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Nokia 7700 Prototype F5.0 Black | Unreleased
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: X (Mystical Prototype)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia unreleased phone with touch screen and Symbian S90
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: MX
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Produced: ~1k
📰 Why this phone matters: A true piece of Nokia history – the Nokia 7700 F5.0 Prototype, Type RAL-2, made in Finland and never released commercially. This is one of the most ambitious devices Nokia ever built: a full-touch “media communicator” years before the 7710 and long before modern smartphones adopted the concept.This listing includes two fully working prototypes, one in black and one in white, both belonging to the late engineering stage (F5.0) and carrying the internal Model: M designation. These units were intended for final validation and software testing, featuring the hardware configuration closest to what a retail 7700 would have been – had it reached the market.
The 7700 became legendary precisely because it never launched, making functional prototypes extremely rare. To find two, in different colours, in working condition, is virtually unheard of and places this set among the top-tier collector items of early smartphone history.
Whether displayed as design icons or preserved as engineering artifacts, these devices stand as one of Nokia’s boldest steps toward the touchscreen era.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Gazette 🔗
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Nokia 7700 Prototype F5.0 White | Unreleased
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: X (Mystical Prototype)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia unreleased phone with touch screen and Symbian S90
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: MX
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Produced: ~1k
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 7700 (Model – M Type RAL-2) is a smartphone produced by Nokia, announced in October 2003 but never released. It was produced as a prototype unit between 2003-2004 It was expected to be the first smartphone running the Series 90 GUI on Symbian OS and Nokia’s first pen-based device, intending to compete against handsets like Sony Ericsson P800. At announcement Nokia dubbed it a “media device.” Compatible with GSM/HSCSD/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 MHz networks, the 7700 featured a wide, 3.5-inch touch-screen colour LCD with a resolution of 640 x 320 pixels which is the first smartphone with 2:1 aspect ratio and supporting 65,000 colours. It had 64 MB of internal memory and a MultiMedia Card (MMC) slot. It also included an integrated VGA camera with a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, an integrated FM radio, Bluetooth, USB and Nokia’s proprietary Pop-Port interface for connectivity purposes.The 7700 was to include a comprehensive application suite (such as a complete PIM suite, ‘full’ web browser, email client and an office suite comprising Word Processor, Spread-Sheet and a PowerPoint viewer) and supported Java MIDP 2.0 applications. It was also to be the first phone to support Visual Radio, and the first Nokia phone to support DVB-H mobile television with the addition of the Nokia Streamer SU-6 accessory. The Nokia 7700 was cancelled in mid-2004. Several theories for the cancellation were put forward at the time: Nokia was refocusing on ‘normal’ phones due to decreasing market share; the phone would be too late to market; and the phone was unattractive and bulky. It also featured ‘sidetalking’ like the N-Gage, a feature that had attracted a great deal of negative publicity. The Nokia 7710 followed shortly later with increased memory, a different design, no ‘sidetalking’ and other improvements. However, the 7700 was nevertheless used for further trials of DVB-H. As stated above, the Nokia 7700 was never released to the public. It was only released to Nokia’s R&D (Research and Development) groups. A few models, estimated 20, were distributed prior to Nokia’s decision to discontinue the model before full-on production. However as they were preparing to make the move into stores, the final product prototypes were available in every Nokia Dealer store for display and show-off, so an estimate on how many pieces there actually were is impossible to make, or how many remained in factories and services that were testing them. Pricing is thus very difficult to assess due to lack of official sales. Nevertheless, a few models were sold on eBay since Nokia’s announcement of discontinuation. The lack of independent data to verify the sale records on eBay has caused some to overestimate the actual cost of the model. The phone is nevertheless considered by a number of Nokia collectors to be a rare piece.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Gazette 🔗
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Nokia 7710 Full Box: Future Ahead of Its Time
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia released phone with touch screen
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Remix
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: YES
📅 Release Year: 2005 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~500k
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 7710 is a smartphone announced on 2 November 2004.It was the first Nokia device with a touchscreen, and first device with 2:1 aspect ratio display.The 7710 is based on the Nokia 7700 which was never released. It is Nokia’s only smartphone to run the Series 90 interface atop Symbian OS v7.0s.📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗
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Nokia 7710 Prototype F4.0: Future ahead of its Time | Unreleased Black Keypad
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: X (Mystical Prototype)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia released phone with touch screen
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Remix
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2005 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~500k (final units)
📰 Why this phone matters: A rare and impeccably preserved Nokia 7710 RM-12 F4.0 prototype, belonging to the final stage of Nokia’s pre-production cycle for the iconic Series 90 touchscreen smartphone.
This F4.0 unit – clearly marked PROTO and Property of Nokia – originates from Nokia’s internal validation program, used during the last wave of field testing, UI refinement and RF certification before the public release in 2005.Unlike retail units, this prototype features an unreleased keypad colour variant, with silver-toned navigation and side-control keys replacing the standard glossy black retail trim. This experimental colourway never reached commercial production, making this device a standout among surviving prototypes. The front bezel also shows the slightly grainier, matte finish characteristic of late hardware trials inside Nokia’s labs.
As with all authentic high-grade prototypes, the label carries the signature “Model: XXXX” placeholder, missing consumer certifications, serial markings and final manufacturing codes. These elements confirm it as a genuine internal unit, built in Finland during the last engineering revision of the platform.
The Nokia 7710 was Nokia’s most ambitious early touchscreen smartphone – a widescreen 640×320 device running the innovative Series 90 interface on Symbian OS. The prototype here predates the public release, offering collectors a rare glimpse into Nokia’s transition from experimental UI concepts to finalized commercial design.
This F4.0 RM-12 prototype is an exceptional find: a fully authentic late-stage engineering device with a unique, unreleased keypad trim, placing it among the rarest surviving 7710 variants and a valuable centrepiece for any advanced vintage Nokia collection.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗
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Nokia 9500 Black
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: B (Uncommon)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia phone with WI-FI
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Erin
⏱ Life timer: 3h | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2005 | 💰 Release Price: ~500 €
📊 Units Sold: ~1M
📰 Why this phone matters: Nokia 9500 Communicator is a smartphone produced by Nokia, introduced on 24 February 2004 and released in November 2004. It runs on the Symbian-based Series 80 platform.
The 9500 is equipped with a 150 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP processor and 64 megabytes of SDRAM. It features two screens – a fully functional interior screen, and a restricted-function external screen, which operates on a stripped-down Series 40 user interface.
Connectivity features of the 9500 include: Bluetooth, infrared, USB, Wi-Fi (Nokia’s first device with Wi-Fi), CSD, HSCSD, GPRS and EDGE. It has send and receive fax facilities (without scanner) and multi-account POP3/IMAP email client.
The built-in Web browser, a Nokia-branded version of Opera, is able to render both WAP and HTML Web pages. Like others in the Communicator series, the 9500 has a full QWERTY keyboard.
Built-in software includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation program, which are compatible with the Microsoft Office suite equivalents; also featured is an MP3 player. In addition to the software applications provided by Nokia, a large range of third-party software is available; many programs written for older Nokia Communicators are compatible with the 9500 and new software can be written in C++ or OPL.
The 9500 also runs Java ME applications, but some do not make full use of the unusually large and wide screen, so that many existing Java games will run, but only use the top left hand corner of the screen. It supports storage on a Multimedia Card (MMC) of up to 2 GB (on later firmware versions).
The 9500 is only available with 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz radios. There were many rumors that a U.S. version with 850 MHz radio capability was going to be made, but it never materialized. Nokia was producing simultaneously the 9500 and its related version, the 9300, so they decided to make a U.S. version of the 9300 instead.📝 Reviews when released: CNET 🔗
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Nokia 9500 Orange
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia phone with WI-FI
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Erin
⏱ Life timer: 3h | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2005 | 💰 Release Price: ~500 €
📊 Units Sold: ~1M
📰 Why this phone matters: Nokia 9500 Communicator is a smartphone produced by Nokia, introduced on 24 February 2004 and released in November 2004. It runs on the Symbian-based Series 80 platform.
The 9500 is equipped with a 150 MHz Texas Instruments OMAP processor and 64 megabytes of SDRAM. It features two screens – a fully functional interior screen, and a restricted-function external screen, which operates on a stripped-down Series 40 user interface.
Connectivity features of the 9500 include: Bluetooth, infrared, USB, Wi-Fi (Nokia’s first device with Wi-Fi), CSD, HSCSD, GPRS and EDGE. It has send and receive fax facilities (without scanner) and multi-account POP3/IMAP email client.
The built-in Web browser, a Nokia-branded version of Opera, is able to render both WAP and HTML Web pages. Like others in the Communicator series, the 9500 has a full QWERTY keyboard.
Built-in software includes a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation program, which are compatible with the Microsoft Office suite equivalents; also featured is an MP3 player. In addition to the software applications provided by Nokia, a large range of third-party software is available; many programs written for older Nokia Communicators are compatible with the 9500 and new software can be written in C++ or OPL.
The 9500 also runs Java ME applications, but some do not make full use of the unusually large and wide screen, so that many existing Java games will run, but only use the top left hand corner of the screen. It supports storage on a Multimedia Card (MMC) of up to 2 GB (on later firmware versions).
The 9500 is only available with 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz radios. There were many rumors that a U.S. version with 850 MHz radio capability was going to be made, but it never materialized. Nokia was producing simultaneously the 9500 and its related version, the 9300, so they decided to make a U.S. version of the 9300 instead.📝 Reviews when released: CNET 🔗
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Nokia E61 Prototype B3.0 : The “Smailer” | Unreleased Rare Black and Silver colour
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.8/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Smailer
⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2006 | 💰 Release Price: ~250 €
📊 Units Sold: ~1M (final units)
📰 Why this phone matters: This unit is a remarkable historic artefact: a prototype Smailer RM-89 hardware build of the Nokia E61, finished in an unreleased two-tone silver and black housing that never reached consumer production. The color layout is unlike any retail E61, combining a silver frame with a black upper section and a unique keypad palette that does not exist on final units. The keypad itself uses a mixed color scheme reminiscent of the later E62 look, but with a configuration that was never approved for market release.Inside the casing you find the clearest testimony to its origin: model field XXXX, prototype build B3, product code 0523307, internal R&D IMEI beginning with 004400, and full Property Of Nokia, Not For Sale, Made In Finland labeling. This confirms the phone as an authentic preproduction engineering unit created during early development cycles before cosmetic design and final materials were locked down.
Externally the device presents the full QWERTY keyboard layout, 5-way joystick and wide landscape display that defined the E61 family. Yet this prototype stands apart because of its unreleased finish: a rare two-tone silver and black shell matched with a hybrid keypad coloring that blurs the line between E61 and E62 aesthetics. The magnesium-alloy structure and rugged business-class construction already appear in place, but the cosmetics clearly represent a transitional stage in Nokia’s decision process.
Although this prototype may never have carried final firmware or passed network certification, its hardware is essentially complete. It captures a frozen moment when Nokia was experimenting with materials, colors and layouts for what would become one of the defining smartphones of the business-centric Eseries. For collectors and historians, this unit is far more than a phone: it is a one-off window into Nokia’s internal design evolution, a rare glimpse of what the E61 might have looked like had this striking silver-and-black, E62-influenced combination reached the market.
📝 Reviews when released: All About Symbian 🔗
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Nokia N92 Prototype B4.0 | Unreleased 101 RM
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: The world first mobile phone with an integrated DVB-H tuner
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10
⏱ Life timer: 90h | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2005 | 💰 Release Price: ~600 €
📊 Units Sold: ~300k (final units)
📰 Why this phone matters: Ultra-rare pre-production hardware from Nokia’s most ambitious multimedia projectThis RM-101 Nokia N92 prototype is a remarkable survivor from Nokia’s golden era of experimental engineering – a time when the company was pushing the boundaries of what a mobile device could be. Built in Finland as a B4.0 late-stage engineering sample, it predates the commercial N92 and belongs to a hardware branch (RM-101) that never made it to public release.
Marked with “Prototype – Property of Nokia” and stamped with the internal Model: XXXX placeholder, it represents a phase where the N92’s revolutionary technologies were still being refined by Nokia’s R&D, DVB-H field-testing teams, and multimedia engineering groups.
At this stage of development, Nokia was integrating:
the world’s first DVB-H mobile TV system,
the unique dual-axis swivel display,
and a full multimedia platform designed for movie-style video playback and live broadcast reception.
This prototype embodies that engineering ambition. The RM-101 board configuration, unseen in retail production (which used RM-33/RM-100), offers a rare look into the deeper architecture behind the commercial N92 – making this unit not just uncommon, but historically significant.
There’s a special presence to this device: the unfinished model code, the engineering labels, the Made-in-Finland chassis, and the unmistakable scent of Nokia’s high-end R&D. Holding it feels like holding the N92 before it became the N92 – a snapshot of the innovation process itself.
A centerpiece for any serious Nokia prototype collection
This is more than a rare phone. It’s a piece of development history from one of the most technically complex devices Nokia ever built – a prototype that captures the excitement, experimentation, and engineering courage that defined the N-Series era.
📝 Reviews when released: ZDNet 🔗