An All-Around Wonder in the Palm of Your Hands by:Simon Drew
The Nokia 6121 Classic was launched in the market as one of the smallest smartphones ever
. With it came the lowest launch price ever for a leading edge Symbian S60 phone as well. At a very friendly price, there's real reason to celebrate its arrival in the scene.
Its slim diminutive body might qualify it as a fashion phone; but it's not really going to turn heads with a rather bland design. But underneath all that it's got some of the most remarkably useful features found in smartphones costing twice.
Size Matters
Size matters in mobile phones. There are a lot of sleek and slim mobile phones out there that enjoy quite a following. But smartphones are entirely a different breed. They are usually hefty due to the electronics and displays that drive their topnotch features. But the Nokia 6120 Classic is arguably the lightest and smallest smartphone on the planet. Unobtrusive in your pocket, it feels like a regular mobile phone with none of the bulk associated with popular smartphones in the market.
Its small 2.2" QVGA screen may be a drawback compared with your usual large touchscreen smartphones but its one appealing trait that makes it look like a regular phone. Nokia's use of the new Symbian S60 OS gives this phone the features that set it apart from regular phones.
Wonderful Features on a Compact Size
These features speak loudly for a diminutive unassuming phone anyone could easily mistake as just another regular mobile phone.
- It's a quad band GSM and dual band WCDMA smartphone in one that supports the latest high-speed networks for 3G HSDPA and HSUPA. These networks let users surf and download data on the internet at amazing speeds that rival or even exceed broadband speeds from your home and office PCs.
- You get vibrant display of images and video on its 2/2" LCD TFT screen. Thanks to its 24-bit color display on QVGA resolution
- It' 2.0 megapixel camera comes with LED flash that also captures QVGA video at 15fps. Not bad for the mobile phone in this class, size and price point.
- There's support for Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and AVRCP that enable you to use Bluetooth wireless stereo headphones.
- It sports the industry standards 2.5mm audio output jack for your favorite high fidelity stereo headsets.
- There's support for the cheap industry-wide microSD memory card for up to 8Gb, allowing sufficient memory for all your large multimedia files when on the road.
The final word in smartphones
A lot of superlatives can be said about this diminutive unattractive mobile phone precisely because it's so unassuming on the surface but a real heavyweight when you turn it on. The Nokia 6120 can be a formidable force in the smartphone market.