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Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font

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317 points rguiscard | 3 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rootsudo ◴[30 Aug 25 13:21 UTC] No.45074426[source]▶
Many Americans such as myself had Nokia cell phones.. they were ubiqitious in USA culture... so I don't get the American jab at all, the only real competitor between 95-2005'ish was Motorola. Blackberry came from that time, and then android around 2010'ish but I would say yes - Nokia was the main phone for over a decade IMO.
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flkiwi ◴[30 Aug 25 14:08 UTC] No.45074819[source]▶
The 6190 might have been the most successfully executed technological device I’ve ever had. (Also an American wondering about the assumption we didn’t have Nokia.)
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1. Sharlin ◴[30 Aug 25 20:33 UTC] No.45077776[source]▶
How big were Nokia's smartphones in the US? The E and N series Symbian 60 phones?
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2. notpeter ◴[31 Aug 25 04:35 UTC] No.45080403[source]▶
Very few units sold. Distribution was poor, most were GSM only and only a couple supported 850mhz. I had the E70-2 and later E61i but I never meant anyone else with one.
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3. Sharlin ◴[31 Aug 25 10:04 UTC] No.45081959[source]▶
Yep, I presume that’s primarily what the article author meant. To Americans Nokia mostly means "feature phones" whereas in Europe Nokia smartphones were, if not ubiquitous, commonplace enough around 2007 (remember that Nokia had been making smartphones for a decade by then). The N series in particular were targeted at consumers.