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title: "16ARGB01A06 8110 4G UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Black"
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# Iconic slider design 4G LTE speed 25 days standby battery 16ARGB01A06 8110 4G UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Black

**Brand:** nokia
**Price:** S$337
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 📞 Slide into the future with Nokia 8110 4G – where retro cool meets modern speed!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** 16ARGB01A06 8110 4G UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Black by nokia
- **How much does it cost?** S$337 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- nokia enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted nokia brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **On-the-Go Hotspot:** Turn your phone into a personal Wi-Fi hotspot anytime, anywhere.
- • **All-Day Powerhouse:** Up to 25 days standby and 7 hours talk time on a single charge.
- • **Retro Meets Modern:** Classic curved slider design that spins and slides for a unique user experience.
- • **Lightning-Fast 4G LTE:** Stream, chat, and browse without lag wherever you go.
- • **Effortless Connectivity:** Sync contacts & calendars seamlessly with Gmail & Outlook integration.

## Overview

The Nokia 8110 4G UK SIM-Free Smartphone combines nostalgic slider design with modern 4G LTE connectivity, powered by a Qualcomm 205 platform that delivers up to 25 days standby battery life. Featuring a 2.45-inch LCD display, 2MP cameras front and rear, and KaiOS for essential apps, it’s perfect for professionals seeking a stylish, reliable phone with seamless Gmail and Outlook sync and a built-in Wi-Fi hotspot.

## Description

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Review: Difficult to use, requires a change of mindset, but I absolutely love it. - The review below is full of moans and complaints, detailing reasons why this phone is terrible to use. However, I want to state at this stage that despite all of this, I absolutely love it and I am happy that I dumped my smartphone for this. Please read on if freedom from smartphone zombification is your motivation. If you want a phone packed full of features - don't bother reading on. Having lived through the birth of mobile phones and the times when you saw nothing but Nokia, it didn't seem too daunting to me to use a feature phone with a qwerty keyboard. I switched back because I am frustrated with the time wasted by the lure and addictive nature of smartphone features. You can still waste your valuable time on this phone if you like, as there is a browser, email, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and even a paired down version of Google assistant and YouTube available, but you will find it so challenging to use them that you will likely give up quickly. I didn't even bother logging in to Twitter or Facebook, or setting up email, but I use WhatsApp as my main form of communication. I have found it is so much simpler to use the voice message function than to type (bye-bye Swype). Typing is a real challenge. Predictive text (T9) is there, but not as good as it was in the good old days. It doesn't insert capital letters and you can't add words to your dictionary, so if you've a friend called Aoibheann, you had better get used to calling her 'A', or perhaps even 'a'. If you are like me and you have a penchant for capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, you will find yourself switching between input options. This in itself is a challenge. You have to cycle through the following options: Press # to switch between ABC, Abc, abc, 123, Predictive. Often, you press once too many times, or else the phone randomly skips one option and you have to cycle around again. All so you can write 'Hi', rather that 'hi'. I'm starting to get over my capital letter fixation. The browser is cumbersome and it is painfully slow. Images and videos are smaller than a postage stamp. You can't copy and paste text, so you have to manually (slowly) type. The camera is terrible by today's standards. The music player only seems to manage MP3, not WMA or WAV. There is no music streaming option - so you're either going to have to convert your file formats before transferring to the phone, or you will just add the MP3 version of George Michael's 'Faith' album that is somehow still on your computer and listen to 'I want your sex' on repeat. There is an app store of sorts, which is even less populated than the windows phone app store. There is an internet radio app, but it has no volume control. To adjust it, you have to close the app, go back to the main settings, or the main music app, adjust the volume and relaunch the internet radio app to see if you got it right. There is no podcast app, so you will have to download single episodes directly form the provider's website (which will most likely go into an 'unknown' album). Now for the positives. 1) All of the above. The frustrating nature of using this phone is the equivalent of putting that disgusting anti nail bite lotion on your stubby finger nails. It's horrible, but it works. You soon get over the compelling urge to dive on your phone every time a bit of anxiety creeps into your life. You start to re-engage with the world around you. You begin to notice all of the zombified smartphone users in the world and you become thankful that you are no longer one of them. You will realise that your desire for a $1500 folding phone is an absolutely nonsensical concept. Believe it or not, you can survive without being constantly connected. Believe it or not, you can survive without taking lots of pictures that you never look at until Google spoon feeds them up to you 5 years later. Believe it or not, you learn not to care about notches, screen ratios or Gorilla glass. Try it. You'll be glad you did. Soon you will realise that the world will not stop if your phone doesn't buzz in your pocket every 30 seconds, demanding your instant attention. If you must check your email, do it on your computer (you can use this phone as a WiFi hotspot). You will recover hours of your day. You might even find that your piles go away as you spend less time in the toilet. You won't be sitting on the potty reading calamitous news, or the latest Facebook post about the benefits of eating low carb, chick pea friendly falafels. They can distract our attention - but they'll never take our FREEDOM!
Review: Does exactly what it says on the tin! (Dump your smartphone) - So.... I owned my first smartphone in 2009, an iPhone 3GS. It was the biggest thing since the..... the biggest thing Apple had brought out before... So overall in the last 11 years, I have been an avid smartphone user, both iPhone and latterly Android handsets. In 2009 a 3GS was £300, now iPhones are fetching +£1000! As smartphones got bigger etc, my tablet hardly got any use. As such, I was forever glued to my smart phone. Id be couch scrolling whilst the TV was on, dinner time felt the need to have the phone on the table and in general what hit me hard, I was finding that it was getting in the way of time I spent with my children. Not good at all. As a society we are becoming far too reliant and addicted to smartphones. So, to break this cycle, turning off notifications etc just wouldnt be enough. I needed to unplug. How? Simple, get rid of the smartphone, or at least relegate it to a drawer and only use it on wifi when need to check something quickly such as bank balance etc. This also removed me from direct contact to social media platforms, another bug bear. The solution for me was to buy a 'dumbphone' and this unit completely fits the bill. Has 4G connectivity and can create wifi hot spots! Perfect. So if on holiday and need to take a smart device I can do, but said smart device can stay at the bottom of the bag. I have owned this for a week now, it has been refreshing. Productivity has shot up. The phone has a great battery life, phone calls are clear, I am not hassled by constant notifications of 'FOMO', and texting on it is like going back to 2005! That suits me fine as means I am not drawn into group chats on whatsapp. The phone for the cost is made well enough. I wanted the yellow but my sensible head told me to get black as yello was £20 more expensive. If same cost, I'd have gotten the yellow handset for sure. Anyway, I am hoping to use this handset for as long as it lasts as I am now breaking free from the smartphone mould and bi-annual 'upgrades'..... 'Dump your smartphone....'

## Features

- Effortlessly import contacts and sync your calendar through Gmail and Outlook
- You can surf, chat and stream faster with 4G LTE. Plus, the wireless Hotspot feature lets you create your own Wi-Fi connection wherever you are
- The Qualcomm 205 mobile platform is optimised to bring performance without compromising on battery life, bringing up to 25 days of standby time from a single charge

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B07FY7HRHF |
| Aspect Ratio | 4:3 |
| Battery Average Life Talk Time | 7 Hours |
| Battery Capacity | 1500 milliamp_hours |
| Battery Description | Lithium Ion |
| Best Sellers Rank | 98,220 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 3,518 in SIM-Free & Unlocked Mobile Phones |
| Biometric Security Feature | Face Recognition |
| Brand | Nokia |
| Brand Name | Nokia |
| CPU model | Snapdragon |
| CPU speed | 1.1E+3 MHz |
| Camera Description | Rear |
| Camera Flash Type | LED |
| Cellular Technology | 4G |
| Colour | Color: black |
| Connector Type | 3.5mm Jack |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 838 Reviews |
| Display Type | LCD |
| Effective Video Resolution | 2 MP |
| Form Factor | Slider |
| Frame Rate | 15, 30 |
| Front Photo Sensor Resolution | 2 MP |
| GPS Geotagging Functionality | True |
| Headphones Jack | 3.5 mm |
| Human Interface Types | Touchscreen |
| Item Dimensions | 15 x 49 x 133 millimetres |
| Item Type Name | Nokia 8110 4G - Black |
| Item Weight | 0.12 Kilograms |
| Manufacturer | Nokia |
| Material Features | Polycarbonate shell |
| Maximum Display Resolution | 240 x 320 |
| Memory Storage Capacity | 4 GB |
| Memory storage capacity | 4 GB |
| Model Series | 8 |
| Model Year | 2018 |
| Network Connectivity Technology | Bluetooth, Wi-Fi |
| Number of Front Cameras | 1 |
| Number of Rear Facing Cameras | 1 |
| Operating System | KaiOS |
| Operating system | KaiOS |
| Optical Sensor Resolution | 2 MP |
| Phone Talk Time | 7 Hours |
| Processor Series | Snapdragon |
| Processor Speed | 1.1E+3 MHz |
| Product Features | Built-in, Horizontal resolution in pixels:, Vertical resolution in pixels |
| RAM Memory Installed | 512 MB |
| RAM memory installed size | 512 MB |
| Rear Facing Camera Photo Sensor Resolution | 2 MP |
| Refresh Rate | 60 |
| Resolution | 240 x 320 |
| SIM Card Slot Count | Single SIM |
| Screen Size | 2.45 Inches |
| Sim Card Size | Nano |
| Specific Absorption Rate | 0.5 Watts per Kilogramme |
| Specific Uses For Product | Daily Use |
| Video Capture Resolution | 360p |
| Water Resistance Level | Not Water Resistant |
| Wireless Network Technology | Wi-Fi |
| Wireless Provider | 3 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Nokia
- **CPU model:** Snapdragon
- **CPU speed:** 1.1E+3 MHz
- **Memory storage capacity:** 4 GB
- **Model name:** Nokia 8110
- **Operating system:** KaiOS
- **RAM memory installed size:** 512 MB
- **Refresh rate:** 60
- **Resolution:** 240 x 320
- **Screen size:** 2.45 Inches

## Images

![16ARGB01A06 8110 4G UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Black - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61gQvktnnzL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: is this a legit nokia phone? Would i be able to pretend to be morpheus from the first matrix?**
A: It was Neo that used the 8110, and contrary to popular belief, the original 8110 did not have spring mechanism, that was a customised model for the film, the 8110 had a manual slider like this one. Anyone that remembers the cover snapping open when a button was pushed had the later and more popular 7110 which a snap open slider and roller wheel to use the menus. Awesome phone that one.

**Q: What apps work on the 8110 phone**
A: Whatsapp is also available for devices that have KaiOS  2.5.1+ on them (read here https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/26000006/?category=5245235).
So if this model has KaiOS 2.5.1+ then it is compatible with Whatsapp.

**Q: what size simcard, micro?**
A: Hello,
This handset takes a micro sized sim card,
Regards
Cheapphonesonline

**Q: Is this dual sim?**
A: The model I have, is not.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Difficult to use, requires a change of mindset, but I absolutely love it.
*by P***R on 15 November 2019*

The review below is full of moans and complaints, detailing reasons why this phone is terrible to use. However, I want to state at this stage that despite all of this, I absolutely love it and I am happy that I dumped my smartphone for this. Please read on if freedom from smartphone zombification is your motivation. If you want a phone packed full of features - don't bother reading on. Having lived through the birth of mobile phones and the times when you saw nothing but Nokia, it didn't seem too daunting to me to use a feature phone with a qwerty keyboard. I switched back because I am frustrated with the time wasted by the lure and addictive nature of smartphone features. You can still waste your valuable time on this phone if you like, as there is a browser, email, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and even a paired down version of Google assistant and YouTube available, but you will find it so challenging to use them that you will likely give up quickly. I didn't even bother logging in to Twitter or Facebook, or setting up email, but I use WhatsApp as my main form of communication. I have found it is so much simpler to use the voice message function than to type (bye-bye Swype). Typing is a real challenge. Predictive text (T9) is there, but not as good as it was in the good old days. It doesn't insert capital letters and you can't add words to your dictionary, so if you've a friend called Aoibheann, you had better get used to calling her 'A', or perhaps even 'a'. If you are like me and you have a penchant for capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, you will find yourself switching between input options. This in itself is a challenge. You have to cycle through the following options: Press # to switch between ABC, Abc, abc, 123, Predictive. Often, you press once too many times, or else the phone randomly skips one option and you have to cycle around again. All so you can write 'Hi', rather that 'hi'. I'm starting to get over my capital letter fixation. The browser is cumbersome and it is painfully slow. Images and videos are smaller than a postage stamp. You can't copy and paste text, so you have to manually (slowly) type. The camera is terrible by today's standards. The music player only seems to manage MP3, not WMA or WAV. There is no music streaming option - so you're either going to have to convert your file formats before transferring to the phone, or you will just add the MP3 version of George Michael's 'Faith' album that is somehow still on your computer and listen to 'I want your sex' on repeat. There is an app store of sorts, which is even less populated than the windows phone app store. There is an internet radio app, but it has no volume control. To adjust it, you have to close the app, go back to the main settings, or the main music app, adjust the volume and relaunch the internet radio app to see if you got it right. There is no podcast app, so you will have to download single episodes directly form the provider's website (which will most likely go into an 'unknown' album). Now for the positives. 1) All of the above. The frustrating nature of using this phone is the equivalent of putting that disgusting anti nail bite lotion on your stubby finger nails. It's horrible, but it works. You soon get over the compelling urge to dive on your phone every time a bit of anxiety creeps into your life. You start to re-engage with the world around you. You begin to notice all of the zombified smartphone users in the world and you become thankful that you are no longer one of them. You will realise that your desire for a $1500 folding phone is an absolutely nonsensical concept. Believe it or not, you can survive without being constantly connected. Believe it or not, you can survive without taking lots of pictures that you never look at until Google spoon feeds them up to you 5 years later. Believe it or not, you learn not to care about notches, screen ratios or Gorilla glass. Try it. You'll be glad you did. Soon you will realise that the world will not stop if your phone doesn't buzz in your pocket every 30 seconds, demanding your instant attention. If you must check your email, do it on your computer (you can use this phone as a WiFi hotspot). You will recover hours of your day. You might even find that your piles go away as you spend less time in the toilet. You won't be sitting on the potty reading calamitous news, or the latest Facebook post about the benefits of eating low carb, chick pea friendly falafels. They can distract our attention - but they'll never take our FREEDOM!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Does exactly what it says on the tin! (Dump your smartphone)
*by R***N on 10 July 2020*

So.... I owned my first smartphone in 2009, an iPhone 3GS. It was the biggest thing since the..... the biggest thing Apple had brought out before... So overall in the last 11 years, I have been an avid smartphone user, both iPhone and latterly Android handsets. In 2009 a 3GS was £300, now iPhones are fetching +£1000! As smartphones got bigger etc, my tablet hardly got any use. As such, I was forever glued to my smart phone. Id be couch scrolling whilst the TV was on, dinner time felt the need to have the phone on the table and in general what hit me hard, I was finding that it was getting in the way of time I spent with my children. Not good at all. As a society we are becoming far too reliant and addicted to smartphones. So, to break this cycle, turning off notifications etc just wouldnt be enough. I needed to unplug. How? Simple, get rid of the smartphone, or at least relegate it to a drawer and only use it on wifi when need to check something quickly such as bank balance etc. This also removed me from direct contact to social media platforms, another bug bear. The solution for me was to buy a 'dumbphone' and this unit completely fits the bill. Has 4G connectivity and can create wifi hot spots! Perfect. So if on holiday and need to take a smart device I can do, but said smart device can stay at the bottom of the bag. I have owned this for a week now, it has been refreshing. Productivity has shot up. The phone has a great battery life, phone calls are clear, I am not hassled by constant notifications of 'FOMO', and texting on it is like going back to 2005! That suits me fine as means I am not drawn into group chats on whatsapp. The phone for the cost is made well enough. I wanted the yellow but my sensible head told me to get black as yello was £20 more expensive. If same cost, I'd have gotten the yellow handset for sure. Anyway, I am hoping to use this handset for as long as it lasts as I am now breaking free from the smartphone mould and bi-annual 'upgrades'..... 'Dump your smartphone....'

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Flawed, but the best option if you're leaving smartphones behind
*by A***R on 21 August 2019*

I love the Nokia 8110 4G. After years of smartphones, I am sick of them. I've lost interest in app stores and getting sucked into the web wherever I am. I just want a phone. The 8110 4G is the only phone out there that doesn't run Android or iOS and yet can still do necessary 21st century things like IM (WhatsApp), synchronised calendars and basic navigation*. There simply isn't anything else out there which bridges the gap between outdated dumbphone and bloated smartphone. Of course, there are some limitations, and there are many outright bugs. Let's start with what you might miss if you're downgrading from a smartphone, which may be obvious but you may need to adjust your expectations: - The camera is pretty awful. Low megapixels are fine but it struggles with contrast. - A T9 keyboard might be difficult if you never got used to these back in the 90s. This one is small and quite tricky, even if like me you still have the muscle memory. - Softkey navigation and a fiddly keypad instead of a touchscreen. It's funny watching others try it and immediately paw the screen. - While there is an app store, most are just poor games and assorted, half-baked 'tools' rather than apps. Don't expect to stream music on this. - Nice smartphone features like auto-brightness aren't present here, so you will actually have to manually adjust the brightness when outside, as the screen can be hard to read. These are the minor things... and then there are the bugs. KaiOS is new and attention-to-detail is extremely low on behalf of the development team. Here's just a short list of annoyances in no particular order: - Predictive text uses US spelling and cannot be changed - There is no user dictionary to add words that the phone doesn't predict - WhatsApp available since July 2019 (hooray!) but notifications are not shown if the app is running in the background, which is nearly always the case (there's an audio notification but it doesn't show in the notification menu). - Every few days I get two notifications of an 'install error' and there's no indication of what this is. - Contacts can be imported from SD but this is extremely flaky and took me about 10 attempts. Probably related to some format of the .vcf files but there's no documentation on this. Would be nice if KaiOS just used CardDAV like it uses CalDAV for the calendar sync. - The calendar sync can only be scheduled for every 30 mins (or more frequently) and the screen turns on every time this happens, which is annoying. A daily sync would be fine. - Most apps from the store contain ads, because KaiOS are trying to monetize the platform. However actual ads are mostly non-existent so its just KaiOS advertising its other apps, so no-one is making any money on this but they're annoying you unnecessarily. Personally I would've liked a phone ecosystem free of ads but if KaiOS takes off in the developing world then I expect more of these, not fewer. - KaiWeather (from the store) tells you the weather for the wrong time of day: eg. at 8am it tells you the weather for 8pm. - The network test app (from the store) isn't at all accurate and seems to be testing on a slow server in India. - The QR code reader (from the store) is extremely fiddly to use because you have to stay still after taking the photo. - The browser keeps putting its own bookmarks back no matter how many times I delete them. Luckily I barely use the browser, and you can add essential sites to your homepage as if they are apps. - The voice assistant in Google Maps has such poor recognition (at least for my accent) it's basically unusable. This is strange because the Google Assistant also built-in, works fine. - The phone book doesn't recognise that numbers starting 07.. and +447.. are the same. So either you save all numbers without the country code and you can't call them from abroad, or you save them with the +44 and the phone doesn't recognise who is calling. Or you save everyone with two numbers. - Bluetooth doesn't connect with car systems. This is widely reported on the Nokia forums. - It should be possible to access the memory/SD via USB but it doesn't ever work. - The battery life is just average but disappointing for the limited nature of the device, getting one solid day with no worries, but hardly ever two. - System updates seem to be completely random and Nokia have no clear explanation for why some devices get updated and some don't. They blame it on the networks but I'm on a network that doesn't know what a Nokia 8110 is and yet I still get updates, so who knows. This might seem minor but if you're planning to buy this for WhatsApp, you want to make sure that your device will get an update, but it seems that some do not. In short, the Nokia 8110 4G is objectively flawed in many ways and I desperately wish it was better, but I would still recommend it, and I would buy it again tomorrow. *Other phones out there are Sailfish OS devices, of which you can't currently buy any, the Lightphone 2 which is expensive and a bit lacking in some necessities, and the Boring Phone which is a smartphone with all the features removed. You might want to look into these.

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