The best cell ever.

Only a few scratches on the screen after two years of heavy use.

I´ve had this monochrome Nokia 1112 for two years and its suffered plenty of shocks, drops, bumps, bashes, bruises, scratches, sand, humidity, heat, cold and even water. The reception is great, the sound quality excellent and best of all, the battery lasts at least a week without recharge, even during motor-mouth mode. It has Snake Xenia and Rapid Roll to keep me mildly entertained in the bus, subway or bathroom, and no thief would give it a second glance. It has a calculator, an alarm, 35 ringtones and a converter for those of us who are metric system-challenged. This is the perfect phone, and at $400 pesos (about $30 now), this prepaid Movistar gadget is a peso-strapped oficinista´s best friend.

The cost to use the phone in Mexico (even for Movistar, a much better deal than monopoly Telcel) is a topic for another post.