When Phones Were Fun - Nokia 808 PureView / Nokia Lumia 1020 (2013)

[@pticatori]

My ex is a professional photographer, and she had been using Nokia 1020 for EIGHT years. She just couldn't give up on it. She fiercely defended it at all costs. I loved it as well, tbh. But with WP7's rapid decline she eventually moved to an iPhone. Btw, I'm pretty sure she still keeps her 1020 somewhere. Last time I saw it, it was wrapped in velvet and was hidden inside a safe compartment. Like an old treasure (which it actually is).

[@snpssps]

1020 for 8 years? ???She's definitely not a pro photographer

[@deviantv1ral]

That’s sweet. My wife’s 1020 is on display under a glass dome with its camera grip accessory

[@syedbilal9965]

indeed legendry piece of tech

[@thetechboyorg]

Wow

[@b2bgood870]

Lol

[@Davidesrajohn]

The Lumias truly had a timeless design. Despite the bezels, they still look modern and chic today. Quality doesn’t age. I can’t think of a phone with a stronger visual identity. The bold colors being evocative of Bauhaus. The edges being confidently sharp. You could put this on a pedestal in your house next to a Louis Poulson lamp and it would work.

[@mikee3216]

Don't forget it started with the N9 back in 2011. Stark contrast to the various mash-ups of plastic, faux-chrome and occasional "premium" aluminum in all other phones at the time. They were truly pieces to lust for.

[@mehshutup3041]

Iphone better

[@popinjayjunior7698]

The same feeling i get with Sony Xperias. Even with the comically huge bezels of the Z and XZ lines, they have timeless designs. Somehow those bezels make them look attractive, which is ironic. Is also why the new xperia lines are a sight for sore eyes.

[@popinjayjunior7698]

@SuperNostalgia. God is indeed amazing but I’m muslim.

[@exp2745]

Few things more tragic for early 2010s smartphone nerds (especially in the EU) then the slow and painful death of the venerable Nokia. Thanks for this great send-off.

[@MrManniG]

Man, I feel you. I first got hooked with a used 6600. All the apps that thing could run and what it could do. My last one was a 5800 XpressMusic, and that was my daily driver till 2015.

[@thedarkknight1971]

Yeah, I agree... My camera on a phone journey went through MULTIPLE Nokia phones (was a die hard Nokia fan Must have owned/used some 50 odd models (right from the early Analogue days)), it REALLY started with the N95 8Gb (MAN.. WHAT A GREAT ALL ROUND PHONE!), to the Nokia N8 (WOW what pictures in a slim OLED aluminium packet), then I had for a short while until it got stolen, an 808... OOOOH I LOVED that thing for what it could do with its camera capabilities!! Oh Nokia... Should of kept pushing ahead with the GREAT cameras, great chassis designs and the MEEGO OS... 😕😕 😎🇬🇧

[@jakubzneba1965]

no no no …. by far…the sad story is nokia N9 as by far the most tragic one in whole smartphone industry… this was that one phone which could be real iphone “killer” only original competitor to iphone it was and they kill it just like that 😢😢😢😢 there was no other smartphone like nokia N9

[@thedarkknight1971]

@@jakubzneba1965 I FULLY AGREE.. My camera on a phone journey went through MULTIPLE Nokia phones (was a die hard Nokia fan, must have owned up to 50 different models right from the early days of analogue Orange network Nokia 5.1 (based on the 2140)), it REALLY started with the N95 8Gb (MAN.. WHAT A GREAT ALL ROUND PHONE!), to the Nokia N8 (WOW what pictures in a slim OLED aluminium packet), then I had for a short while until it got stolen, an 808... OOOOH I LOVED that thing for what it could do with its camera capabilities!! Oh Nokia... Should of kept pushing ahead with the GREAT cameras, great chassis designs and the MEEGO OS... 😕😕 😎🇬🇧

[@DRAGUNX86]

Yea they went out with a bang! :D History rich of hits.

[@NL0Gwenster]

Glad to see the Lumia series get the love it deserved from Mr Mobile. I used to be part of the team that did the work on the camera app for the Lumia series back in the day. We were given free hand to think outside of the box and well, that freedom got everyone these nifty features.

[@kilovwdude6457]

Thank you! The Lumia camera app was the coolest thing I had ever used when I was 13 and got my first Lumia

[@TheMrMobile]

Congratulations on the incredible work. I wish modern camera software was as elegant.

[@SingYuLam]

What kind of work did you do on the camera app? The UI on the Lumia phones still stands out as the most eye-catching and well designed to this day

[@tushar4evr776]

Whoever worked on the Lumia Refocus app, kudos to them. It was a nice app.

[@IvanAipom93]

I just had a humble Lumia 520, my first smartphone, but man I loved that camera app! Thank you for your work! Wish there'd still be Lumia and Windows Phone around...

[@techpassion4126]

I still miss the Lumias, they had a lot of things that were ahead of their time. Their manual camera app UI is still my favorite by far, and even little things like how the photos app looked back then were so good! It's a shame what happened to the OS as a whole, would've really liked to see how a Lumia flagship would look and feel like in 2023

[@o4komodo]

Nokia would be what Huawei and Vivo is right now. Nokia pioneered pixel binning, night photography, OIS for example. Nokia 9 (HMD) was close to old Nokia but it was lacking. Also just remembered Nokia PV Audio (later Ozo audio). No company has yet to compete with that even in 2023.

[@o4komodo]

Nokia Labs also made a bunch of amazing things. Many of today's "new" software features were already beta apps from Nokia Labs a decade ago. Nokia also had MANY design concepts over a decade ago that are only becoming a reality now. Imagine what Nokia could be doing for them to bring their concept to life. I have no doubt in my mind that it would be Nokia that would (probably in partnership with Samsung) figure a way to eliminate folding phone creases and other issues.

[@peterjf7723]

Agreed, I had a Nokia Lumia 1020 Windows Mobile smartphone issued to me as a work phone in 2014 and was impressed by it, also had a Microsoft Surface tablet.

[@michaelmacvittie6977]

I remember two things about the Lumia I owned: 1. To date it was the most comfortable phone I’ve ever held. Whatever plastic they used on the back was absolutely incredible, and it felt designed to be held by a hand rather than be a brick. 2. Windows phone os was the smoothest os as well as the most customizable. Being able to not only put icons where I want but resize them was so amazing for young adult me that it feels like a barely remembered dream.

[@TescoRoadman]

Windows was customisable, but not to the extent of android with custom roms back in the day that were so easy to install on basically any android phone

[@michaelmacvittie6977]

@@TescoRoadman there were plenty of us not comfortable with doing that. As it was (and still is), the “base” android experience offered had nowhere near the options that Windows OS did out of the box.

[@tams805]

@@TescoRoadman Android ROMs are overrated. There are only a handful of phones (often only certain models) that people bother to make ROMs for, and often the ROMs are lacking a lot of features or are broken. And often it's just one person doing a given ROM, so when they move on... well, that's it.

[@MultiWirth]

@@tams805 this is just absolutely wrong... just take a look at lineageos. There are so many popular phones officially supported and being official also means strict rules in terms of functionality. Everything has to work properly, otherwise it won´t get official. And lineage just happens to be the most popular custom rom, there are still others aswell with different features.

[@MultiWirth]

@@michaelmacvittie6977 changing the icon size and position is what you call highly customizable?

[@HowlinAndyDE]

I'm in tears actually... this is one of those videos where i have grief to have lost the best operating system on a phone... and still to this day i miss my Nokia and Microsoft Lumias. They were the greatest phones i had. Sure i also love my Xiaomi Phone... But Nokia, Microsoft and Windows Phone were a class of their own.

[@lensofthenorth42]

I had a N95 and I still remember being so completely blown away by the huge improvement in camera quality that I started taking pics even when I didn't need to. Nokia was the camera phone brand and it's a shame they had to go down like that.

[@Raut-warrior]

back then i was crazy about n90 and n93 because we could twist them. The Nokia N series and Sony Ericsson walkman series were lit back then

[@lensofthenorth42]

@@Raut-warrior nokia n series was genuinely good. They lasted way more than most modern phones due to being durable and having a user replaceable battery. The camera was very very good especially for the time and the software was good if very simple.

[@Raut-warrior]

@@lensofthenorth42 yes the N series were more formal phones as compared to walkman series which were more funky and colourful. What an era it was.

[@mruppel2]

I was a big Windows Phone enthusiast, I was always impressed with how fast and smooth the OS was, and how impressive were the night photos I took with my Lumia phones. Sad to think that it didn't take off. It was a platform pretty much sabotaged by app developers who didn't want to support it.

[@cogspace]

If Microsoft had been able to get more devs on board, Windows Phone could have been a huge success. Honestly, with how far web apps have come since then, I bet they could bring it back today and it would be much more successful.

[@emdotrod]

Born too early, and a lot of people taken it for granted

[@ihatethesehandles]

I don't think you can really blame developers for not wanting to support a platform with basically no market share. It was a lot of work to port your apps to Windows phone and not even Microsoft themselves bothered with some of their first-party apps.

[@eclecticgentleman]

@@ihatethesehandles I do fault the developers 100%. Windows phone was an awesome experience

[@1yaz]

@@ihatethesehandles When Microsoft released a KZbin app and got a C&D from Google, or when Google bought Waze and immediately pulled it from the Microsoft Store, or when Snapchat started banning anyone using 6snap... List goes on

[@alepioveable]

I'm binge watching all your videos about "when phones were fun" and can't shake a feeling of nostalgia and immensely sadness. Looking at what the companies are now putting out, we will never have these and all those kind of experimentation and creativity. Sad time to live...

[@Evie0133]

DUDE this is my favorite Lumia of all time, I loved my Lumia 1020! Glad to see it in this series :D

[@TheMrMobile]

My favorite Lumia as well! I respect the Icon/930; loved my 920; I even understand people who got attached to the 1520 ... but the 1020 was something special indeed.

[@Evie0133]

@@TheMrMobile I still cherish the bold design of old Lumia devices, I still miss them to this day. Also noticed a lot of Moto X cameos in this video, are they future candidates for this series? That phone line is still my favorite to this day, and I wanna see your retrospective on it so badly ;)

[@mehmetgurdal]

@@TheMrMobile I still dream about having a lumia 1520

[@realMDizzy]

That camera UI was hands down the BEST ever made! It takes so many tabs on phones even from today to get to all of those settings at once.

[@apurvakg]

Lots of tech KZbinrs talk to death about specs and use cases that only pertain to them, and in a sea of these creators, it’s so refreshing to see someone with immense knowledge talk in depth about the Pureview. Had a Lumia 635 myself and boy do I miss that UI! Was very cool reading Steve Litchfield’s comparison work too! Thanks for making phone revisits fun and packed full of information!

[@DustySquitoNM]

The WindowsPhone UI was seriously one of the best I've ever used. I still have an HTC M8 Windows edition from 2015 or 2016, and I kid you not that it's faster and more responsive than some of the Android phones I've used that came out in 2021-2022. I bought into WP the month it was announced, and I used them all the way through WP 8.1. I was seriously bummed that it didn't last.

[@mcrazza]

Damn, the Nokia Lumia 1020 is a decade old?! Time has flown! It only feels like a couple years since I moved on from Windows Phone to Android. I have fond memories of my Lumia 520, 640 and 735. My parents had a Lumia 720, 635 and 640 XL too. I miss fun, colourful phones. The only thing that’s carried over from the Lumia days is the innovative camera UI which can be found on HMD Global’s Nokia phones.

[@ewhite1546]

Did you see the new moto phone? Very pink/red

[@TJCCBR47]

me too! I used my 930 until 2020

[@mcrazza]

@@TJCCBR47 Wow, that's quite recent!

[@WhiteStripesStripiestFan]

It was such an awesome time, I can't believe it was 10 YEARS AGO. These 2020s sucks. The phones were damn expensive ($1k for high spec) the TV shows sucked, nothing entertains me anymore! (Except Mr. Mobile and some other YT channels). I just really miss when nights were meant to be enjoyed with music and food. Nowadays it's a political battleground, nothing can be accepted without some Karen feeling annoyed.

[@alolanstarboy]

I remember being a 13 year old absolutely fascinated by windows phone at the time. I saw a huge billboard advertising the 808 purview and then the Lumia 1020 and honestly I had the same feeling about the megapixel count. It just HAD to be a mistake I thought, a 41 megapixel camera on a phone felt unimaginable at the time. I would always go and test out the 1020 in stores and be fascinated by just how much you could zoom into pictures without losing detail. Those were the days, even before I was truly into phones and tech I'm glad I at least got to be around for this one cos it really was a landmark

[@theflipsidestory]

When I was that age, a camera on a phone felt unimaginable 😆

[@MrJ0mmy]

in 2013 a lot of cameras where only 10mp - 24mp so it shocked me when i heard how may mp this camera phone had

[@OmPrakashSahu.legend]

yeah same here!

[@lexuslfa4739]

i remember mentioning it to my classmates and they all though i was capping. and the wireless charging also

[@irvingflores9325]

I fell in love with Windows Phone devices since i saw your reviews, 10 years later i still watching your Nokia Lumia reviews, just for the past old goodies.

[@ranger_who]

I still and will keep my 808 running. I remember the itchy nights and days we had anticipated for the launch of 808 and still Nokia had gotten us a big surprise how many bells and whistles 808 had that was beyond our imagination. Got mine from pre-order at a price that you had to be a savvy to truly passionate about if not fully understand the insanity of the technology. While 808 delivered world class image quality then, its audio recording and speaker quality were equally astonishing, even by today's standard.

[@nicholastorntore2962]

I appreciate this blast from the past. I would say I was a diehard Windows Phone fan boy. Best operating system imo still to this day. Though, not a WP video, it just brought me back to a time when life was a little simpler.

[@the_wind_walker]

I love this series. I still remember being a kid in class 10 when the phone was announced and everyone had gone crazy at the thought of 41MP in a phone, truly innovating as opposed to today's industry progress. And yes phones were fun back then as you say

[@halane4790]

I owned a Lumia 920. That was definitely the best phone I have owned to this day. It was STUNNING, took amazing pics and the system was smooth and beautiful too. It was also as indestructible as the old Nokia 3310: my 920 with no case and no protector fell off my top bunk bed, hitting two pieces of furniture in the way down, and got a bumped corner and nothing else. I was amazed. I got a cheaper Lumia for my mum. Windows phone was so easy to use for her. The big tiles were a godsend.

[@BradleyLarcher]

These two devices from Nokia was in a class of their own. A class that still holds up

[@nishantpatil1247]

Man just the way you start your videos with that confident and sharp voice just elevates the overall quality of your videos so much.

[@NathWard]

Genuinely remember watching you cover this phone back in the day on Pocketnow, so to see you covering it again now 10 years later is a crazy feeling. Thanks for the amazing content!

[@jttcosmos]

I still have my 808 lying around. Pure nostalgia these days, but good grief did I love the thing at the time. Not only was the image quality incredible, but the microphone was also one of the first (in a phone) that could actually record music without immediately clipping. That + the zooming functionality made for some incredible snippets at concerts and events.

[@savierbarraza5958]

I loved this episode, it reminded me of when i was in highschool watching Pocketnow. Your reviews on windows phones ultimately lead me to choosing the Nokia Lumia 920 as my first smartphone. I adored that hardware, and even more so enjoyed the software experience, sure it wasn't as robust as my friends phones, but it felt fresh, fun, especially when the Windows 10 update was eventually pushed. Some of my favorite memories were taken with that phone and was a driving force of pushing me into the hobby of photography.

[@emmanuelliclican1678]

Love this video! I still have my 808 and 1020 today. At times, i still used it. Freezing the water flow ans stopping the spin of a fan with its flash. The ND filter which most phone today do not have. The red eye remover light. And the half press to focus. Ah... so many features to mention. But, those were the days.

[@rudolfh3881]

Thank you for making this tribute video of 808 and 1020. I'm glad you're still keeping WP so close to your heart. As someone who bought into the WP ecosystem as early as WM 6.1, the end was a tragedy I could never accept. Lumia 950 was the last WP I bought and is still used to this day to capture RAW stills. It's a Pureview phone too, the last generation. I'm looking forward to your video on the demise of WP platform. I know you'll do it justice as a longtime WP fan yourself.

[@GeniusBoy88]

Windows Phone will always have my heart. The most fun I ever had sharing photos online was during the era when my home screen was covered in Live Tiles.

[@shafitarin4277]

I just wanted to say thank you Micheal. Your reviews of the Lumia 1020 at Pocketnow (as well as the comparisons you did of the 1020 against other phones at the time) are the reason why I'm a professional photographer today. I bought the 1020 10 years ago because how much you raved about it, which ignited a passion I never knew I had. Learned and shot almost exclusively in manual mode on it, and from there, I've never looked back. So I just wanted to say thank you for being a huge influence on my life in a way that you may not have even known. 🙏🏽

[@Lvaneede]

I loved my 808, I used it for a good three years and then upgraded to the Lumia 950,which also had a great camera. I miss the HDR flash feature

[@diespaten]

I guess it's time to go back to my yellow 1020 and shoot some nice pictures again and Reminiscing. What a time to be alive. Thanks for your through back and greetings from Hamburg, Germany

[@bricequirl]

Nice shout out to Steve Litchfield! You and Steve are my favorite techies! Never used the 1020, but absolutely loved my Lumia 930 and 950. The 950 is still my favorite phone ever. Took competitors 4, almost 5 years to catch up to the photography prowess of Lumia. Such a great vid! Thanks!

[@conan7real]

This was on my wishlist during highschool. Now I'm a dad with two daughters. Thank you for the reminding that time has catched on..

[@fiend606]

Thank you for doing this video! Honestly still miss the Windows Phone OS all these years later, swear I've never used a better keyboard. And so true about Nokia & Windows Phone being first to so many things. I remember getting notifications from Cortana telling me how long to get to and from work straight on the home screen all those years ago. And (I'm pretty certain) Nokia were the first ones to do "live" photos through a lens called motion photos! RIP Nokia & Windows Phone 😢

[@mehmetgurdal]

it was nokia cinemagraph.

[@gokulr5622]

The keyboard...yes!! One of the smoothest typing experiences ever. 💯💯

[@mehmetgurdal]

@@gokulr5622 Microsoft wordflow keyboard It's a crime that we are left with these subpar replacements.

[@gokulr5622]

@@mehmetgurdal True that. As much as Gboard, Apple keyboards etc are packed with features, the actual typing experience itself is still nowhere near that of the Windows phones.

[@moisessilva2343]

This "when phones were fun" series has been one of my favorite things to watch on youtube! Could not agree more with this topic. For the longest time phones have felt like just "another brick on the wall".

[@PhillGoodFactor83]

This video pulled at my heart strings. That was a joyous summary of what it felt like to truly indulge in a different smart phone and it's camera. Thank you! I look forward to a similar windows phone tribute.

[@AikhoBear]

Man, I miss the Lumia phones Nokia made as Nokia. I still have my signal yellow 1020 on my desk along with the matching yellow camera grip. Currently next to it is the Xperia 1III that goes into pocket when I leave the desk. Thank you for this episode!

[@chrisfratz]

Can't wait to watch this, when phones were fun is my favorite series on the channel because it allows me to look and see what phones are around when I was too young to have one myself

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

July. XOXO received his 50th email on Thursday, but he didn't get reply because he died

[@hydrolifetech7911]

Nokia Lumia photos are unmatched! The pictures I took of my baby niece with Lumia phone are still my favourite

[@webbahboy]

Michael, loved the beam-back to my beloved Lumia 1020. Ah, the days! I have been following your work since your pocket now days, and have valued both your knowledge and style! This video is also a sterling example of how to integrate sponsor material. I have seen no one else do it better. The clever inclusion of sponsor content on your Nokia phones, visuals that punctuate each point as carefully as the rest of your piece, and the tight connection with how the product makes sense for your work-all of these things made this clever, cogent, creative content worth watching from beginning to end. If you ever wonder if the hours of production are worth the effort nowadays with so many others slapping together material, I just wanted you to know that your content has always stood out as a truly impressive body of work. Keep it up!

[@avinashrai11141]

I’m glad you mentioned Steve, because he has been by far the most valuable source of information anything related to Nokia and windows phone.

[@FerNabo]

Thanks for this video, Mr Mobile. I've been waiting for this one. I still have my 808 Pureview which camera got beaten by my S22 ultra. A lot have changed since in terms of processing, but until a couple years ago, I still carried my 808 into music festivals or locations where I needed a camera I could trust.

[@honey-tb4ij]

不离不弃真爱粉😊

[@chamdeawis]

I had a lumia 800 and loved it. It was ahead of its time. Thanks for bringing in these type of creative and unconventional videos.

[@demonx7735]

The 808 and 1020 was way ahead of its time

[@akaudalado]

Back in 2013 I really wanted a 1020 but I could not afford it. Seeing it once more has made me excited for phone photography again (I will be getting the s23 ultra soon). This video truly and genuinely made my day! Thanks!

[@thetechboyorg]

Nice

[@grabthecat]

Love your videos man. I still have 1020 (920,930,950 also) and is unbelievable how close they are to the midrange phones today. Technologically speaking at that time 1020 camera innovations make iphone look like a gimmick. After a few years the competition was still behind the 1020 camera quality. Is so funny that now most of the people are amazed by the camera tricks or filters that modern smartphone are using it, and we were doing most of them 10 years ago :))) Can wait your next video.

[@GFourGadget]

Nokia made such a legacy with these two phones - which influenced modern smartphone photography even till this day.

[@GaryGaryGaga]

True story

[@stephenmusic69420]

i wanted the 1020 so much back before i got my first iphone, and i still wouldn’t mind to get one just for nostalgia

[@WinstoneSmith]

I never enjoyed a camera as much as the Nokia 808 (the multi aspect ratio was another engaging feature). Look how refreshingly natural the video footage is (and how good it sounds!). Thank you. As a regular Pixel user what I really miss is that, in my view, there's not a single instance today of a camera whose processing I would not describe as way too over sharpened or over processed in general. And the options to tune that (saturation, contrast, sharpening etc.) before shooting have also disappeared from everywhere for some reason as well. There's a lot of competition yet paradoxically very little variety regarding image processing.

I miss multiple aspect ratios. I prefer 3:2 but barely any phone supports is.

[@martian9999]

many pictures I took with my 808 have a better white balance and a more natural look than anything I took with a smartphone thereafter. It actually takes a proper camera (in my case, Ricoh GR) to get more satisfying images.

[@WinstoneSmith]

@ I mean effective multi aspect: more height in 4:3, or more width in 16:9, because the sensor is bigger than parts of the lens. Not merely cropping.

[@WinstoneSmith]

@@martian9999 Yes, the only option seems to be shooting in RAW, but needs to be very high quality or its too difficult, impractical. Apple's ProRAW I guess (or something as weird as the Nokia 9, whose RAW images were exactly like the JPEGs, just without any processing -so incredibly easy to edit-). See, I think its generally good idea adding some warm to WB, some saturation, and certainly sharpen the soft input image, but imho these days is way too much, and nobody cares because have nothing to compare with: regarding image processing every brand makes very similar choices. And this complete lack of variety in such crowded market, I find its sad. And, in the end, boring.

[@geniusandmoc]

Possibly the first video where I had tears in my eyes. This is a legacy, of an actual camera phone, of a phone fun. Thank You.

[@utubrGaming]

I had a Lumia, just for the Microsoft continuum system, believing one day, I'd have all the abilities of a workstation in my pocket. I'll still defend that Microsoft should've kept supporting and iterating on it, since then there'd be an alternative to Dex and Ready For. I still miss windows phone.

[@thetechboyorg]

Nice

[@LightTheUnicorn]

I too had a Lumia 1020, of course in yellow. I absolutely adored Windows Phone, it was genuinely great.

[@jordanintheknow]

I love videos like this. We didn't deserve the 2010-2016 era of smartphones

[@milliondollarbike]

Your love and acceptance of Windows Phone from years ago is what made me follow you in the first place! There were very few people who talked good about it and I always loved that OS. Thanks for my trip down memory lane of when I also had a 1020

[@TechVerveyt]

Excellent video! The amount of interesting and quirky phones in 2013 was awesome! I really miss these companies thinking of new features to compete with each other. Many features were gimmicks, but they were conversation starters

[@animelibrary1256]

Hands down one of the best series on KZbin.

[@jortuspelatus7364]

This brings back memories. I have always LOVED your coverage of Windows phone when you were still working for Pocketnow. I've once considered switching to Windows Phone for Android because of their sleek modern interface once the apps I'm used to using in Android would port over it. Alas, that would never come to pass...

[@battle4dead]

It gives me warmth to still watch your videos even after having lost interest myself in phones over the years. It reminds me of simpler happier times. Thank you for your contribution to our lives over the years. Stay well, my friend ❤️

[@andrewc31394]

Man, this video just reminded me how much I loved the HTC M8 and the Moto X. Such unique phones, from both a design and software standpoint

[@sethighintoskysky8654]

Omg. You made my day. I've been waiting for something like this. I ly missing one is...N8. very fond memories of this beast. Never had N808. Always wanted to. Getting it now is a costly fun. 1020...great toy. But I always thought N8 and 808 were the real breakthrough and quality of those snappers was just unparalleled back then. Even today look great. Thank you for making my weekend better Mr. Mobile!:)

[@zacksstuff]

I remember when this phone hit the market, back when I was a budding little tech nerd. I watched your coverage on Pocketnow and eventually had hands-on with the thing when a high school friend got one. It was a seriously impressive piece of camera hardware for the time, even if my current Pixel will output better results 9 times out of 10 these days.

[@amanahuja3422]

Thank you !!! Mr. Mobile for taking all the efforts to make this video and making us nostalgic with all the pureview Nokia magic. Those were the days when phones used to be exciting and innovation was always around the corner. Nokia always made sure that even plastic built phones can be built like tanks and there was no need for glass sandwich phones for making them feel "Premium". Truly marvellous feat.

[@angelherg1997]

The Lumia 1020 and 1520 have been my favorite phones ever. I still have my 1020 in a drawer. I won the 1020 back when I was in highschool, from an online giveaway. Then when I get my first job, bought a 1520.

[@somedonkus69420]

Wow, I was just seeing of Michael made a "When phones were fun" video on these phones a few days ago and here it is! Love seeing another video in this series, I used to geek big time over phones like this.

[@unkitjc]

From the 920, 1020 all the way through to the 1520, 930 and finally 950XL, the cameras have been incredible. I only recently lost my 950XL and miss it dearly, it took insanely good pictures.

[@shibumi777]

This video moved me. Reminded me of my younger days. Thank you for these videos. Hands down, your videos evoke something which most tech reviewers seem to miss out. Emotional connection with tech especially with tech we have grown up with. Thank you and keep them coming.

[@BobIoNix]

Whoa! My fascination with dignified cam cellphones started with the Nokia N8's Xenon flashed 12 Megapixel camera which still offers decent replacements to some DSLrs and modern 50 MP multilens Samsungs. But it's nicer to see the steep price points erode all the way down to a $100 respectable 13 MP cellphone as in a Tecno Go. And I still find Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 10 easier on the eyes!

[@alexutzusrl100]

I have both 808/1020 and I still use them to take photos today plus the ND filter on 808 is priceless

[@crewcabanger8722]

C.A.P

[@XLessThanZ]

I really enjoyed this episode. I wish Windows Phone OS and its tiles home screen could have been another permanent OS option. Great episode, as always, Mr. Fisher.👍🏽 Aloha🤙🏽

[@IngwiePhoenix_nb]

I use the Square Home launcher on Android. Its not the same, but gets shockingly close :)

[@Watch-0w1]

@@IngwiePhoenix_nb me too. They way to mimic the home screen but it never as smooth and crisp as the original. Home screen photo were Soo clear and high def.

[@DustySquitoNM]

@@IngwiePhoenix_nb Square Home launcher? I'll have to check that one out! I've been searching for something that gives me the Metro UI look and feel, and none of them have quite nailed it yet.

[@Ldysith84]

Oh I miss those times. My Lumia 1520 was one of my favorite devices I’ve ever had, and my ex wife’s 1020 was also such a beast. Those phones were legit fun.

[@ToothlessSnakeable]

Camera that happened to be a phone

[@sjasonwang7384]

I had three Nokia 808s over the years. It's one of my favorite phones ever. Even photos I took 8 years ago on my 808 look great. It had some major flaws though. The photos were rather inconsistent and sometimes fairly soft but man, when the photos were good, they were amazing. The phone felt SO solid and had that classic amazing Nokia build quality.

[@vexorian]

My favorite part about this is how the photos are perfectly Ok. Yet for some reason reviewers keep over-focusing on picture quality when it was perfectly ok 10 years ago. But we gotta push for more diminishing returns on picture quality and make all of the phone's budget go there instead of improving the other things, because that's all reviewers care about. We are told our phone no longer has room for a step counter or InfraRed or EFFING HEADPHONE JACK, but somehow there's always room for more stupid cameras. Nowadays Phones have more eyes than a Naruto villain and for what? Pictures that are only slightly better than 10 years ago?

[@mcdonnell-douglasdc-1056]

Kinda agree. Smartphones are an all-in-one package, yet reviewers put too much focus on cameras and picture quality. It soured me so much I just end up skipping the majority of the camera section reviews (30 seconds and that's it.) Nothing against cameras, but it just rubs me the wrong way about how that's the most overstated feature in any tech review.

[@KofolaDealer]

It's not just a room problem, those cameras are expensive and drive up the cost of the phones by a lot, only for people to not use them. If they were smart, they would sell them as an accessory for the usb-c port - like in the old days of siemens phones

[@grahamprescott9426]

I had the 1020 from launch. Camera was truly epic. I think modern phones now have the edge for sure but for the time it was so far ahead!

[@DrewTNaylor]

I really miss PureView cameras. I also remember wanting a 1020 back in the day because of the camera, but it was way too expensive and we were on a Verizon contract (I had an 822 at the time).

[@celebrityrog]

6:38 is one of the best moments of my life of watching KZbin. Hilarious, accurate, sarcastic, sardonic. You should win an Oscar for best acting in a comedy, best voice acting.

[@victorsergiu2002]

I really miss the old Nokia phones and their special and unique design and features. Smartphones today lack that kind of aesthetic appeal and the nostalgia that they brought 😢

[@jonathanbailie]

Damn I miss Windows Phone/Mobile. I think it was such a slick system that worked well. Wish more apps could have gotten on board to make it much more mainstream. The hardware was killer and the software was like butter. I still miss my Windows devices to this day.

[@JWINDSOR]

I had and still have both of these devices, they both still work and anytime i go compung or in a boat or anywhere where i want to conserve the charge of my current phone i take one of these with me to play music from and act as a communal camera for any of my mates to snap away with. Loved everything about these devices.

[@continentalglue]

Always a pleasure to see Windows Phone content, was a diehard Windows Phone fan since my first WindowsCE Phone through Windows/Nokia Phone 7,8,10.

[@birhangijam3679]

Wow, this was deeply personal. Thank you. I used my 1020 for about 5 years. Such fond memories!

[@frankmernavas5664]

Whoa, this video gave me chills, my favorite phone brand was and always will be Nokia, I had an E65 an N95 an N8(fell in love with it when I saw it in Tron Legacy) I was never able to get a 1020 but I wanted it so bad. Thank you so much for this kind of content, been following you since the pocket now days.

[@clovernotes4473]

My first phone I got in 2012 as a middle schooler was a Nokia 900. My nostalgia for windows phones is coming back. I loved that indestructible brick of a phone.

[@DrathVader]

Important thing to note is that the 41MP camera wasn't quad-bayer, it was all full-fat pixels, the sensor pictured a full 41MP photo and the software scaled it down to 5/8/12MP. The actual sensor was insanely huge too at 1/1.2 inches. That's STILL bigger than S23 Ultras 200MP 1/1.3 inch sensor. 808 was so insane at the time it still tops many camera phone charts

[@hugomoura5125]

That lumia was actually my first smartphone. Watching this video takes me back!

[@VandrefalkTV]

Oh man.. so, SO many memories coming back from this era. I loved WP, and the 1020 and 1520(?) were just amazing. It deserved a much bigger audience, but alas, here we are. Thanks a lot for this!

[@Graysonn1]

I owned a nokia 1020. It was amazing. And the OS was amazing. The only problem was the lack of apps, the lack of adoption. Besides that it was perfect.

[@vineethooda1118]

Man these videos are just work of art like short movies with so much effort.

[@jerrious5955]

The on-board mic sounds amazing. I guess that's why people back then loved using it to record during concerts.

[@stevelitchfield]

The 808 and 1020 had gig-level microphone capability a decade ago when all the Androids and iPhones of the day could manage was a distorted mess. Really. Others caught up a few years later, of course, and now almost any phone can take decent gig audio.

[@michaelwillis1041]

My wife’s and I favorite phones we have ever owned were the Nokia 1020 (wife) and the Nokia 1520 (mine). She absolutely loved the camera, I loved the very large 6” screen and the interface was outstanding. People can hate on Windows phones but the UI on it, the metro tiles which showed update notification from the app and the outstanding way it listed your apps. If only it had all the main stream apps and developers moving their apps from Apple to the Windows phone we would have never left. It was the first phones we did not get board of. Miss those phone to this day.

[@arnaldomolina275]

I love this series

[@thedarkknight1971]

My camera on a phone journey went through MULTIPLE Nokia phones (was a die hard Nokia fan), it REALLY started with the N95 8Gb (MAN.. WHAT A GREAT ALL ROUND PHONE!), to the Nokia N8 (WOW what pictures in a slim OLED aluminium packet), then I had for a short while until it got stolen, an 808... OOOOH I LOVED that thing for what it could do with its camera capabilities!! Oh Nokia... Should of kept pushing ahead with the GREAT cameras, great chassis designs and the MEEGO OS... 😕😕 😎🇬🇧

[@md.nafizalifat6454]

Nokia Lumia 1020 pocketnow review was the first video of yours that i was watch and fall in love with your videography and in depth review. Still fan since then.

[@Eccentech]

I never watched one of your videos with the thought it was a waste of time. Idk how you nail it every single time man but it inspires me. Great video.

[@Shiny21820583]

As an ex Lumia and pure view phones user it feels so good that these gems are getting their due with this amazing series..when phones were fun..

[@AntennaMan]

Thank you so much for bringing back this series! I absolutely love your videos. I think everyone agrees that your writing and presentation are top notch!

[@colfchan]

Hell yes, always a good day when I see another retro review from Mr. Mobile. I can rarely say I see uploads on KZbin and have to stop what I’m doing to watch them

[@MaDDeX93]

Nokia Lumia was something unique back then. I had Lumia 800 in white. It looked so nice sleek.

[@sherlan1886]

I owned a 1020 back in 2015 and though it wasn’t the best phone, it was the one I remembered the most. I had some of the best camera moments with this phone. It was fun, it wowed everyone and it definitely made a statement. Sadly the 1020 was a great camera but not such a great phone and that’s the reason why I eventually gave it up and switched to Android. The battery left was horrible and I experienced some heating issues while doing some basic stuff like reading articles. Good to see another 1020 video again. These were some good days.

[@Nonius9]

Still proud owner of two Nokia 808 PureView (now iPhone 13 pro max). It was amazing camera (and microphones!). And btw, Symbian was not that bad, actually I liked it