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Certified safety – CE & ROHS certified, Grade A battery with short-circuit, overheating and overvoltage protection The beginning of the Premium category can be seen with the 8110, which took mobile phone design in a new direction. Year

The main categories were Expression (basic phones with customisable fascias and ringtones), ClassicThorough, comprehensive testing – each battery cell is tested to ensure all safety requirements are met and that it holds and maintains the correct capacity - all before installation features, including an infra red port, Nokia's famous menu system and an impressive 133 hours of standby time

Very basic analogue phone with reputation as the "Bimbo" phone; the first Nokia on PAYG in the UK (1997) There was very little strategy, design or marketing applied to early mobile phones. However, with the Most significantly whilst the Nokia 8890 was also a dual-band phone, it covered the GSM900 / GSM1900 bands (whereas the Nokia 8850 covered the GSM900 / GSM 1800 bands) and it also included a retractable external aerial for use in poor reception areas when using the GSM1900 network. There were also minor differences in the menu structure. To be honest there is nothing about this particular phone that i like....Many years ago i owned an original one and that was a totally different experience.

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Find sources: "Nokia 8850/8890"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2008) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Premium category. Although some Classic phones earned a similar status, if not even greater status, by their Nokia introduced two ground breaking phones with 7000 series numbers, the 7110, Nokia's first WAP phone and the