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Nokia 6110

Released in 1997

Network = GSM 900MHz

Weight = 137 g

Dimensions = 130mm x 47mm x 28mm

Battery Life = 180 mins talk time and 10800 mins standby

The Nokia 6110 (Nokia firmware code NSE-3NX) was a development of the Nokia 2110 designed for the business market and launched in 1997. It had a monochrome screen that could display 5 lines and included an infra-red port for local communications. The phone could store telephone numbers and associated names using either the phone's internal memory which could store up to 50 entries or the SIM card's memory where up a 250 entries could be stored. A specific ring tone and graphic could be assigned to an entry should that these would be played and displayed when receiving calls. Speed dialling was provided for nine entries using the keypad keys 1 to 9. Call registers recorded the last ten missed, received and dialled numbers and call timers recorded the duration of individual calls and the cumulative totals. Other functions included a clock with alarm, a calendar and calculator.

The infra-red port could be used to communicate with similar phones or peripherals such as printers that were within line of sight range. This featured enabled the transfer of phone book entries, remote printing and an option to extend the built in games to 2 player mode.

It was however, the introduction of built in games that gives the Nokia 6110 a unique place in history for it was the first Nokia phone to feature a mobile version of the popular computer game, Snake. Snake required you to control a pixelated snake as it moved around the screen, feeding it to make it grow bigger but all the time ensuring that it never caught its own tail! This game proved incredibly popular, being loaded onto millions of mobiles and it has even been successes that it kick-started the whole mobile gaming business. Two other games were also launched at the same time and came preloaded on the Nokia 6110. These were Logic which involved working out combinations of symbols and Memory which requires you to match up pairs of symbols that are hidden beneath cards within the least number of moves.

The Nokia 6110 was also developed into a model for the general consumer market where it appeared as the Nokia 5110.