The Nokia 8850 is a mobile phone handset manufactured by Nokia. It was a light alloy-bodied enhanced version of
Nokia 8210
Nokia 8210 is a mobile phone by Nokia, announced on 8 October 1999 in Paris. At the time, it was the smallest, lightest Nokia mobile phone on the market, thus its selling point was based on its design and customization, with removable Xpress-on ...
model with slider protection of the keypad and white lighting of the keypad and screen. The 8850 is considered to be an un-repairable phone, thus resulting in very few active handsets in the market.
Today it remains a collector's item. It also came in gold. It was introduced as a successor of an earlier model, the chrome phone
Nokia 8810
The Nokia 8810 is a slider-style mobile phone handset manufactured by Nokia, announced on March 18, 1998. It is most notable as being among the first phones to have an internal antenna. It was designed to be the flagship and the most luxurious o ...
.
It was succeeded by the
Nokia 8910
The Nokia 8910 is a mobile phone released in 2002 by Nokia. Part of the luxury 8xxx series, it was introduced as a successor of the Nokia 8850/8890. It has a white backlight, and features Bluetooth connectivity.
It was succeeded by the Nokia 891 ...
, which was released in 2002.
Memory
The phone's memory can store up to 250 names and 50 calendar notes. SMS messages can only be stored on the
SIM card.
Call management
The phone has a speed dial feature in which the user can assign a name to 8 of the keys of the keypad. Voice dialing can also be used by assigning up to 8 voice tags to names. Dialed, received and missed calls are all logged. Contacts can be added to one of five groups that can have different logos and ringtones.
Messaging
The phone uses
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 ...
(Short Message Service) with
T9 predictive text input, with support for major European languages. Asian version firmware features
PinYin text input which enables Chinese words to be typed and sent.
Messages can be up to 160 characters long. Compatible phones can send and receive picture messaging in Nokia standard
Smart Messaging
Smart messaging is a proprietary service developed by Nokia used for the sending and receiving of various digital media via SMS.
Graphical Picture message
A monochrome picture that can be sent between handsets as a series of SMS messages. The t ...
, not in later (universal)
EMS. It could receive network operator logos and ringtones (up to five).
Wireless transfer
The phone features an
infrared port on the lower left side which can be used to communicate with a compatible
PC. As well as this, the infrared port can also be used to transfer names and phone numbers between compatible phones an addition to business card sending and receiving. Data is transferred at 9.6 kilobits per second (
CSD).
Other specifications
The phone weighs 91 g (with a
lithium battery
Lithium battery may refer to:
* Lithium metal battery, a non-rechargeable battery with lithium as an anode
** Rechargeable lithium metal battery, a rechargeable counterpart to the lithium metal battery
* Lithium-ion battery, a rechargeable batte ...
) and had dimension of 100x44x17 mm. It has a white light blue tinted
frontlit monochrome display (the keypad is also illuminated white) 96x64 pixels. The volume has 10 levels and is controlled via chrome button on the top left side of the phone. The base of the phone contains the charger and headset connector. The Nokia 8850 uses GSM 900/1800 and supports Extended GSM 900 band (EGSM) and can automatically switch between bands. The North American version, the Nokia 8890, had all the same features but a retractable antenna and GSM 900 and 1900 MHz bands. The phone has four games: Memory,
Snake, Logic and Rotation.
References
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8850
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter
Slider phones
Mobile phones introduced in 1999