The
Nokia 6100 is currently Nokia's lightest and smallest phone, surpassing even the
Nokia 8210, yet packed with far more advanced functions. It's an impressive slice of
technology and has a very
futuristic feel.
The 6100 is a variant on the
Nokia 7210/
Nokia 6610 design. Whereas those two phones are identical with different
outer shells, the 6100 is a different animal, albeit only slightly. Weighing 8g less and being 4mm less tall and wide, the 6100 is
marginally, but noticably smaller, and only loses the battery draining Radio function in payment. Instead, the 6100 features Nokia's relatively useless
Wallet function, that allows you to easily purchase
stuff at
WAP sites.
As with the
7210/
6610, the 6100 has a 128x128, 4096 colour screen, and a 725 kB memory pool. All three are
tri-band GSM phones.
Annoyingly, like all Nokia
Series 40 Java phones, the 6100 doesn't support the optional
sockets part of the
Java MIDP specification, which means a lot of the interesting
midlets one can find online won't run. This includes many
e-mail,
telnet and
IRC clients. Even older
Motorola phones support this protocol, hopefully
Nokia will change this policy going forward.
Weight: 76g (
battery included)
Dimensions: 102 x 44 x 13.5mm
Currently available colours:
To buy:
Dark Blue,
Light Blue,
Yellowish Beige (and
Silver Grey on
Orange (
UK))
Xpress-on:
Black,
White,
Burgundy,
Green,
Grey