Season 01
Episode 5: Totally Sidetalkin'
How the Nokia N-Gage failed so spectacularly that it became a meme before social media really existed. And what that has to do with Panic, exactly.
Show Notes
- Sidetalkin.com
- Sidetalking.com
- The Nokia N-Gage on Wikipedia
- The N-Gage website as it appeared in April 2004
- Sidetalking on Know Your Meme
- "No More Sidetalking" Nokia N-Gage QD commercial
- Chris Kohler
- Alex Pasco
- Ola Carlsson
- Chris Morris
- Jussi Solja
- Gedeon Maheux
- K. Mike Merrill
- Iconfactory
- The Sexy Beast
- KMikeyM
![The original Nokia N-Gage](/img/c02cc449-600.jpeg)
![Chris Morris, the original sidetalker](/img/c5041577-225.jpeg)
![Christian Nutt, the canonical sidetalker](/img/71e65386-408.jpeg)
![Gedeon Maheux sidetalking on OS X](/img/af5aec62-480.jpeg)
![Ned Holbrook sidetalking on a giant iPod](/img/a3223aad-480.jpeg)
![Alex Pasco sidetalking on a DDR pad](/img/f7dfd5ef-480.jpeg)
![Chris Kohler sidetalking on an Xbox](/img/366bfdf8-480.jpeg)
![Sidetalkin' Guy](/img/ebd746a9-320.jpeg)
![The email from Jussi](/img/9c831f64-600.jpeg)
![Part of the contract from Nokia](/img/25e0d1c7-600.jpeg)