Nokia 3110 review

Network and connections

The legendary Nokia 3110, one of the first cell phones from the Finnish company to be put on the market, at a time when the user base that owned a cell phone was truly limited, obviously doesn't have particular connectivity resources. In 1997, the year it was presented, cell phones operated on a single GSM frequency on the 900 Mhz band. There are no other connections available.

Design and features

This cell phone made telephony history. Anyone who had a Nokia phone back in the day remembers the 3110, so famous that it was revisited, in 2007, by a new version called the 3110 Classic. The predecessor 3110, however, is a single-body cell phone with a non-integrated antenna. It has a monochrome display of 4x13 characters. The power on/off button is at the top right, under the antenna, and the keyboard occupies almost the entire body. The weight is a full 146 grams with the slim battery (400 mAh with standby autonomy of 30-70 hours and talk time of 1-2 hours) or 187 grams with the standard battery (550mAh, 40-95 hours and 2 hours and 45 minutes).

Main functions

This is a now outdated model whose main functions amount to nothing more than being a simple phone: which is what the cell phone was born for. It's possible, then, to send and receive calls, as well as make use of simple messaging that allows sending and receiving SMS, simple and non-concatenated. The ringtones are, obviously, monophonic. The main functions stop here.

Entertainment and multimedia

It's almost impossible to talk about entertainment for the Nokia 3110, let alone multimedia, due to the limited connections. There are no built-in games nor any kind of musical or other type of resource. For the era in which this model was presented, entertainment and leisure consisted of exchanging SMS, an absolute novelty for the time... Worth remembering is the phonebook that stores 250 contacts and keeps track of the last 10 missed calls, the last 10 received, and the last 10 sent.