3210

At a glance

The 3210 combined an internal antenna, interchangeable covers and simple Navi controls. Its SMS, picture messages and three built-in games capture the mass-market GSM experience of the late 1990s.

Dates and versions

Announced on 18 March 1999. An exact first retail day has not been verified, so the date field is left empty. This record describes the original 1999 handset, rather than a later 4G model sharing its name.

Use and collecting

The original uses GSM 900/1800 and a Mini-SIM. Picture messages use the contemporary SMS mechanism, rather than modern MMS. Contacts are stored on the SIM; actual capacity depends on the card, with up to 250 entries supported by the manual. Rotation, Snake and Memory are built in, alongside a ringtone composer.

Nokia’s service-accessory document identifies the standard BML-3 as a 1250mAh nickel-metal hydride battery. Some secondary specification pages incorrectly call it lithium-ion. The 151g weight includes the standard battery; thickness varies by measurement position. Unverified CPU, RAM and precise pixel resolution are omitted.

References

• Nokia 3210 User Guide — 9352002, Issue 2 (1999)
• iFixit — Nokia 3210 physical inspection
• Nokia PAMS NSE-8/9 accessory document — BML-3 (1999)
• Mobile Phone Museum — Nokia 3210 collection record

Image credit

Basic.Master; source adjustments by Ubcule — Nokia 3210 with display content.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0. Commons source colour balance, brightness, contrast and crop by Ubcule; Wikimedia thumbnail resize; no further edits by VKE Retro. This image remains available under the same licence.

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