NOKIA 3100

The 'Nokia 3100' is a triband-GSM cellphone released on the 17th of June 2003 in the United States as a small no-frills basic phone from the Finnish manufacturers, Nokia.
The Nokia 3100 was developed from the Nokia 3510i and Nokia 7250i models. It is a basic no-frills phone designed primarily for the younger market.
The phone is equipped with a 128x128 passive colour display (4096 colors 12-bit), JAVA MIDP 2.0, XHTML and WAP browser, GPRS and POP-port connectivity and Li-ON batery. Incoming calls alert is using MIDI polyphonic ringtones and vibrating alert.
'Menu system'
The Nokia 3100 uses Nokia's Series 40 platform firmware that uses large static icons rather than animated icons that are used on some of the other Nokia phones.
The menu has 14 main categories:

★ 1. Messages - This consists of a multimedia and text messages editor

★ 2. Call register - It records the duration of calls and connections and used phone numbers

★ 3. Phone book - A phone book with contacts editor

★ 4. Profiles - User profiles for various situations (silent, loud, general...)

★ 5. Settings - All phone settings are stored here

★ 6. Alarm clock - A simple alarm clock

★ 7. Gallery - Small file manager in which you can store images and ringtones

★ 8. Calendar - Calendar with notes and reminders

★ 9. Games - Directory for Java games

★ 10. Applications - Directory for applications

★ 11. Extras - Some extra tools like calculator, countdown timer and stopwatch

★ 12. Services - WAP browser and WAP settings.

★ 13. Go to - settings for "Go to" menu, all most used functions are stored here as a shortcuts

★ 14. SIM Toolkit menu - this contains information stored in SIM Card such as network bonus services or pay services
The phone can send and receive text and multimedia messages with ringtones and images in BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF formats. The phone does not have any voice recorder , radio receiver, mp3 player or camera, although a camera can be added to the phone via its Pop-Port.
This is one of the most popular Nokia phones in Europe and United States.
In 2004 Nokia released the Nokia 3120 phone, it is different from the 3100 in having a new metallic effect covers and a revised keypad.
The Nokia 3200 builds on the features of the Nokia 3100, and incorporates more features from the Nokia 7250i, such as a built-in CIF camera.

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Variants

The Nokia '3105' is the CDMA version of the Nokia 3100. It is exactly the same except for the rear battery cover which has a slightly different shape to the Nokia 3100. The Nokia 3105 was used in Australia on the Hutchison Orange Network until the closure of the CDMA network in Australia in late 2006.
All customers on the Orange Network were then moved to Hutchison's 3G Network "3".

External links

★ Nokia 3100 Phone

★ Device Specifications at Forum Nokia