When faced with the question of which is the best-selling phone,
most of you probably think "iPhone". Hehe! Not even close!
Although Apple's crown jewel does sell in cosmic quantities, the
iPhone 6 having sold 71.5 million sales in about three months, this
lucky champ has nothing going on the Nokia 1100.
The Nokia 1100 is an entry level basic handset which hit the market
in late 2003. It didn't have two front cameras or a curved screen,
but it did have a torch light, a pair of no-slip grips, and a dust-proof
case. A classic Nokia badass that the then thriving Finns designed
for the growing Chinese market and other regions that smelled like
money!
How did that go for Nokia? Well, in about five years, the 1100 sold
some 250 million units, becoming not only the world's best selling
phone, but the best selling consumer electronics device in the
world, period. In fact, Nokia's one billionth phone sold was a 1100
purchased in Nigeria in 2005.
So, what it is that made people in developing countries go crazy
about the Nokia 1100? In short, many things! First, the phone was
quite affordable at about $100, due to being very unassuming —
even by 2003 standards. It did, however, have a built-in flashlight,
monophonic ringtones (36 pre-installed, 7 user-made),
interchangeable covers (yay!), soft dustproof keys, 50 message
capacity (25 inbox, 25 sent items), 50 contact slots, a 400 hours
standby time between charges... and perhaps most importantly, it
had Snake! That is, Snake II and Space Impact. These games might
seem primitive compared to the latest 3D titles, but they made 250
million people happy — beat that!
Although the Nokia 1100 was long discontinued by then, in 2009,
used units started popping up on sale for obscene amounts of
money — as much as $32,000 apiece! Apparently, hacking circles
had discovered a way to reprogram certain units (manufactured in
Nokia's German plant) the handset to receive messages intended
for other numbers, opening up opportunities for fraud! Hopefully,
nobody got burned, except those willing to pay thousands of dollars
for an obsolete handset that had an exploit.
In an interesting note, the Nokia 1100 may or may be not due for an
Android-powered reboot! In March this year, a Nokia 1100 with a
quad-core 1.3GHz MediaTek MT-6582 processor showed up inside
GeekBench's database. Such a smartphone cannot appear before
2016, due to Nokia's agreement with Microsoft, but if the Nokia
1100 does get to live another life as an entry-level Android
smartphone, we're sure a ton of people will be delighted!





source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Did-you-know-that-the-Nokia-1100-is-the-worlds-best-selling-handset_id74364

when Nokia still get sense.

I remember vividly when every one in my house were using Nokia.

Would be great only if Nokia does what we know them for, that is durability and superb battery.

pics

This is the image, Nokia dominates the full list sha...,Nokia 1100(2003) & Nokia 1110(2005) has 250m device sold each

The good old days,their decision to use windows mobile instead of jumping on the android bandwagon cost dem dearly,dey would have given sammy a run for their money;probably the iPhone too

Nokia the best that time. but now android is the future.

when Nokia was still in its right senses.. but now,its a pity......

I so much disliked this phone back then.

rexkexmilan:
I so much disliked this phone back then.

huh

Or no money to buy?

ihatebuhari:
huh

Or no money to buy?

Nope.... I didn't fancy the shape, somewhat irregular.
I preferred Nokia 1600 and Nokia 3110 Back those years.

Good to know

One of the millions

ritababe:
Nokia the best that time. but now android is the future.

is android a name of a phone? Na wa

This phone sha......... If the phone fall na the ground qo break instead

It's a pity I couldn't afford it when it was still en vogue. Anyway sha, that was then.

If you didn't get to play snake or space impact on this great device.. Then you really missed a lot big time

so who in Nigeria bought the 1 billionth model ?

This Nokia was the Iphone of those days

Warlord3000:
If you didn't get to play snake or space impact on this great device.. Then you really missed a lot big time

Is there anyone who got to the end of space impact?

Elxandre:

Is there anyone who got to the end of space impact?

It's endless

My 1st phone

I called my ancestors with that phone...

Wow! Good to hear that. Hehehe. I feel so proud of myself right now having used one, and knowing that my snake high scores still remain unbeaten till date! #Snakemaster