Nokia 6100 Mobile Phone

The good: The Nokia 6100 comes with a colour screen, easy to use interface, and more than enough features for business use. For the techies, it does come with infra red, handy if you want to sync contact numbers with your PC or beam your number to your mates. Regardless of what the manual says, the battery life is long (around 5 days for me), even with using the loudspeaker option. The loudspeaker is a great new feature. Press of a button and you now have a hands free car kit! No more using those messy headphone cables that get caught up in your seatbelt or replacing the old car kit with a new one! You can upload java applications to the small 400K memory. And although it is messy, I have managed to install and get working an SSH telnet session! It comes with a couple of useless games, Bounce and Chess, a calculater, stop watch, calendar and world clock 2. All of these seem great and novel at first, but like most toys get left unused in the toy basket.

The bad: Nokia have once again chainged their data interface. This means again, a new car kit, new data cable. If you don't have an infra red input on your PC, get it! A usb infra red dongle goes for about $30 on ebay, and it future proofs you for connectivity.

Overall: Truely a good business grade phone. The Nokia 6100 has enough features to do what you need in a compact easy to use mobile phone. Because thats exactly what it is, a mobile phone. No complicated cameras, MP3 players, or FM radios. Although you can add these devices on, why would you? If you want a camera, don't buy a phone!