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

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317 points rguiscard | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | 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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toast0 ◴[30 Aug 25 16:41 UTC] No.45075981[source]▶
Nokia lost a lot of the US market in the 00s. They insisted on shipping SIP clients on their phones, so US carriers stopped selling their phones, when most people were only aware of carrier sold, subsidy locked phones.

Out in the rest of the world, Nokia Symbian phones were the leading smartphone platform. In the US, almost nobody knew they existed.

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1. wkat4242 ◴[31 Aug 25 01:38 UTC] No.45079570[source]▶
SIP was useless over a mobile connection those days. 3G's latency was way too high to support a decent voice call. SIP only worked reliably over WiFi.