Jun 27, 2015 08:04 PM
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The 113 is a close relation of the 110, 111 and 112. All are candy bar style phones, with the 110 and 112 both offering dual-SIM support, and the 111 and 113 their respective single SIM variants.
In case you think I’ve got a screw loose in wanting to take a look at the Nokia 113, then be aware that it is available on Orange, O2 and Vodafone as a PAYG handset from around £20 and on contracts from £10.50. And if you’d rather not get it from an operator, then it’s £38 on Amazon.
It is quite obvious that this type of small-screened, candybar shaped handset isn’t designed for the fancy stuff. Its key functions are making voices calls, sending texts, and listening to music or radio on the move.
This type of phone isn’t intended to be a mobile Internet user’s friend. And of course they suit people who neither want nor need complex functions.
So, what you get is a very long way from being at the cutting edge. The Nokia 113 runs the Series 40 operating system. It has 16MB of internal storage but supports microSD cards up to 32GB, which help it earn its money as a potential music player. It does irritate me, though, that neither Wi-Fi nor 3G has been squeezed into the Nokia 113.
Still, there is a web browser, Facebook and Twitter applet on the handset. Testing the web browser, it took 20 seconds for Google to resolve a search for ‘’TProPortal’, which I felt not to be too bad. Then it took another 20 seconds for the handset to resolve the mobile version of the site. Again, that’s not too much of a disaster.
The real pain comes in because of the amount of scrolling involved if you want to actually read anything that you can see in the browser, and in the poor text rendering. The screen measures just 1.8in diagonally and within that its 160 x 128 pixels are not up to displaying a great deal of information. You can see each individual pixel that makes up a text character – indeed you can see the whole pixel grid. If this handset is all you have and it is an emergency, then you might be OK web browsing. But don’t even think about using it in an everyday capacity for web-based stuff.
