The

Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...

7110 is a GSM

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announced in February 1999 and released in October 1999. It was the first mobile phone to run

Series 40 Series 40, often shortened as S40, is a Computing platform, software platform and application user interface (UI) software on Nokia's broad range of mid-tier feature phones, as well as on some of the Vertu line of luxury phones. It was one of t ...

and to come with a

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browser. It was preceded by the Nokia 8146/8148 which was released in 1996 and it was replaced by the Nokia 7650 which was released in Late 2001.

Variants

The Nokia 71** series of

s in general featured a special, "navi-roller", a pushable scroll wheel button for quicker scrolling and selection. It was considered to be one of the first true media phones with

and

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capabilities. * 7110 GSM 900/1800 Band Worldwide * 7190 GSM 1900 Band for USA/Canada * 7160 TDMA

Features

The 7110 was Nokia's second handset with a sliding cover that could be used to answer and terminate voice calls. As with the 8110 before, with the cover deployed, the microphone was brought closer to the user's mouth, improving the clarity of the voice reception. New to the 7110 was a spring-powered release mechanism, which would release the cover when a small metal catch on the rear of the handset was depressed. The cover could also be opened manually. Connectivity is provided via a standard

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transceiver on the top edge of the handset. A serial cable can also be attached to the handset's expansion terminal, to allow synchronization of the phone's contents, and to allow the phone to function as a

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. Data capabilities are limited to

circuit switched data In communications, Circuit Switched Data (CSD) is the original form of data transmission developed for the time-division multiple access (TDMA)-based mobile phone systems like Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). After 2010 many teleco ...

;

GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Ins ...

was not available on this handset. The

mini-browser established a connection to the internet using CSD. The navi-roller was used in place of the familiar up and down buttons, allowing the user to rapidly scroll through lists of options; depressing the roller selected the currently highlighted option. The 7110 was the first cellular phone to implement the T9

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input method for composing

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messages, but the 3210 was the first phone to combine both T9 and internal antenna. Contrary to popular myth, although the Nokia 7110 does feature a spring-loaded cover concealing the keypad; this is not the model featured in the first ''Matrix'' movie, which is the Nokia 8110 (made three years prior), which was adapted with a spring mechanism to feature in the 1999 film.That Damn Matrix Phone
Neuro.me.uk/matrixphone. URL accessed on December 6, 2006

External links

Mirror of Nokia 7110 stuff @ filibeto.org / archive.org

References

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