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  Nokia 6170 Prototype “Castor” : Stainless Steel Clamshell

  💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: Metal Clamshell

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9/10

  🕵 Nokia Codename: Castor

  ⏱ Life timer: 0h | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2004 | 💰 Release Price: ~300 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~1.5M (final units)

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  📝 Reviews when released: cNET 🔗

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  Nokia 6600 Fold

  💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Brand New Swap – 10/10

  ⏱ Life timer: 0m | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2008 | 💰 Release Price: ~270 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~1M

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  📰 Why this phone matters: There’s no denying that Nokia’s 6600 Fold is eye-catching. Its glossy metal surface and two-tone colouring are bound to stand out on the wall of a mobile phone store amongst the masses of cloned black-plastic handsets. Unlike many flip phones, the Fold is spring loaded and held in place by magnets. On the left side is a ‘one-touch’ opening key that disengages the magnets and flings the top half of the phone upwards. As ridiculous as this sounds there is something genuinely satisfying about answering a call this way.

  📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗

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  Nokia 6600i Slide

  💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Brand New Swap – 10/10

  ⏱ Life timer: 0m | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2009 | 💰 Release Price: ~250 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~1.5M

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  📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 6600 slide is a mobile phone series by Nokia. It includes the original 6600 slide (released April 2008) and the updated 6600i slide (released May 2009). The phone runs the Series 40 5th edition platform, including Feature Pack 1. This is the slide version of updated Nokia 6600 series.

  📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗

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  Nokia 6810 Prototype B3.0 : Engineering Sample

  💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: A pre-RM Nokia 6810 prototype from Finland-capturing the birth of Nokia’s most original fold-out QWERTY design.

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10

  ⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2004 | 💰 Release Price: ~350 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~700k (final units)

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  📰 Why this phone matters: A rare early-stage prototype of the Nokia 6810, the business-class messaging phone famous for its fold-out QWERTY keyboard design. This internal test unit predates the commercial RM-2 variant and carries blank “Model XXXX / Type XXXX” fields, together with the unmistakable “Property of Nokia” and B3.0 engineering markings. Built in Finland and never intended for sale, it represents the development phase where Nokia refined the mechanical flip-out keyboard and RF tuning for one of its most innovative business devices.

  📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗

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  Nokia N80 Prototype S5.1: The birth of the World’s First UPnP Phone

  💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: The world first UPnP-compatible phone,

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10

  🕵 Nokia Codename: Miro

  ⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2006 | 💰 Release Price: 500 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~2M (final units)

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  📰 Why this phone matters: This unit represents the earliest surviving form of the world’s first
  UPnP-compatible phone, the Nokia N80, shown here in its S5.1 prototype
  stage long before the technology reached consumers. Built in Finland and
  marked with the legendary 004400 Nokia internal IMEI range, this device
  was part of Nokia’s secret push to bring home-network integration to
  mobile phones for the first time in history.

  The internal label reveals everything expected from a genuine engineering
  sample: a masked FCC and IC set, the placeholder Xyy-n model code, and an
  unreleased product code known only to Nokia’s R&D teams. The bold PROTO
  S5.1 stamp indicates an early hardware validation cycle, a phase where
  engineers were still shaping the mechanics, RF behavior, and multimedia
  stack that would define the N80. A matching S5.1 barcode sticker on the
  side confirms that this device circulated between test teams, yet survived
  in untouched, mint condition – almost impossible for units used at this
  development depth.

  UPnP was the N80’s signature innovation, a world-first feature allowing a
  mobile phone to discover and communicate with home media servers, TVs, and
  computers. But before the world ever saw this capability demonstrated on a
  stage, units like this one acted as the true testbeds. Early debug builds
  of Symbian OS 9.1 ran experimental networking stacks, Wi-Fi drivers, and
  service discovery modules. Engineers used devices like this to validate
  seamless connectivity, file sharing, remote playback, and the foundation
  of what would later become the connected-smartphone era.

  The Finnish build origin makes the device even rarer. Only the earliest
  pilot-line N80 units came from Finland, assembled for hardware tuning,
  firmware experiments, and RF calibration. Most were disassembled, reworked
  to exhaustion, or destroyed after testing concluded. This one escaped
  untouched – a true anomaly.

  With its dual proto identifiers preserved, its 004400 IMEI confirming deep
  internal lineage, and its role at the dawn of UPnP mobility, this N80
  S5.1 prototype is not just a rare device. It is a technological milestone
  captured in physical form – the raw, unfiltered origin of the world’s
  first UPnP phone.

  📝 Reviews when released: CNET 🔗

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  Nokia N86

  💎 Rarity Index: B (Uncommon)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia phone with a 8MP camera

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: BNIB – 10/10

  ⏱ Life timer: 0m | 📦 Boxed: YES

  📅 Release Year: 2009 | 💰 Release Price: ~375 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~1M

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  📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia N86 8MP is a high-end smartphone announced on 17 February 2009 and released in May 2009. It runs on Symbian OS 9.3 (S60 3rd Edition FP2) and is part of the Nseries. It shares similar design features with the N97.
  One of its main selling points is its Carl Zeiss photography features. It was Nokia’s first camera phone to have an 8 megapixel sensor (although late compared to other manufacturers),and features both multiple aperture settings and a mechanical shutter (uncommon features by the standards of camera phones), and a Carl Zeiss lens with a wide angle of view (28 mm equivalent). It also has auto focus and a dual LED flash (3rd generation dual-LEDs), and an AF assist light. Video capture resolution is 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) at 30 frames per second.

  The N86 continuous the form factor of the Nokia N95 and N85 with its dual-sliding form factor, whilst adding a toughened glass front cover and metal detailing and keypad, making it look and feel premium.It has a 2.6-inch AMOLED display, a fast 434 MHz processor, and an 8 GB internal memory.It also has the same kickback stand as the N85 so it is possible to use as a small standalone screen, and it is possible to configure the opening of the stand to launch applications such as the video player. It also supports the N-Gage gaming platform. The N86 8MP is regarded as the spiritual successor of the N95 8GB due to its feature set in the same sliding form factor, and the commercial failure of the N96. Some regard it a successor of the N82 due to its camera.

  📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗

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  Nokia N90 Prototype NPI-2 F5.0

  💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)

  ⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia phone with unique swivel design

  👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.8/10

  🕵 Nokia Codename: Gromit

  ⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO

  📅 Release Year: 2005 | 💰 Release Price: ~250 €

  📊 Units Sold: ~500k (final units)

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  📰 Why this phone matters: Nokia N90 Prototype – RM-42 (Proto NPI-2)
  A rare engineering prototype from Nokia’s golden era, this RM-42 NPI-2 unit represents an early pre-production stage of the iconic Nokia N90, the first smartphone in history built around a full Carl Zeiss Tessar autofocus camera module.

  Hand-assembled in Finland and labeled “Proto NPI-2 – Not For Sale,” this device belongs to an internal batch reserved exclusively for Nokia’s imaging and mechanical engineering teams. It features the trademark twist-and-shoot camcorder design, the Tessar 2.9/5.5 AF lens, and the unmistakable dual-hinge architecture that made the N90 one of the most advanced camera phones of its time.

  Carrying a prototype IMEI and early hardware IDs, this device offers a rare glimpse into Nokia’s development process during a period when mobile imaging innovation was at its peak. A true collector’s highlight – a milestone device in its pure, pre-release form.

  📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗

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