16ARGB01A06 8110 4G UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Black

This is arguably the best phone for a digital minimalist given the incredible value for money that this phone provides. The following are the pros and cons as I see them: Pros: - Huge battery life - in a time where a day long battery life seems big, this has about 3 weeks worth. - 4G Hotspot capability - combine this with the battery life and you can be mobile and connected for days. - Cheap - For £37 just buy a couple and keep them as spare. - WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter - while typing out messages on this phone can be a bit of a task, you still have the three major social media platforms available to you. - Google Assistant and Maps - Not the full fledged version but you do still get access to the Google Assistant and Google Maps. - MicroSD expandable storage - FM Radio - use with the included headphones and you basically have free entertainment on the go. - Durable - made from the same polycarbonate as the essential Nokia feature phones, so you know it can take a beating. - Camera - This isn't going to win you photography prizes, but if needed, you have a 2MP camera available to you. Cons: - Not a smartphone - if you're looking for a cheap smartphone, go with the Nokia 1, or Nokia 2.1. This is not a smartphone. It's the smartest feature phone. - App gap - understandably, this feature phone does not have access to apps like Snapchat, Duo, etc. Also games are abysmal (with the exception of Snake). - No front camera. - No premium feel - while the phone does have a cool design, the feel is of course cheap plastic. Hence the low price. - Keypad - this one is slightly personal - I wish the keypad was similar to the Nokia 3310 3G or the Nokia C5-00. The keypad on this is perfectly serviceable, but could be better. Overall, if you're trying to reduce your smartphone usage, either temporarily or permanently, this would be the perfect option for a phone. So trade in your £500 smartphone, buy this £37 one, and take a holiday.

So.... I owned my first smartphone in 2009, an iPhone 3GS. It was the biggest thing since the..... the biggest thing Apple had brought out before... So overall in the last 11 years, I have been an avid smartphone user, both iPhone and latterly Android handsets. In 2009 a 3GS was £300, now iPhones are fetching +£1000! As smartphones got bigger etc, my tablet hardly got any use. As such, I was forever glued to my smart phone. Id be couch scrolling whilst the TV was on, dinner time felt the need to have the phone on the table and in general what hit me hard, I was finding that it was getting in the way of time I spent with my children. Not good at all. As a society we are becoming far too reliant and addicted to smartphones. So, to break this cycle, turning off notifications etc just wouldnt be enough. I needed to unplug. How? Simple, get rid of the smartphone, or at least relegate it to a drawer and only use it on wifi when need to check something quickly such as bank balance etc. This also removed me from direct contact to social media platforms, another bug bear. The solution for me was to buy a 'dumbphone' and this unit completely fits the bill. Has 4G connectivity and can create wifi hot spots! Perfect. So if on holiday and need to take a smart device I can do, but said smart device can stay at the bottom of the bag. I have owned this for a week now, it has been refreshing. Productivity has shot up. The phone has a great battery life, phone calls are clear, I am not hassled by constant notifications of 'FOMO', and texting on it is like going back to 2005! That suits me fine as means I am not drawn into group chats on whatsapp. The phone for the cost is made well enough. I wanted the yellow but my sensible head told me to get black as yello was £20 more expensive. If same cost, I'd have gotten the yellow handset for sure. Anyway, I am hoping to use this handset for as long as it lasts as I am now breaking free from the smartphone mould and bi-annual 'upgrades'..... 'Dump your smartphone....'

This is early days for me, as I've had the phone for only one week. Thus this review is an interim one. I am older, but now avoid the 'phones for the elderly'; it ages me!! The phone arrived earlier than the delivery window said, and for those with concerns about packaging, mine was wrapped around in TWO padded envelopes/then an outer plastic delivery envelope/then a box! Very well packaged folks! The supplier sent two early emails to advise me that I could contact them re any problems. Not bad. I went for the yellow, which is the quintessential 8110. On appearance it is the best phone I have owned for a while now. A young friend put the SIM in for me, and I got on with the rest; not difficult. This is a DPSP as opposed to a SPDP......If I tell you the first acronym, you can work out the second. It is a Dumb Phone for Smart People...! As others have said, it makes takes phone calls. No one would ever suggest that texting on these phones can match a smart phone, but they text; it just needs more patience,--and ignoring the predictive text thing, unless you are a fan of it is better. Slider is smooth and easy on mine; I like the hidden key option. (NB: if you are have arthriticky fingers, it would not be easy to navigate the small non protruding keys; sadly not a phone for you). The jury is still out; I have to see, but on first glance/use, I like this very much, and welcome the return of this particular maker to the market. Nokia always made a good phone, and are now recognising the niche market of the uber tech' disaffected/addicted smartphone user, looking at an alternative or a back up phone. Smart move Nokia! UPDATE: My review is directed at MY seller Technolec. I paid £59.99 for the yellow phone. These comments are NOT directed at the current seller. I have contacted Amazon about the price increase of well over 100%!! Exercise caution..

UPDATE: Whatsapp is now available for the 8110 4G, but as with the other apps that are available for it, it's rather clunky to use. Probably 3 stars instead of 2 though. The handset itself is a nice enough trip down nostalgia lane and seems well made, with very good battery life, but months after launch it still doesn't have Whatsapp (despite it being available for other KaiOS powered handsets). No point in having 4G if you don't have the apps to take advantage of it, unless you only need this handset as a hotspot. And with limited internal storage it would be nice to be able to uninstall the crappy games that come with it, but you can't. Feels more like a work in progress rather than a finished article.

As of 21st May 2019 my Nokia 8110 4g's are both in the drawer and I have been obliged to buy another 'smart' phone, so I am working my way through three menu selections just to get to my phone book, which is how life is with a 'smart' phone:- unnecessarily complicated. I bought one Nokia 8110 4g because, reading the specification, it would do all I needed it to do. Unfortunately, it never did. So, at £60 the Nokia 8110 4g was half the price of a smartphone; and believing it possible that I had been sold a malfunctioning item, I bought another (for another £60) and it turned-out to be just the same. Specifically, there is no software to enable the 8110 4g to function with data exchange when connected to a PC. Neither is there any on-line support from the manufacturer and there are few forums offering help, or, more specifically, assurances that you are not alone in having a 'dodgy' handset. The in-car blue-tooth connectivity drops-out after perhaps ten minutes and is troublesome to re-engage. The battery capacity dropped from 2-days to just a few hours within two-months of purchase. The WiFi hotspot never worked at all. These defects were present on both handsets that I bought. There was no direct support from Nokia, the manufacturer. I, and many others I expect, have been 'conned' into buying an impractical, non-functional, gimmick. With my battery life now down to just a few hours, my phone will not keep working for one working day. Perhaps there is something wrong with the phone and I could get help under the 'warranty.' Unfortunately, Nokia technical support have not helped me get what I needed form this phone; a phone which, at least on paper, should have met my needs perfectly. The Nokia 8110 4g now looks to me like a cut-price execution of a good idea, with a poor battery and poor technical support this is the end of the road for the 'new' Nokia brand. I now need a replacement phone for use at work and Nokia is not going to be on my new list of preferred brands, in fact, I will be avoiding it. Revised review of 21st April. I have had no trouble at all making and receiving calls with this phone. Surfing the 'net and handling E-mails works pretty smoothly and reliably too, within the limitations of the push-button keypad. However, I have got nowhere with the WiFi Hotspot issue. Neither the manufacturer, nor my service provider have been able to help. The battery life of my 'phone was originally good for two days of standby and, perhaps, 15 minutes of calls each day. The battery life is deteriorating fast and now, after just a few months, it can not cope from 7 am to 10 pm of my usage. Revised review of 27th March 2019 This phone has a WiFi Hot Spot facility; and, whereas the phone works fine when surfing the net on it's own, my phone will not function to provide a HotSpot for my laptop. Neither EE, nor Nokia have been able to help me sort this out. The laptop logs-on to the phone, but there is no internet service on the laptop. Neither can my phone be accessed as a device from my PC using a USB cable. I have tried various cables and the PC does charge the phone's battery, but the PC does not 'see' the phone as a device and it cannot access it in any way. Yes, I am running a fully-updated edition of Windows 10. This smartphone is smart enough for me. Texting may take a little longer, using numerical keys rather than a qwerty screen, but it does type the text you intended-to and does not respond hysterically to rain drops hitting the screen. It can handle E-mail, internet searches and the Calendar function synchronises with my Google Diary. The battery seems to last a couple of days and the mobile reception seems good. The actual ringer and speech volumes seem louder than most and need to be turned-down a little bit. A shortcut button (top right) above the 'select' button has shortcuts to WiFi; Volume; Screen Brightness; Cellular Data; Torch; Calculator; Bluetooth; Camera and Airplane Mode, all of which may be easily turned on or off in an instant. If it beeps in my pocket, then I press the Notices button, to the left, opposite the Shortcuts button, and the list of the most recent events is immediately displayed and may be examined, one-by-one, using the Select button, in the middle. The screen is not a touch screen, but it is a full-colour 35mm x 50mm viewing screen.

I purchased the 8110 Nokia banana phone as I wanted one back in the nineties. Nokia was once a great phone manufacturer which stood for quality. It’s sad to say those days have gone, quite simply this looks great, a modern look to the iconic Matrix phone, although it is a little plasticy to the touch. Poor points are; The screen is not that sharp to look at, however when you’ve used an iPhone over the last 10 years, I guess it’s wrong to judge this part of the phone but honestly it’s not that great. The key pad is small and a little hard to navigate, the slide is a nice feature though. My biggest gripe is the phone drops calls and losses WiFi signal too easily, approximately 40% of the time. Seeing as I brought this for my business, I find it embarrassing half way through a conversation the phone drops the call, with signal strength on the screen showing bars? I guess it could be a dud or faulty, but reading other reviews I think it’s more the technology. I have to agree with others who have left reviews that for the money it’s not the best value. I would expect more for £65 and would say it’s worth £25 - £30, no more. Luckily, I only used the phone for a couple of days and retained all the packaging, never used the charger (micro usb) nor earphones so I have returned the phone back to Amazon. As usual Amazon service for returns is top marks, 10 out of 10. Thank you Amazon. I have decided to go for a second hand iPhone 4 instead off eBay. It was a little more then £65, but the quality will be there, should retain calls and will be easier to use. Sorry, but I will not be considering any further products from Nokia in the near future. They say never meet your hero, it will only end up in disappointment. I should have listened to that advice.

Lovely phone

Let's face it, this is styled after the matrix phone. Who could ask for more? Ok, so this is the plastic lightweight version, nowhere near the build quality of the phones I used to buy in the early 2000s but, hey, this is much cheaper so that's ok. And even better, there is very little that is more satisfying than answering and ending calls by sliding the cover up or down. Really I love it. And for a (relatively) cheap phone, it gets a lot of positive comments from friends and work colleagues. There is also another great practical feature on this phone - they keypad cover. Yes, I bought it after I pocket dialled the police. And I haven't pocket dialled anyone (let alone the police) since I bought it. Its great on that score compared to my old phone. But here is the BIG RUB. As other people have said, the operating system (OS) is slow and unresponsive. And here is the EVEN BIGGER RUB. The predictive text function, when typing text messages, is a shocker. Far worse than any phone I bought in the late 1990s or ever since. It doesn't predict if you type one letter (e.g. it offers "g,h,i" if you press 4, nothing else, and it doesn't even put "I" first). It starts a new word if you add an apostrophe (hence you can never get a predictive I'll, only ill, and for that you have to type "45"). It writes in American (think "color" but not "colour"). AND WORST, IT DOESN'T LEARN. Every "traditional" phone I ever had, since the late 1990s, would save new words to the on board dictionary. This phone doesn't. So if you have a loved one whose name isn't in the dictionary, tough, you will forever be typing it. On a 9 digit keyboard that will take you some time...

Nunca llegó, Me mandaron mensajes que había llegado dañado y nunca me dieron otro

In contrast to other review I received Model TA-1071 single SIM which registered fine to KPN 4G. Came with KaiOS 12 and upgraded to release 16 (which offers Whatsapp support) after placing a SIM in the device. At the current (low) price this is a good deal for a basic backup hardly-any-feature phone that will also double as 4G hotspot.

Téléphone

Il telefono e' molto bello e funziona come da offerta Nokia. Problema Whatsapp, innanzitutto diciamo che Whatsappa e' scaricabile dalle versioni di software 16 in avanti. Il mio telefono mi e' arrivato con versione 12. Non aveva Whatsapp nello Store Kios. Ho contattato la Live Chat del servizio supporto di Nokia questo sabato mattina 11 gennaio 2020 i quali mi hanno chiesto: 1) numero IMEI 2) aggiornare il software del Nokia 8110 Ho dato il mio IMEI ed ho fatto presente che il software riportava versione 12. Mi hanno fatto fare aggiornamento , dentro c'era la SIM del provider, e nuovamente il telefono non dava presenti nuove versioni. MI hanno fatto togliere la SIM del mio Provider e fatto collegare solo con WIFI e la versione 16.00.17.03 e' stata scaricata ed installata. Il motivo del mancato aggiornamento alla versione 16 e' perche' sono i Service Provider di telefonia che devono rilasciare l'aggiornamento, ma se lo fai con WIFI il telefono va diretto al server Nokia bypassando i vari fornitori di telefonia che magari non anno ancora aggiornato i link. quindi Ottimo telefono e whatsapp Funziona !

Comprato per mia nonna e si è rilevato davvero un ottimo prodotto. Per il prezzo a cui viene venduto ha davvero tutto (dallo store per scaricare le app, alla suite base Google fino ai principali social come WhatsApp e Facebook). La forma curva in stile banana lo rende davvero unico. Uniche due pecche il joypad piccolo e la batteria che, mia nonna, ha lamentato essere poco performante per l'utilizzo che ne fa lei.