In late September, Turkish entrepreneur Emir Karşıyakalı took to X to indicate off Claude S40, an app he vibe coded to make his outdated Nokia 6300 a bit extra useable in 2026. In its authentic kind, his app app allowed the 6300 to attach with Claude over a Java and Go backend. Since then, Karşıyakalı has up to date the software program to make it work with all the main chatbots, together with ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok, and renamed the app Aikon — that is Nokia spelt backwards — to replicate the higher compatibility.
Exterior of a cellphone working both Nokia’s S40 or S60 working methods, you will want a Go server to carry the API key from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI or SpaceXSI. This a part of the equation is crucial since it is the server that communicates with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, and truncates their responses into 8kB blocks your outdated cellphone can learn. It is also value mentioning, since you are going by means of every firm’s API, you will must arrange token billing.
For what’s in the end a gimmick, Karşıyakalı’s app is kind of strong and considerate. There’s an studying mode, with a devoted keypad shortcut, to make utilizing a chatbot on the 6300’s 240×320 show a bit extra manageable. Offered you a reminiscence card, you too can save responses to the 6300 for offline studying. If you wish to ship pictures to your favourite chatbot for evaluation, you are able to do that too. It is even potential to ship voice messages as much as 30 seconds lengthy, with an OpenAI mannequin dealing with the speech-to-text conversion. Over on the server facet, Aikon will maintain messages for as much as 30 days, and the app helps English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Indonesian and Turkish. Karşıyakalı has open sourced the app so others can proceed constructing on the app.
Now, earlier than you dig out your outdated Nokia cellphone, simply know for those who stay within the US there is no method you will get this app working. That is as a result of the nation’s final 2G community went offline this summer season when T-Cell shut down its old GSM network in August. In case you stay exterior of North America and need to attempt Aikon out for your self, head over to Github and observe the set up directions.
