Nokia allowed people to receive 72x14, 1bpp pictures over a series of binary- or hex-encoded SMS messages, and have them show up instead of their carrier name on the home screen. In the 2000s, magazine ads and webpages would distribute them using premium-SMS.

This service, also featuring ringtones, games etc. has been revived, free of charge, by MtF hacker @[email protected] of the Chaos Computer Club. You can go to Blåmba.de and download all kinds of content into your retro phone.

The service has been discussed in detail at her 38C3 talk: media.ccc.de / YouTube mirror

I also made 10 logos mostly related to Blåhaj, these are already in the Blåmba logo repository.

I welcome feedback and suggestions for future logos!

  • kora
    1·
    5 days ago

    What a nostalgia trip. I love it. I owned and used 3310 for several years back in early 2000s.

    How did you end up drawing all of these? Do they serve a purpose or was it just an artistic pursuit?

    OP has already provided details in the post description.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      5 days ago

      The 3310 and other 84x48 LCD models are special in that they use a non-square pixel aspect ratio, approx. 7:8. Logos in green were designed for such phones and will look vertically squished on color screens, and vice-versa.