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Nokia 3100
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: D (Very Common)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.8/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Maxine
⏱ Life timer: 270h | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: 50 $
📊 Units Sold: ~15M
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3100 is a triband-GSM mobile phone announced on 17 June 2003 as an entry-level phone from Nokia and released in September 2003, designed primarily for the newer generation of marketing audience.
The Nokia 3100 was developed from the Nokia 6100 as a successor to the Nokia 3510. The phone was Nokia’s first in the youth-oriented 3000-series to be equipped with a 128×128 pixel passive colour display (4096 colors/12-bit), and included Java MIDP 1.0, XHTML and WAP browser, GPRS, Pop-Port connectivity and Lithium-ion battery. It is also capable of playing polyphonic MIDI files, which can be used as ringtones.
It is compact in size and lightweight, and also features special lighting effects.📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3100 Orange Gaming
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: B (Uncommon)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.8/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Maxine
⏱ Life timer: 44h | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: 50 $
📊 Units Sold: ~100k
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3100 is a triband-GSM mobile phone announced on 17 June 2003 as an entry-level phone from Nokia and released in September 2003, designed primarily for the newer generation of marketing audience.
The Nokia 3100 was developed from the Nokia 6100 as a successor to the Nokia 3510. The phone was Nokia’s first in the youth-oriented 3000-series to be equipped with a 128×128 pixel passive colour display (4096 colors/12-bit), and included Java MIDP 1.0, XHTML and WAP browser, GPRS, Pop-Port connectivity and Lithium-ion battery. It is also capable of playing polyphonic MIDI files, which can be used as ringtones.
It is compact in size and lightweight, and also features special lighting effects.📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3100b
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 9/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Maxine
⏱ Life timer: 79h | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: 50 $
📊 Units Sold: ~1.5M
📰 Why this phone matters: This version intended to be used in American GSM networks. It works in GSM 850/1800/1900.Differences from the basic 3100:
The Grid (originally the Line), an additional main menu interface in the settings menu
TTY/TTD option in Menu > Settings > Enhancement settings that appears only if the phone has been connected to a headset, TTD, or similar device
Voice recording during an active call, up to 1 minute
World clock that displays the time for various time zones. The Nokia 3100 is a triband-GSM mobile phone announced on 17 June 2003 as an entry-level phone from Nokia and released in September 2003, designed primarily for the newer generation of marketing audience.
The Nokia 3100 was developed from the Nokia 6100 as a successor to the Nokia 3510. The phone was Nokia’s first in the youth-oriented 3000-series to be equipped with a 128×128 pixel passive colour display (4096 colors/12-bit), and included Java MIDP 1.0, XHTML and WAP browser, GPRS, Pop-Port connectivity and Lithium-ion battery. It is also capable of playing polyphonic MIDI files, which can be used as ringtones.
It is compact in size and lightweight, and also features special lighting effects.📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3108 – The Handwriting Pioneer
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: Handwriting Recognition
👁 Evaluation in my collection: New – 10/10
⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~300k
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3108 is one of Nokia’s most unusual and innovative feature phones, created specifically for the Chinese market and designed around pen-based handwriting recognition. Built on the early Series 40 platform, the 3108 combines a compact candybar form with a flip-down translucent keypad that reveals a dedicated writing pad. Using the included stylus, the phone can recognize both English and Chinese handwriting, offering an input method perfectly adapted to the complexity of Chinese characters.This unit represents one of Nokia’s rare experiments in interface design, developed long before touchscreens became mainstream. The writing pad system uses stroke detection software and a pressure-sensitive surface, making the 3108 function as an early hybrid between classic keypad phones and later touch-driven devices. It also includes MMS, Java support, and a speakerphone, bringing modern features to a form factor centered on pen input.
Because the 3108 was sold only in China and produced for a short period, surviving units are uncommon, and examples in clean condition are even harder to find. As part of Nokia’s limited Pen Input family, the 3108 stands out as a unique collector piece that captures a moment of bold experimentation in Nokia’s history. It remains one of the very few non-touchscreen devices in the world capable of recognizing handwritten text, making it an important and highly distinctive addition to any serious mobile phone collection.
📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3128 Prototype “ID SAMPLE”: BenQ Hybrid | Unreleases Colour Light Blue
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: X (Mystical Prototype)
⭐ WOW Factor: Represents a short-lived moment when BenQ attempted to showcase its ability to deliver a complete UI solution, hoping to convince Nokia that full software outsourcing for low-cost devices was feasible.
The existence of this device is proof of a BenQ-driven initiative, briefly evaluated and ultimately rejected by Nokia.
Only a handful of such BenQ UI?on?Nokia hardware identity samples were ever created, making surviving units exceptionally rare.👁 Evaluation in my collection: New – 10/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Kirin
⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: ~300 $
📊 Units Sold: ~15M (final units)
📰 Why this phone matters: This device is one of the strangest, most intriguing Nokia 3128 variants ever uncovered. Externally it follows the familiar engineering path of the 3128 platform, but once powered on, everything breaks the pattern. There is no Nokia branding in the software, no Nokia splash screen, no Series 40 heritage, instead it boots into a BenQ-style interface, complete with custom icons, Chinese menu structures, and UI elements never found on any released Nokia product.The label inside reads “ID SAMPLE”, marking it as a pre-production identity unit used for internal validation during Nokia’s ODM sourcing phase. These ID Samples were not mass-produced, not distributed to carriers, and not meant to survive outside the labs. The combination of Nokia hardware and a BenQ firmware stack indicates that this device comes from the period when Nokia briefly explored outsourcing complete handset UI development to third-party Asian manufacturers before ultimately abandoning the idea.
The handwriting is a timestamp from the engineering team: “August 16, 2004.”
It marks when this specific prototype was logged, flashed, or validated.The software screens match early prototypes from unreleased BenQ flip designs, particularly those associated with the never-released BenQ A-Series Asian clamshells, hinting that this firmware was being evaluated on Nokia shells for cost and speed benchmarking. The UI animations, iconography, and color palettes align far more with BenQ’s internal 2004-2005 development than with anything Nokia ever shipped.
A detail that further confirms how early this unit is, the SIM card lock mechanism is completely missing, leaving the slot open and unfinished exactly as seen on raw factory evaluation samples. Even more telling, the device reports an IMEI of 0000000, a clear sign of a pre-IMEI-burning engineering stage where the radio stack and identity fields had not yet been finalized.
The mysterious “cmg” sticker seen on the display is consistent with internal testing labels used during configuration management, marking the unit for firmware staging or UI evaluation. These stickers usually identify a branch, a module, or a build handler inside the engineering workflow and marks it as a monitored experimental build – exactly the kind of anomaly this prototype represents.
All the elements together, the missing SIM lock, the IMEI 0000000, the absent Nokia splash, the BenQ interface, the “ID SAMPLE” marking, the prototype hardware architecture, and the inconsistencies between software and chassis, place this device among the rarest 3128 developmental anomalies, far more unusual than standard prototypes or early F-series units. It is a tangible piece of the abandoned Nokia-BenQ convergence experiments, where Nokia evaluated whether foreign UI stacks could run on their hardware to accelerate low-cost market entry.
A true one-off laboratory hybrid, and one of the most unusual pre-production Nokia 3128 derivatives ever documented.
📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3128 Prototype F5.0 : Codename Kirin| Unreleased Colour (Orange)
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: Represents a short-lived moment when BenQ attempted to showcase its ability to deliver a complete UI solution, hoping to convince Nokia that full software outsourcing for low-cost devices was feasible.
The existence of this device is proof of a BenQ-driven initiative, briefly evaluated and ultimately rejected by Nokia.
Only a handful of such BenQ UI?on?Nokia hardware identity samples were ever created, making surviving units exceptionally rare.👁 Evaluation in my collection: New – 10/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Kirin
⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: ~300 $
📊 Units Sold: ~15M (final units)
📰 Why this phone matters: A remarkably rare piece of Nokia’s China-market CDMA history, the Nokia 3128 (Type RH-72) stands apart from the brand’s mainstream lineup.
Developed during Nokia’s short-lived collaboration with BenQ/Qisda for ODM CDMA devices, the 3128 blends Nokia’s software customisation with a hardware platform originating from BenQ’s Kirin F5.0 design family – a handset architecture that BenQ itself never released commercially.This prototype unit, finished in an unreleased Orange colourway, represents a pre-production stage never intended for the public market. The colour scheme follows BenQ’s design language rather than Nokia’s, making it instantly identifiable among collectors familiar with early-2000s ODM manufacturing. Hardware elements – including the casing geometry, battery interface and Qualcomm-based CDMA internals – further underline its BenQ lineage while still carrying official Nokia branding, labels and firmware.
The device offered compact CDMA 1X connectivity, a lightweight clamshell form factor and the simplified user interface typical of Nokia’s China-exclusive CDMA portfolio of the era.
This example is preserved brand new, never used in the collection – a highly desirable state for a model whose production numbers were already extremely small.
A rare convergence of two major manufacturers’ design philosophies, the Nokia 3128 prototype in Orange stands as one of the most distinctive and least-known ODM Nokia variants ever created.
📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3200
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: As New – 10/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Rio
⏱ Life timer: 92h | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: ~300 $
📊 Units Sold: ~8M
📰 Why this phone matters: An interesting feature present in this phone is that the face plate system allows users to print out their own cut-out cover designs and use it in the phone. The official special released designs include “Snowboard,” “Street life” and “Urban chic”. It was thus marketed as being “fun and funky” with a unique style📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗
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Nokia 3300a
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: B (Uncommon)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Brand New – 10/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Hitchiker
⏱ Life timer: 0m | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: ~330 $
📊 Units Sold: ~2M
📰 Why this phone matters: The succesor of 5510, it supports MP3 and AAC audio and comes with an FM radio, and it can also be used as a digital voice recorder. Included in the standard package is a 64MB MMC memory card for storing data. GPRS data is supported, the display is a 128 x 128 pixel CSTN pane📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗
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Nokia 3300b
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: B (Uncommon)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: BNIB – 10/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Hitchiker
⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: YES
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: ~330 $
📊 Units Sold: ~2M
📰 Why this phone matters: The succesor of 5510, it supports MP3 and AAC audio and comes with an FM radio, and it can also be used as a digital voice recorder. Included in the standard package is a 64MB MMC memory card for storing data. GPRS data is supported, the display is a 128 x 128 pixel CSTN pane📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3589i Verizon
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first Nokia phone with BREW Technology
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 8.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Popeye
⏱ Life timer: NA | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~5M
📰 Why this phone matters: The first Nokia to have BREW technology enabled together with Verizon📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔
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Nokia 3650: The Early S60 Icon with Camera Zoom Cover
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: C (Common)
⭐ WOW Factor: Back Cover with Camera zoom
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Cameron
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: 450 €
📊 Units Sold: ~6M
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3650 is one of the most distinctive early Symbian smartphones ever produced, combining an expressive design with advanced multimedia features and a unique circular keypad that immediately set it apart from every other phone of its time. Released in 2002 as the successor to the Nokia 7650, it expanded the Symbian Series 60 platform with MMC memory card support, Bluetooth, video recording, and tri-band GSM capability.This unit comes in a bright yellow Xpress-On cover, one of the more uncommon color variants, and features an extremely rare camera back cover with a rotating zoom-lens mechanism. This accessory physically extends the camera assembly, allowing manual zooming and enhancing the phone’s multimedia personality. These zoom-lens covers were produced in very small numbers, making them a highly desirable collectible today.
The 3650’s circular keypad design became one of Nokia’s most iconic experiments, bridging retro inspiration with modern smartphone functionality. Its sister model, the Nokia 3600, was the first Symbian OS phone to launch in the United States, marking a major expansion of Nokias smartphone presence in North America.
With its early camera capabilities, expandable storage, Bluetooth connectivity, and unmistakable styling, the Nokia 3650 represents a key moment in the evolution of mobile phones. This yellow unit with a rare zoom-lens back cover stands out as a unique and collectible piece of Symbian history, showcasing Nokia’s bold engineering and design experimentation at the dawn of the smartphone era.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗
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Nokia 3660: The Rare 3650 Upgrade
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.3/10
🕵 Nokia Codename: Sylvester
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: 450 €
📊 Units Sold: ~2M
📰 Why this phone matters: The Nokia 3660 is a refined and expressive successor to the iconic Nokia 3650, combining the power of the early Symbian Series 60 platform with a redesigned keypad and a striking color-focused design. Released in late 2003, it addressed user feedback by replacing the circular keypad of the 3650 with a more familiar rectangular grid layout, improving typing comfort without losing the distinctive charm of Nokia’s bold early smartphone era.This mint-condition red unit is an exceptional example of the 3660. The red housing is one of the more eye-catching and vibrant variants, reflecting Nokia’s early 2000s focus on personalization and expressive design. These colorful versions were popular at launch but are difficult to find today in clean, near-new condition.
Powered by Symbian OS 6.1 with Series 60 UI, the 3660 offered video recording, Bluetooth connectivity, multimedia messaging, RealPlayer support, and expandable MMC memory at a time when most mobile phones were still limited to basic features. Its VGA camera made it a capable early cameraphone, continuing the evolution that began with the Nokia 7650 and 3650.
With its combination of color, capability, and unique early smartphone personality, the Nokia 3660 stands as a memorable and collectible piece of Nokia’s Symbian history. A mint red unit like this is a rare and valuable addition to any serious mobile phone collection.
📝 Reviews when released: Mobile Review 🔗