My old Nokia N95 8GB now has a ChatGPT App with Voice

When a 19 year-old phone has better AI than Apple HomeView I still love my old Nokia N95 8GB. Back when the choice was between an iPhone 1 with 2G/no GPS/2MP camera and the Nokia with 3G/GPS/5MP Camera/Maps, it was a no-brainer and still the right call. Amazingly it still feels pretty responsive despite a miserable CPU and very little RAM. They can be had for €14 on Vinted - I know, I bought a second one recently for parts. One of the most exciting things for me with ChatGPT-Codex/Claude-Code is the ability to build software for old devices and even reverse-engineer old software so you can build new variations of it. Whether that’s phones or old home computers or even niche hardware, there should be nothing stopping you building Jet Set Willy for the Enterprise/Elan/Flan 64 computer or building a ChatGPT app for the N95-8GB! This idea has been on my mind for several weeks, so yesterday I went for it. Oh wow! I could not believe it when Codex got the first text version working first…

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