The Nokia 2110 is a
cellular phone
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made by the Finnish telecommunications firm
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 ...
, first announced in February 1993. It is the first Nokia phone with the famous
Nokia tune
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ringtone. The phone can send and receive
SMS
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messages; and lists ten dialed calls, ten received calls and ten missed calls. At the time of the phone's release, it was smaller than others of its price and had a bigger display, so it became very popular. It also features a "revolutionary" new
user interface
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featuring with two dynamic softkeys, which would later lead to the development of the Navi-key on its successor, the
Nokia 6110
The Nokia 6110 was a GSM mobile phone from Nokia announced on 18 December 1997 and released in 1998. It is not to be confused with the newer Nokia 6110 Navigator. It was a hugely popular follower of the Nokia 2110, and the first of the many N ...
, as well as the Series 20 interface.
A later version, the Nokia 2110i, released in 1994, comes with more memory and a protruding antenna knob.
A variant model, the Nokia 2140 (more popularly called the ''Nokia Orange''), is the launch handset on the
Orange network (now
EE). It differed in that it was designed to work on the 1800 MHz frequency then utilised by Orange, and had a slightly less bulbous design.
A North American model, the Nokia 2190, was also available. It is one of the earlier phones available on the
Pacific Bell Mobile Services and
Powertel
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History
The company was formed by the ...
's newly launched GSM 1900 network in 1995. A version for
Digital AMPS
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was produced as the Nokia 2120.
Another variant, the Nokia C6, was introduced in 1997 for Germany's analogue
C-Netz
The Radio Telephone Network C (German: Funktelefonnetz-C, abbreviated as C-Netz), was a first generation analog cellular phone system deployed and operated in Germany (at first West Germany) by DeTeMobil (formerly of Deutsche Bundespost Tel ...
.
See also
*
HP OmniGo 700LX
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, a palmtop PC with built-in Nokia 2110
References
External links
* full phone specifications
*
A Nokia 2110 User Manual
2110
Mobile phones introduced in 1994
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