What a simple Nokia 1616 featurephone can do

I have a very sturdy Nokia 1616 featurephone that I got as a present from a sister.

The phone has an FM radio, a flashlight, a 3.5mm headphone jack that supports compatible headsets, and great battery life.

Its built-in software includes a speakerphone (basically an external speaker), an alarm (duh), a talking clock ("Time is..."), a calendar with reminders, a timer, stopper, calculator, converter, an expenses ledger, three games (Sudoku, Forbidden Treasures, and Solitaire), and the possibility to add preset images to favourite contacts.

And, of course, phone calls and SMS messages, including picture messaging (rarely used now, but this is not MMS).

The clock and calendar also work beyond 2016 and 2017, unlike the two Samsung featurephones I have.

Of all things, an FM radio (with RDS) in a phone of any type is a given feature outside the United States (and maybe the entire North America).

I wrote this in response to a post shared in Google+.

List of Canadian carriers that offer Nokia mobile phones (April 2013)

22.04.2013

Rogers Wireless
Residential
* Nokia E5
· Nokia Lumia 920
Business: Small Business & Enterprise
· Nokia Lumia 920

Fido (subsidiary of Rogers): No Nokia phones

Bell Mobility - No Nokia phones

Telus Mobility
* Personal - Nokia Lumia 620
Prepaid - Nokia Lumia 610
Pre-Owned - Nokia Lumia 610 (web-exclusive)
* Business - Nokia Lumia 620

SaskTel Mobility (Saskatchewan) - Website is "temporarily down for maintenance.
23.04.2013 update: No Nokia phones anyway.

Wind Mobile (Southern Ontario and elsewhere; website does not work properly with Firefox 20.0.1) - Nokia not listed and no Nokia phones available

MTS Mobility (Manitoba) -
* Personal
* Nokia 6350
* Nokia Surge
· Nokia Lumia 710
* Small and Medium Business
* Nokia 6350
* Nokia Surge
· Nokia Lumia 710

Videotron Mobile (Québec and Ottawa) -
* Residential
· Nokia Lumia 710
* Business
* Nokia C7-00
* Nokia E73
* Nokia 500
· Nokia Lumia 710

Mobilicity (urban: Greater Toronto area, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Vancouver) - No Nokia phones

Public Mobile (urban: Greater Toronto area, Greater Montreal and most of the Niagara region) - No Nokia phones

MVNO-s

7-Eleven Speak Out Wireless (uses Rogers) —
* Contract phones via cellstores.com, which defaults to the U.S. territory
Accounts: New, renewal/upgrade, more lines, replacement device
· Nokia Lumia 810 (T-Mobile)
· Nokia Lumia 822 (Verizon)
Prepaid devices/no contract:
* Nokia X2 (T-Mobile)
· Nokia Lumia 710

Brightroam (uses the Rogers network, offers 'inernational cell phones') —
* Nokia 1280
* Nokia C2-01

Chatr Wireless (Rogers) —
* Nokia 1616
* Nokia C2-02
* Nokia C3 + free Bluetooth headset
(and one Sony Ericsson)

Cityfone (Rogers) — No Nokia phones

CityWest (Bell) — Does not visibly offer phones on its website.

Clearnet (subsidiary of Telus) — phone offer links direct to Telus' own website.

DCI Wireless (Rogers) —
* Nokia 1100
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Other European-brand phones:
* Siemens CF62 (refurb)
* Siemens S66 (refurb)
* Siemens SL56 (refurb)
Other interesting brands:
* Panasonic A100
* NEC e132
* Palm Treo 650 (part of specials, while quantities last, no rainchecks)

KMTS Mobility (Bell)
* Personal
* KMTS Mobility (CDMA, a division of Bell Aliant) — No Nokia phones
* NorthernTel (HSPA, a division of Bell Aliant) —
* Home: No Nokia phones
* Business: Phone offers take to original NorthernTel catalog
* Business — Takes to KMTS/NorthernTel choice page, so defaults to above information

KooDoo Mobile (Telus) — Wants location, chose BC
* Prepaid phones
* Certified Pre-Owned — Nokia Lumia 610
* Certified Pre-Owned — Nokia Lumia 610

Northerntel Mobility (Bell) — see above

NorthwesTel (Bell) — No Nokia phones

PC Mobile (Bell) —
* Nokia 7230

Petro-Canada Mobility (Rogers) — mainly sold in-store
* Nokia 1616
* Nokia 2220 (limited quantity, but hey :)
* Nokia 2720 (in limited quantities)
* Nokia C3

Primus Canada (Rogers) —
* Residential — No Nokia phones

Roam Mobility (T-Mobile USA) — No Nokia phones

SearsConnect Wireless (Rogers) > Cityfone — No Nokia phones
SimplyConnect (Rogers) > Cityfone — see above

Solo Mobile (Bell) — Not taking on new customers, directing those to Bell Mobility — No Nokia phones

Talk & Earn (Rogers) > Cityfone — See above for cityfone
Talk & Save (Rogers) > Cityfone — See above for Cityfone

Télébec Mobilité (Bell/Quebec, division of Bell Aliant) — No Nokia phones

Virgin Mobile Canada — No Nokia phones

Eastlink (Rogers) — Website not available

Fleetcom — No Nokia phones

ICE Wireless (Rogers) — Does not offer any phones

Keewaytinook Mobile (Rogers) —
* Nokia C2
* Nokia Asha 311

Lynx Mobility (Bell/Telus) — No Nokia phones

Sogetel Mobilité (Bell/Quebec) — No Nokia phones, but one Sony Ericsson W508

TBayTel Mobility (Rogers) — only 4G HSPA+ (smartphones, but apparently no featurephones)
Residential —
* Nokia Lumia 920
Business —
* Nokia Lumia 920

Good2Go Mobile Canada (Rogers)
* Nokia 1616
* Nokia 2720
* Nokia 2220

KORE Wireless (Rogers) — non-residential service

Overview of Nokia phones offered by U.S. carriers on the web

US web offers for new Nokia phones as of 06.06.2012.
The list is very much incomplete, and emphasis is added to phones that don't have Windows Phone 7.5 in them.
This list also reflects which carriers' websites first ask for location without offering their phones first. The carriers whose sites that do that are more likely to offer locked phones and with a fixed contract instead of selling them to someone who would want to use their phone with a different carrier.

Legend:
* "Nokia not listed" means that the website is offering phones by brand name
* "No Nokia phones" means that the website either does not offer phones by brand name, or that Nokia phones were not available.

National

• T-Mobile:
  Nokia X2 (refurb)
• AT&T: Nokia Lumia 900 (doesn't count)
• Verizon Wireless
  Basic phones: No Nokia
  Smartphones: Nokia is not even in a gray list
• Sprint: Personal/Business — No Nokia, has one Sony Ericsson, IIRC
• Tried alltel — service not available at "my" zip code (I used one of Au Sable Forks, NY)
• C-Spire: None (has Sony Ericsson)
• Cricket Wireless — No coverage in the area :(
  According to Wikipedia (as of 31.05.2012), Nokia is not in the current list of phones.

Supra-Regional

MetroPCS — Nokia is not in the listed brands
U.S. Cellular — Nokia is not in the listed brands

Regional

Alaska Communications — Nokia is not in listed brands

Cellcom —
Nokia is listed, but no products shown
• Cellular One
  Locations: Montana, North-Western Wyoming, Texas (TX-10, TX-11), and Oklahoma (OK-5)

  cellonenation.com — Wants zip code
  celloneet.com — Wants zip code

  • cellular1.net (East Central Illinois, device availability varies by location) —

    Feature Phones:

    Nokia 2680

    Nokia 2720

    Smartphones:

    Nokia N8

    Nokia N97

    Texting phones:

    Nokia C3

  • cellularoneonline.com (Northeastern Arizona and Northwestern New Mexico)

    All mobile phones:

    Nokia C1

    Hearing aid-compatible:

    Nokia 2720

    Nokia 6085

    Nokia 7020

    Nokia E5 (Aspect)

    Nokia E75

  • South Canaan Cellular (Wayne and Pike Counties, Pennsylvania/cellularonenepa.com) — No Nokia phones
  • Choice Wireless (Texas and Oklahoma, cellonetxok.com, models vary based on availability)
    Nokia 2760
    Nokia 5800
    Nokia 6061
    Nokia 6085
    Nokia E63
• Cincinnati Bell — Has landing page, but this can be run around. Nokia not listed.
• Element Mobile — No Nokia phones
• i Wireless
  Nokia 1208
• Immix Wireless
  Nokia C1
• nTelos — Nokia not listed
• Revol Wireless — No Nokia phones
• southernLINC Wireless — No Nokia phones
• West Central Wireless
  Nokia C6
  Nokia N8
• Indigo Wireless — No Nokia phones
• Viaero Wireless
  Nokia 2720
  Nokia 7020
• Long Lines Wireless
  Nokia 7020
• Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative (astac.net) — wants zip code