Reviewing the Nokia 6120 Classic

The Nokia 6120 Classic is a quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G phone which supports 850Mhz used for AT and T in the United States of America and 2100 Mhz 3G bands. Another model of Nokia i.e. Nokia 6121 uses 1900 and 2100 Mhz. Features of the 6120 model are a 2 inch QVGA screen, a micro SD slot, 35 MBs of free storage, 64MBs of RAM, 369 Mhz ARM11 CPU, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP/AVRCP support, a 2.5mm audio jack, mini USB, 2 MP cameras with flash, QVGA video-call camera, a Li-Ion 890 mAh battery and an FM stereo radio.


When you open up the box for the phone, you will find the phone, its battery, a charger, a user manual, USB data cable, a CD-ROM and a Nokia stereo headset. No micro SD card was included in the package.


Nokia 6120 is perhaps the smallest Sympian phone ever made, considering the fact that it is a smart phone. It is just the right type of phone for people that want portable phones because even though it weighs just 89 grams and can easily fit into anything like the palm or a tight jeans, it still has extraordinary features. On the sides are extra buttons for the camera and the volume control. The buttons can only be pressed with the whole thumb instead of the finger nails. People with large fingers will find it a bit difficult to use at first.


From the test we conducted on the 6120 model, we discovered it has very good reception, a wonderful voice quality and also very fast. Its speed was far better than most Sympian phones e.g. the N95 series. The best feature is its battery life. The one I bought 2 weeks ago has lasted for 5 hours of talk time through GSM when the 3G was off and 11 days of standby.


The phone’s screen is about 2 inches wide, which makes it unsuitable for media viewing even if it has h.264 support. But when we used a 2 GB micro SD card on it, it was much better. The RAM is always sufficient when we browse enormous pages such as Slashdot. The Bluetooth attached to it is maxed out at about 100 KB/sec. We could use the two of our headphones to work the A2DP perfectly. With the help of the mini USB 2.0 cable, we were able to stand the micro SD card directly to our desktop. The charging port and its proprietary cable is used to charge the phone.


The camera can only be used for outdoor pictures and not indoors. Its flash is strong and can record MP4 QVGA video samples. The anterior part of the camera can also be used to take snapshots in QVGA format or QCIF 3GP video sample 1 and 2 form.


The best attribute of the phone is the video editor, where you can put many videos and images in a sequential order so as to direct a larger video from your phone. After everything, you can save your work as .3GP. If Nokia can include trimmings for video clips in the timeline and even add 2-3 filter plug-ins such as color balance, it will be wonderful.

It comes with all the S60 apps in it such as calendar, calculator, PTT for Europe, J2ME 2.0 (Opera Mini runs crazy fast), GPS apps, quick office viewer, adobe PDF, converter, music player, real and flash player, IM, MSN support and much more things.
Nokia 6120 has a lot of extra apps in it with links to websites, which is why it is called an internet phone.


The only disadvantage with the phone is that it comes with SIP/VoIP configuration and server-registering support in the settings that does not provide a way to dial through it. Though 3G calls have latency problems when compared to WiFi calls, it would have been a welcome feature. Generally speaking, Nokia 6120 series is definitely one of the best, smallest smart phones ever released and it costs less than 290 dollars.