Nokia 6120c-review - Esato archive

Posted by rexton270
It's the same size as the Nokia 6300.
6120c is a Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphone. It has quadband (850/900/1800/1900) and dual 3G (850/2100) as well as HSDPA compatibility.

HSDPA is a new standard for phone networks which lets you download at 3-14 MB/sec. For this HSDPA is often called 3.5G.

6120c has a 16 million colour(240 x 320) screen. It has a 2 MP camera with flash, which can capture video at 320x240, and there's a front camera for video calls.
MiniUSB port connect the phone to a PC, and a 2.5mm stereo audio jack.
6120c is Bluetooth 2.0 compatible, and supports A2DP standard. The left side of the phone has a mono speaker, and a hotswap T-Flash memory card slot.
The keypad is the usual alphanumeric, a Symbian S60 menu key and a C delete key. The old S60 pencil key has been replaced with the # key. Holding down # activates the Silent profile.
The casing is very shiny on the front and back, with matt plastic=fingerprint magnet.
6120c battery officially provides a standby time of 9 days in GSM and 3G mode. I've got 4 days.
6120c worked fine , it didn't drop any calls and the sound quality was good.
There's all the usuals, such as speakerphone mode, wireless Bluetooth headset support, voice commands etc.
6120 also supports Push-To-Talk.
6120c also includes an Instant Messaging in the Applications folder, which can be used with Yahoo, MSN, ICQ.
6120c has similar multimedia features to other S60 3rd Edition models.It is A2DP compatible, so you can use Bluetooth stereo headphones. If you prefer wired headphones, the 2.5mm headphone socket is stereo. There's an external mono speaker which is very clear and loud, but a single speaker isn't stereo.

6120c has a music player compatible with AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, and WMA, and which can filter tracks by artist, album, playlist. There are customisable equaliser profiles. There are also special effects:Bass Boost and Stereo Widening. Playback can be sequential or random, and you can loop playback as well.
You can use ringtones from audio standards: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, AMR (NB-AMR), MIDI Tones (polyphonic 64 channel), RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones (WB-AMR), WAV.

The built-in REAL (MP4) player is good quality. Videos can be watched horizontally in full-screen mode, or vertically with bars at the top and bottom.

There's a built-in FM radio. The radio can be listened to through wired headphones or the built-in speaker, but the headphones have to be plugged in as the FM aerial.

6120c has a point-and-shoot camera with flash, and the camera app contains the usual S60 options (flash on/off/auto, night mode, sequence mode, timer mode, panorama mode, white balance, colour tone, quality settings).

6120c can run Symbian S60 3rd Edition applications and games. As with all S60 models, it's multitasking so you can run lots of applications at once, and switch between them by holding down the menu button. There's 20 MB free RAM for running apps and games, and 35 MB internal flash memory for storage. Applications and data can also be stored on T-Flash memory cards, so the flash memory can be expanded to 2 GB.
6120c central processor runs at 369 mhz, and the menu system and applications run pretty quickly and smoothly, far faster than older S60.

The built-in web browser is the latest version of the S60 OSS browser, and can render pages with Flash and Javascript content (this is switched off by default though, you have to switch it on from the Settings/Page section of the browser's Options menu). Most pages are rendered more or less like a PC browser, and indeed S60 OSS uses the same open source core as the Apple's Safari browser, which is also used in the iPhone.
Along with the standard suite of S60 3rd built-in applications, the 6120c also have some extra ones built-in: Adobe PDF viewer, Quickoffice viewer (for looking at Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents), Instant Messanger (compatible with Yahoo, MSN and ICQ), and a couple of games called Marble and City Bloxx.

6120c can use a wide range of Bluetooth accessories including stereo headphones, keyboards, GPS units and others.

6120c HSDPA compatibility shows up when you use the internet in a HSDPA-compatible 3G network. HSDPA only speeds up the downloading of pages, and doesn't affect how quickly the phone's processor renders pages once they've been downloaded, so a complex page can still take about 10 seconds to fully appear. However, there's no processing required on downloads of raw data such as application or video files, so the difference between 3G and 3.5G is much more noticeable when using things like the Download! service.

6120c is (probably) the world's smallest and lightest smartphone. Using it feels just like using a normal phone, there's absolutely no bulk at all about it, you can barely feel it in a pocket.

However, a phone getting smaller does have unavoidable downsides.6120c screen is QVGA (240x320) just like other current S60 models, but it's physically fairly small. The buttons on the keypad are also fairly small, which may not go down well with everyone.

The S60 platform is now very stable, I didn't experience a single crash with the 6120c.
6120c has most of the features of the Nokia N95 for example, but costs less than half the price, weighs 30% less, and is 20% smaller.

And also there's some extra :
Product codes for 6120c
0546333 = Russia
0552780 = MEA_b
0546327 = EURO 2
0548017 = Russia
0546338 = Russia
0546339 = Russia
0546342 = EURO 3
0547931 = MEA_a
0546329 = Scandinavia
0546341 = Russia
0546330 = Baltics
0546344 = Balkans
0547928 = MEA_f
0547939 = MEA_d
0546328 = EURO 2
0547929 = MEA_b
0546326 = EURO 1
0547930 = MEA_b
0547628 = MEA_f
0547708 = MEA_a
0546324 = EURO 1
0541799 = EURO 1
0546343 = Balkans