Open-Source Aikon App Brings Modern Chatbots to Nokia 6300
Emir Karşıyakalı released Aikon, an open-source app linking Nokia S40/S60 phones to major AI chatbots, Engadget reports.
Karşıyakalı first showed the project, then called Claude S40, on X in late September. He said he vibe coded the app, which originally connected the 6300 to Claude through a Java and Go backend. He has since expanded it to the major chatbots and renamed it Aikon, Nokia spelled backwards.
The original Nokia 6300, not the recent 4G rerelease, is a 2G phone that Nokia released nearly 20 years ago, in the same month Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at MacWorld 2007. It became one of Nokia’s best-selling phones, helped by an understated design, an affordable price and easy-to-use software. In 2026, the handset is on borrowed time. Finding a carrier that still runs a 2G network is increasingly difficult, and Nokia never updated the phone’s browser beyond TLS 1.0. After Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla moved to deprecate the standard in 2020, less than an estimated 25 percent of websites supported TLS 1.0 connections as of mid-last year, Engadget reported, leaving the 6300 unable to access most of the modern internet.
Aikon requires a phone running Nokia’s S40 or S60 operating system and a Go server that holds an API key from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI or SpaceXSI. The server communicates with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok and truncates responses into 8kB blocks the old phone can read. Because requests go through each company’s API, users must set up token billing.
The app includes a reading mode with a dedicated keypad shortcut for the 6300’s 240x320 display. With a memory card, users can save responses for offline reading. They can also send photos to a chatbot for analysis and record voice messages up to 30 seconds long, with an OpenAI model handling speech-to-text conversion. On the server side, Aikon holds messages for up to 30 days. The app supports English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Indonesian and Turkish, and Karşıyakalı has open sourced it so others can build on it.
US users cannot run Aikon. T-Mobile shut down its old GSM network in August, taking the country’s last 2G network offline this summer. Outside North America, installation instructions are available on Github.