe presented a working mini-computer in the body of the push-button Nokia 1680, released in 2008. He equipped it with a gigahertz Ingenic X100E, 2″ IPS screen with QVGA resolution (visible area 280x220 pixels), USB Type-C port, 5-megapixel OmniVision camera, Yamaha audio synthesis device, microphone, Wi-Fi 4, Bluetooth 4 and LoRa modules, as well as a standard BL-5C battery.

Unfortunately, after all these manipulations,there was a place for a cellular modem, so calling and accessing the Internet via a cellular network from this device will not work. In addition, it didn’t work with the GUI, so you will have to control the “phone” using console commands typed on the native Nokia 1680 keyboard. Remu NotMoe called his device Notkia; he promises to soon publish detailed instructions for creating such a device. In the case of widespread interest, it is possible that someone will start selling ready-made kits for making Notkia or even assembled devices.

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