Nokia 109: mobile Internet made easy

Published by Ian Delaney on November 1, 2012

Nokia 109

Today we announce the Nokia 109, the latest step forward in our strategy to connect the next billion and beyond to the Internet.

System Specs

  • System: GSM  900/1800 GSM 850/1900
  • User Interface: Series 40
  • Dimensions: 110 x 46 x 14.8mm
  • Weight: 77g (including battery)
  • Display: 1.8-inch TFT; 128 x 160 pixels
  • Memory card: up to 32GB microSD
  • Connectivity: GPRS/EDGE, 2.0mm Charger Connector, 3.5mm AV connector

It’s designed for people who want an easy-to-use and affordable Internet-capable phone with the familiarity of a traditional keyboard.

Happily, armed with the Nokia Xpress Browser, they’ll find it easy-going. This cloud-accelerated browser reduces the data consumption of web pages by up to 90 per cent to deliver an easy and inexpensive web experience.

Made social

Facebook and Twitter access right from the home screen will serve social networking needs, while the eBuddy instant messaging client is available for download from Nokia Store to make it easy to keep up-to-date with your closest contacts. Plenty more apps and hundreds of free games, including ten premium titles from EA, are available in the Nokia Store.

The battery life on this phone is extremely enviable, with up to 33 days standby time specified, or 7.5 hours talk-time.

The phone includes a media player, as well as an FM radio, with radio recording in some markets. The built-in speaker packs a punch for whole room entertainment, reaching a volume of up to 103 phons (phon is the unit of apparent loudness). Owners can expand the external memory using an SD card for up to 32GB of storage.

Let’s put this phone into context. As a reader of Nokia Conversations, you’re very likely to be a phone connoisseur, an expert who demands everything from NFC to LTE and OIS on their next smartphone. But, of course, everyone is different, and we can all think of people we know who don’t want any of those things in their phones, and especially don’t want to pay the extra that these features entail.

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The Nokia 109 will be available in black and cyan from this quarter in China, the Asia Pacific region and Europe. Before any local taxes or operator subsidies, it will cost around $42 (USD).

Comments

  • http://www.facebook.com/ARlovzzU Sai Kiran

    nice going man…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5OPU3KVM7CHVP3EWQ5PJI6HI NADINE

    Nokia makes very durable and ultra easy to use phones- Literally someone deaf, dumb, and blind can still do ‘super ‘ using their devices- I BUY THESE FOR ANYONE I LOVE WHO IS GETTING SENILE, HARD OF HEARING, AND LEGALLY BLIND- UNFORTUNATELY, MOST OF MY ADULT FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY AND EVEN ONE OR TWO OF MY ‘YOUNG ADULT’ RELATIVES- EVEN DIABETICS AND SOLDIERS WITH POST- TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME AND GLAUCOMA PATIENTS CAN ‘FLY TO NEW HEIGHTS’ WITH THESE CELLS. THIS PHONE HAS NEVER GOTTEN THE ‘CREDIT’ IT DESERVES FOR BEING LIFE SAVING AND ECONOMICAL.

  • http://www.omreddy.com/ Mahesh

    superb.. :)

  • http://twitter.com/n_nikaro Nikhil Arora

    Do the market research NOKIA guys, most of your low end phones got good features but lacks in basic necessary things like high volume and i cant talk to someone while in traffic or in crowd. As far as i think blackberry and LG phones are better for at-least a basic feature named CALLING VOLUME….

    search for “nokia phones poor calling quality” you will see that even your high end phones has poor call quality.

    Im a mobile phone retailer in India and i would have sold your 1000s of Nokia phones if just the call quality was good. I am telling you this because my first love was nokia and i used to have great sound quality..

    why dont you make a slim sleekest phone with minimal basic features and best call quality + battery life (thin battery like apple do). This can be a viral phone.

    • judazuk

      because the battery life in iPhones suck?

      and speaking of call quality, have you ever used Apple’s so called phones?…useless call quality, specially if you are in the other end .. almost impossible to have a conversation with some with an iPhone … but maybe their holding it wrong.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=573258890 Ash Uy

    How I wish my Nokia 110′s d-pad’s silver coating didn’t peel. Such a disease Nokia can’t remedy. Duh!

  • http://mobipedia.in Hardeep Singh

    How is this phone any different from C1-02 other than the free EA games? Atleast add 3G/HSDPA to make it more useful.
    My work requires me to use a non-camera phone and I don’t want to buy a Blackberry 9650. Can you please make a nice non-camera smartphone that me and thousands of other BPO industry employees can buy?

  • Muhammad Waqqas Ensari

    Good Phone but bluetooth option is not present and that is awful.

  • RaijinT

    Can’t ever stop conplaining aren’t you people

  • masti

    May i ask why there is no bluetooth or microusb ? I dont know if you guys at NOKIA are capable of understanding this, but this phone could have doubled up as a modem if it had bluetooth or microusb. The whole of the EU HAS ALREADY moved to Microusb for charging. WHY does nokia not follow the same ? ARE you guys aware of how long it takes to move 32 GB of data from a computer to microsd card. Dont you think it would have been so much more easier if the phone had used microusb for charging and data tranfer ?????

  • http://www.facebook.com/li.hongnian Hongnian Li

    GSM 850/1900 does it really support?

  • Chris Kappa Alpha

    Can anyone please tell me when Nokia 109 is expected to be released in Greece or somewhere in Europe anyway? Thank you!