Nokia 1100 Review

Overall Rating

Cheap in price, Slim, Light weight, Durable, Long battery life, Inbuilt lamp, Outclass reception and sound quality, quipped with all basic features.

When you press backspace (c) for more than a second While typing a text message, all your text in text message will be deleted and it would never come back (Frustrating).
Ringtone volume is relatively low as compared to that of Nokia 3310.

I have been using this phone since 2004. Its a perfect phone for basic users with high affordability. In Pakistan its price is around $55 to $60. Although it looks like an old phone because of its monochrome display and monophonic ring tones. But I am loyal to it because it is highly durable with lowest power consumption as I charge my phone thrice a week.
A feature which I like most in this phone is an inbuilt electric torch (Flashlight) on its head. Its a small LED type bright white light. This Flashlight helps me at night to find my glasses, it helps me to look deep inside the computer casing whenever i am working in my computer lab. Once It helped me find gold earring of my mother which was rolled down to her bed, when i turned my Nokia1100's torch and swept its light across, the earring sparkled in the dark to give me a clue of its presence there.
I would suggest that all mechanics, technicians and people like me who cannot afford to purchase a high end phone like Nokia Nxx and they are into repairing electric equipments should purchase this phone because no one can always carry a torch in his/her pocket, but we are carrying NOKIA 1100 with us.
Besides its torch, long battery life and durability. It has all basic features like:
1. Internal memory to store 50 Contacts and 75 Text messages
2. You can send one message to a group of contacts
3. 6 Profiles to assign ringtones at different volume as per your requirement
4. Alarm Clock, Stop Watch, Countdown Timer and Reminders
5. Games: Snake II and Space impact
6. A Ringtone composer to compose your own ringtone
7. Calculator for basic calculations
Many people dislike Nokia 1100 because of its Rubber Keypad, Its rubber keypad gives a childish look (like a toy), which can stop working after typing few text messages. For those people i have a comment: that "Analysis of My bill statements are telling me that i have sent 6584 messages since December 2004", and after such an intensive usage i am having no problem typing a message with my Nokia1100, except characters written on the keys are removed because of rubbing effect of my fingers, and its no surprise because the same experience i have with my Nokia 6630.

Go! and buy one Nokia 1100 before it goes out of the market.

Members' Comments ongeekagaa's Review

• Helen of Troy on 6th Jan 2007

  Excellent review geekagaa. I totally agree with you. I have had my Nokia 1100 mobile phone for about two years I think, with no problems whatsoever. I just came here looking around to see if there were any links, as I want another for my son now! I have tried other phones, but this one is the best for me!