Nokia 1100 Review

Overall Rating

The great Nokia menu system
Very simple to use
Very Reliable
Good simple features
Ease of use

Not many

This review is for a Nokia 1100.
The Good points:

My family has had Nokia's for years and I feel the Nokia range of phones have the best, the most easy to use and most simple mobile phone menu systems. This simple model is no different. I purchased this phone for my wife over a year ago and we have been very impressed with it.

We looked at lots of other mobile phones before buying this one but most of the other makes seem to have poor menu systems. Some also have too many so-called features, are much too large and complicated to use easily. We were looking for a simple, no frills mobile phone and this seems to be the simplest one.

The Nokia 1100 feels comfortingly solid, with a nice wipe clean cover. However you can also get replacement covers in different colours if you fancy a change. It is a fairly small phone but not so small you can not use it or read the keypad numbers.

It's very simple to set-up straight from the box, just pop the Sim card in and its ready to go. It uses the standard Nokia battery charger which makes it very easy to find another charger if you have had a Nokia before. Of course it comes with a brand new charger in the box and an instruction manual (you will not need it).

In the year + my wife has owned it has been 100% reliable, it always has good signal strength on the O2 network and has not dropped any calls at all. The ring tones are loud enough and adjustable with a small number of alternatives.

Phone calls are very easy to make, you can access the phone's address book easily and make calls or just dial the number on the keypad simply press the call button.

The Text editor is also very easy to use, like other Nokia's, and the phone stores incoming texts in a separate folder so it's easy to find the one you want to reply to.

Phone battery life is very, very good because it doesn't have a flashy colour screen. The phone battery lasts for ages, much longer than my Nokia 6230i which is quite good.

The Bad points:

Well I actually struggled to find much to moan about with this phone.

The phone keypad is a bit spongy but you soon get used to it.

If you want a phone that has all the latest features this Nokia 1100 is not the mobile phone for you! But if you want a camera, buy one, if you want an MP3 player buy one! This is a phone, after all.

Conclusion:

I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this phone to anyone. If you want a simple to use mobile phone to make phone calls or send text messages, it's the best choice.

The best recommendation I can give the Nokia 1100 is that if I was replacing my own Nokia 6230i, this is phone I would get.

Members' Comments onstuart foot's Review

• Helen of Troy on 6th Oct 2006

  Totally agree. Very good review by the way. I purchased an expensive singing and dancing phone but returned to using my old Nokia 1100. The other is now sat in the drawer, neither singing nor dancing. It ran the battery down too quick!! And it was not user friendly!! This may not look as pretty, but for battery power and ease of use it far surpasses the "pretty" one!!