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Nokia 6800 found in bag of chips

By JBC on 05 March 2009

JANESVILLE, USA – This has to be the week for phones turning up in unusual places, as a Emma Schweiger got the surprise of her life when she reached into her bag of Clancy’s Ripple Potatoe chips only to find a Nokia 6810 perched inside. We’ve already written about the Nokia-chomping Cod and the phone-gobbling Buffalo, but a phone in a bag of crisps?

The phone in question is a 6800 messaging device, with a fold-out keypad, first launched in 2003. The device supports GPRS, came with an FM tuner and a whopping 5MB of memory (how far we’ve come in six years!). Designed as a messaging device, the series 40-based 6800 came with an email client and the screen switched to landscape mode as soon as the extended keyboard was flipped open. The device actually picked up a Red Dot design award in 2003.

All that doesn’t explain its presence in a bag of potato crisps though. Ms Scheweiger said her heart jumped when she felt the device inside the bag, whilst reaching in for a handful of chips. Flipping between shock and bemusement, Ms Schewiger couldn’t get the device to turn on when she tried. It’s likely the phone will have been in the bag for a while, assuming it landed there during production so its likely the battery will have run down – in its day, the 6800 sported 240 hours battery life in standby mode.

The matter is now being investigated both by the supplier and the US Food and Drug administration. Meanwhile we’re hoping that’s the last “phone found in….” story for a while. Can we just look after our phones a little better please?

Photo from Gazette Extra

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Carlos Silva Says:
March 5th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

That is a very funny (or not) case, I’d love to see her face when she saw that mobile phone inside the bag. lol

Anonymous Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 10:28 am

it is designed as a message device

Riverside Says:
March 6th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Nokia does winter

My son Okko 8 years had Nokia 2660 one of the very first clamshell phone’s back in 2004. We were living in Finland at the time and in order to reach him we gave him a cell phone. It proved priceless in our daily search of getting him home for dinner and other activities.

One evening one sorry kid came home from hockey game and informed us that he had lost his Nokia. We went back to icering and after a long search we wrote it off.
Winter turned into spring and early summer. One day a girl called my wife and asked if her son had lost a cell phone. My wife said yes but that was like 4 months ago already. Girl said she had found it and that she had plugged Okko’s phone to her charger and had scrolled down to MOTHER on the call log and just called my wife that she has the phone now.

Well, we jumped into our car to get the phone back. I gave the girl 10 euros for finders fee and she tells us where she found the phone. Phone was found from the field where Espoo City unloads/dumps all the snow it plows away from the streets and playgrounds. She had been playing with her dog and noticed Okko’s coco brown Nokia.

Amazing piece of work this small phone.. after been buried to the snow for 4 months its still in use. It just retired of active use of Okko’s sister Lotta who inherited the phone from his older brother.