The previous post featured a Nokia 3350, a close cousin of the legendary 3310. This post looks at a much later 2G Nokia phone – a very basic product from the tail end of the Nokia’s dominance in the phone market which might be utterly forgettable if it were not for the fact I have not one, but two of them on my desk thanks to a family donation.

The Nokia 1800 was released in 2010, as part of their “Ultrabasic” series. It sports a colour 160 x 128 pixel LCD, 2G connectivity, FM radio and built-in torch, but otherwise has nothing else of note as a basic feature phone. It was practically a phone so cheap that it could be given away at a time when Nokia’s share was soon to nosedive as people moved away from feature phones into smartphones.

Ultrabasic in Every Way

The phone comes in a compact box – this one has a cardboard sleeve with the Virgin Mobile branding as a carrier-locked phone.

There is a space for the IMEI sticker, but that isn’t placed on the sleeve itself, but on the device box itself. The unit is network locked with a minimum $80 top-up required to be able to request a code to release the network lock.

The actual Nokia phone box is very basic with a matte colour printing, mostly covered in the Nokia Blue with a few pictures of the phone itself. The feature list is not long, but it is approved for use in Australia – a small label provides the A-tick compliance logo.

The unit is Made in China and appears to have a Nokia Asia URL, suggesting this was a product for the Asia market only.

The box has the phone nestled in a cardboard “wrap-around” up top, with a warning about using third-party accessories – clone batteries were known to be potentially dangerous and warranty-voiding. As was also popular at the time, a bit of an ecological message about phone recycling is also present – although som