Battle of 4G Feature Phones: Micromax Bharat 1 Has a New Contender in the Form of Nokia 8110

HMD Global, the Nokia brand licensee, revealed a refresh of its original Nokia 8110 phone at the recently concluded MWC 2018. The feature phone comes in a slider format, has a candy-bar like appearance and comes with 4G connectivity. The original Nokia 8810 slider phone was made popular thanks to the Matrix movie. When Nokia 8110 eventually launches in India, it will face competition from a number of 4G enabled feature phones as such Micromax Bharat 1.

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Design
The resurrected Nokia 8110 retains the same curved body and the slider form factor from two decades back. It looks like a typical feature phone with a small screen and the underneath the slider is the keypad. You press a button to open the slider and answer a call.

As for the display, the device sports a 2.45-inch QVGA display with a resolution of 240 pixels by 320 pixels. The Nokia 8110 is available in banana yellow and black.

In comparison, the Micromax Bharat 1 looks more like a conventional feature phone. It has a 2.4-inch TFT colour display and a numerical keypad on the front. The overall build quality of the phone is stellar and its got a nice matte finish. For connectivity, the Bharat 1 has a Micro-USB port, a 3.5mm headphone jack and like other phones have a LED torch on the top.

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Hardware
The Nokia 8110 4G is powered by a 1.1Ghz dual-core Qualcomm 205 mobile processor and comes with 512MB of RAM. The device packs 4GB of internal storage which is expandable with a microSD card slot.