Nokia 1100

The Nokia 1100 is a mobile phone from the Finnish manufacturer Nokia. The end of 2003 and published deliberately kept simple phone was designed primarily for the market in developing countries and with over 200 million copies sold, the most successful mobile phone of all time.

At least in 2007 it was so ahead of iPod and Playstation 's best-selling electronic device ever, this year its sales were at about 1 million copies per week.

Developed under the working name Penny phone had a few extras, but they were designed for use in areas where power supply is irregular and demanding environmental conditions: It had a non-slip grip, a dust- proof enclosure, and could be use as a flashlight. The extras were due to intensive market research in the later sale countries where Nokia representative visited the residents at home to find out what are the main requirements to a mobile phone in this region. In particular, the torch proved to be a special selling point. This led to the nickname ka- torchi for mobile phones. Nokia market researchers developed the function as they watched users of other phones in how they used their lighted screen as an improvised light.

When advertising in India, the largest single market for the Nokia 1100, Nokia is completely focused on the low-end market. Ads that showed the phone in a truck at the end of a lonely road, stressed its suitability for remote areas. Nokia continues emphasized the advantage of the consumers would have them to buy originals. And although the 1100 was not the first phone that was able to write text messages in Hindi, succeeded Nokia on advertising to establish this image in the minds of consumers.

The Nokia 1100 has a monochrome display with a resolution of 96x65 pixels, suitable for making calls, sending text messages and has an alarm function.. The phone has lack of browser or other Internet services via any integrated data transmission standards such as GPRS or even UMTS. The battery lasted about 4 days while receiving quality and reliability were quite good in comparison to other mobile phones. The operating system is the in-house Series 30 operating system comes to use.

John Herrman from the technology blog Gizmodo describes the cell phone as for his claims too light, too small, and even hopelessly outdated technology for 2003. He sees exactly is but one of the criteria for success of the mobile phone, as it was indeed not designed for technology- savvy Americans who have access to each of the latest technology, but for a market in which the supply of spare parts is difficult, a software update is expected to be an exception and in which the general telephone infrastructure is still in its infancy. Drawbacks as the simple technique are transformed under these conditions in benefits. The low weight also make sure that it falls over 'm also relatively good. " The phone should survive as long as possible as you can for as little money it should make calls as long as possible and be able to send text messages. "

Nokia 1100 which were produced in the former Nokia plant in Bochum, are said to have on the black market reaches five -figure prices, as it by a software error was possible to access them on the numbers of other participants.