A 2007 Nokia 6300 cannot make a secure connection to most of today's web services. Thanks to a small independent app called AIKON, it can now ask Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok a question and get an answer with sources. The developer posted about it on X on October 4, and TechRadar wrote it up on October 28, 2026.
It is a hobby project, not a product from Nokia or any AI lab. But it is a useful look at how little a phone really needs to use modern AI, and at what you trade away to make it work.
What AIKON is
AIKON is "Nokia" spelled backwards. According to the project's GitHub page, it is an AI chat client for Nokia Series 40 and Symbian S60 phones that run Java ME apps (CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.0), plus a small server written in Go that the phone talks to. The developer, Emir Karşıyakalı, first called it Claude S40, when it only talked to Claude. It now supports four providers: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Grok.
The developer says it has been tested on two phones: the Nokia 6300 (Series 40) and the Nokia E63, a Symbian phone with a QWERTY keyboard. Other Series 40 phones with a 240 by 320 screen "may work but are untested," per the README.
The code is open source under the MIT license. The project states it is not made, endorsed or supported by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Nokia.
What it can do on a keypad phone
The feature list on aikonchat.com and GitHub is longer than you might expect for a 240 by 320 screen:
- Pick a model per chat. Choose Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, and switch in the middle of a chat. Every reply is labeled with the model that wrote it.
- Web search. The model searches on the server with its provider's own search tool, so the phone's 2007 browser is never used. Sources are listed under the reply.
- Photos. Take a picture or pick one from the phone and ask "what is this?", "translate this sign" or "read this label."
- Voice messages. Speak for up to 30 seconds. The server turns it into text, which you can fix before you send.
- Calendar and to-do entries. Ask for "dentist tomorrow at 3" and the reply carries a ready entry. Nothing is saved to the phone until you press Save.
- Reading mode. Long answers are shown page by page, with three text sizes and light or dark themes.
- Saved answers. Store a reply as a text file and read it later without a connection.
- Eight languages for the menus: English, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian and Indonesian. Answers follow the language you type in.
Photos and voice messages need a phone with a camera and voice recording.
What it costs
There are two ways to use it. You can run your own server for free with your own API keys, or you can buy credits for the hosted service. The hosted service needs no sign-up and no subscription, according to its site: you buy a pack, get a 16-digit code and type it on the phone.
The credit packs listed on aikonchat.com as of October 2026:
- 5,000 credits for $4.99
- 11,000 credits for $9.99
- 24,000 credits for $19.99
Credits depend on message length and model. The site's estimates for a short message without web search range from about 1.5 credits (GPT-6 Luna) and about 15 (Claude Haiku 4.5) up to about 60 (Claude Opus 5.5). By those estimates, the $4.99 pack covers roughly 83 short Opus messages or about 333 short Haiku messages. Long chats, photos and web search cost more. The site says failed requests cost nothing.
The catch: old phones and old security
A 2007 phone cannot speak modern HTTPS. The project's architecture notes say the Nokia 6300 only offers TLS 1.0, sends no SNI, and its built-in certificate store stops around 2008. Public clouds such as Cloudflare refuse that kind of connection.
So AIKON's server handles the secure connection itself, with a certificate from a private root authority. To use the hosted service, you open m.aikonchat.com in the phone's browser and save that security certificate when the phone asks. The site publishes the certificate's fingerprint so you can compare it.
This is the trade-off. The link between your phone and AIKON's server uses old encryption that modern sites no longer accept, and you are trusting a private certificate from the service's operator. Between AIKON's server and the AI providers, the connection uses modern HTTPS. If you only want to try it for fun, that may be fine. Do not send anything sensitive through it.
There is also a network problem. As TechRadar notes, the Nokia 6300 only has 2G data and no Wi-Fi, and the US and some other countries have shut down 2G. In those places, a 6300 may have no way to get online at all. The README says the E63 was tested over WLAN.
Privacy
According to the README, the server stores chats for 30 days after the last message, and pinned chats until you unpin or delete them. Photos are scaled down and kept with their chat. Voice recordings are not stored; the text transcript is kept for a day so a retry does not cost twice. The project says its logs contain no message text. If you self-host, all of this lives on your own server.
Why it matters
AIKON shows that the hard work happens on the server, so even a keypad phone can use a top model if something bridges the connection. For now, AIKON is a side project, tested on two models of phone.
It also shows the limits. Old phones mean old security, and the convenience of a dumbphone with a chatbot comes with a private certificate and an encryption standard the rest of the web has dropped.
