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Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:23AM (#50006188)
I was using this mobile to reduce my screentime. Recently got the idea to put ai agent in it. Started with installing android, but failed as it has only 48MB RAM. Then reverse-engineered for few days and finally able use AI Agent in this and automated few actions.

Thanks

Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by moshetanzer on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:58AM (#50006613)
quite cool! keep up the good work!
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:11AM (#50006788)
Thanks
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by BenzeneDream on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:08PM (#50011393)
The video demo is epic!
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:48AM (#50019166)
Thanks
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by sshussain270 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:37PM (#50010915)
That's a fun thing you did there!
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:21PM (#50015204)
Thanks
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by butz on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:01PM (#50011283)
Is there any way to add custom apps to this series of Nokia phones? It's so annoying that 20 years ago mobile phones were running Java apps (J2ME), and now - nothing.
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:29PM (#50015246)
For this NOKIA, the firmwire is written in C, unlike previous versions, where the firmwire was written in JAVA. yes, we can change the firmwire and add custom apps, but as of my current progress, your change will get reset once you have done restart.
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by sparkling on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:44PM (#50011953)
Where is the "AI" in agent this, exactly?
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:24PM (#50015220)
The question answering and tool calling from normal text, was done by AI Agent only. Basically created a very simple loop to call deepseek API to return JSON and using that JSON, I am invoking native NOKIA functions or answering the questions.
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by samaltmanfried on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:57PM (#50012150)
Could you share some details about the reverse engineering?
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:38PM (#50015327)
I extracted the firmwire and analyzed how built-in apps are working and how they are using screen, keypad, network and other phone functions.

Then I wrote a small C app, that will show "PDP" in calculator, if I press any key. once that worked, I changed in calculator code and added more and more functionality of a basic app. Then added deepseep api call that will answer the question, but I was not able to capture api response.

The tricky part were handling API call responses, it was not fitting in small memory and the answer was stored somewhere in buffer which is difficult to findout. Once I figured that out, then added a small custom AI agent, that will connect deepseep API to native phone tools.

Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by UI-EDITOR on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:07AM (#50043470)
would you write about it
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:13AM (#50051310)
sure, I would update the current readme to include detailed technical break down. Allow me few days. Thanks
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by RexHuang on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:44AM (#50016072)
Great work! Though the hard part for me is even finding a Nokia 110 :)
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:13AM (#50017544)
Haha
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by mhw11 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:39AM (#50044455)
quite cool!you’re a genius, bro. But I don’t know what other software this phone can still run.
Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 by anupray on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:10AM (#50051291)
Thanks!!!