The Nokia 1011 (NHE-2X5, NHE-2XN) is the first mass-produced
GSM
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...
phone. It was sold also as Mobira Cityman 2000. The typenumber refers to the launch date, 10 November 1992.
The black handset measured 195 x 60 x 45 mm and featured a monochrome LCD and an extendable antenna. The memory could hold 99 phone numbers. It did not yet employ Nokia's characteristic ringtone: that was only introduced in 1994. The phone operated in the
900 MHz GSM band. At that time the device cost about 2500
DM (about euros today).
The phone was able to send and receive
SMS
Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text ...
messages, even if
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...
says that its model
2110 phone was the first SMS-enabled GSM phone.
Nokia 1011 continued production until 1994, when
Nokia 2010
The Nokia 2010 is a mobile phone that was announced by Finland, Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia in January 1994.
According to the late Matti Makkonen, a manager of Nokia Mobile Phones at the time, Nokia 2010 was the first mobile phone to enab ...
and
Nokia 2110
The Nokia 2110 is a cellular phone made by the Finnish telecommunications firm Nokia, first announced in February 1993. It is the first Nokia phone with the famous Nokia tune ringtone. The phone can send and receive SMS messages; and lists ten di ...
were introduced as successors.
References
Nokia phones 1000 series
1011
Mobile phones introduced in 1993
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