Cannot get messages off my old Nokia 1100

Question

I discovered the other day I still have messages on my old Nokia 1100 phone. At first I thought ok, just put in a sim and copy them across. But the 1100 doesn't have this option. Since this handset is locked, I can't put in a sim and forward them either. It's odd the phone has internal memory but won't let you copy/move or do anything with the messages.
I've looked online for a data cable for the 1100. Maybe if I connect it to a computer I can extract or copy them then? I want to get these messages on my new phone with all the original details (dates, numbers etc.) intact. My googling so far for a data cable only brings up other nokia cables where the seller has just added the 1100 model number, but it clearly isn't the right cable for this phone.
Hoping dearly someone knows what to do.

Answer 1

mccbleue wrote:
He is referring to software that Nokia provides to Nokia service points for the maintenance of the phones, but this is only used for reflashing phone software, they do not have the means to backup or transfer data with this software. In any case, the service points will not normally have anything to do with customer's data.
Unfortunately, a phone as basic and old as this has no means of transferring messages out, the phone has no hardware capable of facilitating this - the phone comes from an era when phones were simple devices, and the SMS system was never intended to keep permanent records. When your phone was made, only a tiny minority of very expensive mobile phone models had any PC connectivity.
It is regrettable, but you'd probably need to admit defeat on this one...
Thanks for the informative reply. I've just come across two cables that might work in conjunction with 3rd party software.
The first one is here:
http://www.polishgsm.com/en/data-cable-nokia-1100-2300-2600-6030-p307
and there's a usb version here:
http://www.polishgsm.com/en/nokia-1100-2300-2600-6030-usb-cable-p355
The flat end of both cables sits in the battery space of the phone.
Now for the software, I found one called MobiFX found here:
http://www.logomanager.co.uk/php/products.php?id=55
Another link on this website shows:
http://www.logomanager.co.uk/support-center/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&root=0&id=29
Many phones in Nokia's 11xx and 2xxx range contain a reduced feature set in the firmware, so functions such as the gallery, phonebook and SMS management may not be available from the PC.  For this reason we released MobiFX, specially designed for these phones (and others!)
With the following phones (and their related models), MobiFX should be used and not MobiMB:
 Nokia 1100
 Nokia 1110
 Nokia 1200
 Nokia 1600
 Nokia 1650
 Nokia 2300
 Nokia 2310
 Nokia 2600
For information on MobiFX, please visit the MobiFX page: http://www.logomanager.co.uk/php/products.php?id=55
Note: most of these phones use a CA-45 (FBUS) cable.
I'm not ready to give up just yet. It looks like these cables will enable a connection to a computer, and then I can do things like change logos etc., hopefully unlock and the most important one, copy sms messages off the phone. If I'm able to copy then off, then I can copy them back onto another phone. Then from there I can copy/move to a sim card etc.