Nokia 1100 – The Smartest among the not so smart phones

The mobile phones of today, I mean SMARTphones come loaded with innumerable applications that promise to keep the user tied up 24×7. We can use them to browse the Web, capture photos and HD video, navigate, create documents and presentations, read e-books, watch moves and what not – the list is staggering. But we’re forgetting something basic here – calling and texting. Aren’t mobile phones primarily meant to make calls and texts? Well, at least for some they are.

Among the not so large collection of humble, entry-level mobile phones that are built to just do what mobile phones were initially designed for, the Nokia 1100 stands tall and strong, smiling sure-footedly. This modest mobile phone was the first ever handset for many across the world. It was cheap, looked nice and did what it was supposed to do perfectly.

In case you forgot, the Nokia 1100 is a GSM mobile phone with SMS messaging with predictive text, sealed keypad, vibration alert, torch, calculator, stopwatch and non-slip sides. When it was initially launched in 2003, people flocked around with passion and it sold like hot cakes, no chocolate-dripping doughnuts. Over 200 million them have been sold till date and the 1100 is presently the world’s best selling mobile phone as well as the world’s best selling consumer electronics product. The handset  made Nokia a household name and took it deep in to the developing nations of the world.

People who couldn’t even dream of owning a mobile phone could think of buying one, thanks to the 1100. The mobile phone was known for its notorious battery life – it could be in stand by for even up to two weeks. Even though it was not an out-and-out rugged phone, it was known to be sturdy and tough. There are a few of these handsets that are still going strong in some parts of the world whose owners simply don’t have the heart to part with.

Though discontinued, the Nokia 1100 remains close to the heart of many users as well as Nokia. The 1100 is the Finnish telecommunications corporation’s one billionth phone to be sold. There even is a Nokia 1100 Fanclub! To all the surviving Nokia 1100s and those sleeping in landfills – we have something to say: You’re the smartest of all the not so smart phones in today’s world. We salute you!

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