# This old Nokia phone got an AI Upgrade it was never designed for

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/this-old-nokia-phone-got-an-ai-upgrade-it-was-never-designed-for/
- Published: 2026-10-27T18:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T18:49:15+00:00
- Original publisher: Engadget
- Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2295625/old-nokia-phone-ai-upgrade-never-designed-for/
- Topics: AI, Technology

## Key points

- Aikon brings major AI chatbots to the original Nokia 6300.
- A Go server makes responses readable on the old phone.
- The app cannot work on US 2G networks.

## Summary

Turkish entrepreneur Emir Karşıyakalı has adapted the original Nokia 6300 to work with modern AI chatbots through an app called Aikon. The project gives the nearly 20-year-old phone new uses despite its outdated browser, though it cannot solve the bigger problem of dwindling 2G networks.

A Go server connects the phone to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, using each company’s API and paid token billing; responses are split into 8kB blocks the phone can handle. Aikon also offers a reading mode, offline saving, photo analysis and voice messages of up to 30 seconds, and supports eight languages. The app is open source, but it cannot run on the original 6300 in the US because T-Mobile shut down its last 2G network there in August.

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