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The Nokia 6120 Classic reviewed - the smallest and lightest smartphone in the world!

181 replies · 105,706 views · Started 03 July 2007

very nice review. I ended up buying it. The handsfree speaker is loud, the response from the menu is the fastest I have experienced in a nokia handset, certainly beat my n73. battery life is reasonably but does require recharge every 2 days or so.

i'm just curious, if anybody using the 6120 classic as a wireless modem and done a speed test on the HSDPA networks, as well as and EDGE speed test, thanks

Hi guys( and girls),

I've read a lot of reviews about the 6120.
But about 1 thing I'm not sure.

Is there yes or no a FM radio onboard?

The Nokia site don't mention it, but al lot of reviews, including this one
say there is.

Bart

Unrigistered wrote:Hi guys( and girls),

I've read a lot of reviews about the 6120.
But about 1 thing I'm not sure.

Is there yes or no a FM radio onboard?

The Nokia site don't mention it, but al lot of reviews, including this one
say there is.

Bart

The Nokia consumer website is horribly incorrect. The developer website is much more reliable, and on this site the phone is listed as having FM-radio. Also, I would be very much surprised if AAS got it wrong � it is, after all, very easy to verify the existence of a radio.

How silly! If this phone did include Wi-Fi it would be stealing the market of say.. the E65. If you want a Wi-Fi phone get that one! 😊

thanks for the review.. just wondering, i am using the n73 and thought of changing to a new phone is 6120 the right choice for me?

i tried to put tom tom mobile 5 onto a friends fone a couple of days ago with no luck, i use this in an old 6600 and it works fine, i done the usual, put the sofware onto memory card and put it back into fone as usual, u can see the files but there is no start up icon anywhere in the fone for some reason, any ideas whats up with this install?? any help will b great thanx people

Great phone especially for the evening I think I am going to get this aside my beloved e61i.

...not sure if I am posting this in the right place???.....

when I first got my Nokia 6120 classic a week ago, I synchonised it to my windows PC at work using Nokia PC Suite. I did this at the time, as no iSync plugin was available for iSync on my iMac machine at home (running OS X Tiger).

I have since located and installed a plugin for iSync for the 6120. With the plugin installed, the phone is recognised on the Mac, and the synchronisation process can be configured and started. However it fails with a message 'synchronisation error, the synchronisation was cancelled by the phone' or something similar.

Is this because the phone cannot be setup to Sync with both PC Suite and with iSync? If so, I would like to disable synchronisation with PC Suite and only ever sync with the Mac via isync. How do I do this?

If all else fails, can I restore settings to the phone (preferably without removing applications and bookmarks that I have set if possible?)

Thanks for your help!

Chris

Unregistered wrote:i tried to put tom tom mobile 5 onto a friends fone a couple of days ago with no luck, i use this in an old 6600 and it works fine, i done the usual, put the sofware onto memory card and put it back into fone as usual, u can see the files but there is no start up icon anywhere in the fone for some reason, any ideas whats up with this install?? any help will b great thanx people

A guy posted earlier confirming that it does work ok with a bluetooth GPS receiver but im not sure if this is true

Unregistered wrote:A guy posted earlier confirming that it does work ok with a bluetooth GPS receiver but im not sure if this is true

I don't understand why you assume the phone doesn't work with a bluetooth GPS unit. The post you quote is about how one can't install TomTom mobile 5 on the phone. This is completely as it should be, as TomTom mobile doesn't support S60 3rd edition. If he had tried TomTom Navigator 6 instead, he would undoutfully have been successfull. Phones have been compatible with bluetooth GPS units for a long time, and Nokia is not going to change that for the 6120 Classic - the only compatibility issue is with software (not much of an issue, though).

can anyone tell me any advantages the 6120 has over the 6300? i'm debating between the two. The only downside i heard is that the 6120 is not as fast.
thx

6300 - S40; 6120 - S60 - Symbian; The last one is a smartphone with multi-tasking OS and a lot of software to install on it. For me, 6120 is far superior!

I notice on the smart phones show that the video said the 6121 was USA 3G compatible. From the comments above and from looking at the specs, it seems that the 6120 has UTMS in the 850 range which would work with AT&T. I tried to get clarification from the Nokia store in NY but they don't carry the model. Anyone know for sure that the 6120 will work with AT&T's 3G network?

Hello!

Does 6120 classic have an image editor feature like inserting text, frames, clip arts, and crop image? I really need to know... and also its front camera, can it take a picture and can it record a video? If it does, can it zoom before taking a picture and before recording a video?

Im not a techie, im an artist using today's phone technology that's why my questions are different from other's. Im planning of having this phone as soon as it's available here so i really need to know. please do advise, thanks!

I now know that "third part one" is a software. If i install it on 6120, can i then do image editing and can i then use the front camera to take pictures and record videos?

Thank you for the excellent review. I'm trying to figure out if this is worth buying for the AT&T network in the USA. There's HSDPA coverage but I can't figure out how much is on 850 and how much is on 1900; the few devices AT&T support on HSDPA have both bands.

Like the name says, I'm tired of lugging around a large, crash-prone phone and would love a compact smartphone with broadband. Any advice (on this phone, or on what other phones I should consider) gratefully welcomed!

ADDED: I realized I hadn't actually read the whole thread, now I know this question has been asked several times! Still, if anyone wants to chime in with a recommendation for AT&T, I'd love to hear it. Thanks!

I got a shiny new 6120, from 3, on Aug 1st. By Aug 3rd it had crashed 12+ times and frozen, I took it back. Got another one at 2pm on the 3rd. By 11am on the 4th it had crashed 8+ times and the mike had failed. Took it back to 3, they were most unhelpful, they have sent it away for tests saying it was my fault. has anyone heard of any problems with this handset, your help would be appreciated. Thank you.

what more doo you what from this phone'low price modest look is small symbyan 3,5g 2mg camera video 320x240 video..its the best bussines can be done in mobile market'for mee its just perfect..and y have a lot of reason too say that...and y need 2 phones and y cant carry hafe a killo of mobile tehnologie afterf mee every day'

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Hi,
I have recently upgraded my handset to the new Nokia 6120 classic.
The handset gets VERY hot after only a couple of mins,
My ear and my head feel very strange for ages after using it.
I am scared to use this phone as I feel it is dangerous.
I am on the 3 network.
Have you heard of other such complaints?
Debs
xxxxdeborahxxxx at aol.com

this phone has just been released here in Australia but, it has come without the stopwatch.
Is there somewhere the stopwatch can be downloaded from and installed?

Just a quick note. Our Nokia rep has informed us that they are not making a hard-wired car kit for this phone. So you cannot use an external aerial on a car to increase reception, etc. But there is word that force (dont know if it's just and aussie brand) has made one, but we haven't seen it yet. Do you know anything about his?

Clowie wrote:Just a quick note. Our Nokia rep has informed us that they are not making a hard-wired car kit for this phone. So you cannot use an external aerial on a car to increase reception, etc. But there is word that force (dont know if it's just and aussie brand) has made one, but we haven't seen it yet. Do you know anything about his?

I can't find a hard wired car kit here but, there are still 6120c accessories yet to be released

Does the 6120 Classic synchronize with Microsoft Office in the same way that the E50 for example does?
Thanks
Yes. It does.

The phone looks slick, the theme in the screenshots look even more so. Can you let us know the name of the theme, please? Or better can anybody upload it somewhere so that I can use it on my E50.

Hey guys!

I have this Nokia 6120 model since 3 weeks now. My unit has been bought in Romania [ where I actually live ] for about 280EUR not bound to any operator.

Generally, I'm very pleased with it, but there are a few issues I would like to address:
1. assigning a ring tone to a contact entry could be a pain if you, like me, have a 2GB card and over 500 mp3/midi files. Imagine you have to scroll to get to the middle of sounds list... takes minutes! I wonder why didn't they organize these sounds as per the folder they are located into? Instead, they list all the sounds in one big list despite the fact they are well organized in folders??? Or am I missing something here?
2. the 2MP camera is a joke in my opinion, will never use it
3. too bad I can't charge it with provided USB data cable
4. NSysInfo and PhoNetInfo [ please google them - can't add links ] are reporting weird ARM Processor speeds, 192MHz and 186Mhz. That's very strange considering the processor should be at 369MHz

Thank you for your review.

But i think the most advantage off N6120 classic is its design.

The feature is normal. The baterry life is so short (BL-5B, 890mAh).

And the price, i dont think 250 EUR is responsible price. About 200 EUR is OK.

Do all PC Suite features work with this phone? Such as sending sms from PC using bluetooth.

The last symbian Nokia phones I purchased were 6600. Was very disappointed with the PC Suite, it doesn't have the features of the standard PC Suite.

Thank you.