The Nokia 6310 is a

mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...

developed by

Nokia Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1 ...

, announced on 15 March 2001 and first released in November 2001 as the successor of the

Nokia 6210 The Nokia 6210 is a GSM mobile phone made by Nokia. It was introduced at the CeBIT fair in Hanover in February 2000, targeting mobile "professionals" and succeeding the Nokia 6110, and began shipping on 7 September 2000. In addition to calling a ...

. An upgraded

tri-band In telecommunications, a multi-band device (including (2) dual-band, (3) tri-band, (4) quad-band and (5) penta-band devices) is a communication device (especially a mobile phone) that supports multiple radio frequency bands. All devices which ha ...

version, Nokia 6310i, was also released in 2002. Primarily marketed as a business phone, it was for some years the dominant

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

device in the corporate world. It was Nokia's joint-first (with

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) handset with

GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also called 2.5G, is a mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's Global System for Mobile Communications, global system for mobile communications (GSM). Networks and mobile devices wit ...

cell data connectivity and was also their first with integrated

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is li ...

short-range connectivity. Known for being robust and reliable, the Nokia 6310 is considered one of the greatest handsets Nokia has produced.

Features

The Nokia 6310 was the first business class Nokia phone built on their DCT4 hardware platform. The Nokia 6310 is

and

HSCSD In communications, Circuit Switched Data (CSD) (also named GSM data) is the original form of data transmission developed for the time-division multiple access (TDMA)-based mobile phone systems like Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). ...

enabled for wireless cellular communication. The handset has support for

e-mail Electronic mail (usually shortened to email; alternatively hyphenated e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving Digital media, digital messages using electronics, electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the ...

messages and

text messages Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablet computers, smartwatches, desktop computer, des ...

including pictures, and also has a WAP 1.2.1 browser. In wireless communications it also has integrated

v1.1 and

IrDA IrDA is a wireless standard designed for exchanging data using infrared (IR). Infrared ports for this purpose have been implemented in portable electronic devices such as mobile telephones, laptops, cameras, printers, and medical devices. The mai ...

. The updated Nokia 6310i model has support for

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

applications including the Java APIs: CLDC 1.0, MIDP 1.0 and Nokia UI API. Despite the lack of polyphonic

ringtones A ringtone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming telephone call. Originally referring to the sound of electromechanical striking of bells or gongs, the term refers to any sound by any device alerting of an incoming call. On p ...

, it was the first Nokia phone (along with

) to feature a startup tone in

ADPCM Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation (ADPCM) is a variant of differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) that varies the size of the quantization step, to allow further reduction of the required data bandwidth for a given signal-to-noise rati ...

format. Polyphonic ringtones were skipped due to the relatively low speaker volume during playback of ADPCM files. At

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2002, Nokia introduced an upgraded version called Nokia 6310i. It is mostly identical to the 6310 but has

(GSM 900/1800/1900) reception instead of dual-band,

and a blue-backlit LCD screen (as opposed to the earlier green backlighting). It was most commonly offered in Two-tone Silver/Grey or Two-tone Gold/Black trim; the third option, a Copper coloured variant, was much rarer.

American variants

A number of variants of the Nokia 6310 were released for the

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. The Nokia 6340 was announced on January 7, 2002 and is a tri-mode/dual-band TDMA (800/1900), GSM (1900) and analog AMPS (800) cell phone. It was also the first

GAIT Gait is the pattern of Motion (physics), movement of the limb (anatomy), limbs of animals, including Gait (human), humans, during Animal locomotion, locomotion over a solid substrate. Most animals use a variety of gaits, selecting gait based on s ...

compliant handset designed for roaming. The Nokia 6340i was a later updated version of this that added GSM 850. Nokia 6360 is another variant compatible with TDMA and AMPS only. Nokia 6370 is a

CDMA Code-division multiple access (CDMA) is a channel access method used by various radio communication technologies. CDMA is an example of multiple access, where several transmitters can send information simultaneously over a single communicatio ...

cell phone and Nokia's first to make use of

CDMA2000 1x CDMA2000 (also known as C2K or IMT Multi‑Carrier (IMT‑MC)) is a family of 3G mobile technology standards for sending voice, data, and signaling data between mobile phones and cell sites. It is developed by 3GPP2 as a backwards-compatible ...

data networks, released June 2002. Nokia 6385 has both CDMA and AMPS.

Mercedes-Benz

Like the 6210 , the 6310 and 6310i were optionally included on several

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cars. This phone was used on the

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(1998—2006 type), where it was held in a cradle and connected to the car's integrated car phone and media system called

COMAND APS COMAND (Cockpit Management and Data system) is an in-car communications and entertainment system found on Mercedes-Benz vehicles. COMAND features a dedicated flat display screen. It includes software features such as a Global Positioning System ...

. A cradle was installed in the dashboard, into which the phone was securely placed. Connectors in the cradle provided the phone with electrical power, routed the audio path through the car's audio system, and an external antenna mounted on the car's chassis replaced the internal antenna, providing a stronger signal and better

signal-to-noise ratio Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise. SNR is defined as the ratio of signal power to noise power, often expressed in deci ...

. In 2003, Nokia also began integrating the 6310i in some

Lexus is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Toyota, Toyota Motor Corporation. The Lexus brand is marketed in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide and is Japan's largest-selling make of premium cars. It has ranked amon ...

cars.

Reception

The 6310 competed against other multi-band and GPRS-capable business phones such as Motorola Timeport 280. The Nokia 6310/6310i was (and still remains) very popular for its robustness, simplicity and long battery life years after being discontinued as a product. Many have called the 6310i one of the best handsets Nokia ever produced.

Nokia 6310 (2021)

An updated variant of the 6310 was released in 2021 to celebrate the phone's 20th anniversary, featuring modern-day updates including a 2.8" color display, polyphonic ringtones, a VGA rear camera and a

microSD Secure Digital (SD) is a proprietary hardware, proprietary, non-volatile memory, non-volatile, flash memory card format developed by the SD Association (SDA). Owing to their compact size, SD cards have been widely adopted in a variety of port ...

slot. In April 2024, a refresh of the model was launched, with the only new change being a USB-C port.

References

External links

Nokia 6310i Developers page

Register Review

User Manual download
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