Do you remember the Mobira Talkman? No? That's okay, you may not have been born yet. In 1984 this was what all the sierra hotel financial traders had glued to their faces -- and clutched to their hips, since the thing was as big as a briefcase. 25 years later skilled modder Jani 'Japala' Pönkkö came across a free (and fully-functional) example and set upon completing his dream of turning it into an HTPC, which he has called the Dataman. Inside he managed to pack an Intel
T5500 Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 32GB SSD, and a wireless network card. The 40-hour mod is laboriously detailed in photos at the read link, while the fruits of all that labor are shown in videos after the break, the first showing the pre-mod phone still working perfectly -- but complaining about the lack of network (like the Russian Empire's rule of Finland, the NMT network is long gone) -- and the second showing that green LCD replaced by a rather more colorful OLED one.
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posted Aug 27th 2009 10:33AM
Brilliant!
Stupid.
You can toss all that into a toaster as well.
My jaw drops in total incredulity.
So useless, and yet, so cool...
Well so much for a 10 foot UI...
Where's the "Turbo" button?
Right between "bake" and "preheat"
Why?
Why not?
Hm, let's see what it says on that screen there...
::goes blind::
i wonder what mods we'll be making to iphones in 25 years.
Demolish some building maybe?
I'll probably mod one right into the trash... The future is now!
Webserver housed in an iPhone, that way, that iPhone rack thing might actually become useful.
enabling MMS :P
@TTSGEB You mean the iRack! Hehehe... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw2nkoGLhrE
@TTSGEB: No, having anything to do with iRack leads to never-ending trouble.
iphone self propulsion/invisibility prank
ooo iphone!! whered it go?
It would be so much cooler if the keypad worked. . . But it does look very nice even with the cover off, even to the point that it seems it came like that.
Even if it COULD run Crysis, that screen would make my eyes bleed after five minutes.
So I'm not going to ask.
"Eye dust...don't breathe this."
This is just like the "pc in a nes" and similar... find some old piece of hardware...take all the bits out... stick in a small form factor computer.... take a million photos... put it on the internet.
imagine what a mini atx would look like in a dreamcast case?
Not sure if want...
Awesome, he destroyed a piece of history just to put some average HTPC into its case?
kinda like Cash-For-Clunkers
History? You reckon all old electronics should be rescued? Yeah rrrright, I take it you provide enough space for all that junk? Atleast the "piece of history" now remains to be seen and in use.
Nice project, and indeed the Symbian is just a screencap-thing, it's said somewhere in the article.
Isn't it running Symbian S60?!
thats what i thought too when i saw it!!
s60 on a core2duo???
That's what I thought... but in the second video it looks like it's just a screen cap which is being displayed to show off the OLED screen.
I feel like a better use for that contraption would have been an attempt at a Pip-boy
Nice Job Though
good thing he didn't use it for the mobile phone throwing competition...
What's the point if the screen is so small that it's illegible?
Because he can.
Nice waste of time, mine reading this and his for making it. Mod a turd, that would be more impressive!
One for sale on ebay $15,000 and thats a bargain, would be more if it had the OLED screen
http://cgi.ebay.com/vintage-NOKIA-MOBIRA-Talkman-NMT450-rare-cell-phone_W0QQitemZ250487100685QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCell_Phones?hash=item3a5231d50d&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116#ht_10547wt_939
Isn't NMT still used in Iceland?