The Nokia 6100, seen above, is (and has been for about a year) my current “company phone”. Most of my colleagues have one, except for managers, who have 6600s or even better (and don’t know how to use them for anything other than talking, thus creating one of the biggest waste of phone features ever… but I digress). Before I bought an N-Gage, and later a 6630, I explored the 6100 quite a bit - since I’m really not a big fan of talking on the phone.
Frankly, the 6100 didn’t impress me in any way, except maybe concerning its size and weight. But let’s write a couple of nice lists…
Good things about the 6100:
- it’s small.
- it’s light.
- it’s simple to use (because it doesn’t do almost anything).
- at the time, and compared to my previous phone, the Nokia 3510i, the bigger screen looked nice (but read the “bad things” section).
Bad things:
- it’s a VERY buggy phone, compared to every other Nokia I have/had (which include(d) the 3210, the 3310, the 6310 and the two others I mentioned above). It’s common to see an “Insert SIM card” message from time to time, which is temporarily solved by turning off the phone, and back on.
- I didn’t like the keyboard - after the 3510i’s, and before the N-Gage’s, it was a disappointment. The keys are too small, too close to each other, and quite unresponsive.
- it’s slow. For instance, you can type SMS messages faster than it can handle. Sometimes, you choose an option and have to wait for the phone to catch up. Java games are also slower than in, for instance, the 3510i.
- the screen is terrible for games, every movement leaves a visible (and ugly) trail. Again, the 3510i didn’t have this problem.
- keypresses in Java games are very unresponsive - and I don’t have to compare it with the 3510i again, do I?
- as I said before, I didn’t talk with it very much, but most of my colleagues, who do so, complain of battery problems - for instance, sometimes their phones, with a fully charged battery, complain about being out of battery power, and turn themselves off.
- it lacks any “interesting” features, but in this particular case, maybe it’s just me. It’s a very basic phone - you can use it to talk, send and receive SMS messages, access basic WAP sites, and play basic Java games. But all of these played a lot better on the 3510i, even with its smaller screen.
My advice: unless you’re a “socialite” to whom having the smallest, lightest phone in the world is the only important thing, don’t buy a 6100. Even if you’re just looking for a basic phone, there are much better (and cheaper) options out there.
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