At the time when I first started writing in my blog a budget phone in the price range of 125$, will have a maximum specification of a basic color screen at 128 x 128 pixel (STN - basically dull), polyphonic ringtones and might be a VGA camera and Infrared.Nowadays this segment has seen a dramatic makeover with VFM phones emerging left, right & center from all the mobile phone manufacturers.
This time I came across a Nokia 3110 classic. Its a typical Nokia Series 40 candybar phone. But beneath its somewhat bland exteriors its feature packed for a phone costing around 4750/- rs (110$). Let me list out some of its notable features,
- First & foremost its reception and call quality are excellent making it a nice phone importantly
- The black plastic body weighing around 87 grams is nice to hold and quite sturdily built
- The 128 x 160 pixel 65,000 color TFT screen was nice & crisp to look at.
- A good phonebook system with multiple contacts, calendar, reminders, alarms make it a handy PIM
- A media player which supports mp3 / wma / aac / 3gp / mp4 playback with micro sd card slot to expand memory makes it a capable portable multimedia player
- A camera with 1.3 megapixel is quite a good one at the current price range and will be useful as a snapper in well lit conditions and when you don’t have a digital camera in your hand
- Connectivity department is well stocked up with GPRS,EDGE, USB, Infrared (one of the few phones to still have it), Bluetooth with A2DP
- With extras like FM, Java games and apps it will be a ideal companion on the road or in your free time
- Last but not the least the Nokia Series 40 UI is quite easy to work with and there are lots of ways to customize it.
Its quite a impressive phone , the only downer was the ringtone volume which I felt was not that audible (it might be that a louder mp3 file could have made it better). But at this time, I think its just a step ahead of its competitors like SE W200i, LG KG 195 & Samsung E250
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