Alright, so you’ve got here; you’ve got to 2010; its been roughly five years since you bought that fascinating brick. Now what?

If you’re here and you don’t have a Nokia 6681, continue your journey across the web. This post is strictly for people who’ve been messed up in their minds about buying a newer phone, cause everyone else seems to be getting one of those shiny new S60s or Androids.

What the hell?

Why would you wanna continue using your five-year old phone, the grand ol’ Nokia 6681, you ask? Cause its a sweet phone, that’s why! The trick to save money from buying a new phone is to understand your exact use case.

Nokia 6681 - Still got it. Can even call 911 and prevent crime!

Sure your phone weighs about 140 grams and sometimes may have broken your wrist or pained your toe upon dropping, but if you’ve got here today it means you’re still having a working device. How solid is that? Mine’s been through being wet in rains, multiple dozens of floor-drops and still works.

What do you do with it anyway?

All I’ve noticed myself doing with my Nokia 6681 is send text messages, call people, and play an arcade game on those rare sleepless nights. But you can do virtually anything with it; it never had to deal with dearth of java and symbian apps.

Will a new phone with a hell lot of newer features change this? No. Cause that’s all I get to do with my phone in every 24 damn hours.

But what about the Web and Wi-Fi and 3G?

What’re you reading this article on, proud little Nokia 6681 owner? That’s right. Keep doing the same.

Its friggin’ slow. I get mad sometimes!

I agree with these lines. The phone does feel sluggish at times; but I remember the years when I did not feel that way, at all. How can that be, I wondered?

The solution is simple. Its your junk on the phone memory.

To solve this, its time you opened that rusty can of Nokia PC Suite on your (or on someone else’s) Windows PC and connect your phone. Head to its backup menu after connecting the phone and do a backup of stuff you require.

I recommend ditching all user files, notes and calendar entries. With a phone as awesome as 6681 who needs a calendar to remember things anyway? So go ahead and backup some vital messages you’ve stashed elsewhere and all your contacts (these are very important, for the human memory is poor).

Now (after ensuring the backup went okay) blindly follow my following advice. Remove your memory card and keep it aside. You can do that when the phone is ON itself (another killer feature from the phones of 2005 – the hot swap!). Get back on your keypad, and type in the following sequence on the home screen: * # 7 3 7 0 #. Press YES in the confirmation message and enter 12345 to confirm (or your set lock key).

Wait for a few minutes as you watch your beloved phone restart; then re-fill-in the timezone, time and date details it asks you upon the reboot.

Enjoy the snappier, formatted phone now. If you still need it, restore the backup you made on the phone back again. I’m not responsible for your backup laziness. Or you could restart your life with zero contacts and try contacting the numbers you can actually remember; and have fun reconnecting with people, this time without worrying about their phone being better than yours cause you’ve got your shiny, powerful Nokia 6681 back from the ages!

You absolutely rock!

Its not me, its the phone. Why do I keep reiterating that point over and over again? Kiss your phone and throw it in the air out of joy, it can withstand your exultation; really.

Update: Disregard everything written here (after following it, hah). Just plug out your memory card and you’ll be back in business.

And congratulations, you’re now a modern-phone-society rendered outcast.