I have been owning this phone for the last 18 months now and after having owned a Nokia 3310 and 2 Nokia 3315s and having lost the 3 sets I wanted to go for a Samsung C-100 but unfortunately it was out of production by the time I lost my last 3315 and the C-110 was its successor.
I liked the body colour options available in C-100 and its sleeker key layout more. Other than that C-110 carries over everuthing from its predecessor save the infrared. The first thing that I must commend about this phone is its build quality. Its a strong phone and though many would argue with me there can be not a rough user of mobile phones who would treat them like me. It should suffice to say that I have actually crash tested this phone by throwing it around in all angles possible and it has relentlessly bounced off marble floors, concrete pavements and tarred raod to come up alive and working. The only glitch I got the last time it fell was a hang and reboot. Maybe the fall was very unnerving for the system and it wanted to cool down and start a fresh ;) Jokes apart my experience with Nokia 3315s was also similar and even though I experienced a cracked LCD 3 times in 3315 and twice in 3310, I have never experienced the same fate in C-110 though I have been harder with this phone as I have used it much longer. I used 3310 for 11 months and two 3315s for 9 & 10 months respectively. The first 3310 cracjked LCD twice but not much can be said about it as the phone was not a genuine purchase and was got without bill. But the 3315s were genuine purchases and each time the LCD broke in them I got them replaced at Nokia Proiority dealers. Even my father’s 3315 broke its LCD. But the C-110 is tough and solid.
The signal reception and sound clarity is a bit shaky now and this maybe due to my rough usage as it was markedly better when I had initially purchased th phone. The browsing experience through GPRS is also quite good though the phone is incapable to play most games available for download on AirTel website. The menu system is layout in a clean structured way and you can associate as many numbers as needed with one name. It stores and amazing 500 numbers and 50 messages and has lots of space to download ring tones and pictures too. One irritant in the phone is the clubbing of the Internet ley with the Cancel key. Being a Nokia user to begin withI actively keep pressing the cacel key to reach start up and this quiet frequently launches the browser if the phone is already at start up. This would be tolerable if the browser was fast enough but it is very slow and hence takes time to quit once it launches.
The accessories of this phone are very highly priced and a full replacement of both front and back panels along with keypad costs an astounding Rs. 1250 while the price that I purchased the phone itself for was Rs. 4350. As I now have a bike I am seriously thinking of going for a headset or buying a new phone.